With loud cries lifted up my voice,

and thou hast healed me.

8 O Lord, my soul thou hast brought up,
and rescu'd from the grave;
That I to pit should not go down,
alive thou didst me save.

4 O ye that are his holy ones,
sing praise unto the Lord;

And give unto him thanks, when ye
his holiness record.

5 For but a moment lasts his wrath;
life in his favour lies:
Weeping may for a night endure,
at morn doth joy arise.

6 In my prosperity, I said,

that nothing shall me move.

7 O Lord, thou hast my mountain made
to stand strong by thy love:

But when that thou, O gracious God,
didst hide thy face from me,
Then quickly was my prosp'rous state
turn'd into misery.

Wherefore unto the Lord my cry
I caused to ascend;
My humble supplication

I to the Lord did send.

What profit is there in my blood,
when I go down to pit?

Shall unto thee the dust give praise?
thy truth declare shall it?

10 Hear, Lord, have mercy; help me, Lord. 11 Thou turned hast my sadness To dancing; yea, my sackcloth loos'd, and girdest me with gladness;

12 That sing thy praise my glory may,
and never silent be;

O Lord my God, for evermore
I will give thanks to thee.

PSALM 31.

IN thee, O Lord, I put my trust;

sham'd let me never be:

According to thy righteousness, do thou deliver me.

2 Bow down thine car to me, with speed send me deliverance:

To save me, my strong rock be thou,
and my house of defence.

Because thou art my rock, and thee
I for my fortress take;
Therefore do thou me lead and guide,

ev'n for thine own name's sake.

4 And sith thou art my strength, therefore pull me out of the net, Which they in subtilty for me so privily have set.

5 Into thine hands I do commit
my sp'rit; for thou art he,

0 thou, JEHOVAH, God of truth,
that hast redeemed me.
Those that do lying vanities
regard, I have abhorr'd:

But as for me, my confidence
is fixed on the Lord.

7 I'll in thy mercy gladly joy;
for thou my miseries
Consider'd hast; thou hast my soul
known in adversities:

8 And thou hast not enclosed me
within the en'my's hand:

And by thee have my feet been made
in a large room to stand.

9 O Lord, upon me mercy have,
for trouble is on me:
Mine eye, my belly, and my soul,
with grief consumed be.

10 Because my life with grief is spent,
my years with sighs and groans:
My strength doth fail; and for my sin
consumed are my bones.

11 I was a scorn to all my foes,
and to my friends a fear;
And specially reproach'd of those

that were my neighbours near: When they me saw, they from me fled. 12 Ev'n so I am forgot,

As men are out of mind when dead:
I'm like a broken pot.

13 For slanders I of many heard;
fear compass'd me, while they
Against me did consult, and plot
to take my life away.

14 But as for me, O Lord, my trust upon thee I did lay;

And I to thee, Thou art my God, did confidently say.

15 My times are wholly in thine hand do thou deliver me

From their hands, that mine enemies
and persecutors be.

16 Thy countenance to shine do thou
upon thy servant inake:
Unto me give salvation,

for thy great mercies' sake.

17 Let me not be asham'd, O Lord, for on thee call'd I have:

Let wicked men be sham'd, let them
be silent in the grave.

18 To silence put the lying lips
that grievous things do say,
And hard reports, in pride and scorn,
on righteous men do lay.

19 How great's the goodness thou for t
that fear thee keep'st in store;
And wrought'st for them that trust in thes
the sons of men before!

20 In secret of thy presence, thou shalt hide them from man's pride: From strife of tongues thou closely shalt, as in a tent, them hide.

21 All praise and thanks be to the Lord; for he hath magnified

His wondrous love to me within

a city fortified.

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PSALMS 22 For from thine eyes cut off I am, I in my haste had said; My voice yet heard'st thou, when to thee with cries my moan I made.

23 0 love the Lord, all ye his saints;
because the Lord doth guard
The faithful; and he plenteously
proud doers doth reward.

Be of good courage, and he strength, unto your hearts shall send, All ye whose hope and confidence doth on the Lord depend.

PSALM 32.

BLESSED is the man, to whom
is freely pardoned

All the transgressions he hath done,
whose sin is covered.

2 Bless'd is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not his sin,

And in whose sp'rit there is no guile,
nor fraud is found therein.

