13 I fainted had, unless that I

believed had to see

The Lord's own goodness in the land of them that living be.

14 Wait on the Lord, and be thou strong, and he shall strength afford Unto thine heart; yea, do thou wait, I say, upon the Lord.

28

1 To thee I'll cry, O Lord, my rock;
hold not thy peace to me;
Lest like those that to pit descend
I by thy silence be.

2 The voice hear of my humble pray'rs,
when unto thee I cry;
When to thine holy oracle

I lift mine hands on high.

[while in

3 With ill men draw me not away that work iniquity; That speak peace to their friends, their hearts doth mischief lie.

4 Give them according to their deeds and ills endeavoured:

And as their handy-works deserve, to them be rendered.

5 God shall not build, but them destroy, who would not understand

The Lord's own works, nor did regard the doing of his hand.

6 For ever blessed be the Lord, for graciously he heard

The voice of my petitions, and prayers did regard.

7 The Lord's my strength and shield; upon him did rely;

8

[my heart

And I am helped: hence my heart doth joy exceedingly,

And with my song I will him praise. Their strength is God alone:

He also is the saving strength

of his anointed one.

9 O thine own people do thou save, bless thine inheritance;

Them also do thou feed, and them for evermore advance.

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1 GIVE ye unto the Lord, ye sons that of the mighty be,

All strength and glory to the Lord with cheerfulness give ye.

2 Unto the Lord the glory give that to his name is due; And in the beauty of holiness unto JEHOVAH bow.

3 The Lord's voice on the waters is:
the God of majesty

Doth thunder, and on multitudes
of waters sitteth he.

4 A pow'rful voice it is that comes out from the Lord most high; The voice of that great Lord is full of glorious majesty.

5 The voice of the Eternal doth asunder cedars tear;

Yea, God the Lord doth cedars break
that Lebanon doth bear.

6 He makes them like a calf to skip,
ev'n that great Lebanon,
And, like to a young unicorn,

the mountain Sirion.

7 God's voice divides the flames of fire; The desert it doth shake:

8

The Lord doth make the wilderness of Kadesh all to quake.

9 God's voice doth make the hinds to it makes the forest bare: [calve, And in his temple ev'ry one

his glory doth declare.

10 The Lord sits on the floods; the sits King, and ever shall. [Lord 11 The Lord will give his people strength, and with peace bless them all.

30

1 LORD, I will thee extol, for thou hast lifted me on high,

And over me thou to rejoice mad'st not mine enemy.

20 thou who art the Lord my God, I in distress to thee,

With loud cries lifted up my voice, and thou hast healed me.

3 O Lord, my soul thou hast brought and rescu'd from the grave; [up, That I to pit should not go down, alive thou didst me save.

4 O ye that are his holy ones, sing praise unto the Lord; And give unto him thanks, when ye his holiness record.

5 For but a moment lasts his wrath; life in his favour lies:

Weeping may for a night endure,
at morn doth joy arise.

6 In my prosperity I said,

that nothing shall me move.

7 O Lord, thou hast my mountain made to stand strong by thy love:

But when that thou, O gracious God,
didst hide thy face from me,
Then quickly was my prosp'rous
turn'd into misery.
[state

8 Wherefore unto the Lord my cry
I caused to ascend:

My humble supplication

I to the Lord did send.

9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to pit?

Shall unto thee the dust give praise? thy truth declare shall it? [Lord: 10 Hear, Lord, have mercy; help me, Thou turned hast my sadness To dancing; yea, my sackcloth loos'd, and girded me with gladness;

11

1 IN thee, O Lord, I put my trust, sham'd let me never be; According to thy righteousness do thou deliver me.

2 Bow down thine ear to me, with send me deliverance: [speed To save me, my strong rock be thou, and my house of defence.

3 Because thou art my rock, and thee I for my fortress take; Therefore do thou me lead and guide, ev'n for thine own name's sake. 4 And sith thou art my strength, therepull me out of the net, Which they in subtilty for me so privily have set.

5 Into thine hands I do commit my sp'rit: for thou art he,

7 I'll in thy mercy gladly joy:

for thou my miseries Consider'd hast; thou hast my soul known in adversities:

8 And thou hast not inclosed me within the en'my's hand;

And by thee have my feet been made in a large room to stand.

9 O Lord, upon me mercy have,
for trouble is on me:

Mine eye, my belly, and my soul,
with grief consumed be.

10 Because my life with grief is spent, my years with sighs and groans: My strength doth fail; and for my consumed are my bones. [sin

11 I was a scorn to all my foes,

As men are out of mind when dead:
I'm like a broken pot.

