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A13988	The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.; Whole book of psalms. 1562	Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.; Hopkins, John, d. 1570.	1562 (1562)	STC 2430; ESTC S1798	175,161	470

people of the earth Geue thankes to God sing and reioyce to him with ioy and mirth verse 6 Upon the harp vnto him sing geue thankes to him with psalmes Reioyce before the Lord our king with trumpets and with shalmes verse 7 Yea let the sea with all therin with ioy bothe rore and swell The earth likewise let it begin with all that therin dwell verse 8 And let the flouddes reioyse theyr filles and clap theyr handes apace And eke the mountaynes and the hilles before the Lorde his face verse 9 For he shall come to iudge and try the world and euery wighte And rule the people mightely with iustice and with right Dominus regnauit psalme lxxxxix I. H. He cōmendeth the power equitie and excellency of the kingdome of God by Chryst ouer the Iew and Gentils and prouoketh them to magnyfye the same to serue the Lord folowing the example of the auncyent fathers Mosies Aaron Samuel who calling vpon God wer harde in theyr prayers THe Lord doeth raygne although at it The people rage full fore Sing this as the. lxxxxv p yea he on Cherubin doth sit though all the world woulde rore verse 2 The Lorde that doth in Sion dwell is high and wonders great Aboue all folke he doth excell and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men prayse thy mightye name for it is featfull sure And let them magnifye the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our king doth loue iudgement and ryght Thou rightly rulest euery thing in Iacob through thy might verse 5 To prayse the Lorde our God deuise all honour to him doo His fote stole worship ye likewise for he is holy too verse 6 Moses Aron and Samuell as priestes on him did call When they did pray he herd them well and gaue them aunswer all verse 7 Within the cloude to them he spake then did they labour still To keepe suche lawes as he did make and pointed them vntill verse 8 O Lord our god thou diddest them here and aunswerst them againe Thy mercy did on them appere theyr deedes diddest not maintayne verse 9 O laude and prayse our God and Lord within this holy hill For why our God throughoute the world is holy euer styll 2 Iubilate deo omnis terra Psalme C. He exhorteth all to serue the Lorde who hath made vs and to enter into his courts and assemblies to prayse his name IN God the Lorde be glad and lyght prayse him throughout the yearthe Sing this as the. lxvii Serue him and come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 12 Know that the Lorde our God he is he did vs make and kepe Not we our sealues for we are his owne folke and pasture shepe verse 13 O go into his gates alwayes geue thankes within the same within his courts set forth his prayse and laud his holy name verse 14 For why the goodnes of the Lorde for euermore doth raygne From age to age throughout the world his truthe doth still remayne Miserecordiam et iudicium Psalm Ci. N. Dauid describeth what gouernment he will obserue in his house and kingdome He will punish and correct by roting out the wicked and cheryshing the godly persones I Mercye will and iudgement sing O Lorde God vnto thee Sing this as the. lxxxi Ps. And wisely doo in perfect way vntill thou come to me And in the middest of my house walke in purenes of my sprite And I no kind of wicked thing will set before my sight I hate their worke that fall away it shall not cleaue to me From me shall part the froward hart none euell will I see Him will I stroy that sclaundereth his neyghbour priuely The lofty hart I can not beare nor him that loketh hie Mine eyes shall be on them within the land that faithfull be In perfect way who worketh shall be seruant vnto me I will no guilefull person haue within my house to dwell And in my presence he shal not remaine that lies doth tell Betymes I will destroy euen all the wicked of the lande That I may from Gods citie cut the wicked workers band Domine exaudi orationem Psalm C. ii I. H. It semeth that this prayer was apointed to the faithful to pray in the captiuitie of Babilon A consolation for the buyldyng of the churche wherof foloweth the prayse of god to be published vnto al posterities The conuersion of the Gentels And the stabilytie of the churche O Heare my prayer Lorde and let my crye come vnto thee In tyme of troble doo not hide thy face away from me Inclyne thyne eares to me make haste Sing this as the. lxvii to heare me when I call For as the smoke doth fade so doo my dayes consume and fall And as a