3 When as I did refrain my speech,
and silent was my tongue,
My bones then waxed old, because
I roared all day long:

4 (For upon me both day and night
thine hand did heavy lie)
So that my moisture turned is
to summer's drought thereby.
5 I thereupon have unto thee
my sin acknowledged,
And likewise mine iniquity
I have not covered.

I will confess unto the Lord

my trespasses, said I;
And of my sin thou freely didst
forgive th' iniquity.

6 For this shall every godly one
his prayer make to thee;"
In such a time he shall thee seek,
as found thou mays! be.
Surely, when floods of waters great
do swell up to the brim,
They shall not overwhelm his soul,
nor once come near to him.

Thou art my hiding-place, thou shalt from trouble keep me free: Thou, with songs of deliverance, about shalt compass me.

8 I will instruct thee, and thee teach
the way that thou shalt go;
And, with mine eye upon thee set,
I will direction show.

Then be not like the horse or mule,
which do not understand;

Whose mouth, lest they come near to thee, a bridle must command. 10 Unto the man that wicked is, his sorrows shall abound,

But him that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compass round.

PSALM 33.

YE righteous, in the Lord rejoice:

it comely is and right,

That upright men, with thankful voice,
should praise the Lord of might.
2 Praise God with harp; and unto him
sing with the psaltery;

Upon a ten string'd instrument
make ye sweet melody.

3 A new song to him sing, and play with loud noise skilfully:

4 For right is God's word, all his works
are done in verity.

5 To judgment and to righteousness
a love he beareth still:
The loving-kindness of the Lord

the earth throughout doth fill.

6 The heavens by the word of God
did their beginning take;
And by the breathing of his mouth,
he all their hosts did make.

7 The waters of the seas he brings
together as an heap;

And in store-houses, as it were,
he layeth up the deep.

8 Let earth, and all that live therein,
with rev'rence fear the Lord;
Let all the world's inhabitants

dread him with one accord:

9 For he did speak the word, and done
it was without delay;
Established, it firmly stood
whatever he did say.

10 God doth the counsel bring to nought
which heathen folks do take;
And what the people do devise

of none effect doth make.

11 O! but the counsel of the Lord doth stand for ever sure;

And of his heart the purposes from age to age endure.

12 That nation blessed is, whose God JEHOVAH is, and those

A blessed people are, whom for his heritage he chose.

13 The Lord from heav'n sees and beholde all sons of men full well:

14 He views all from his dwelling-Į lace that in the earth do dwell.

15 He forms their hearts alike, and all their doings he observes.

16 Great hosts save not a king, much strengt no mighty man preserves.

17 A horse for preservation

is a deceitful thing;

And by the greatness of his strength, can no deliv'rance bring.

GOD will I bless all times; his praise my mouth shall still express.

2 My soul shall boast in God: the meek shall hear with joyfulness.

3 Extol the Lord with me, let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, he heard, and did me from all fears deliver.

5 They look'd to him, and light'ned were;

not shamed were their faces.

6 This poor man cried, God heard, and sav'd him from all his distresses.

7 The angel of the Lord encamps, and round encompasseth

All those about that do him fear and them delivereth.

8 O taste and see that God is good!

who trusts in him is bless'd.

19 The troubles that afflict the just,

in number many be;

But yet at length out of them all,
the Lord doth set him free.
20 He carefully his bones doth keep,
whatever can befal;

That not so much as one of them

can broken be at all.

21 I shall the wicked slay; laid waste shall be who hate the just.

22 The Lord redeems his servants' sou's, none perish that him trust.

PSALM 35.

PLEAD, Lord, with those that plead, and with those that fight with me.

2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold, stand up mine help to be.

3 Draw also out the spear, and do
against them stop the way

That me pursue: unto my soul,
I'm thy salvation, say.

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shall be with want oppress'd.

10 The lions young may hungry be, and they may lack their food:

But they that truly seek the Lord, shall not lack any good.

11 O children, hither do ye come, and unto me give ear;

I shall you teach to understand

how ye the Lord should fear. 12 What man is he that life desires, to see good would live long? 13 Thy lips refrain from speaking guile, and from ill words thy tongue.

14 Depart from ill, do good, seek peace, pursue it earnestly.

15 God's eyes are on the just; his ears
are open to their cry.

16 The face of God is set against
those that do wickedly:
That he may quite out from the earth
cut off their memory.

17 The righteous cry unto the Lord,
he unto them gives ear;
And they out of their troubles all,
by hit deliver'd are.

18 The Lord is ever nigh to them
that be of broken sp'rit;
To ther he safety doth afford
that are in heart contrite.

pursue them from above.

