24 wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble?

25 ffor our soul is brought low even vnto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground.

26 Arise, and help us and deliver us for thy mercies sake.

Eructavit cor meum Psal: 45.

My heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I haue made unto the King. 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

3 Thou art fairer then the Children of men : full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

4 Gird thee with thy Sword vpon thy thigh, ô thou most mightie according to thy worship, and renown.

5 Good luck haue thou with thine honour ride on, because of the word of truth, of meek

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ness righteousness, and thy right hand shall

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6 Thy arrowes are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee even in the midst amongst the Kings enemys.

7 Thy seat, ô God, endureth for ever the Scepter of thy Kingdom is a right Scepter.

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1. 6. mercy's sake.

1. 6. mercies' sake.

8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oile of gladnesse aboue thy fellowes.

9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and Cassia out of the Ivory Palaces, whereby they haue made thee glad.

10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women Upon thy right hand did stand the Queene in a vesture of Gold wrought about with divers colours.

11 Hearken ô daughter, and consider, encline thine eare forget also thine owne people, and

thy ffathers house.

12 So shall the King haue pleasure in thy beauty for he is the thy Lord God, and worship thou him.

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ple shall make their Supplicañon before thee.

14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within : her clothing is of wrought-gould Gold.

15 Shee shall be brought unto the King in raiment of Needleworke the virgins, that be her fellows, shall bear her Company, and shall be brought unto thee.

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16 With ioy, and gladness shall they be brought and shall enter into the Kings palace.

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17 Instead of thy ffathers thou shalt haue Children whom thou mayst make Princes in all lands.

18 I will remember thy name from one Generation to another therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.

Deus noster Refugium Psal: 46.

God is our hope and strength a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved and though the hills be carried into

the midst of the Sea

3 Though the waters thereof rage, and swell: and though the mountaines shake at the tempest of the same.

4 The Rivers of the floud thereof shall make glad the Citie of our God: the holy place of the Tabernacle of the most highest

5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall shee not be removed God shall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the Kingdomes are moved but God hath shewed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us: The God of Jacob is our Refuge.

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8 O come hither, and behold the workes of the Lord what destruction he hath brought vpon the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease in all the World! he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the Speare in sunder, and burneth the Chariots in the fire.

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10 Be still then, and know that I am God I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.

The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our Refuge.

Omnes Gentes, plaudite Psal: 47.

O clap your hands together, all ye people: ô sing unto God with the voice of melody.

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2 ffor the Lord is high, and to be feared he is the great King vpon all the earth.

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3 He shall subdue the people under us and the Nations under our feet.

4 He shall choose out an heritage for us: even the worship of Jacob, whom he loued.

5 God is gone up with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump.

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6 O sing praises, sing praises unto our God: O sing praises, sing praises unto our King.

7 ffor God is the King of all the earth sing ye praises with Understanding.

8 God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon his holy Seat.

9 The Princes of the people are ioyned unto the people of the God of Abraham ffor God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a Shield.

Magnus Dominus. Psal. 48.

Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised in the City of our God, even upon his holy hill.

2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the ioy of the whole earth upon the north side lyeth the City of the great King; and is well known in her Palaces as a sure Refuge.

3 ffor lo the Kings of the earth are gathered and gone by together.

4 They marvelled to see such things: They were astonished, and suddenly cast downe.

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5 ffear came there upon them, and sorrow : as upon a woman in her travell.

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