herth my bones are burnt my hart is smitten dead And withers as the grasse that I forget to eate my bread By reason of my groning voyce my bones cleaue to my skinne As pellicane of wildernes suche case now am I in And as an oule in desert is loe I am suche a one I watch and as a sparow on the house top am alone Loe dayly in reprochefull wise mine enmies doo me scorne And they that doo against me rage against me they haue sworne Surely with ashes as with breade my hunger I haue filld And mingled haue my drink with teares that fro mine eyes haue stild Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdayne For thou hast lifted me aloft and cast me downe agayne The dayes wherin I pas my lyfe are like the fleting shade And I am withered like the gras that sone away doth fade But thou O Lord for euer doest remaine in stedy place And thy remembrance euer doth abide from race to race The second parte Thou wilt aryse and mercy thou to Sion wilt extend The time of mercy now the time foreset is come to end For euen in the stones therof thy seruants do delighte And on the dust therof they haue compassion in theyr sprite Then shall the Heathen peoples feare the Lordes most holy name And all the kinges on earth shall drede thy glory and thy fame Then when the Lord the mighty God againe shall Syon rere And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appeare To prayer of the desolate when he himself shall bend when he shall not disdayne vnto theyr prayer to attend This shalbe written for the age that after shall succede the people yet vncreated the Lordes renome shall sprede For he from his hie sanctuarye hath loked downe belowe and out of Heauen hath the Lord beheld the earth also That of the mourning captiue he might heare the woefull crye And that he might deliuer those that damned are to dye That they in Sion may declare the Lordes most holy name and in Ierusalem set fourth the prayses of the same Then when the people of the land and kingdomes with accorde Shalbe assembled for to do theyr seruice to

and also proued by manifolde experience howe ready God was at hande in all hys troubles he beyng now likewise in daunger of new enemies desireth God to help hym accordyng to hys wont and distroye the malicious arrogancie of his aduersaryes WIth hart and mouthe vnto the Lorde will I syng laude and prayse Sing this as the. iii. ps And speake of all thy wondrous workes and them declare alwayes verse 2 I will be glad and muche reioyce in thee O God moste hie And make my songes extoll thy name aboue the sterry skie verse 3 For that my foes are driuen backe and turned vnto flyght They fall downe flat and are destroyd by thy great force and might Thou hast reuenged all my wrong God only defēdeth the iuste cause my grief and all my grudge verse 4 Thou dost with iustice heare my cause most like a righteous iudge verse 5 Thou doest rebuke the Heathen folke and wicked so confounde That afterwarde the memory of them cannot be founde verse 6 My foe thou hast made good dispatche and all our townes destroyed Thou hast theyr fame with thē defaced through all the world so wyde verse 7 Know thou that he whiche is aboue for euermore shall raygne And in the seate of equitie true iudgement wil mainteyne verse 8 With iustice he wyll kepe and guyde the worlde and euery weight And so will yelde with equitie to euery man his right verse 9 He is protector of the poore what tyme they be opprest He is in all aduersitie their refuge and theyr rest verse 10 All they that know thy holy name therfore shall trust in thee For thou forsakest not theyr sute in their necessitie verse 11 Sing Psalmes therfore vnto the Lorde We seke God there by prayer or by vpright godly lyfe that dwelleth in Sion hill Publishe amonge all nations his noble artes and will verse 12 For he is mindfull of the bloud of those that be opprest For getting not the afflicted hart that seketh to him for rest The second parte verse 13 Haue mercy Lorde on me poore wretche whose enemies still remayne Which from the gates of death are wonte to rayse me vp agayne verse 14 In Sion that I might set forth thy prayse with hart and voyce And that in thy saluation Lorde my soule might still reioyce verse 15 The heathen sticke fast in the pit that they them selues preparde And in the net that they did set their owne fete fast are snarde verse 16 God sheweth his iudgement which wer good The hebr willeth men to meditate dilygently on thys thynge for euery man to marke When as ye see the wicked man lye trapt in his owne warke verse 17 The wicked and the sinfull men go downe to hell for euer And all the people of the worlde that will not god remember verse 18 18 