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For the LORDE shal buylde vp Sion, and shal apeare in his glory.

This shalbe written for those yt come after, that the people which shalbe borne, maye prayse the LORDE.

For He loketh downe from his Sanctuary, out of the heauen doth the LORDE beholde the earth.

Yet wil I saye: O my God, take me not awaye in ye myddest of myne age: as for thy yeares, they endure thorow out all generacions.

The LORDE executeth rightuousnesse and iudgment, for all them yt suffre wronge.

He wil not allwaye be chydinge, nether wil he kepe his anger for euer.

For loke how hye the heaue is in comparison of the earth, so greate is his mercy also towarde them that feare him.

For he knoweth wherof we be made, he remembreth that we are but dust.

For as soone as the wynde goeth ouer it, it gone, and the place therof knoweth it nomore.

But the mercifull goodnesse of ye LORDE endureth for euer and euer, vpon them yt feare him, and his rightuousnesse vpon their childers children.

Then are the hilles sene alofte, & the valleys beneth in their place which thou hast appoynted for the.

Thou bryngest forth grasse for the catell, and grene herbe for the seruyce of men.

There make the byrdes their nestes, and the fyrre trees are a dwellinge for the storcke.

The hilles are a refuge for the wylde goates, and so are the stony rockes for ye conyes.

Thou hast appoynted the Moone for certayne seasons, the Sonne knoweth his goinge downe.

The glorious magesty of the LORDE endureth for euer, and the LORDE reioyseth in his workes.

O that my wordes might please him, for my ioye is in the LORDE.

As for synners, they shalbe cosumed out of the earth, and the vngodly shal come to an ende: but prayse thou the LORDE, o my soule. Halleluya.

And apoynted the same vnto Iacob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlastinge testament.

He suffred no man to hurte them, but reproued euen kynges for their sakes.