Although in midst of trouble I do walk, yet shall I stand: Renewed by thee, O my Lord, thou wilt stretch out thy hand, Upon the wrath of all my foes, and saved shall I be: By thy right hand, the Lord God will perform his work to me. 8 Thy mercy Lord endures for aye, Lord do me not forsake; Forfake me not that am the worke, which thine own hand did make. Ο thou haft me tride and 14 Thee will I praile, made fearfully, and wondrously I am; Thy works are marvellous, right well my foul deth know the fame. IsMy bones they are not hid from thee although in secret place I have been made, and in the earth beneath I shaped was. When I was formlesse, then thine eye saw me: for in thy book Were written all, nought was before, that after fashion took. (God, 17 The thoughte therefore of thee, O how deare they are to me? And of them all, how paffing great the endlesse number be. (fumme 18 If I should count them, lo, their more then the sand I see ? whensoever I awake, And yet am I still with thee. 19 The wicked and the bloudy men, O that thou wouldest slay; Even those, O God, to whom depart, depart from me, I say. 20Even those of thee, O Lord my God, that speak full wickedly; Those that are lifted up in vain, being enemies to thee. 21 Hate I not them that hate the Lord, and that in earnest wife? Contend I not against them all, against thee that arife: 22 I hate them with unfained hate, even as my utter foes: 23 Try me (OGod)and know my heart, my thoughts proove and disclofe. 24 Confider Lord, if wickednesse in me there any be; And inthy way, O God my guide for ever lead thou me. PSAL. CXL. N. (known, my fitting thou dost know: 2 Ar risings eke: my thoughts afarre ta chou understand'st also. 3 My paths, yea, and my lying down, thou compaffest alwayes: And by familiar custome art, acquainted with my wayes. 5 Thou me behind hold'st and before, It is so high that I the same, 7 From fight of thy all-feeing Spirit, thy prefence to scape fro? 8 To heaven if I mount aloft, lo thou art present there; In hell if I lie down below, even there thou do'st appeare. 9 Yea, let me take the Morning-wings, and let me go and hide: Even there where are the farthest parts where flowing Sea-dothslide. 10 Yea, even thither also shall thy reaching hand me guide: And thy right hand shall hold me fast, and make me to abide. Yea, if I say, the darknesse shall yet shroud me from thy fight 3 Lo, even also the darkest night about me shall be light. 2 Yea, darknesse hideth not from thee, but night doth seeme as day: To thee the darknesse and the night are both alike alway. The second part., 13 For thou possessed haft my reines, and thou hast covered me: When I within my mothers womb,.. inclosed was by the da Ord save me from the evill man, and from the cruell wight: And from all those that evill do imagine in their spirit. (hands, 2Which make on me continuall warre, wherewith I pray and mone. 70 Lord my God thou onely art, the strength that saveth me: My head in day of battell hath the end of his defire; Performe not his ill thoughts, with pride be set on fire. lest he 9 Of them that compasse me about, ⚫the chiefeft of them all: In thee is all my trust, let not 9 Which they have laid to aach me in, so The wicked into their own nets, Lord let the mischief of their lips, B Efore the Lord God with my voyce upon themselves befall. 10 Let coals fall on them, let him cast them in confuming flame, And in deep pits, so as they may not rife out of the fame. 11 For no backbiter shall on earth, be set in stable plight: And evill to destruction still, shall hunt the cruell wight. 12 I know the Lord th'affi Sted will, revenge and judge the poore: 13 The just shall praise thy Name and dwell with thee evermore. (shall PSAL. CXLI. Ν. Lord upon thee do I call, Lord hafte thee unto me; And hearken Lord unto my voyce, when I do cry to thee; 2 As incense let my prayer be directed in thine eyes; And the uplifting of my hands, as evening-facrifice. 3 My Lord for guiding of my mouth, set thou a watch before; And also of my mooving lips, O Lord keep thou the doore. 