But sure the Lorde will not forget the poore mans grief and payne The pacient folke neuer loke for helpe of God in dayne verse 19 O Lorde arise lest men preuayle that be of worldly might And let the Heathen folke receyue their iudgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord stryke such terror feare and dread into the harts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mortall men Vt quid domine Psalme x. T. S. He complaineth of the fraude rapine tiranny and of all kindes of wrong which worldly men vse assigninge the cause thereof whiche was that wicked men beinge as it were dronken with worldly prosperitie and therfore setting aparte all feare and reuerence towardes God thinke they may doe all thinges without controwlinge Therfore he calleth vppon God to sende some remeady agaynst these desperate enyls And at length comforteth him selfe with hope of deliuerance WHat is the cause that thou O Lorde art now so sarre from thine Sing this as the thirde Psalme And kepest close thy countenaunce from vs this troublous time verse 1 The poore doth pearysh by the proude and wicked mens desire Let them be taken in the craft that they themselues conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his owne hart the vngodly doth delite So doth the wicked praise hym selfe and doeth the Lorde despite verse 4 4 He is so proude that right and wrong he setteth all apart Nay nay there is no God sayeth he for thus he thinketh in hart verse 5 Because his wayes do prosper still he doth thy lawes neglect And with a blast doth puffe against suche as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saieth he I haue no dread lest mine estate should chaunge And why for all aduersitie to him is very straunge verse 7 His mouth is full of cursednes He meaneth that wickednes is so far ouergrowē that God must nedes nowe helpe or neuer of fraud deceyt and guyle Under his tong doeth mischiefsyt and trauell all the whyle verse 8 He lyeth hid in wayes and holes to slay the innocent Against the poore that passe him by hys cruell eyes are bent verse 9 And like a Lyon priuely lieth lurking in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoyle poore simple men verse 10 And for the nonce full craftely he croucheth downe I say verse 11 So are greate heapes of poore men made by his strong power his pray verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this sayeth he therfore may I be bolde His countenance is cast aside he doth it not beholde verse 13 Arise O Lorde G God in wome the poore mans hope doth rest Lift vp thy hand forget not Lorde the poore that be opprest verse 14 What blasphemy is thys to thee Lorde dost thou not abhorre it To heare the wicked in theyr hartes say tushe thou carest not for it verse 15 But thou seest all thys wickednes and well doest vnderstande verse 16 That frendles and poore fatherles are left into thy hande verse 17 Of wicked and malicions men By the Heathen he meaneth the Hypocrites whyche gloryed as yf they had bene of the churche then breake the power for euer That they with theyr iniquytie may pearish altogether verse 18 The Lorde shall raine for euermore as king and God alone And he will chase the Heathen folke out of hys lande eche one verse 19 Thou hearest O Lord the poore mans plaint vntyll theyr praiers request Their harts thou wilt confirme thine eares to heare be prest verse 20 To iudge the poore and fatherles and helpe them to their right That they may be no more opprest with men of worldly might In Domino confido Psalm xi T. S. This Psalme conteyneth two partes In the firste Dauid shewed how hard assaultes of temtations he susteyned and in howe great anguish of mind he was when Saul did persecute hym Then nexte he reioyseth that God sent hym succor in his necessitie declaryng his iustice as wel in gouernyng the good and the wicked men as the whole worlde I Trust in God how dare ye then say thus my soule vntill Sing this as the third Psalme Flee hence as fast as any foule

