wayes when I acknowledged with mercie thou didst heare Heare now eftsoones and mee instruct thy lawes to loue and feare verse 27 Teach mee once throughly for to know thy preceptes and thy lore Thy workes then will I meditate and lay them vp in store verse 28 My soule I feele so sore opprest that it melteth for griefe According to thy word therefore haste Lord to send reliefe verse 29 From lying and deceitefull lippes let thy grace mee defend And that I may learne thee to loue thine holy law mee send verse 30 The way of trueth both straight and sure I haue chosen and found I set thy judgementes mee before which keepe mee safe and sound verse 31 Since then O Lord I forc'de my selfe thy Couenantes to embrace Let mee therefore haue no rebuke nor checke in any case verse 32 Then will I runne with joyfull cheare where thy word doeth mee call When thou hast set mine heart at large and ridde mee out of thrall HE. verse 33 Instruct mee Lord in the right trade of thy statutes diuine And it to keepe euen to the end mine heart I will incline verse 34 Grant mee the knowledge of thy Law and I shall it obey With heart and mind and all my might I will it keepe I say verse 35 In the right path of thy preceptes guide mee Lord I require None other pleasure doe I wish nor greater thing desire verse 36 Incline mine heart thy lawes to keepe and Couenantes to embrace And from all filthie auarice Lord shield mee with thy grace verse 37 From vaine desire and worldly lustes turne backe mine eyes and sight Giue mee the spirite of life and power to walke thy wayes aright verse 38 Confirme thy gratious promise Lord which thou hast made to mee Which am thy seruant and doe loue and feare nothing but thee verse 39 Reproach and shame which I so feare from mee O LORD expell For thou doest judge with equitie and therein doest excell verse 40 Behold mine heartes desire is bent thy Lawes to keepe for ay LORD strengthen mee so with thy grace that it performe I may VAV verse 41 Thy mercies great and manyfold let mee obtaine O LORD Thy sauing health let mee enjoy according to thy word verse 42 So shall I stop the slandrous mouthes of leude men and vnjust For in thy faithfull promises standes my comfort and trust verse 43 The word of trueth within my mouth let euer still bee prest For in thy judgementes wonderfull mine hope doeth stand and rest verse 44 And while that breath within my brest doeth naturall life preserue Yea till this world shall bee dissolued thy Law I will obserue verse 45 So walke will I as set at large and made free from all dread Because I sought how for to keepe thy preceptes and thy read verse 46 Thy noble actes I will describe as thinges of moste great fame Euen before kinges I will them blase and shrinke no whit for shame verse 47 I will rejoyce then to obey thy worthie Hestes and will Which euermore I haue lou'de best and so will loue them still verse 48 Mine handes will I lift to thy Lawes which I haue dearely sought And practise thy Commandementes I will in deede and thought ZAIN verse 49 Thy promise which thou mad'st to mee thy seruant LORD remember For therein haue I put my trust and confidence for euer verse 50 It is my comfort and my joy when troubles mee assaile For were my life not by thy word my life would soone mee faile verse 51 The proud and such as GOD contemne still made of mee a scorne Yet would I not thy Law forsake as hee that were forlorne verse 52 But cald to mind LORD thy good works shewde to our fathers olde Whereby I felt the joyes surmount my griefe an hundreth folde verse 53 But yet alas for feare I quake seeing how wicked men Thy Law forsooke and did procure thy judgementes who know'th when verse 54 And as for mee I framde my song thy statutes of exalt When I among the strangers dwelt and thoughtes gan mee assault verse 55 I thought vpon thy Name O Lord by night when others sleepe As for thy law I it obey and euer will it keepe verse 56 This grace I did obtaine because thy Couenantes sweet and deare I did embrace and also keepe with reuerence and with feare HETH verse 57 O God who art my part and lot my comfort and my stay I haue decreed and promised thy law to keepe alway verse 58 Mine earnest heart did humbly sue in presence of thy face As thou therefore hast promised Lord grant mee of thy grace verse 59 My life