4That I should wicked works commit, incline thou not my heart; With ill men of their delicates, Lord let me eat no part. 5 But let the righteous smite me Lord, for that is good for me; Let him reproove me, and the fame : a precious oyle shall be. Such smiting shall not break my head, the time shall shortly fall; When I shall in their misery, I did send out my cry; And with my straitned voyce unto the Lord God prayed I. 2 My meditation in his fight, to powre I did not spare; And in the prefence of the Lord, my trouble did declare. 3 Although perplexed was my spirit, my path was known to thee; In way where I did walk, a snare they flily laid for me. 4 I look'd and view'd on my righthand but none there would me knows All refuge failed me, and for my foul none care did show. s Then cride I Lord, to thee, and faid, my hope thou onely art; Thou in the land of living art, my portion and my part. 6 Hearke to my cry, for I am brought full low, deliver me, From them that do me perfecute. for me too strong they be. 7 That I may praise thy Name, my foul from prison Lord bring out: When thou art good to me the just, shall praise me round about. PSAL. CXLIII. N. LORD hear my prayer, heark the that I do make to thees (plains Lord in thy native trueth, and in make prayers for them all. 6 Then when in stony places down, their Judges shall be cast; (then Then shall they hear my words, for they have a pleasant tast.. 1 7 Our bones about the graves mouth. so scattered are they found; As he that hewed wood, or he that digged up the ground. was mine accombred spirit; And in me was my troubled heart amazed and affright. 5 Yet I record time past, in all thy works I meditate. 8 But, O my Lord, my God, mine eyes, Yea in thy works I meditate, do look up unto thee; that thy hands have create. 6Το To thee, O Lord my God, lo I do stretch my craving hands; My foule defireth after thee, the morning heare and know; On violl and on inftrument, from hurtfull swords he brings. It From strangers hand me fave and whose mouth talke vanity: (shield, And their right hand is a right hand, of guile and fubtilty. (plants 12 That our fonnes may be as the whom growing youth doth reare, Our daughters as carv'd corner-stones like to a palace faire. 13 Our garners full, and plenty may with fundry forts be found; 30 Teach me to doe thy will, for thou Our sheep bring thousands in our street thou art my God, I fay; Let thy good spirit into the land of mercy me convay. (grace IFor thy Names fake with quickning alive do thou me make: And out of trouble bring my foule, even for thy justice fake. 22 And for thy mercy slay my foes O Lord, destroy them all, That doe oppreffe my foule, for I thy fervant am, and shall. PSAL. CXLIIII. N. 1 B Lest be the Lord my strength that inftruct my hands to fight, (doth The Lord that doth my fingers frame, to battell by his might. ד ten thousands mayabound. 14 Our oxen be to labour strong, that none do us invade; There be no going out, nor cries, within our ftreets be made. 15 The people biessed are that with such bleflings are so stor'd; Yea, blefsed all the people are, whose God is God the Lord. PSAL. CXLV. N. T Hee will I laud my God and King. and blesse thy Name for aye: 2 For ever will I praise thy Name, and blesse thee day by day. 3 Great is the Lords most worthy praise, his greatnesse none can reach ; a He is my goodnesse, fort and tower, 4From raceto race they shall thy works praise, and thy power preach. deliverer and shield: In him I trust, my people hee subdues to me to yeeld. 30 Lord, what thing is man, that him thou holdest so in price? Or fonne of man, that upon him thou thinkest in such wife ? Man is but like to vanity, $ I of thy glorious Majesty, And so passe his dayes to end; (Lord SAs flecting shade; Bowe downe, O7 the heavens and defcend. (smoak, 6 The mountains touch, and they shall caft forth thy lightning flame: And scatter them, thine arrowes shoot, confume them with the fame. 7 Send down thine hand even from Of O Lord deliver me: (above, Take me from waters great, from hand of strangers make me free. 8 Whose fubtill mouth of vanity. and fondneffe doth intreat; And their right hand is a right hand of falfhood and deceit. 