the Lorde The third parte My former force of strength he hath abated in the way And shorter he did cut my dayes thus I therfore did say My God in middes of all my dayes now take me not away Thy yeres endure eternally from age to age for ay Thou the foundations of the earth before all time hast layde And Lorde the heauens are the work which thine owne hands haue made Yea they shall perish and decay but thou shalt tary still And they shall all in tyme waxe olde euen as a garment will Thou as a garment shalt then chaunge and changed shall they be But thou doest still abide the same thy yeares doo neuer flee The children of thy seruantes shall continually endure And in thy sight their happy sede for euer shall stand sure 1 Benedic anima mea Psalm Ciii T. S. This is a Psalme most excellent wherin the Prophet doth prouoke men and angels and all creatures to prayse the Lorde for his fatherly mercyes and deliuerance of his people from all euils for his prouivence ouer all thinges and the preseruation of the faithfull My soule geue laud vnto the lord my sprite shall doo the same and all the secrets of my hart praise ye his holy name Geue thanks to god for all his gifts shew not thy self vnkind suffer not his benefites to slip out of thy mind verse 3 That gaue thee pardon for thy faults and thee restored agayne For all thy weake and frayle disease and healde thee of thy payne verse 4 4 That did redeme thy life from death from whiche thou couldest not flee His mercy and compassion bothe he did extend to thee verse 5 That filled with goodnes thy desyre and did prolong thy youth Like as the Egle casteth her bill wherby her age renueth verse 6 The Lorde with iustice doth repaye all suche as be opprest So that their suffrings their wrongs are turned to the best verse 7 his wayes and his commaundements to Moyses he did shew His counsels and his valiant actes the Israelites did know verse 8 The Lorde is kinde and mercyfull when sinners doo him greue The slowest to conceyue a wrath and rediest to forgeue verse 9 He chideth not vs contiuually though we be full of stryfe Nor kepeth our faultes in memory for all our sinfull lyfe verse 10 Nor yet according to our sinnes the Lorde doth vs regarde Nor after our iniquities he doth not vs rewarde verse 11 But as the space is wondrous great twixt heauen and earth aboue So is his goodnes muche more large to them that do him loue verse 12 God doth remoue our sinnes from vs and our offences all As farre as is the sunne rising full distant from his fall The second part verse 13 And loke what pitte parents deare vnto their children beare Like pitie beareth the Lorde to suche as worship him in feare verse 14 The lord y t made vs knoweth our shape our mould and fashion iust Howe weake and frayle our nature is and how we be but dust verse 15 And how the tyme of mortall men is lyke the withering hay Or like the floure right fayre in field that fadth full sone away verse 16 Whose glosse beautie stormy windes doo vtterly disgrace And make that after theyr assaults suche blossomes haue no place verse 17 But yet the goodnes of the Lorde with his shall euer stand Theyr childrens children do receyue his righteousnes at hand verse 18 I incane which kepe his couenant with all theyr whole desire And not forget to doo the thing that he doth them require verse 19 The heauens hie are made the seate and fotestole of the Lorde And by his power imperiall he gouerneth all the world verse 20 ye angels whiche are great in power prayse ye and bles the Lorde Which to obey and doo his wyll immediatly accorde verse 21 Ye noble hostes and ministers cease not to laude hym styll Which ready are to execute hys pleasure and his wyll verse 22 ye all his workes in euery place prayse ye his holy name My hart my mynde and eke my soule prayse ye also the same Benedic anima mea Psalm Ciiii w. K An excellent psalme to prayse God for the creation of the worlde and the gouernance of the same by his maruelous prouidence where in the Prophet prayeth againste the wicked who are occasions that God diminisheth his blessings My soule praise the lord speake good of his name O lord our great god how dost the● appeare So passing in glory that great is thy same honour and maiestie in thee shine most cleare with light as a robe thou hast thee beclad wherby all the earth thy greatnes may see the heauens in such sort thou also hast spread that it to a curtaine compared may be verse 3 His chamber beames lye in the cloudes full sure Which as his charet are made him to beare And there with much swiftnes his course dothindure Upon the winges riding of winde in the ayre He maketh his sprites as herauldes to go And lightnings to serue we see also prest His will to accomplish they runne to and fro To saue or consume thinges as semeth him best verse 5 He groundeth the earth so firmely and fast That it once to moue none haue shall sucke power verse 6 The depe afaire couering for it made thon hast Which by his owne nature the hilles wolde deuoure verse 7 But at thy rebuke the waters doo flee And so geue due place thy worde to obaye At thy voyce of thunder so fearfull they be That in theyr great raging they hast sone away The mountaynes full hygh they then vp ascend If thou doo but speake So likewise the valleis moste quickely descend Where thou them appointest remayne they doo still verse 9 