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6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a doue: their thoughtes are against me to doe me hurt.
then would I flie away and rest. 7 Beholde, I 6 They gather together, and keepe them selues
woulde take my flight farre off, and lodge in close: they marke my steps, because they waite
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the wildernes. Selah. 8 Hee would make haste for my soule. They thinke they shall escape by
for my deliuerance from the stormie winde and iniquitie: O God, cast these people downe in thine
tempest. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their anger. 8 Thou hast counted my wandrings: put
tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the my teares into thy bottel: are they not in thy
citie. 10 Day and night they goe about it vpon the register? 9 When I cry, then mine enemies shall
walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are turne backe: this I know, for God is with me. 10 I
in the middes of it. 11 Wickednes is in the middes will reioyce in God because of his worde: in the
thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her Lord wil I reioyce because of his worde. 11 In God
streetes. 12 Surely mine enemie did not defame doe I trust: I will not be afrayd what man can
mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did doe vnto me. 12 Thy vowes are vpon me, O God:
mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I I will render prayses vnto thee. 13 For thou hast
would haue hid me from him. 13 But it was thou, deliuered my soule from death, and also my feete
O man, euen my companion, my guide and my from falling, that I may walke before God in the
familiar: 14 Which delited in consulting together, light of the liuing.
and went into the House of God as companions.
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quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their 1 To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme
dwellings, euen in the middes of them. 16 But of David on Michtam. When he fled from Saul
I will call vnto God, and the Lord will saue me. in the cave. Have mercie vpon me, O God, haue
17 Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, mercie vpon me: for my soule trusteth in thee,
and make a noyse, and he wil heare my voice. and in the shadowe of thy wings wil I trust, till
18 He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the these afflictions ouerpasse. 2 I will call vnto the
battel, that was against me: for many were with most high God, euen to the God, that performeth
me. 19 God shall heare and afflict them, euen hee his promise toward me. 3 He will send from
that reigneth of olde, Selah. because they haue heauen, and saue me from the reproofe of him
no changes, therefore they feare not God. 20 Hee that would swallowe me. Selah. God wil send
layed his hande vpon such, as be at peace with his mercy, and his trueth. 4 My soule is among
him, and he brake his couenant. 21 The wordes lions: I lie among the children of men, that are
of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes,
was in his heart: his words were more gentle then and their tongue a sharpe sworde. 5 Exalt thy
oyle, yet they were swordes. 22 Cast thy burden selfe, O God, aboue the heauen, and let thy glory
vpon the Lord, and hee shall nourish thee: he wil be vpon all the earth. 6 They haue layd a net
not suffer the righteous to fall for euer. 23 And for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they
thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into
pitte of corruption: the bloudie, and deceitfull the mids of it. Selah. 7 Mine heart is prepared,
men shall not liue halfe their dayes: but I will O God, mine heart is prepared: I will sing and
trust in thee. giue prayse. Awake my tongue, awake viole and
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56 harpe: I wil awake early. 9 I will prayse thee, O
1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David Lord, among the people, and I wil sing vnto thee
on Michtam, concerning the dumme doue in a among the nations. 10 For thy mercie is great vnto
farre countrey, when the Philistims tooke him the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the cloudes.
in Gath. Be mercifull vnto me, O God, for man 11 Exalt thy selfe, O God, aboue the heauens, and
would swallow me vp: he fighteth continually let thy glory be vpon all the earth.
and vexeth me. 2 Mine enemies would dayly
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thou most High. When I was afrayd, I trusted in 1 To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme
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thee. I will reioyce in God, because of his word, I of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation,
trust in God, and will not feare what flesh can doe speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye
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vnto me. Mine ownewordesgrieueme dayly: all vprightly? 2 Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe