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Our God shall come, and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and it shalbe very tempestuous round about him.

And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes; for God is iudge himselfe. Selah.

Heare, O my people, and I will speake, O Israel, and I will testifie against thee; I am God, euen thy God.

Offer vnto God thankesgiuing, and pay thy vowes vnto the most high.

But vnto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to doe, to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Couenant in thy mouth?

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I teare you in pieces, and there be none to deliuer.

Who so offereth praise, glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conuersation aright, will I shew the saluation of God.

[To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid, when Nathan the Prophet came vnto him, after hee had gone in to Bath-sheba.] Haue mercie vpon mee, O God, according to thy louing kindnesse: according vnto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Create in mee a cleane heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within mee.

Deliuer mee from blood-guiltinesse, O God, thou God of my saluation: and my tongue shall sing alowd of thy righteousnesse.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

[To the chiefe Musician, Maschil, A Psalme of Dauid: When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said vnto him, Dauid is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Why boastest thou thy selfe in mischiefe, O mightie man? the goodnesse of God indureth continually.

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.

Loe, this is the man that made not God his strength: but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himselfe in his wickednesse.

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

[To the chiefe musician vpon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalme of Dauid.] The foole hath sayde in his heart, There is no god; Corrupt are they, and haue done abhominable iniquitie; there is none that doth good.

God looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that did vnderstand, that did seeke God.

Haue the workers of iniquitie no knowledge? who eate vp my people, as they eate bread; they haue not called vpon God.

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.

O that the saluation of Israel were come out of Sion! when God bringeth backe the captiuitie of his people, Iaakob shall reioyce, and Israel shall be glad.