- 1. Giue eare, O my people, to my Lawe: incline your eares to the wordes of my mouth.
- 2. I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old:
- 3. Which we haue heard, & knowen: and our fathers haue told vs.
- 4. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come, the praises of the Lord: and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
- 5. For he established a Testimony in Iacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which he commaunded our fathers: that they should make them knowen to their children.
- 6. That the generation to come might know them, euen the children which should be borne: who should arise and declare them to their children:
- 7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements,
- 8. And might not bee as their fathers, a stubborne and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
- 9. The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell.
- 10. They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law:
- 11. And forgat his workes: and his wonders that he had shewed them.
- 12. Marueilous things did he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- 13. Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape.
- 14. In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night with a light of fire.
- 15. Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.
- 16. Hee brought streames also out of the rocke, and caused waters to runne downe like riuers.
- 17. And they sinned yet more against him: by prouoking the most High in the wildernes.
- 18. And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust.
- 19. Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernes?
- 20. Behold, he smote the rocke, that the waters gushed out, & the streames ouerflowed; can he giue bread also? Can he prouide flesh for his people?
- 21. Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth, so a fire was kindled against Iacob: and anger also came vp against Israel.
- 22. Because they beleeued not in God: and trusted not in his saluation:
- 23. Though he had commanded the cloudes from aboue: and opened the doores of heauen:
- 24. And had rained downe Manna vpon them to eate, and had giuen them of the corne of heauen.
- 25. Man did eate Angels food: hee sent them meat to the full.
- 26. He caused an East wind to blow in the heauen: and by his power hee brought in the South wind.
- 27. He rained flesh also vpon them as dust: and feathered soules like as the sand of the sea.
- 28. And hee let it fall in the midst of their campe, round about their habitations.
- 29. So they did eate, & were well filled: for he gaue them their owne desire.
- 30. They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meate was yet in their mouthes,
- 31. The wrath of God came vpon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote downe the chosen men of Israel.
- 32. For all this they sinned still: and beleeued not for his wondrous works.
- 33. Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble.
- 34. When hee slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and inquired early after God.
- 35. And they remembred that God was their rocke: and the high God, their redeemer.
- 36. Neuerthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth: and they lyed vnto him with their tongues.
- 37. For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his couenant.
- 38. But hee being full of compassion, forgaue their iniquity, and destroyed them not; yea many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.
- 39. For he remembred that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and commeth not againe.
- 40. How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernesse: and grieue him in the desert?
- 41. Yea they turned backe and tempted God: and limited the holy one of Israel.
- 42. They remembred not his hand: nor the day when hee deliuered them from the enemie:
- 43. How he had wrought his signes in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
- 44. And had turned their riuers into blood: and their flouds, that they could not drinke.
- 45. Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them.
- 46. He gaue also their increase vnto the caterpiller: and their labour vnto the locust.
- 47. He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost.
- 48. He gaue vp their cattel also to the haile: and their flockes to hot thunder-bolts.
- 49. He cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, wrath and indignation, and trouble: by sending euill angels among them.
- 50. He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence.
- 51. And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the chiefe of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
- 52. But made his owne people to goe forth like sheepe: and guided them in the wildernesse like a flocke.
- 53. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea ouerwhelmed their enemies.
- 54. And he brought them to the border of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountaine which his right hand had purchased.
- 55. He cast out the heathen also before them, and diuided them an inheritance by line: and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
- 56. Yet they tempted and prouoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies:
- 57. But turned backe, and dealt vnfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bowe.
- 58. For they prouoked him to anger with their high places: and moued him to ielousie with their grauen images.
- 59. When God heard this, hee was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
- 60. So that he forsooke the tabernacle of Shiloh: the tent which he placed among men,
- 61. And deliuered his strength into captiuitie: and his glory into the enemies hand.
- 62. He gaue his people ouer also vnto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance.
- 63. The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage.
- 64. Their priests fell by the sword: and their widowes made no lamentation.
- 65. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe: and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
- 66. And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetuall reproch.
- 67. Moreouer he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim.
- 68. But chose the tribe of Iudah: the mount Sion which he loued.
- 69. And he built his sanctuarie like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for euer.
- 70. He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the sheepe-folds:
- 71. From following the ewes great with young, hee brought him to feed Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
- 72. So he fed them according to the integritie of his heart: and guided them by the skilfulnesse of his hands.
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