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For lo, they that forsake the, shal perishe, thou destroyest all them that committe fornicacion agaynst the.

But it is good for me, to holde me fast by God, to put my trust in the LORDE God, and to speake of all thy workes.

Treade vpon them with thy fete, & cast them downe to the grounde, for the enemie hath destroyed alltogether in the Sactuary.

Thy aduersaries roare in thy houses, & set vp their banners for tokens.

Thou smytest the heades of Leuiathan in peces, & geuest him to be meate for the people in the wildernesse.

O delyuer not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beestes, & forget not the congregacon of the poore for euer.

Loke vpon the couenaunt, for the darcke houses of the earth are full of wickednesse.

O let not the symple go awaye ashamed, for the poore & nedy geue prayses vnto thy name.

Aryse (o God) & manteyne thine owne cause, remembre how the foolish ma blasphemeth the daylie. Forget not the voyce of thine enemies, for the presumpcion of them that hate the, increaseth euer more & more.

For promocio commeth nether from the east ner from the west, ner yet fro the wyldernesse.

For in the honde of the LORDE there is a cuppe full of stronge wyne, & he poureth out of the same: As for the dregges therof, all ye vngodly of the earth shal drynke them, & sucke them out.

But I wil talke of the God of Iacob, & prayse him for euer. All the hornes of the vngodly will I breake, & ye hornes of the rightuous shalbe exalted.

Thou art feareful, for who maye abyde in yi sight, when thou art angrie?

In the tyme of my trouble I sought the LORDE, I helde vp my hondes vnto him in the night season, for my soule refused all other comforte.

Wil the LORDE cast out for euer? Wil he be nomore intreated?

Is his mercy cleane gone? Is his promyse come vtterly to an ende for euermore?

They forgat what he had done, and the wonderfull workes that he had shewed for them.

Yet for all this they synned agaynst him, and prouoked the most hyest in the wildernesse.

They tempted God in their hertes, and requyred meate for their lust,

For they spake agaynst God and sayde: Yee yee, God shal prepare a table in the wyldernesse, shall he?