13 For slanders I of many heard;

fear compass'd me, while they
Against me did consult, and plot
to take my life away.
14 But as for me, O Lord, my trust
upon thee I did lay;

And I to thee, Thou art my God,
did confidently say.

15 My times are wholly in thine hand: do thou deliver me

From their hands that mine enemies

and persecutors be.

16 Thy countenance to shine do thou
upon thy servant make:
Unto me give salvation,

[fore

17

O thou, JEHOVAH, God of truth, that hast redeemed me.

6 Those that do lying vanities regard, I have abhorr'd: But as for me, my confidence is fixed on the Lord.

for thy great mercies' sake.

Let me not be asham'd, O Lord,

for on thee call'd I have:

Let wicked men be sham'd, let them be silent in the grave.

18 To silence put the lying lips, that grievous things do say,

And hard reports, in pride and scorn, on righteous men do lay.

19 How great's the goodness thou for

them

that fear thee keep'st in store,

And wrought'st for them that trust

the sons of men before! [in thee 20 In secret of thy presence thou

shalt hide them from man's pride: From strife of tongues thou closely as in a tent, them hide. [shalt, 21 All praise and thanks be to the Lord: for he hath magnify'd

His wondrous love to me within
a city fortify'd.

22 For from thine eyes cut off I am,
I in my haste had said;

My voice yet heard'st thou, when to with cries my moan I made. [thee 23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints; because the Lord doth guard The faithful, and he plenteously proud doers doth reward.

24 Be of good courage, and he strength unto your heart shall send, All ye whose hope and confidence doth on the Lord depend.

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1 0 BLESSED is the man to whom is freely pardoned

All the transgression he hath done, whose sin is covered.

2 Bless'd is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not his sin,

And in whose sp'rit there is no guile, nor fraud is found therein.

3 When as I did refrain my speech, and silent was my tongue, My bones then waxed old, because I roared all day long.

4 For upon me both day and night thine hand did heavy lie,

So that my moisture turned is
in summer's drought thereby.
5 I thereupon have unto thee
my sin acknowledged,
And likewise mine iniquity.
I have not covered:

I will confess unto the Lord
my trespasses, said I;
And of my sin thou freely didst
forgive th' iniquity.

6 For this shall ev'ry godly one
his prayer make to thee;

In such a time he shall thee seek, as found thou mayest be.

Surely, when floods of waters great

do swell up to the brim, They shall not overwhelm his soul, nor once come near to him.

7 Thou art my hiding-place, thou shalt from trouble keep me free: Thou with songs of deliverance about shalt compass me.

8 I will instruct thee, and thee teach the way that thou shalt go; And, with mine eye upon thee set,

I will direction show.

9 Then be not like the horse or mule, which do not understand; Whose mouth, lest they come near to a bridle must command.

10 Unto the man that wicked is

[thee,

his sorrows shall abound; But him that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compass round.

11 Ye righteous, in the Lord be glad, in him do ye rejoice:

All ye that upright are in heart,
for joy lift up your voice.

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1 YE righteous, in the Lord rejoice; it comely is and right,

That upright men, with thankful voice,

should praise the Lord of might.

2 Praise God with harp, and unto him sing with the psaltery;

Upon a ten-string'd instrument
make ye sweet melody.

3 A new song to him sing, and play
with loud noise skilfully;

4 For right is God's word, all his works are done in verity.

5 To judgment and to righteousness
a love he beareth still;

The loving-kindness of the Lord
the earth throughout doth fill.

6 The heavens by the word of God
did their beginning take;
And by the breathing of his mouth
he all their hosts did make.

7 The waters of the seas he brings together as an heap;

And in storehouses, as it were, he layeth up the deep.

8 Let earth, and all that live therein, with rev'rence fear the Lord; Let all the world's inhabitants

dread him with one accord.

9 For he did speak the word, and done it was without delay; Established it firmly stood, whatever he did say.

10 God doth the counsel bring to nought which heathen folk do take;. And what the people do devise

of none effect doth make.

11 O but the counsel of the Lord doth stand for ever sure; And of his heart the purposes from age to age endure.

12 That nation blessed is, whose God
JEHOVAH is, and those

A blessed people are, whom for
his heritage he chose.

[holds

13 The Lord from heav'n sees and beall sons of men full well: 14 He views all from his dwelling-place that in the earth do dwell.

15 He forms their hearts alike, and all their doings he observes. [strength 16 Great hosts save not a king, much no mighty man preserves.