Their bondes hast thou set how farre they shall runne So as in their rage not that pas they can For God hathe appointed they shall not returne The earth to destroy more whiche made was for man verse 10 He sendeth the springs to strong streames or lakes Which runne doo full swyft amonge the huge hilles verse 11 Where both the wilde asses their thirst oft times slakes And beastes of the mountaynes therof drink their filles verse 12 By these pleasant springs or fouutaynes full fayre The foules of the ayre abide shall and dwell Who moued by nature to hoppe here and there Among the grene branches their songs shall excell verse 13 The mountaines to moist the cloudes he doth vse The earth with his workes are wholy repleat verse 14 14 So as the brute cattell he dooeth not refuse But grasse doth prouyde them and herbe for mans meate verse 15 Yea breade wine and oyle he made for mans sake His face to refresh and hart to make strong verse 16 The ceders of Liban this greate Lorde dyd make Whiche trees he doeth nourish that grow vp so long verse 17 In these may birdes buylde and make there theyr nest In firre trees the storckes remayne and abyde verse 18

within my brest doth naturall lyfe preserue yea till this world shalbe dissolued thy law will I obserue verse 45 So walke will I as set at large and made free from all drede Because I sought how for to kepe thy precepts and thy rede verse 46 Thy noble actes I will describe as thinges of most great fame Euen before kings I will them blase and shrink no whit for shame verse 47 I will reioyse them to obey thy worthy hests and will Which euermore I haue loued best and so will loue them still verse 48 48 My handes will I lyft to thy lawes whiche I haue dearely sought And practise thy commaundementes in will in dede and thought The. vii parte ZAIN verse 49 Thy promise whiche thou madst to me thy seruaunt Lorde remember For therin haue I put my trust and confidence for euer verse 50 It is my comfort and my ioy when troubles me assayle For were my lyfe not by thy worde my lyfe would sone me fayle verse 51 The proude and suche as God contemn still made of me a skorne yet would I not thy law forsake as he that were forlorne verse 52 But cald to mind lord thy great works shewde to our fathers olde Wherby I felt the ioy surmount my grief an hundred folde verse 53 But yet alas for feare I quoke seing how wicked men Thy law forsoke and did procure thy iudgment who knoweth when verse 54 And as for me I framed my songs thy statutes to exalt When I among the straungers dweld and thoughtes gan me assalt verse 55 I thought vpon thy name O Lorde by nyght when others slepe As for thy law also I kept and euer will it kepe verse 56 This grace I did obteyne because thy couenants swete and deate I did embrace and also kepe with reuerence and with feare The. viii parte HETH verse 57 O God which art my part and lot My comfort and my stay I haue decreed and promised thy lawe to kepe alway verse 58 Mine earnest hart did humbly sue in presence of thy face As thou therfore hast promised Lorde graunt me of thy grace verse 59 My lyfe I haue examined and tryde my secrete hart Whiche to thy statutes caused me my fete strayght to conuert verse 60 I did not stay nor linger long as they that slouthfull are But hastely thy lawes to kepe I did my selfe beware verse 61 The cruell bandes of wicked men haue made of me theyr pray Yet would I not thy law forget nor from thee go astray verse 62 Thy rightous iudgment shewd toward me so great is and so hie That euen at midnight will I ryse thy name to magnifye verse 63 Companion am I to all them whiche feare thee in theyr hart And neyther will for loue nor dread ▪ from thy commaundements start verse 64 Thy mercies Lorde most plentuously doo all the worlde fulfyll Oh teache me how I may obey thy statutes and thy will The ix parte TETH verse 65 According to thy promise Lorde so hast thou with me delt For of thy grace in sundry sorts haue I thy seruaunt felt verse 66 Teache me to iudge alwayes a ryght and geue me knowledge sure For certenly beleue I doo that thy precepts are pure verse 67 Yer thou didst touche me with thy rod I erred and went astray But now I kepe thy holy word and make it all my stay verse 68 Thou art both good and gratious and geuest most liberally Thy ordinaunces how to kepe therfore O Lord teache me verse 69 The proud and wicked mē haue forged against me many a lye yet thy commaundements still obserue with all my hart will I. verse 70 Their harts are swolne with worldly welth as gras so are they fat But in thy law doo I delyte and nothyng seke but that verse 71 Oh happy tyme may I well say when thou didst me correct For