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shall doe valiantly: for he shall treade downe our vpon me, shaked their heads. 26 Helpe me, O
enemies. Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.

109 27 And they shall know, that this is thine hand,
and that thou, Lord, hast done it.
Though they
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1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be
Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise. 2 For confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce. 29 Let
the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let
deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken them couer themselues with their confusion, as
to me with a lying tongue. 3 They compassed with a cloke. 30 I will giue thankes vnto the Lord
me about also with words of hatred, and fought greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye
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against me without a cause. For my friendship multitude. 31 For he will stand at the right hand
they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde
to praier. 5 And they haue rewarded me euil condemne his soule.
for good, and hatred for my friendship. 6 Set 110
thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie 1
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stand at his right hand. Whe he shalbe iudged, A Psalme of David. The Lord said vnto my
let him be condemned, and let his praier be Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, vntill I make
turned into sinne. 8 Let his daies be fewe, and thine enemies thy footestoole. 2 The Lord shall
let another take his charge. 9 Let his children send the rod of thy power out of Zion: be thou
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be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe. 10 Let his ruler in the middes of thine enemies. Thy peo-
children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, ple shall come willingly at the time of assembling
comming out of their places destroyed. 11 Let thine armie in holy beautie: the youth of thy
the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let wombe shalbe as the morning dewe. 4 The Lord
the strangers spoile his labour. 12 Let there be sware and wil not repent, Thou art a Priest for
none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let euer after ye order of Melchi-zedek. 5 The Lord,
there be any to shewemercie vpon his fatherlesse that is at thy right hand, shall wound Kings in the
children. 13 Let his posteritie be destroied, and day of his wrath. 6 He shalbe iudge among the
in the generation following let their name be put heathen: he shall fill all with dead bodies, and
out. 14 Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had smite the head ouer great countreis. 7 He shall
in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the drinke of the brooke in the way: therefore shall
sinne of his mother be done away. 15 But let he lift vp his head.
them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut
off their memorial from ye earth. 16 Because he 111
remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted 1 Praise ye the Lord. I will prayse the Lord with
the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull my whole heart in the assemblie and Congrega-
hearted to slay him. 17 As he loued cursing, tion of the iust. 2 The workes of the Lord are
so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not great, and ought to be sought out of al them that
blessing, so shall it be farre from him. 18 As he loue them. His worke is beautifull and glorious,
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clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so and his righteousnesse endureth for euer. 4 He
shall it come into his bowels like water, and like hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in
oyle into his bones. 19 Let it be vnto him as a remembrance: the Lord is mercifull and full of
garment to couer him, and for a girdle, where- compassion. He hath giuen a portion vnto them
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with he shalbe alway girded. 20 Let this be the that feare him: he wil euer be mindfull of his
rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of couenant. 6 He hath shewed to his people the
them, that speake euill against my soule. 21 But power of his workes in giuing vnto them the
thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according heritage of the heathen. 7 The workes of his
vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is handes are trueth and iudgement: all his statutes
good) 22 Because I am poore and needie, and mine are true. 8 They are stablished for euer and
heart is wounded within me. 23 I depart like the euer, and are done in trueth and equitie. 9 He
shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as sent redemption vnto his people: he hath com-
the grashopper. 24 My knees are weake through manded his couenant for euer: holy and fearefull
fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes. 25 I is his Name. 10 The beginning of wisedome is the
becamealsoarebukevntothem: theythatlooked feare of the Lord: all they that obserue them,