I haue examined and tride my secret heart Which to thy statutes caused mee my feet straight to conuert verse 60 I did not stay nor linger long as they that slouthfull are But hastely thy lawes to keepe I did my selfe beware verse 61 The cruell bandes of wicded men haue made of mee their prey Yet would I not thy lawes forget nor from the go astray verse 62 Thy righteous judgement toward mee so great is and so hie That euen at mid-night will I rise thy Name to magnifie verse 63 Companion am I to all them which feare thee in their heart And neither will for loue nor dread from thy Commandementes start verse 64 Thy mercies Lord moste plenteously doe all the world fulfill Oh teach mee how I may obey thy statutes and thy will TETH verse 65 According to thy promise Lord so hast thou with mee dealt For of thy grace in sundrie sortes haue I thy seruant felt verse 66 Teach mee alwayes to judge aright and giue mee knowledge sure For certainely beleeue I doe that thy preceptes are pure verse 67 Ere thou didst touch mee with thy rodde I erde and went astray But now I keepe thine holy word and make it all my stay verse 68 Thou art both good and gracious and giuest moste liberally Thine ordinances how to keepe therefore O Lord teach mee verse 69 The proud and wicked men haue forgâ—de against mee many a lye Yet thy Commandementes still obserue with all mine heart will I. verse 70 Their harts are swoln with worldy wealth as grease so are they fat But in thy law doe I delite and nothing seeke but that verse 71 O happie time may I well say when thou didst mee correct For as a guide to learne thy Lawes thy roddes did mee direct verse 72 So that to mee thy word and law is dearer manyfolde Then thousandes great of siluer and golde or ought that can bee tolde IOD verse 73 Seeing thine handes haue made mee Lord to bee thy creature Grant knowledge likewise how to learne to put thy Lawes in ure verse 74 So they that feare thee shall rejoyce when euer they mee see Because I haue learnde by thy word to put my trust in thee verse 75 When with thy rods the world is plagued I know the cause is iust So when thou doest correct
doeth reigne although at it the people rage full sore Yea hee on Cherubim doeth sit though all the world would roare verse 2 The Lord that doeth in Sion dwell is high and wondrous great Aboue all folke hee doeth excell and hee aloft is set verse 3 Let all men praise thy mightie Name for it is fearefull sure And let them magnifie the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our King doeth loue iudgement and right Thou rightly rulest euery thing in Iaakob through thy might verse 5 To praise the Lord our God deuise all honour him accorde Before his foote-stoole fall likewise hee is the holy Lord. verse 6 Moyses Aaron and Samuel as Priestes on him did call When they did pray hee heard them well and gaue them answere all verse 7 Within the cloude to them hee spake then did they labour still To keepe such Lawes as hee did make and pointed them vntill verse 8 O Lord our God thou didst them heare to thee when they did seeke Thy mercie did on them appeare though thou their sinnes didst wreake verse 9 Giue laude and praise to God our Lord within his holy hill For why our God throughout the world is holy euer still PSALME C. ALl people that on earth doe dwell Sing to the LORD with chearefull voyce Him serue with feare his praise foorth-tell Come yee before him and reioyce verse 3 The Lord yee know is God indeed Without our aide hee did vs make Wee are his flocke hee doeth vs feede And for his sheepe hee doeth vs take verse 4 Oh enter then his gates with praise Approach with ioy his courtes vnto Praise laude and blesse his Name alwayes For it is seemely so to doe verse 5 For why the Lord our God is good His mercie is for euer sure His trueth at all times firmely stood And shall from age to age indure SALME CI. OF mercy and of iudgement both O LORD my song shall bee And it so oft as I doe sing shall bee O LORD to thee verse 2 I will my wayes with wisedome guide till thou my state erect And walke vprightly in mine house as one of thine Elect. verse 3 No wicked thing will I attempt but from the same refraine I hate the sinnes of faithlesse folke no such I will maintaine verse 4 The froward heart may take his leaue such shall not with