as a guide to learne thy lawes thy rods did me direct verse 72 So that to me thy worde and law is dearer manifold Then thousands great of siluer golde or ought that can be tolde The. x. parte IOD verse 73 Seing thy hands haue made me Lord to be thy creature Graunt knowledg like wise how to learne to put thy lawes in vre verse 74 So they that feare thee shall reioyce when euer they me see Because I haue learned by thy worde to put my trust in thee verse 75 When with thy rods y e world is plagd I know the cause is iust So when thou didst correct me Lorde the cause iust nedes be must verse 76 Now of thy goodnes I thee pray some comforte to me send As thou to me thy seruaunt hetest so from all ill me shend verse 77 Thy tender mercies power on me and I shall surely lyue For ioy and consolation bathe thy lawes to me doth geue verse 78 78 Confound the proud whose false pretēce is me for to destroy But as for me thy hestes to know I will myself employ verse 79 Who so with reuerence doo thee feare to me let them retire And suche as doo thy couenants knowe and them alone desire verse 80 My hart without all waueryng let on thy lawes be bent That no confusion come to me wherby I should be shent The xi parte GAPH verse 81 My soule doth faynt and ceaseth not thy sauing health to craue And for thy wordes sake still I trust my hartes desyre to haue verse 82 Mine eyes doo fayle with loking for thy word and thus I say Oh when wilte thou me comfort Lorde why dost thou thus delay verse 83 As a skin bottell in the smoke so am I partcht and dryed yet will I not out of my hart let thy commaundement slide verse 84 Alas how long shall I yet lyue before I see the houre That on my foes whyche me torment thy vengeaunce thou wilt power verse 85 Presūptuons men haue digged pittes thinking to make me sure Thus contrary agaynst thy law my hurte they doo procure verse 86 But thy commaundements are al true and causeles they me greue To thee therfore I doo complayne that thou mightest me relieue verse 87 Almost they had me cleane destroide and brought me quite to grounde yet by thy statutes I abode and therin succor founde verse 88 Restore me Lorde agayne to lyfe for thy mercyes excell And so shall I thy couenants kepe till death my lyfe expell The. xii parte LAMID verse 89 In heauens lord where thou dost dwel thy word is stablished sure And shall for all eternitie fast grauen there indure verse 90 From age to age thy truth abideth as doth the earth witnes Whose ground work thou hast layd so sure as no tounge can expres verse 91 Euen to thys day we may well see how all thynges perseuer Accordyng to thy ordinance for all thinges thee reuere verse 92 Had it not ben that in thy lawe my soule had comfort sought Long time yere now in my distres I had ben brought to nought verse 93 Therfore will I thy

praise his greatnes not cāreach frō race to race they shal thy works praise and thy power preache I Of thy gloryous maiestye the beauty will recorde And meditate vppon thy workes most wonderfull O Lorde And they shal of thy power and of thy fearfull actes declare And I to publish all abrode thy greatnes will not spare And they into the mention shall breake of thy goodnes great And I aloud thy righteousnes in singing shall repete The Lorde our God is gratious and mercifull also Of great abounding mercy and to angre he is slowe yea good to all and all his workes his mercy doth excede Loe all thy workes doo praise thee lord and doo their honor sprede Thy sainctes doo bles thee and they doo thy kingdomes glorye shewe And blase thy power to cause the sonnes of men his power to know And of his mighty kingdome eke to sprede the glorious prayse Thy kingdome Lorde a kingdom is that doth endure alwayes And thy dominion through eche age endures without decay The Lorde vpholdeth them that fall the sliding he doth stay The eyes of all doo wayte on thee thou doest them all releue And thou to eche sufficing foode in season due dost geue Thou openest thy plentuous hand and bounteously doest fill All thinges what euer liue with giftes of thy good will The Lorde is iust in all his wayes his workes are holy all Nere all he is that call on him in truthe that on him cal He the desires whiche they require that feare him will fulfill And he will heare them when they crye and saue them all he will The Lorde preserues all those to him that beare a louing hart But he them all that wicked are will vtterly subuert My thankfull mouth shall gladly speake the prayses of the Lorde All flesh to prayse hys holy name for euer shall accorde Lauda anima mea Psalm cxlvi I. H Dauid shewing the great desire he had to prayse God teacheth that none should put