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¹ Confesse you [it] vnto God: for he is gratious, and his mercy endureth for euer.² Let such as God did redeme speake: whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie.³ And whom he gathered out of the landes: from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.⁴ They went astray out of the way in solitarines [and] in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in: ⁵ they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them.⁶ And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth them fro their distresse.⁷ And he leadeth them foorth by the right way: that they might go to the citie inhabited.⁸ O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse: and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.⁹ For he satisfieth the greedie soule: and filleth the hungry soule with goodnes.

¹⁰ Suche as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron.¹¹ Because they went from the wordes of the Lorde: and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most highest.¹² Therfore he humbled their heart thorowe heauines: they fall downe, and there is none to helpe them.¹³ And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth the out of their distresse.¹⁴ For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death: and breaketh their bondes in sunder.¹⁵ O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.¹⁶ For he breaketh the gates of brasse: & smyteth the barres of iron in sunder.

¹⁷ Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes: & for their wickednes.¹⁸ Their soule abhorreth all maner of meate: and they be euen harde at deathes doore.¹⁹ And they crye vnto God in their trouble: who deliuereth them out of their distresse.²⁰ he sendeth his worde & healeth them: and he maketh them to scape safe from their corruptnes.²¹ O that men would confesse vnto God: his louing kindnes and his marueylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.²² And that they would offer [vnto him] sacrifices of thankes geuing: and set foorth in wordes his workes with a ioyfull noyse.

²³ Such as go downe to the sea in ships and folowe their busines in great waters: ²⁴ they see the workes of God, and his wonders in the deepe.²⁵ For he commaundeth and causeth a stormie winde to arise: and he lifteth vp on high his waues.²⁶ [Then] they ascende vp to heauen, and come downe agayne to the deepe: so that their soule melteth away through trouble.²⁷ They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them.²⁸ And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth the out of their distresse.²⁹ For he maketh the storme to ceasse: so that the waues therof are still.³⁰ Then be they glad because they are at rest: and he bringeth them to the hauen where they woulde be.³¹ O that men would confesse vnto god: his louyng kyndnes and meruaylous actes [done] to the chyldren of men.³² And that they would exalt him in the congregation of the people: and prayse him in the consistorie of the aged.

³³ He turneth fluddes into a wildernes: and waterspringes into a drye grounde.³⁴ He [maketh] a fruitfull grounde barren: for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.³⁵ [Contrary] he reduceth a wyldernes into a standing water: and a drye ground into water springes.³⁶ And he setteth there the hungry: and they buylde them a citie to dwell in.³⁷ And they sowe their lande and plant vineyardes: and they yelde [vnto them] aboundant store of fruites.³⁸ He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.³⁹ But [when they do fall from God,] they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde.⁴⁰ He bringeth princes into contempt: & he maketh them to wander in a wildernesse where there is no way at all.⁴¹ Yet he exalteth the poore out of miserie: and geueth him housholdes equall to flockes of cattell.⁴² The righteous will marke [this] and reioyce: and the mouth of all wickednesse shalbe stopped.⁴³ Whosoeuer is wyse, he wyll both obserue these thinges: and also well consider the louing kindnesse of God.