mee dwell And for the proude and wicked man I will with force expell verse 5 Who so his neighbour doeth backe-bite that man will I destroy And who so hath a proude high looke I will the same annoy verse 6 For such as leade a godly life and wickednesse forsake Will I defend and more then that my seruantes will them make verse 7 Who so is bent to vse deceite mine house is not for such The lyer may I not beholde his lyes I hate so much verse 8 Th'vngodly soone I will destroy which dwell the land about And from the Citie of the Lord all wicked men roote out PSALME CII LORD to mine humble sute giue eare And let my crye fore thee appeare verse 2 Hide not thy face this troublous time But when I call thine eares incline Make haste to heare mee LORD I pray verse 3 For like as smoke consum'th away So are my dayes heere on this earth And all my bones parcht as an hearth verse 4 Like the mowne grasse withered and dry Such is mine heart because that I Through griefe my bread forgat to eat verse 5 For through my voyce of groninges great My bones vnto my skinne doe sticke verse 6 Yea I the Pelicane am like Which doeth in wildernesse abide And like the Owle of desertes wide verse 7 As on the house toppe all alone The sparrow doeth her selfe bemone Euen so I watch throughout the night verse 8 For dayly loe my foes mee spight And they that thus doe rage and scorne With one consent my death haue sworne verse 9 I ashes ate as bread through woe And blent my cuppe with teares also verse 10 This Lord mee hapneth for thine ire And for thy wrath as hote as fire For thou in high estate mee plaste And downe to dust againe hast cast verse 11 My dayes are like the fading shade I like the withered grasse am made verse 12 But Lord thou still abidest sure Thy memorie for aye doeth dure verse 13 Thou wilt arise for Sion hill And grant thy mercie her vntill For loe the time the time I say Of mercie Lord is come this day verse 14 For in her stones thy seruantes lust And pitie take vpon her dust verse 15 So shall the Heathen feare thy Name And earthly kinges thy glorious fame verse 16 What time the Lord shall Sion reare And in his glorie shall appeare verse 17 And to the desolate him bende Despising not their sute t'attende verse 18 This shall bee written for the race That after shall succeede in place Yea people yet vncreated The Lordes renowne abroad shall spread verse 19 For from his holy Temple hie The Lord our God hath cast his eye From heauen the earth beholde did hee verse 20 The prisoners grones to heare and see And set the damned free from care verse 21 That they in Sion may declare This holy Name of God alwayes And in Ierusalem his praise verse 22 When to conueene the folke accord And kingdomes all to serue the Lord verse 23 My strength hee bated in the wayes And shorter cut my life and dayes verse 24 Wherefore I said my God moste hie In midst my life let mee not die Thy yeeres eternally indure From age to age abyding sure verse 25 Thou in times past the earth didst ground Thine handyworke the heauens are found verse 26 They perish shall thou standing still They shall waxe olde as garmentes will Thou changing them they shall so bide verse 27 But thou art one whose yeeres not slide verse 28 Thy seruantes sonnes for aye shall last And in thy sight their seede stand fast PSALME CIII MY soule giue laude vnto the LORD my spirite shall doe the same And all the secretes of mine heart praise yee his holy Name verse 2 Giue thankes to GOD for all his giftes shew not thy selfe vnkinde And suffer not his benefites to flippe out of thy minde verse 3 That gaue thee pardon for thy faultes and thee restorde againe For all thy weake and fraile disease and healde thee of thy paine verse 4 That did redeeme thy ife from death from which thou couldst not flee His mercy and compassion both hee did extende to thee verse 5 That filde with goodnesse thy desire and did prolong thy youth Like as the Eagle casteth her bill whereby her age renueth verse 6 The Lord with iustice doeth repay all such as bee opprest So that their sufferinges and their wronges are turned to the best verse 7 His wayes and his commandementes to Moyses hee did showe His counsels and his valiant actes the Israelites did knowe verse 8 The
