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Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsell of the vngodly: nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seate of the scornefull.

But his delight [is] in the lawe of God: and in [God] his lawe exerciseth himselfe day and night.

And he shalbe lyke a tree planted by the waters syde, that bryngeth foorth her fruite in due season: and whose leafe wythereth not, for whatsoeuer he doth it shall prosper.

[As for] the vngodly [it is] not so [with them:] but they [are] like the chaffe which the winde scattereth abrode.

Therefore the vngodly shall not [be able to] stande in the iudgement: neither the sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

For God knoweth the way of the righteous: and the way of the vngodly shall perishe.

Why do the Heathen so furiously rage together? and why do the people imagine a vayne thing?

The kynges of the earth stande vp: and the rulers take counsell together against god, and against his annointed.

Let vs breake [say they] their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs.

He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision.

Then wyll he speake vnto them in his wrath: and he wyll astonie them with feare in his sore displeasure.

[Saying] euen I haue annointed [him] my kyng: vpon my holy hyll of Sion.

I wyll declare the decree, God sayde vnto me: thou art my sonne, this day I haue begotten thee.

Desire of me, and I wyll geue thee the heathen for thyne inheritaunce: and the vttermost partes of the earth for thy possession.

Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron: and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell.

Wherfore be you nowe wel aduised O ye kinges: be you learned ye [that are] iudges of the earth.

Serue ye God in feare: and reioyce ye with a trembling.

Kisse ye the sonne lest that he be angrye, and [so] ye perishe [from] the way, if his wrath be neuer so litle kindled: blessed are all they that put their trust in hym.