- 0. [To the chiefe musition the seruaunt of God, <BR />and of Dauid who spake vnto God the wordes of this song in the day that God deliuered him from the hande of all his enemies, <BR />and from the hande of Saul: <BR />And he sayde.]
- 1. I wyll entirely loue thee O God my strength,
- 2. God is my stony rocke & my fortresse, and my delyuerer: my Lorde, my castell in whom I wyll trust, my buckler, the horne of my saluation, & my refuge.
- 3. I wyll call vpon God, who is most worthy to be praysed: so I shall be safe from myne enemies.
- 4. The panges of death haue compassed me about: and the outragiousnes of the wicked haue astonyed me with feare.
- 5. The panges of a graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertoke me.
- 6. But in this my distresse I dyd call vppon God, and I made my complaynt vnto my Lorde: he hearde my voyce out of his temple, and my crye came before his face, euen vnto his eares.
- 7. The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations of the hylles tottered and shooke, because he was wroth.
- 8. In his anger a smoke ascended vp: and a fire out of his mouth dyd cosume, and euery cole therof dyd set a fire.
- 9. He bowed the heauens also, and he came downe: and it was darke vnder his feete.
- 10. He ridde vpon the Cherub, and he dyd flee: he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde.
- 11. For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse: and for his pauilion rounde about hym, he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre.
- 12. His cloudes, haylestones, and coles of fire: fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng.
- 13. God also thundred out of heauen: and the most hyghest made his voyce to sounde, haylestones, and coles of fire.
- 14. He shot out his arrowes, and scattered them: he cast foorth much lyghtnynges, and destroyed them.
- 15. And the bottomes of waters appeared, and the foundations of the rounde worlde were discouered at thy chidyng, O God: at the blast of the breath of thine anger.
- 16. He hath sent downe from aboue to fetch me: he hath taken me out of many waters.
- 17. He hath deliuered me from my strong enemie: and from them which hate me, for they were to stout for me.
- 18. They preuented me in the day of my trouble: but God was vnto me a sure stay.
- 19. He brought me also foorth into a place of libertie: he brought me foorth, because he had a fauour vnto me.
- 20. God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: accordyng to the cleannesse of myne handes he recompensed me.
- 21. Because I had kept the wayes of God: and had not wickedly shronke from my God.
- 22. For all his lawes were before me: and I reiected none of his commaundementes from me.
- 23. And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse.
- 24. Therfore hath God rewarded me after my righteous dealyng: and accordyng to my cleannesse of my handes in his syght.
- 25. With the holy thou wylt be holy: with a perfect man thou wylt be perfect.
- 26. With the cleane thou wylt be cleane: and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde.
- 27. For thou hast saued the people oppressed: and thou hast brought downe the hygh lokes of the proude.
- 28. Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght.
- 29. For in thee I haue discomfited an hoast of men: and with the helpe of my Lorde I haue skipped ouer the wall.
- 30. The way of the Lorde is a perfect way, the worde of God is tryed in the fire: he is a shielde vnto all them that put their trust in hym.
- 31. For who is a Lorde besides God: or who hath any strength besides our Lorde?
- 32. It is God that hath gyrded me with valiauntnesse of warre: and he hath made my way playne.
- 33. He hath made my feete lyke Hartes feete: and he hath set me vp on hygh.
- 34. He hath taught my handes to fyght: and myne armes to breake a bowe of steele.
- 35. Thou hast geuen me the shielde of thy saluation: thy ryght hande also hath helde me vp, and through thy great gentlenesse I haue increased.
- 36. Thou hast made me roomth inough for to go on: so that my feete haue not slypt.
- 37. I haue pursued myne enemies and onertaken them: neither dyd I returne backe vntyll I had destroyed them.
- 38. I smote them downe, and they are not able to aryse: they haue taken such a fall vnder my feete.
- 39. Thou hast gyrded me with strength vnto battayle: thou hast made them to bowe downe vnder me who haue rysen vp agaynst me.
- 40. Thou hast geuen me myne enemies neckes: and I haue destroyed them that hated me.
- 41. They cryed, but there was none to saue them: they cryed vnto God, but he dyd not heare them.
- 42. I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates.
- 43. Thou hast deliuered me from sedition of the people, and thou hast made me head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen serueth me,
- 44. assoone as they hearde of me, they obeyed me.
- 45. Children of a straunger haue made a lie vnto me: the heartes of the children of a straunger hath fayled them, and they feared in their [strong] holdes.
- 46. God lyueth, and he [is] my strength most worthy of blisse: and the Lorde of my saluation ought to be magnified.
- 47. It is God that hath geuen me power to take auengeaunce: and he hath subdued the people vnder me.
- 48. It is he that is the aucthour of my deliuerie from myne enemies: and he hath set me vp aboue them that rose agaynst me, he hath ridde me from the wicked man.
- 49. For this cause I wyll acknowledge thee O God among the gentiles: and syng psalmes vnto thy name.
- 50. Who hath wonderfull oft deliuered his kyng: and he hath done mercifully vnto Dauid his annoynted, and vnto his seede for euermore.
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