moste certaine my wordes shall him please I will rejoyce in him to him will I crye verse 35 The sinners O LORD consume in thine ire And eke the peruerse them roote out with shame But as for my soule now let it still desire And saye with the faithfull Praise yee the LORDS NAME PSALME CV Sing this as the 104. Psalme O Praise yee the LORD and call on his NAME Among the folke shewe his noble workes wrought verse 2 Sing praises sing to him to set foorth his fame And talke of the wonders hee hath to passe brought verse 3 In his holy NAME rejoyce and bee light And let their heartes joy which seeke for the LORD verse 4 Seeke yee our GOD holy his strength and his might His face to beholde still for euer accorde verse 5 His marueilous workes keepe fixt in your minde His signes and his judgementes which hee by mouth spake verse 6 Yee seede of his seruant Abraham by kinde And you sonnes of Iaakob whom hee his doeth take verse 7 Hee is our LORD GOD whose judgements are knowne Throughout all the earth verse 8 and hee aye certaine His promise remembred once made to his owne For thousandes of ages to bide and remaine verse 9 Th' agreement I saye with Abraham made Which vnto Isaak by othe hee made sure verse 10 Confirming to Iaakob for a law and trade And bonde to Israel alwayes to indure verse 11 Saying on this wise to thee giue I shall As lot to enjoy the Cananites grounde verse 12 Albeit they were then in number but small Yea few and but strangers throughout the land founde verse 13 And from place to place did walke to and froe And from one kingdome to other folke moue verse 14 Yet suffered hee no man them wrong for to doe But thus for their sakes hee great kinges did reproue verse 15 Touch not mine ointed nor harme not at all My Prophets moste deare verse 16 and on the whole earth A famine extreame then to come hee did call Which vtterly stroyed their store whole with dearth verse 17 Yet sent hee before a man to prouide Euen Ioseph his owne in seruage was solde verse 18 Whose feete they in stockes helde yea hee a long tide With fetters of yron was kept in sure holde verse 19 Vntill the time came his cause should bee knowne And that the LORDS word his patience and tride verse 20 Then sent the king for him and loosde him full soone The head of the people his bandes laide aside verse 21 Who made him the lord his house ouer all And of his substance the ruler and staye verse 22 That hee might his princes vnto his will thrall And eke teach the elders of wisedome the waye verse 23 Then came Israel into Egypt land A stranger in Cham Iaakob then abode verse 24 Where GOD did increase them much like the sea sand And made them more mightie then those them with-stoode verse 25 Whose heartes hee did turne his people to hate And seeke by deceate his seruantes to abuse verse 26 But then hee sent Moyses their cause to debate And Aaron his seruantes whom hee did foorth chose verse 27 They vnto his foes his message declar'de His signes and his wonders of Ham in the land verse 28 Hee darkenesse sent downe then and darke it appearde And these not rebelled to doe his command verse 29 Their waters hee turn'de redde blood for to bee Hee slew all their fish verse 30 and frogges made to breede Euen in their kinges chambers verse 31 then also spake hee So lyce and fleas swarmed the land through indeede verse 32 Hee sent on them haile in stead of sweete raine And great flames of fire their countrie throughout verse 33 Their vines and their figge-trees hee strake to their paine And brake the trees all their costes rounde about verse 34 Hee spake but the worde and grasse-hoppers came With hudge caterpillers beyonde all mens thought verse 35 The grasse they deuoured that grew then in Ham And fruites of the ground all they brought vnto nought verse 36 Also the first-borne the land through hee smote Euen the beginning of their force and might verse 37 And with golde and siluer brought foorth his owne lot Amongst whose tribes was not one feeble in sight verse 38 Egypt rejoyced when they went away For why vpon them their feare then was fall verse 39 The LORD a cloud spred out to guide them by day And fire for to light them the night ouer all verse 40 They did but demande and quailes hee them sent And with bread from heauen hee did them suffice verse 41 The harde rocke hee opened and waters out went Euen through the drie places like