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PSALM XXXV .

Judica, Domine.

1.

Speake Thou for me against wrong-speaking foes,
Thy force, O Lord, against their force oppose;
Take vp Thy shield, and for my succour stand,
Yea, take. Thy lance, and stop the way of those
That seek my bane; O, make me understand
In sprite that I shall haue Thy helping hand.

2.

Confound those folks, thrust them in shamefull hole

1.

I, ev'n I, will always
Giue hearty thanks to Him on high,
And in my mouth continualy
Inhabit shall His prayse:
My soul shall glory still
In that deare Lord with true delight;
That, hearing it, the hearts contrite
May learn their joyes to fill.

2.

Come, then, and join with me
Some worth to speake of His due praise;
Striue we, that in some thankfull phrase

1.

Rejoyce in God, O ye
That righteous be;
For cherfull thankfulness,
It is a comely part
In them whose heart
Doth cherish rightfulness.

2.

O, prayse with heart the Lord;
O, now accord
Viols with singing voice;
Let ten-stringd instrument,
O, now be bent
To witness you rejoice.

3.

A new, sing a new song
To Him most strong,

1.

Blessed is he whose filthy stain
The Lord with pardon dos make cleane,
Whose fault well hidden lyeth;
Blessed indeed to whom the Lord
Imputes not sins to be abhord,
Whose spirit falshood flyeth.

2.

Thus I, prest down with weight of pain,
Whether I silent did remain
Or roar'd, my bones still wasted;
For so both day and night did stand
On wretched me Thy heavy hand,
My life hott torments tasted.

1.

All, all my trust, Lord, haue I put in Thee,
Never, therfore, let me confounded be,
But saue me, saue me in Thy righteousness:
Bow down Thy eare to heare how much I need;
Deliver me, deliver me in speed;
Be my strong rock, be Thou my forteress.

2.

In deed Thou art my rock, my forteress;
Then since my tongue delights that Name to blesse,
Direct me how to go, and guide me right;

PSALM XXX

Exaltabo te, Domine

1.

O lord, Thou hast exalted me,
And sav'd me from foes' laughing scorn;
I owe Thee prayse, I will prayse Thee.

2.

For when my heart with woes was torn,
In cryes to Thee I shewd my cause,
And was from evill by Thee vpborn;

3.

Yea, from the graue's most hungry jawes
Thou would'st not set me on their score,
Whom death to his cold bosom drawes.

4.

Prayse, prayse this Lord then evermore,

PSALM XXIX .

Afferte Domino.

1.

Afferte Domino

1.

Ascribe unto the Lord of light,
Ye men of power by birth-right,
Ascribe all glory and all might.

2.

Ascribe due glory to His name,
And in His ever glorious frame
Of sanctuary, do the same.

3.

His voice is on the waters found,
His voyce doth threatning thunders sound,
Yea, through the waters doth resound.

4.

The voice of that Lord ruling us

PSALM XXVIII .

Ad te, Domine clamabo.

1.

To Thee, O Lord, my cry I send;
O my strength, stop not Thine eare,
Least if answer Thou forbeare,
I be like them that descend
To the pitt, where flesh doth end.

2.

Therfore while that I may cry,
While I that way hold my hands,
Where Thy sanctuary stands,
To Thy self those words apply,
Which from suing voice do fly.

PSALM XXVII .

Dominus illuminatio.

1.

The shining Lord He is my light,
The strong God my salvation is,
Who shall be able me to fright?
This Lord with strength my life doth blisse;
And shall I then
Feare might of men?

2.

When wicked folk, even they that be
My foes, to utmost of their pow'r,
With rageing jawes environ me,

PSALM XXIV .

Domini est terra.

1.

The earth is God's, and what the globe of earth containeth,
And all that in that globe doth dwell,
For by His power the land vpon the ocean raigneth,
Through Him the floods to their beds fell.

2.

Who shall climb to the hill which God's own hill is named?
Who shall stand in His holy place?
He that hath hurtless hands, whose inward heart is framed