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Psalms 112:1                                   463                                   Psalms 116:8

               haue good vnderstanding: his praise endureth the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the
               for euer.                                         God of Iaakob,  8  Which turneth the rocke into
                                     112                         waterpooles, and the flint into a fountaine of
                                                                 water.
                  1  Praise ye the Lord.  Blessed is the man,
               that feareth the Lord, and deliteth greatly in his                     115
               commandements.      2  His seede shall be mightie   1  Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto
               vpon earth: the generation of the righteous shall  thy Name giue the glorie, for thy louing mercie
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               be blessed.  3  Riches and treasures shalbe in his  and for thy truethes sake. Wherefore shall the
               house, and his righteousnesse endureth for euer. heathen say, Where is nowe their God?       3  But
               4 Vnto the righteous ariseth light in darkenes: he our God is in heauen: he doeth what so euer he
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               is merciful and full of copassion and righteous.  will. Their idoles are siluer and golde, euen the
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               5  A good man is mercifull and lendeth, and will  worke of mens hands. They haue a mouth and
               measure his affaires by iudgement.   6  Surely he  speake not: they haue eyes and see not.  6 They
               shall neuer be moued: but the righteous shalbe    haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and
               had in euerlasting remembrance. He will not be    smelll not.  7  They haue handes and touche not:
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               afraide of euill tidings: for his heart is fixed, and  they haue feete and walke not: neither make
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               beleeueth in the Lord.  8  His heart is stablished:  they a sound with their throte. They that make
               therefore he will not feare, vntill he see his desire them are like vnto them: so are all that trust
               vpon his enemies.    9  He hath distributed and in them.    9  O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: for
               giuen to ye poore: his righteousnesse remaineth   he is their helpe and their shielde.  10  O house
               for euer: his horne shalbe exalted with glory.    of Aaron, trust ye in the Lord: for he is their
               10  The wicked shall see it and be angrie: he shall  helpe and their shielde.  11 Ye that feare the Lord,
               gnash with his teeth, and consume away: the       trust in the Lord: for he is their helper and their
               desire of the wicked shall perish.                shield.  12  The Lord hath bene mindfull of vs: he
                                                                 will blesse, he will blesse the house of Israel, he
                                     113                         will blesse the house of Aaron.  13  He will blesse
                                                                 them that feare the Lord, both small and great.
                  1  Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye seruants of  14 The Lord will increase his graces towarde you,
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               the Lord, prayse the Name of the Lord. Blessed    euen toward you and toward your children.  15 Ye
               be the Name of the Lord from hencefoorth and      are blessed of the Lord, which made the heauen
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               for euer. The Lordes Name is praysed from the     and the earth.  16 The heauens, euen the heauens
               rising of ye sunne, vnto ye going downe of the are the Lordes: but he hath giuen the earth to
               same.  4 The Lord is high aboue all nations, and the sonnes of men.    17  The dead prayse not the
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               his glorie aboue the heauens. Who is like vnto Lord, neither any that goe downe into the place
               the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling on high! of silence.  18  But we will prayse the Lord from
               6  Who abaseth himselfe to beholde things in the henceforth and for euer. Prayse ye the Lord.
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               heauen and in the earth! He raiseth the needie
               out of the dust, and lifteth vp the poore out of                       116
               the dung, That he may set him with the princes,     1  I love the Lord, because he hath heard my
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               euen with the princes of his people. He maketh    voyce and my prayers.    2  For he hath inclined
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               the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a
               ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.   his eare vnto me, whe I did call vpon him in my
                                                                 dayes. When the snares of death copassed me,
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                                     114                         and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I
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                  1  When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house  founde trouble and sorowe. Then I called vpon
               of Iaakob from the barbarous people,     2  Iudah  the Name of the Lord, saying, I beseech thee, O
               was his sanctification, and Israel his dominion.  Lord, deliuer my soule.  5  The Lord is mercifull
               3  The Sea sawe it and fled: Iorden was turned    and righteous, and our God is full of compassion.
               backe.  4  The mountaines leaped like rams, and   6 The Lord preserueth the simple: I was in miserie
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               the hils as lambes. What ailed thee, O Sea, that and he saued me.   7  Returne vnto thy rest, O my
               thou fleddest? O Iorden, why wast thou turned     soule: for the Lord hath bene beneficiall vnto
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               backe? Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, thee, Because thou hast deliuered my soule from
               and ye hils as lambes?  7 The earth trembled at death, mine eyes from teares, and my feete from
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