theyr trust in men but in God alone who is almightye and deliuereth thafflicted nourisheth the poore setteth prisoners at lybertie comforteth the fatherles widowes and the straungers and raygneth kinge for euer My soule prayse thou the Lord alwayes My God I will confes Sing thys as the. cxxxvii Whyle death and lyfe prolong my dayes my tonge no tyme shall cease verse 3 Trust not in worldly princes then though they abound in wealth Nor in the sonnes of mortall men in whom there is no health verse 4 For why theyr breath doth sone depart to earth anone they fall And then the counsels of their hart decay and pearysh all verse 5 O happy is that man I say whom Iacobs God doth ayde And he whose hope doth not decay but on the lorde is stayd verse 6 Whiche made the earth waters depe the heauens hie with all Which doth his word and promise kepe In truth and euer shall verse 7 With right alwayes doth he procede for suche as suffer wrong The poore and hungry he doth fede and lose the fetters strong verse 8 The lord doth send the blind their sight the lame to limmes restore The lorde I saye doth loue the ryght and iust man euermore verse 9 He doth defend the fatherles the strangers sad in hart And quite the wydow from distres and ill mens wayes subuert verse 10 Thy lorde and God eternally O Syon still shall rayne In tyme of all posteritie for euer to remayne Laudate dominum Psalme cxlvii N. ☞ The Prophet prayseth the bountye wisdom power iustice prouidence of God vpō all his creatures But specially vpō his church whiche he gathereth together after theyr dispersion Declaring hys word and iudgmēts so vnto them as he hath don to no other people PRaise ye the Lord for it is good vnto our God to synge For it is pleasante and to prayse it is a comely thyng the Lord his owne Ierusalem he buildeth vp alone and the disperst of Israell doth gather into one He heales the broken in their hart theyr sore vp doth he bynde He countes the number of the starres and names them in theyr kynde Great is our Lord great is his power his wisdome infinite The Lord releues the meke throwes to ground the wicked wight Sing vnto God the Lord with prayse vnto the Lord reioyse And to our God vpon the harp aduaunce your singing voyce He couers heauen with cloudes and for the earth prepareth rayne And on the mountaines he doth make the grasse to grow agayne He geues to beastes their fode and to yong rauens when they crye His pleasure not in strength of horse nor in mans legges doth lye But all in those that feare the Lorde the Lord hath his delight And suche as doo attend vpon his mercies shining light O prayse thy Lorde Ierusalem thy God O Syon prayse For he the barres hath forged strong where with thy gaie he stayes Thy children he hath blest in thee and in thy borders he Doth settle peace and with the floure of wheat he filleth thee And his commaundement vpon the earth he sendeth out And eke his word with spedy course doth swiftly runne about He geueth snow like woll hore frost like ashes doth he spreade Like morsells castes his ise therof the colde whoe can abide He sendeth fourth his mightye worde and melteth them agayne His winde he makes to blow and then the waters flow amayne The doctrine of his holy worde to Iacob doth he shewe His statutes and his iudgements he geues Israell to knowe With euery nation hath he not so dealt nor they haue knowne His secrete iudgementes ye therfore prayse ye the Lord alone Laudate dominum Psalme cxlviii I. P. ☞ He prouoketh all creatures to prayse the Lode in heauen in earth and in all places specially for the power that he hathe geuen to his people Israell whom he hathe taken so nere vnto hym GEue laude vnto the Lord frō heauen that is so hie Praise him in dede and worde Aboue the starry skie 2. And also ye his angels all armies royall prayse him with glee Praise him both mone and Sunne Whiche are so cleare and bryght The same in you be done Ye glistring starres of lyght And eke no les De Heauens faire And cloudes of the ayre His laud expresse For at his worde they were All formed as we see At his voyce did appeare All thinges in their degree Whiche he set fast To them he made A law and trade For aye to laste Extoll and prayse Gods name In earth ye Dragons fell All depe doo ye the same For it becommeth you well Him magnyfye Fyre Hayle Ise Snowe And stormes that blow At his decree The hilles and mountaines all And trees that frutfull are The Cedres great and tall His worthy prayie declare Beastes and cattell yea birdes fliyng And wormes crepyng That on earth dwell All kinges both more and les With all their pompons trayne Princes and all iudges That in the worlde remayne Exalte his name