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with mine owne heart, and my spirit searched shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day
diligently. 7 Will the Lord absent him selfe for of battell. 10 They kept not the couenant of God,
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euer? and will he shewe no more fauour? Is his but refused to walke in his Lawe, 11 And forgate
mercie cleane gone for euer? doeth his promise his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had
faile for euermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be shewed them. 12 Hee did marueilous thinges in
mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt:
in displeasure? Selah. 10 And I sayde, This is euen in the fielde of Zoan. 13 He deuided the Sea,
my death: yet I remembred the yeeres of the and led them through: he made also the waters to
right hand of the most High. 11 I remembred the stand as an heape. 14 In the day time also hee led
workes of the Lord: certainely I remembred thy them with a cloude, and all the night with a light
wonders of olde. 12 I did also meditate all thy of fire. 15 He claue the rockes in the wildernes,
woorkes, and did deuise of thine actes, saying, andgauethemdrinkeasofthegreatdepths. 16 He
13 Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so
is so great a God as our God! 14 Thou art ye that hee made the waters to descend like the
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God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy riuers. Yet they sinned stil against him, and
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power among the people. 15 Thou hast redeemed prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse, And
thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate
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Iaakob and Ioseph. Selah. 16 The waters sawe for their lust. They spake against God also,
thee, O God: the waters sawe thee, and were saying, Can God prepare a table in the wilder-
afraide: yea, the depths trembled. 17 The cloudes nesse? 20 Behold, he smote the rocke, that the
water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed:
powred out water: the heauens gaue a sounde: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for
yea, thine arrowes went abroade. 18 The voyce his people? 21 Therefore the Lord heard and
of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob,
lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and and also wrath came vpon Israel, 22 Because they
shooke. 19 Thy way is in the Sea, and thy paths
in the great waters, and thy footesteps are not beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.
Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and
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knowen. 20 Thou diddest leade thy people like had opened the doores of heauen, 24 And had
sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron. rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and
78 had giuen them of the wheate of heauen. 25 Man
dideatethebreadofAngels: heesentthemmeate
1 A Psalme to give instruction committed to ynough. 26 He caused the Eastwinde to passe in
Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline the heauen, and through his power he brought
your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth. I will in the Southwinde. 27 Hee rained flesh also vpon
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open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of
sentences of olde. 3 Which we haue heard and the sea. 28 And hee made it fall in the middes of
knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs. 4 Wee their campe euen round about their habitations.
will not hide them from their children but to 29 So they did eate and were well filled: for he
the generation to come we wil shewe the praises gaue them their desire. 30 They were not turned
of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful from their lust, but the meate was yet in their
woorkes that he hath done: 5 How he estab- mouthes, 31 When the wrath of God came euen
lished a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and
Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, smote downe the chosen men in Israel. 32 For
that they shoulde teache their children: 6 That all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his
the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, wonderous woorkes. 33 Therefore their daies did
which should be borne, should stand vp, and hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
declare it to their children: That they might set 34 And when hee slewe them, they sought him
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their hope on God, and not forget the workes of and they returned, and sought God earely. 35 And
God but keepe his commandements: And not to they remembred that God was their strength, and
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bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious the most high God their redeemer. 36 But they
generation: a generation that set not their heart flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled
aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto with him with their tongue. 37 For their heart
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God. The children of Ephraim being armed and was not vpright with him: neither were they