3 Thou prov'dst mine heart, thou visit❜dst me

by night, thou didst me try, Yet nothing found'st; for that my mouth

shall not sin, purpos'd I.

4 As for men's works, I, by the word
that from thy lips doth flow,
Did me preserve out of the paths
wherein destroyers go.

m 5 Hold up my goings, Lord, me guide in those thy paths divine,

So that my footsteps may not slide out of those ways of thine.

6 I called have on thee, O God,

because thou wilt me hear : That thou may'st hearken to my speech,

to me incline thine ear.

7 Thy wondrous loving-kindness shew, thou that, by thy right hand, Sav'st them that trust in thee from those

that up against them stand.

8 As th' apple of the eye me keep; in thy wings shade me close 9 From lewd oppressors, compassing me round, as deadly fees

IO In their own fat they are inclos'd; their mouth speaks loftily.

11 Our steps they compass'd; and to ground

down bowing set their eye.

12 He like unto a lion is

that's greedy of his prey,

Or lion young, which lurking doth in secret places stay.

13 Arise, and disappoint my foe,

and cast him down, O Lord:

My soul save from the wicked

man,

the man which is thy sword. 14 From men, which are thy hand, O Lord,

from worldly men me save, Which only in this present life their part and portion have.

Whose belly with thy treasure hid thou fill'st: they children have In plenty; of their goods the rest they to their children leave. mf15 But as for me, I thine own face in righteousness will see; And with thy likeness, when I wake, I satisfy'd shall Le.