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¹ Confesse you [it] vnto God, call vppon his name: cause the people to vnderstande his deuises.² Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes.³ Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God.⁴ Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore.⁵ Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth.⁶ O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob: ⁷ he is God our Lord, his iudgementes are in all the earth.

⁸ He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt (for he promised a worde to a thousande generations:) ⁹ euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac.¹⁰ And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt.¹¹ Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce.¹² When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it: ¹³ and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people.¹⁴ He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes.¹⁵ Touche not mine annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes.¹⁶ Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande: and he made all maner of foode to fayle.¹⁷ But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt.¹⁸ Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes: the iron entred into his soule.¹⁹ Vntill the tyme came that his cause [was knowen:] the worde of the Lorde tryed hym.²⁰ The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym.²¹ He made him Lorde of his house: and ruler of all his substaunce.²² That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde: and teache his senatours wysdome.²³ Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham.²⁴ And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies.

²⁵ Whose heart so turned that they hated his people: and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes.²⁶ [Then] he sent Moyses his seruaunt, and Aaron whom he had chosen: ²⁷ they did their message, workyng his signes among them, and wonders in the lande of Cham.²⁸ He sent darknes, & it was darke: and they went not from his wordes.²⁹ He turned their waters into blood: and slue their fishe.³⁰ Their lande brought foorth frogges: yea euen in their kinges chaumbers.³¹ He spake the worde, and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes: [and] of lyce in all their quarters.³² He gaue them haylestones for rayne: [and] flambes of fire in their lande.³³ He smote their vines also & figge trees: and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes.³⁴ He spake the worde, and the grashoppers came: & caterpillers innumerable.³⁵ And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande: and deuoured the fruite of their grounde.³⁶ He smote al the first borne in their land: euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence.³⁷ He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde: there was not one feeble person in their tribes.³⁸ Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were smytten with dread of them.³⁹ He spred out a cloude to be a couering: and fire to geue light in the night season.⁴⁰ The [people] required and he brought quayles: and he filled them with the bread of heauen.⁴¹ He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out: so that streames ranne in drye places.⁴² For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt.⁴³ And he brought foorth his people with gladnes: [and] his chosen with a ioyfull noyse.⁴⁴ And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen, and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people.⁴⁵ To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes: and obserue his lawes. Prayse ye the Lorde.