verse 10 By whom the secrets of all hearts are searched and descri'd verse 11 I take my help to come of God in all my pain and smart That doth preserve all those that be of pure and perfect heart verse 12 The just man and the wicked both God judgeth by his power So that he feels his might hand even every day and hour verse 13 Except he change his minde I die for even as he should smite He whets his sword his bowe he bends aiming where he may hit verse 14 And doth prepare his mortal darts his arrows keen and sharp For them that do me persecute whiles he doth mischief warp verse 15 But lo though he in travail be of his devilish forecast And of his mischief once conceiv'd yet brings forth nought at last verse 16 He digs a ditch and delves it deep in hope to hurt his brother But he shall fall into the pit that he dig'd up for other verse 17 Thus wrong returneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred And all the mischief that he wrought shall sall upon his head verse 18 I will give thanks to God therefore that judgeth righteously And with my song will praise the name of him that is most high Domine Deus noster Psal viii T. S. O God our Lord how wonderful are thy works every where Whose fame surmounts in dignity above the heavens clear verse 2 Even by the mouth of sucking babes thou wilt confound they foes For in those babes thy might is seen thy graces they disclose verse 3 And when I see the heavens high the works of thine own hand The Sun the Moon and all the Stars in order as they stand verse 4 What thing is man Lord think I then that thou dost him remember Or what is mans posterity that thou dost it consider verse 5 For thou hast made him little less then Angels in degree And thou hast crowned him also with glory and dignity verse 6 Thou hast prefer'd him to be lord of all thy works of wonder And at his feet hast set all things that he should keep them under verse 7 As sheep and neat and all beasts else that in the fields do feed verse 8 Fowls of the air fish in the sea and all that therein breed verse 9 Therefore must I say once again O God that art our Lord. How famous and how wonderful are thy works through the world Confitebor tibi Domine Psal ix T. S. WIth heart and mouth unto the Lord will I sing laud and praise And speak of all thy wondrous works and them declare always verse 2 I will be glad and much rejoyce in thee O God most high And make my songs extol thy name above the starry skie verse 3 For that my foes are driven back and turned unto flight They fall down flat and are destroy'd by thy great power and might verse 4 Thou hast revenged all my wrong my grief and all my grudge Thou dost with justice hear my cause most like a righteous Judge verse 5 Thou dost rebuke the heathen folk and wicked so confound That afterward the memory of them cannot be found verse 6 My foes thou hast made good dispatch and all their towns destroy'd Thou hast their fame with them defac'd through all the world so wide verse 7 Know thou that he which is above for evermore shall reign And in the seat of equity true judgement will maintain verse 8 With justice he will keep and guide the world and every wight And so will yeeld with equity to every man his right verse 9 He is protectour of the poor what time they be opprest He is mall adversity their refuge and their rest verse 10 And they that know thy holy name therefore shall trust in thee For thou forsakest not their suit in their necessity The second part verse 11 Sing psalms therefore unto the Lord that dwells on Sion hill Publish among all nations his noble acts and will verse 12 For he is mindful of the bloud of those that be opprest For getting not th' afflicted heart that seeks to him for rest verse 13 Have mercy Lord on me poor wretch whole enemies still remain Which from the gates of death are wont to raise me up again verse 14 In Sion that I might set forth thy praise with heart and voice And that in thy salvation Lord my soul might still rejoyce verse 15 The heathen stick fast in the pit that they themselves prepar'd And in the net that they did set their own feet fast are snar'd verse 16 God shews his judgements which were good for every man to mark When as you see the wicked man ly trapt in his own wark verse 17 The wicked and deceitful men go down to hell for ever And all the people of the world that will not God remember verse 18 But sure the Lord will not forget the poor mans grief and pain The patient people never look for help of God in vain verse 19 O Lord arise lest men prevail that he of wordly might And set the heathen solk receive their judgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord strike such terrour fear and dread into the hearts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mottal men Vt quid Domine Psal x. T. S. WHat is the cause that thou O Lord art now so far from thine And keepest close thy countenance from us this troublous time verse 2 The poor do perish by the proud and wicked men desire Let them be taken in the craft that they themselves conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his own heart th' ungodly doth delight So doth the wicked praise himself and doth the Lord dâ—spight verse 4 He is so proud that right and wrong he setteth all apart Nay nay there is no God saith he for thus he thinks in heart verse 5 Because his ways do prosper still he doth thy laws neglect And with a blast doth puff against such as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saith he I have no dread lest mine estate should change And why for all adversity to him is very strange verse 7 His mouth is full of cursedness of fraud deceit and guile Under his tongue doth mischief sit and travel all the while verse 8 He lieth hid in ways and holes to slay the innocent Against the poor that pass him by his cruel eyes are bent verse 9 And like a lion privily lies lurking in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoil poor simple men verse 10 And for the nonce full craftily he croucheth down I say verse 11 So are great heaps of poor men made by his strong power his prey The second part verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this saith he therefore I may be bold His countenance is cast aside he doth it not behold verse 13 Arise O Lord O God in whom the poor mans hope doth rest Lift up thy hand forget not Lord the poor that be opprest verse