floods that doe rise verse 42 For hee doeth remember his holy othe made Vnto Abraham his seruant moste deare verse 43 And brought forth his people that were with woe lade His owne chosen children with joy and gladde cheare verse 44 The Heathen folkes land to them hee did part The peoples whole labours they had to possesse verse 45 That they from his statutes and lawes should not start Wherefore our LORD GOD praise his laude no time cease PSALME CVI. Sing this as the 95. Psalme PRaise yee the LORD for hee is good his mercies dure for aye verse 2 Who can expresse his noble actes or all his praise display verse 3 They blessed are that judgement keepe and justly doe alway verse 4 With fauour of thy people LORD remember mee I pray And with thy sauing health O LORD vouchsafe to visite mee verse 5 That I the great felicitie of thine Elect may see And with the peoples joy I may a joyfull minde possesse And may with thine inheritance a glorying heart expresse verse 6 Both wee and eke our fathers all haue sinned euery one Wee haue committed wickednesse and lewdely wee haue 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 vnderstand Nor yet thy mercies multitude did keepe in thankefull minde But at the sea yea the redde sea rebelled moste vnkinde verse 8 Neuerthelesse hee saued them for honour of his NAME That hee might make his power knowne and spred abroad with fame verse 9 The redde sea hee did then rebuke and foorth-with it was dryde And as in wildernesse so through the deepe hee did them guide verse 10 Hee sau'de them from the cruell hande of their despitefull foe And from the enemies hand hee did deliuer them also verse 11 The waters their oppressours whelm'de not one was left aliue verse 12 Then they beleeu'de his wordes and praise in songes they did him giue verse 13 But by and by vnthankefully his workes they cleane forgat And for his counsell and his will they did neglect to waite verse 14 But lusted in the wildernesse with fonde and greedie lust And in the desert tempted GOD the stay of all their trust verse 15 And then their wanton mindes desire hee
126 It is now time Lord to begin for trueth is quite decay'd Thy law likewise they haue transgrest and none against them said verse 127 This is the cause wherefore I loue thy Lawes better then golde Or jewels fine which are esteemde moste costly to bee solde verse 128 I thought thy preceptes all moste just and so them laide in store All craftie and malicious wayes I doe abhorre therefore PE. verse 129 Thy Couenantes are moste wonderfull and full of thinges profound My soule therefore doeth keepe them sure when they are tride and found verse 130 When men first enter into thy wordes they find a light moste cleare And very idiotes vnderstand when they it read or heare verse 131 For joy I haue both gapt and breathde to know thy Commandement That I might guide my life thereby I sought what thing it meant verse 132 With mercy and compassion Lord beholde mee from aboue As thou art wont to beholde such as thy Name feare and loue verse 133 Direct my foot-steppes by thy word that I thy will may know And neuer let iniquitie thy seruant ouer-throw verse 134 From slandrous tongues deadly harms preserue and keepe mee sure Thy preceptes then will I obserue and put them eke in ure verse 135 Thy countenance which doth surmount the Sunne in his bright hew Let shine on mee and by thy Law teach mee what to eschew verse 136 Out of mine eyes great floods gush out of drearie teares and fell When I behold how wicked men thy Law keepe neuer a deale ZADE. verse 137 In euery point Lord thou art just the wicked though they grudge And when thou doest sentence pronounce thou art a righteous judge verse 138 To render right and flee from guile are two chiefe pointes and hie And such as thou hast in thy Law commanded vs straitely verse 139 With zeale and wrath I am consum'de and euen pyned away To see my foes thy wordes forget for ought that I doe may verse 140 So pure and perfect is thy word as any heart can deeme And I thy seruant nothing more doe loue or yet esteeme verse 141 And though I bee nothing set by as one of base degree Yet doe I not thine Hestes forget nor shrinke away from thee verse 142 Thy righteousnesse Lord is moste just for euer to indure Also thy Law is trueth it selfe moste constant and