7 For without cause have they for ine their net hid in a pit; They also have without a cause for my soul digged it.

8 Let ruin seize him unawares: his net he hid withal

Himself let catch; and in the same destruction let him fall.

9 My soul in God shall joy; and glad in his salvation be:

10 And all my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like unto thee?

Which dost the poor set free from him that is for him too strong, The poor and needy from the man

that spoils and does him wrong. 11 False witnesses rose; to my charge things I not knew they laid.

12 They, to the spoiling of my soul, me ill for good repaid.

13 But as for me, when they were sick in sackcloth sad I mourn'd: My humbled soul did fast; my pray'r into my bosom turn'd.

14 Myself I did behave as he

had been my friend or brother; I heavily bow'd down, as one that mourneth for his mother

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Do thou from anger cease, and wrath
see thou forsake also:

Fret not thyself in any wise,
that evil thou should'st do.
For those that evil-doers are
shall be cut off and fall;
But those that wait upon the Lord
the earth inherit shall.

19 For yet a little while, and then
the wicked shall not be;
His place thou shalt consider well
but it thou shalt not see.
11 But by inheritance, the earth,
the meek ones shall possess;
They also shall delight themselves
an abundant peace.

12 The wicked plots against the just,
and at him whets his teeth.

13 The Lord shall laugh at him, because his day he coming seeth,

14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and bent their bow, to slay The poor and needy, and to kill men of an upright way.

15 But their own sword, which they have drawn,

shall enter their own heart; Their bows which they have

and into pieces part;

16 A little that a just man hath is more, and better far,

Than is the wealth of many such as lewd and wicked are.

bent shall [break,

17 For sinners' arms shall broken be; but God the just sustains.

18 God knows the just man's days, and still neir heritage remains.

19 They shall not be asham'd, when they the evil time do see;

And when the days of famine are,
they satisfied shall be.

20 But wicked men, and foes of God,
as fat of lambs decay;
They shall consume, yea, into smoke
they shall consume away.
21 The wicked borrows, but the same
again he doth not pay;
Whereas the righteous mercy shows,
and gives his own away.

22 For such as blessed be of him
the earth inherit shall;

And they that cursed are of him shall be destroyed all.

3 A good man's footsteps by the Lord are ordered aright;

And in the way wherein he walks
he greatly doth delight.

24 Although he fall, yet shall he not
be cast down utterly;
Because the Lord with his own hand
upholds him mightily.

I have been young, and now am old;
et have I never seen

The just man left, nor that his seed.
for bread have beggars been.
25 He's ever merciful, and lends:
his seed is bless'd therefore.
27 Depart from evil, and do good,
and dwell for evermore.

28 For God loves judgment, and his saints leaves not in any case;

They are kept ever; but cut off shall be the sinner's race.

29 The just inherit shall the land, and ever in it dwell.

30 The just man's mouth doth wisdom speak his tongue doth judgment tell.

31 In's heart the law is of his God,

his steps slide not away.

32 The wicked man doth watch the just, and seeketh him to slay.

33 Yet him the Lord will not forsake,
The righteous will he not condemn,
nor leave him in his hands;
when he in judgment stands.

34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,
and thee exalt shall he

Th' earth to inherit; when cut off the wicked thou shalt see.

35 I saw the wicked great in pow'r, spread like a green bay-tree;

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36 He pass'd, yea, was not; him I sought, but found he could not be.

37 Mark thou the perfect, and behold the man of uprightness:

Because that surely of this man the latter end is peace.

38 But those men that transgressors are, shall be destroy'd together; The latter end of wicked men

shall be cut off for ever. 39 But the salvation of the just is from the Lord above; He, in the time of their distress,

Their stay and strength doth prove.

40 The Lord shall help, and them delive he shall them free and save

From wicked men; because in him their confidence they have.

PSALM 38.

IN thy great indignation,
O Lord, rebuke me not;
Nor on me lay thy chast'ning hand,
in thy displeasure hot.

2 For in me fast thine arrows stick, thine hand doth press me sore:

3 And in my flesh there is no hea.th, nor soundness any more.

This grief I have, because thy wra'n is forth against me gone; And in my bones there is no rest for sin that I have done.

4 Because gone up above mine head my great transgressions be;

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