17 An horse for preservation

is a deceitful thing;

And by the greatness of his strength
can no deliv'rance bring.

18 Behold, on those that do him fear
the Lord doth set his eye;
Ev'n those who on his mercy do
with confidence rely.

19 From death to free their soul, in life unto them to yield. [dearth 20 Our soul doth wait upon the Lord: he is our help and shield.

21 Sith in his holy name we trust, our heart shall joyful be.

22 Lord, let thy mercy be on us, as we do hope in thee.

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1 God will I bless all times; his praise my mouth shall still express.

2 My soul shall boast in God: the meek shall hear with joyfulness.

3 Extol the Lord with me, let us

exalt his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, he heard, and did me from all fears deliver.

5 They look'd to him, and lighten'd
not shamed were their faces. [were:
6 This poor man cry'd, God heard, and
him from all his distresses. [sav'd
7 The angel of the Lord encamps,
and round encompasseth

All those about that do him fear,
and them delivereth.

8 O taste and see that God is good:
who trusts in him is bless'd.

9 Fear God, his saints: none that him shall be with want oppress'd. [fear 10 The lions young may hungry be, and they may lack their food: But they that truly seek the Lord shall not lack any good.

11 O children, hither do ye come, and unto me give ear;

I shall you teach to understand how ye the Lord should fear. 12 What man is he that life desires, to see good would live long? 13 Thy lips refrain from speaking guile, and from ill words thy tongue. 14 Depart from ill, do good, seek peace, pursue it earnestly.

15 God's eyes are on the just; his ears are open to their cry.

16 The face of God is set against

those that do wickedly,

That he may quite out from the earth cut off their memory.

17 The righteous cry unto the Lord,
he unto them gives ear;

And they out of their troubles all
by him deliver'd are.

18 The Lord is ever nigh to them
that be of broken sp'rit;
To them he safety doth afford
that are in heart contrite.

19 The troubles that afflict the just
in number many be;

But yet at length out of them all the Lord doth set him free. 20 He carefully his bones doth keep, whatever can befall;

That not so much as one of them

can broken be at all.

21 Ill shall the. wicked slay; laid waste shall be who hate the just.

5 Let them be like unto the chaff that flies before the wind;

And let the angel of the Lord
pursue them hard behind.

6 With darkness cover thou their way,
and let it slipp'ry prove;
And let the angel of the Lord
pursue them from above.

7 For without cause have they for me their net hid in a pit,

They also have without a cause
for my soul digged it.

8 Let ruin seize him unawares;

his net he hid withal

Himself let catch; and in the same destruction let him fall.

9 My soul in God shall joy; and glad in his salvation be:

10 And all my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like unto thee,

[him

Which dost the poor set free from that is for him too strong; The poor and needy from the man that spoils and does him wrong? 11 False witnesses rose; to my charge things I not knew they laid.

12 They, to the spoiling of my soul, me ill for good repaid.

13 But as for me, when they were sick, in sackcloth sad I mourn'd: My humbled soul did fast, my pray'r into my bosom turn'd.

14 Myself I did behave as he

had been my friend or brother;

I heavily bow'd down, as one

that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in my trouble they rejoic'd, gath'ring themselves together; Yea, abjects vile together did themselves against me gather: I knew it not; they did me tear, and quiet would not be. 16 With mocking hypocrites, at feasts they gnash'd their teeth at me.

17 How long, Lord, look'st thou on? from destructions they intend [those Rescue my soul, from lions young my darling do defend.

18

I will give thanks to thee, O Lord,
within th' assembly great;

And where much people gather'd are
thy praises forth will set.

19 Let not my wrongful enemies
proudly rejoice o'er me;

Nor who me hate without a cause,
let them wink with the eye.

20 For peace they do not speak at all; but crafty plots prepare

Against all those within the land
that meek and quiet are.

21 With mouths set wide, they 'gainst Ha, ha! our eye doth see. [me said, 22 Lord, thou hast seen, hold not thy Lord, be not far from me. [peace; 23 Stir up thyself; wake, that thou judgment to me afford, [may'st Ev'n to my cause, O thou that art my only God and Lord.

24 O Lord my God, do thou me judge after thy righteousness;

And let them not their joy 'gainst me triumphantly express:

25 Nor let them say within their hearts, Ah, we would have it thus;

Nor suffer them to say, that he
is swallow'd up by us.

26 Sham'd and confounded be they all that at my hurt are glad;

Let those against me that do boast with shame and scorn be clad. 27 Let them that love my righteous cause be glad, shout, and not cease To say, The Lord be magnify'd, who loves his servant's peace.