- 0. [Of Dauid.]
- 1. Blessed be God my rocke: who teacheth my handes to warre, and my fingers to fyght.
- 2. My holynesse and my fortresse, my refuge, and my only deliuerer: my buckler, in hym I haue put my trust, who subdueth my people vnder me.
- 3. O God, what is man that thou doest knowe hym? what is the sonne of man that thou doest thynke of hym?
- 4. Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
- 5. Bowe thy heauens O God and come downe: touche the mountaynes and they shall smoke.
- 6. Cast out terrible lightninges and feare them: shoote out thyne arrowes and consume them.
- 7. Sende downe thine hand from aboue: deliuer me and take me out of the great waters, from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am.
- 8. Whose mouth vttereth vanitie: and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood.
- 9. O Lorde I wyll syng a newe song vnto thee: and I wyll syng psalmes vnto thee vpon a Lute, [and vpon] an instrument of ten strynges.
- 10. Who geueth victorie vnto kynges: who redeemeth Dauid his seruaunt from peryll of the sworde.
- 11. Redeeme me and deliuer me from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am: whose mouth vttereth vanitie, and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood.
- 12. That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes: that our daughters may be as corners [stones] grauen after the fashion as a palace is.
- 13. That the corners of our houses may be fylled, yeeldyng foorth all maner of stoore: that our cattell may bring foorth thousandes, [yea] ten thousandes in our streates.
- 14. That our oxen may be strong [to labour] that there be no decay: no leadyng into captiuitie, and no complaynyng in our streates.
- 15. Happy are the people that be in such a case: blessed is the people who haue God for their Lorde.
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