Read the Bible

¹ Geue praise not vnto vs O God, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name: for thy louing mercy, and for thy truethes sake.² Wherfore shal the Heathen say: where is nowe their God?³ Truely our Lorde is in heauen: he hath done whatsoeuer pleased him.⁴ Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes.⁵ They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.⁶ They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not.⁷ They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes.⁸ They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them.

⁹ But Israel trust thou in God: he is their ayde and their shielde.¹⁰ Ye house of Aaron trust you in God: he is their ayde and their shielde.¹¹ Ye that feare God, trust ye in God: he is their ayde and their shielde.¹² God hath ben myndfull of vs, he wyll blesse vs: he wyll blesse the house of Israel, he wyll blesse the house of Aaron.¹³ He wyll blesse those that feare God: the small with the great.¹⁴ God wyll encrease you more and more: both you and also your children.¹⁵ Ye are the blessed of God: which made heauen and earth.¹⁶ The heauen, the heauen [I say] is Gods: and he hath geuen the earth vnto the children of men.¹⁷ The dead prayse not thee O Lorde: neither all they that go downe into the [place] of scilence.¹⁸ But we wyll prayse the Lord: from this tyme foorth for euermore. Prayse ye the Lorde.