all the trees within their coasts down did he overthrow verse 34 He spake then caterpillers did and grashoppers abound verse 35 Which are the grass in all their land and fruit of all their ground The fifth part verse 36 The first-begotten in their land eke deadly did he smite Yea the beginning and first-fruit of all their strength and might verse 37 With gold and silver he them brought from Egypt land to pass And in the number of their tribes no feeble one there was verse 38 Egypt was glad and joyful then when they did thence depart For terrour and the fear of them was faln upon their heart verse 39 To shroud them from the parching heat a cloud he did display And fire he sent to give them light when night had hid the day verse 40 They asked and he caused quails to rain at their request And fully with the bread of heaven their hunger he represt verse 41 He opened the stony rock and waters gushed out And eke the dry and parched ground like rivers ran about verse 42 For of his holy covenant ay mindful was he tho Which to his servant Abraham he plighted long ago verse 43 He brought his people forth with mirth and his elect with joy Out of the cruel land where they had liv'd in great annoy verse 44 And of the heathen men he gave to them the fruitful lands The labours of the people eke they took into their hands verse 45 That they his holy statutes might observe for evermore And faithfully obey his laws praise ye the Lord therefore Confitemini Domino Psal cvi N. PRaise ye the Lord for he is good his mercy dures for ay verse 2 Who can express his noble acts or all his praise display verse 3 They blessed are that judgement keep and justly do alway verse 4 With favour of thy people Lord remember me I pray And with thy saving health O Lord vouchsafe to visit me verse 5 That I the great felicity of thine elect may see And with thy peoples joy I may a joyful minde possess And may with thine in heritance a glorying heart express verse 6 Both we and eke our fathers all have finned every one We have committed wickedness and lewdly we have done verse 7 The wonders great which thou O Lord hast done in Egypt land Our fathers though they saw them all yet did not understand Nor they thy mercies multitude did keep in thank ful minde But at the sea yea the Red sea rebelled most unkinde verse 8 Nevertheless he saved them for honour of his Name That he might make his power known and spread abroad his fame verse 9 The Red sea he did then rebuke and forthwith it was dri'd And as in wilderness so through the deep he did them guide verse 10 He sav'd them from the cruel hand of their despiteful foe And from the enemies hand he did deliver them also The second part verse 11 The waters their oppressours whelâ—'d not one was lestalive verse 12 Then they beleev'd his word and praise in song they did him give verse 13 But by and by unthankfully his works they clean forgat And for his counsel and his will they did neglect to wait verse 14 But lusted in the wilderness with fond and greedy lust And in the desert tempted God the stay of all their trust verse 15 And then their wanton minds desire he suffred them to have But wasting leanness therewithal into their souls he gave verse 16 Then when they lodged in their tents at Moses they did grutch Aâ—ron the holy of the Lord so did they envy much verse 17 Therefore the earth did open wide and Dathan did devour And all Abirams company did cover in that hour verse 18 In their assembly kindled was the hot consuming fire And wasting flame did then burn up the wicked in his ire verse 19 Upon the hill of Horeb they an idol-calf did frame And there the molten image they did worship of the same verse 20 Into the likeness of a calf which feedeth on the grass Thus they their glory turn'd and all their honour did deface verse 21 And God their onely Saviour unkindly they forgot Which many great and mighty things in Egypt land had wrought The third part verse 22 And in the land of Ham for them most wondrous works had done And by the Red sea dreadful things performed long agone verse 23 Therefore for their so shewing them forgetful and unkinde To bring destruction on them all he purpos'd in his minde Had not his chosen Moses stood before him in the break To turn his wrath lest he on them with slaughter should him wreak verse 24 They did despise the pleasant land that he behight to give Yea and the words that he had spoke they did no whit believe verse 25 But in their tents with grudging heart they wickedly repin'd Nor to the voice of God the Lord they gave an hearkning minde verse 26 Therefore against them lifted he his strong revenging hand Them to destroy in wilderness ere they should see the land verse 27 And to destroy their seed among the nations with his rod. And through the countreys of the world to scatter them abroad verse 28 To Baal-peor then they did adjoyn themselves also And ate the offerings of the dead so they forsook him tho verse 29 Thus with their own inventions his wrath they didprovoke And in his sore enkindled wrath the plague upon them broke verse 30 But Phinehas stood 〈◊〉 with zeal the sinners vile to â—â—ay And judgement he did execute and then the plague did stay The fourth part verse 31 It was imputed unto him for righteousness that day And from thenceforth so counted iâ— from race to race I say verse 32 At waters eke of Meribuh they did him angry make Yea so far forth that Moses was then punisht for their sake verse 33 Because they vext his spirit so sore that in impatient heat His lips spake unadvisedly his fervour was so great verse 34 Nor as the Lord commanded them they slew the people tho verse 35 But were among the heathen mixt and learn'd their works also verse 36 And did their idols serve which were their ruine and decay verse 37 To fiends their sons and daughters they did offer up and slay verse 38 Yea with unkindly murdring knife the guiltless bloud they spilt Yea their own sons and daughters bloud without all cause of guilt Whom they to Canaan idols then offred with wicked hand And so with bloud of innocentâ— defiled was the land verse 39 Thus were they stained with the works of their own filthy way And with their own inventions a whoring they did stray verse 40 Therefore against his people was the Lords wrath kindled sore And even his own inheritance he did abhor therefore verse 41 Into the hands of heathen men he gave them for a prey And made their foes their lords whom they were forced to obey The fifth part verse 42 Yea
