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O geue thankes vnto the LORDE, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for euer.

Who can expresse ye noble actes of the LORDE, or shewe forth all his prayse?

Neuertheles, he helped the for his names sake, that he might make his power to be knowne.

Then beleued they in his worde, and songe prayse vnto him.

But within a whyle they forgat his workes, & wolde not abyde his councell.

Thus they turned his glory into the similitude of a calfe, yt eateth haye.

So he sayde he wolde haue destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stonde before him in yt gappe: to turne awaie his wrothfull indignacion, lest he shulde destroye the.

Yee they thought scorne of yt pleasaunt londe, and gaue no credence vnto his worde.

Then lift he vp his honde agaynst them, to ouerthrowe them in the wildernes.

Because they prouoked his sprete, and he tolde the planely with his lippes.

Therfore was the wrath of the LORDE kyndled agaynst his people, in so moch that he abhorred his owne enheritaunce.

He thought vpo his couenaunt, and pitied the, acordinge vnto the multitude of his mercies.

O geue thankes vnto the LORDE, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for euer.

He sent his worde & healed the, & saued the from destruccion.

That they wolde offre vnto him the sacrifice of thankesgeuynge, and tell out his workes with gladnes.

These men se the workes of the LORDE, & his wonders in the depe.

For at his worde, the stormy wynde aryseth, and lifteth vp the wawes therof.

God hath spoken in his Sanctuary (which thinge reioyseth me.) I will deuyde Sichem, and mete out the valley of Suchoth.

Set an vngodly man to be ruler ouer him, & let Satan stonde at his right hande.

When sentence is geuen vpon him, let him be codempned, and let his prayer be turned in to synne.