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               the couering of thy wings. Selah.  5  For thou, O watches.  7 Because thou hast bene mine helper,
               God, hast heard my desires: thou hast giuen an therefore vnder the shadow of thy wings wil I
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               heritage vnto those that feare thy Name. Thou reioyce.     8  My soule cleaueth vnto thee: for thy
               shalt giue the King a long life: his yeeres shalbe right hand vpholdeth me.  9 Therefore they that
               as many ages.   7  Hee shall dwell before God for seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into
               euer: prepare mercie and faithfulnes that they the lowest partes of the earth.   10  They shall cast
               may preserue him.   8  So will I alway sing prayse him downe with the edge of the sword, and they
               vnto thy Name in performing dayly my vowes.       shall be a portion for foxes.  11 But the King shall
                                                                 reioyce in God, and all that sweare by him shall
                                     62                          reioyceinhim: forthemouthofthemthatspeake
                  1 TotheexcelletnmusicianIeduthun. APsalme lyes, shall be stopped.
               of David. Yet my soule keepeth silence vnto
               God: of him commeth my saluation.     2 Yet he is                       64
               my strength and my saluation, and my defence:       1  To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David.
               therefore I shall not much be mooued.     3  How  Heare my voyce, O God, in my prayer: preserue
               long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye my life from feare of the enemie.      2  Hide me
               shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or from the conspiracie of the wicked, and from the
               as a wall shaken.  4  Yet they consult to cast him  rage of the workers of iniquitie.  3  Which haue
               downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies,  whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for
               they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with    their arrowes bitter wordes.  4 To shoote at the
               their hearts. Selah.  5  Yet my soule keepe thou  vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly,
               silence vnto God: for mine hope is in him. Yet    and feare not.   5  They encourage themselues
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               is hee my strength, and my saluation, and my      in a wicked purpose: they commune together
               defence: therefore I shall not be mooued.   7  In  to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see
               God is my saluation and my glory, the rocke of them?      6  They haue sought out iniquities, and
               my strength: in God is my trust.  8 Trust in him haue accomplished that which they sought out,
               alway, ye people: powre out your hearts before euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the
               him, for God is our hope. Selah. Yet the children depth of his heart.   7  But God will shoote an
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               of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at
               them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter once. They shall cause their owne tongue to fall
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               then vanitie.  10 Trust not in oppression nor in vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall
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               robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not flee away. And all men shall see it, and declare
               your heart thereon.  11 God spake once or twise, the worke of God, and they shall vnderstand,
               I haue heard it, that power belongeth vnto God, what he hath wrought.    10 But the righteous shall
               12 And to thee, O Lord, mercie: for thou rewardest be glad in the Lord, and trust in him: and all that
               euery one according to his worke.                 are vpright of heart, shall reioyce.

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                  1  A Psalme of David. When he was in the         1  To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of
               wildernesse of Judah. O God, thou art my God, David. O God, praise waiteth for thee in Zion,
               earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for and vnto thee shall the vowe be perfourmed.
               thee: my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a    2 Because thou hearest the prayer, vnto thee shall
               barren and drye land without water.     2  Thus I all flesh come.  3  Wicked deedes haue preuailed
               beholde thee as in the Sanctuarie, when I beholde against me: but thou wilt be mercifull vnto our
               thy power and thy glorie.      3  For thy louing  transgressions. Blessed is he, whom thou chus-
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               kindnesse is better then life: therefore my lippes  est and causest to come to thee: he shall dwell
               shall prayse thee.  4  Thus will I magnifie thee in thy courtes, and we shall be satisfied with the
               all my life, and lift vp mine hands in thy name. pleasures of thine House, euen of thine holy Tem-
               5  My soule shalbe satisfied, as with marowe and ple. O God of our saluation, thou wilt answere vs
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               fatnesse, and my mouth shall praise thee with with fearefull signes in thy righteousnes, O thou
               ioyfull lippes,  6  When I remember thee on my the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them
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               bedde, and when I thinke vpon thee in the night that are farre off in the sea. He stablisheth the
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