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1. Prayse ye the Lorde, prayse ye God out of heauen: prayse ye hym on hygh aboue.
2. Prayse hym all ye his angels: prayse hym all ye his hoast.
3. Prayse ye hym sunne and moone: praise hym all ye starres [that geue] lyght.
4. Prayse ye hym all ye heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.
5. Euen they shoulde prayse the name of God: for he commaunded, and they were created.
6. He hath set them sure for euer and euer: he hath geuen them a lawe which shall not be broken.
7. Prayse ye God from the earth: ye dragons and all deepes.
8. Fire and hayle, snowe and vapours: stormie wynde fulfyllyng his worde.
9. Mountaynes and all hylles: fruitfull trees and all Cedars.
10. Beastes and all cattell: wormes and fethered foules.
11. Kynges of the earth and all people: princes and all iudges of the earth.
12. Young men and maydens, olde men with children,
13. shoulde prayse the name of God: for his name only is most excellent, and his maiestie aboue earth and heauen.
14. He hath exalted the horne of his people: the prayse of all his saintes, euen of the children of Israel, a people that is most nye vnto him. Prayse ye the Lord.