9 A new fong will I fing, and finging will I be God, thy greatneffe will not spare. And they into the mention fhall speake of thy goodnesse great: I aloud thy righteousnesse in finging shall repeat. 8 The Lord our God is gracious. and mercifull also; great abounding mercy, and to anger is he flow. 9 Yea good to all, and all his works, his mercy doth exceed. (Lord, to Lo, all thy works do praise thee and do thine honour spread. II Thy Saints do blesse thee, & they do thy kingdomes glory show; (fons 12 And blaze thy power, to cause the of men thy power to know. The And the lame to limbs restore; 9 He doth defend the fatherlesse, In time of all pofterity, for ever to remaine. PSAL. CXLVIL N. unto our God to fing, For it is pleasant and to praise it is a comely thing. 2 The Lord, his owne Jerufalem, he buildeth up alone; And the disperst of Ifrael, The Second part. 13 And of his mighty kingdome cke, The to spread the glorious praise. Thy kingdome, Lord, a kingdomeis, that doth endure alwayes; And thy dominion through each age, endures without decay; 14 The Lord upholdeth them that fall, their fliding he doth stay. 15 The eyes of all doe wait on thee, thou doft them all relieve, And thou to each sufficing food, in season due dost give, 16 Thou openest thy plenteous hand, p Raise ye the Lord for it is good, and bounteously doft fill, All things whatsoever doe live, with gifts of thy good will. 18 Neere all he is, that call on him will utterly subvert; PSAL. CXLVI. I. H. MY foule praise ye the Lord alwayes Nor in the fons of mortall men, 4 doth gather unto one. 3 He heals the broken in their hearts, their fores up doth he binde; He counts the number of the starres and names them in their kiade. Great is the Lord, great is his por his wifdome infinite: (throw> The Lord relieves the meeke, and to ground the wicked wight. Sing unto God the Lord with praifex unto the Lord rejoyce : And to our God upon the harpe', advance your finging voyce. 8 He covers heaven & clouds, and for the earth prepareth raine: 7 And on the mountaines he doth make, the graffe to grow againe. 9 He gives to beasts their food, and to young ravens when they cry: 10His pleasure not in strength of horfos 12 nor in mans legs doth lie. II But in all those that feare the Lords the Lord hath his delight: And such as do attend upon, his mercies shining light. The second part. Praise the Lord Jerufalem, thy God, O Sion praise: 13 For he the barres hath forged ftrong wherewith thy gates he stayes. 14 Thy children he hath bleft in thee, and in thy borders he Doth fettle peace, and with the floure of wheat he filleth thee. 15. And his commandements upon the earth he fendeth out: Andeke his word with fpeedy courf doth swiftly run about. 16He giveth snow like woll, hoare-froft like ashes he doth spread: 1H3 17-Like 17 Like morsels cafts his ice, thereof 12 Young men and maids, the cold who can abide. 18 He fendeth forth his mighty word, and melteth them againe: His winds he makes to blow, and then. the waters flow amaine. 19 The doctrine of his holy word T to Jacob he doth show. His stattites and his judgements he gives Ifrael to know. 20 With every nation hath he not so dealt, nor have they known His fecret judgements: ye therefore praife ye the Lord alone. PSAL. CXLVIII. I. H. Ive land unto the Lord, From heaven that is so high, G Praife him in deed and word 2 And alfo ye, His angels all: Armies royall, Praise him with glee. Ye heavens fair, And clouds of the aire, All formed as we fee; To them he made For aye to laft. Yea birds flying, Old men and babes, do ye the fame. 13 For his Name shall we proove Exalt with bliffe, and help themall. as with good wil His words fulfill And him obey, PSAL. CXLIX. N. SIng ye unto the Lord our God And let the feed of Sion eke, be joyfull in their King. (flute, YEeld into God the mighty Lord, Accor |