moste pure verse 143 Trouble and griefe haue seazde on mee and brought mee wondrous low Yet doe I still of thy Preceptes delite to heare and know verse 144 The righteousnesse of thy judgementes doe last for euermore Then teach them mee for euen in them my life lieth vp in store KOPH verse 145 With feruent heart I calde and cride now answere mee O LORD That thy Commandementes to obserue I may fully accord verse 146 To thee my God I make my sute with moste humble request Saue mee therefore and I will keepe thy Preceptes and thine Hest verse 147 To thee I crie euen in the morne before the day wax light Because that I haue in thy word my confidence whole plight verse 148 Mine eyes preuent the watch by night and ere the day I wake That by deuising of thy word I might some comfort take verse 149 Incline thine eares to heare my voice and pitie on mee take As thou wast wont so judge mee Lord lest life mee should forsake verse 150 My foes draw neare and doe procure my death maliciously Which from thy Law are farre gone backe and straide from it lewdly verse 151 Therefore O Lord approach thou neare for neede doeth so require And all thy Preceptes true they are then helpe I thee desire verse 152 By thy Commandements I haue learnde not now but long ago That they remaine for euermore thou hast them grounded so RESH verse 153 My trouble and affliction consider and beholde Deliuer mee for of thy Law I euer take fast holde verse 154 Defend my good and righteous cause with speed mee succour send From death as thou hast promised Lord keepe mee and defend verse 155 As for the wicked farre they are from hauing health and grace Whereby they might thy statutes know they enter not the trace verse 156 Great are thy mercies Lord I grant what tongue can them attaine And as thou hast mee judgde ere now so let mee life obtaine verse 157 Though many men doe trouble mee and persecute moste sore Yet from thy Lawes I neuer shrunke nor went awry therefore verse 158 And trueth it is for griefe I die when I these traitors see Because they keepe no whit thy word nor yet seeke to know thee verse 159 Behold for I doe loue thy Lawes with heart most glad and faine As thou art good and gratious Lord restore my life againe verse 160 What thy word doeth decree must bee and so it hath beene euer Thy righteous judgementes are also moste true and decay neuer SCHIN verse 161 Princes haue sought with crueltie causelesse to make mee crouch But all in vaine for of thy word the feare did mine heart touch verse 162 And certainely euen of thy word I was more merrie and glad Then hee that of rich spoyles and preyes great store and plentie had verse 163 As for all lyes and falsities I hate moste and detest For why thine holy Law doe I aboue all thinges loue best verse 164 Seuen times a day I praise thee Lord singing with heart and voice Thy righteous actes and wonderfull so cause mee to rejoice verse 165 Great peace and rest shall all such haue who doe thy statutes loue No danger shall their quyet state impaire or once remoue verse 166 Mine onely health and comfort Lord I looke for at thine hand And therefore haue I done these thinges which thou didst mee command verse 167 Thy Lawes haue beene mine exercise which my soule moste desirde So much my loue to them was bent that nought els I requirde verse 168 Thy Statutes and Commandementes I kept thou knowest aright For all the thinges that I haue done are present in thy sight TAV verse 169 O Lord let my complaint and crie before thy face appeare And as thou hast mee promised so teach mee thee to feare verse 170 Mine humble supplication to thee let find accesse And grant mee Lord deliuerance for so is thy promise verse 171 Then shall my lippes thy praises speake after moste ample sort When thou thy statutes hast mee taught wherein standes my comfort verse 172 My tong shall sing and preach thy word and on this wyse say shall GODS famous actes and noble Lawes are just and perfect all verse 173 Stretch out thine hand I thee beseech and speedily mee saue For thy Commandementes to obserue chosen O LORD I haue verse 174 Of thee alone LORD I craue health for other know I none And in thy Law and nothing els I doe delite alone verse 175 Grant mee therefore long dayes to liue thy NAME to magnifie And of thy judgementes mercifull let mee thy