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I will not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, to haue bene continually before me.

For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulnesse thereof.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sinne is euer before mee.

For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I giue it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

God shall likewise destroy thee for euer, hee shall take thee away and plucke thee out of thy dwelling place, and roote thee out of the land of the liuing. Selah.

But I am like a greene oliue tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for euer and euer.

I will prayse thee for euer, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good before thy Saints.

There were they in great feare, where no feare was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that incampeth against thee, thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

For strangers are risen vp against me, and oppressors seeke after my soule; they haue not set God before them. Selah.

I will freely sacrifice vnto thee; I will praise thy name (O Lord:) for it is good.

For hee hath deliuered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seene his desire vpon mine enemies.

Because of the voyce of the enemie, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquitie vpon me, and in wrath they hate me.

And I said, O that I had wings like a doue; for then would I flee away and be at rest.

Destroy, O Lord, and diuide their tongues: for I haue seene violence and strife in the citie.

For it was not an enemie that reproached me, then I could haue borne it, neither was it hee that hated me, that did magnifie himselfe against me, then I would haue hid my selfe from him.

Let death seaze vpon them, and let them goe downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellings, and among them.

As for me, I will call vpon God: and the Lord shall saue me.

He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the battell that was against me: for there were many with me.

[To the chiefe musician vpon Ionath Elem Rechokim, Michtam of Dauid, when the Philistines tooke him in Gath.] Be mercifull vnto mee, O God, for man would swallow me vp: he fighting daily, oppresseth me.