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¹ Why standest thou so farre of O God? [why] hidest [thee] in the tyme of trouble?² The vngodly of a wylfulnesse persecuteth the poore: [but euery one] of them shalbe taken in the craftie wylines that they haue imagined.³ For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire: and blessing the couetous, he blasphemeth God.⁴ The vngodly looketh so proudly as though he cared for none at all: neither is the Lorde in all his thoughtes.⁵ His wayes are alwayes greeuous, but thy iudgementes are farre aboue out of his sight: [and therfore] he snuffeth at all his enemies.⁶ He hath sayde in his heart, tushe, I can not be remoued: for I can not [be touched] at any tyme with harme.⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.⁸ He sitteth lurkyng in theeuishe corners of the streates: and priuily in lurking dennes he doth murther the innocent, he eyeth diligently hym that is weake.⁹ He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net.¹⁰ He croucheth and humbleth him selfe: so that a number of the that be weake, fall by his myght.¹¹ He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it.

¹² Aryse vp O Lorde God: lift vp thine hande, forget not the afflicted.¹³ Wherefore shoulde the wicked blaspheme the Lorde: [whyle] he sayeth in his heart, that thou wylt not call to accompt?¹⁴ Surely thou hast seene [this] for thou beholdest labour and spite: that thou mayest take the matter into thy hands, he that is weake leaueth it for thee, [for] thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.¹⁵ Breake thou the power of the vngodly and malitious: searche thou out his vngodlynes, and thou shalt finde none afterwarde in him.¹⁶ God is king for euer and euer: but the Heathen shall perishe out of the lande.¹⁷ O God, thou hast hearde the desire of the afflicted: [and] thou wylt settle their heart.¹⁸ Thou wylt be attentiue with thyne eare, to geue iudgement for the fatherlesse and oppressed: [so] no man in the earth shall once go about hereafter to do them violence.