and their hateful enemies opprest them in the land And they were humbly made to stoop as subjects to their hand verse 43 Full oftentimes from thrall had he delivered them before But with their counsels they to wrath provok'd him evermore Therefore they by their wickedness were brought full low to lie verse 44 Yet when he saw them in distress he hearkned to their crie verse 45 He call'd to minde his covenant which he to them had swore And by his mercies multitude repented him therefore verse 46 And favour he them made to finde before the fight of those That led them captive from their land when erst they were their foes verse 47 Save us O Lord that art our God save us O Lord we pray And from among the heathen folk Lord gather us away verse 48 That we may spread the noble praise of thy most holy Name That we may glory in thy praise and sounding of thy fame verse 49 The Lord the God of Israel be blest for evermore Let all the people say Amen praise ye the Lord therefore Confitemini Dom. Psal cvii. W. K. GIve thanks unto the Lord our God for gracious is he And that his mercy hath no end all mortal men may see verse 2 Such as the Lord redeemed hath with thanks shall praise his Name And shew how they from foes were freed and how he wrought the same verse 3 He gath'red them forth of the lands that lay so sar about From east to west from north to south his hand did finde them out verse 4 They wandred in the wildernesâ— and strayed from the way And found no city where to dwell that serve might for their stay verse 5 Whose thirst and hunger was so great in these deserts so void That saintness did them sore assault and eke their souls annoy'd verse 6 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they pray'd verse 7 And by that way which was most right he led them like a guide That they might to a city go and there also abide verse 8 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his goodness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 9 For he the empty soul sustain'd whom thirst had made to saint The hungry soul with goodness fed and did them eke acquaint verse 10 Such as do dwell in darkness deep where they on death do wait Fast bound to taste such troublous stormâ— as iron chains do threat The second part verse 11 For that against the Lords own words they sought so to rebel Esteeming light his counsels high which do so far excel verse 12 But when he humbled them full low they then fell down with grief And none was found so much to help whereby to get relief verse 13 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they pray'd verse 14 For he from darkness out them brought and from deaths dreadful shade Bursting with force the iron bands which them before did lade verse 15 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 16 For he threw down the gates of brass and brake them with strong hand The iron bars he smote in two nothing could him withstand verse 17 The foolish folk great plagues do seel and cannot from them wend But heap on more to those they have because they do offend verse 18 Their soul so much did lothe all meat that none they could abide Whereby death had them almost caught as they full truly tri'd verse 19 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous-state according as they pray'd verse 20 For then he sent to them his word which health did soon restore And brought them from those dangers deep wherein they were before The third part verse 21 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 22 And let them offer sacrifice with thanks and also fear And speak of all his wondrous works with glad and joyful cheer verse 23 Such as in ships and brittle barks into the seas descend Their merchandise through fearful flouds to compass and to end verse 24 Those men are forced to behold the Lords works what they be And in the dangerous deep the same most marvellous they see verse 25 For at his word the stormy wind ariseth in a rage And stirreth up the surges so verse 26 Then are they lifted up so high the clouds they seem to gain And plunging down the depth until their souls consume with pain verse 27 And like a drunkard to and fro now here now there they reel As men with fear of wit berest or had of sense no feel verse 28 Then did they cry in their distress unto the Lord for aid Who did remove their troublous state according as they pray'd verse 29 For with his word the Lord doth make the sturdy storms to cease So that the great waves from their ragâ— are brought toâ—rest and peace verse 30 Then are men glad when rest is come which they so much did crave And are by him in haven brought which they so fain would have The third part verse 31 Let men therefore before the Lord confess his kindness then And shew the wonders that he doth before the sons of men verse 32 Let them in presence of the folk with praâ—â—e extol his Name And where the elders do convent there let them do the same verse 33 For running flouds to dry deserts he doth oft change and turn And drieth up as it were dust the springing well and bourn verse 34 A fruitful land with pleasures decâ—t full barren doth he make When on their sins that dwell therein he doth just vengeance take verse 35 Again the wilderness sull rude he maketh fruit to bear With pleasant springs of waters clear though none before were there verse 36 Wherein such hungry souls are set as he doth freely chuse That they a city may them build to dwell in for their use verse 37 That they may sow their Pleasant land and vineyards also plant To yeeld them fruits of such increase as none may seem to want verse 38 They multiply exceedingly the Lord doth bless them so Who doth also the brute beasts make by numbers great to grow verse 39 But when the faithful are low brought by the oppressours stout And minish do through many plagues that compass them about verse 40 Then doth he princes bring to shame which did them sore oppress And likewise caused them to err within the wilderness verse 41 But yet the poor he raiseth up out of his troubles deep And oft-times doth his train augment much like a flock of sheep verse 42 The righteous shall behold this sight and also much rejoyce