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¹ We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme.² Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thy hande and planted them in: howe thou hast destroyed the nations & placed them.³ For they gat not the lande in possession through their owne sworde: neither was it their owne arme that saued the. But thy ryght hande, and thine arme, & the lyght of thy countenaunce: because thou hadst a fauour vnto them.⁴ Thou art my kyng O Lorde: commaunde that Iacob be saued.⁵ Through thee we wyll ouerthrowe our enemies: and in thy name we wyll treade them vnder that ryse vp agaynst vs.⁶ For I wyll not trust in my bowe: and it is not my sworde that can saue me.⁷ But it is thou that sauest vs from our enemies: and thou puttest them to confusion that hate vs.⁸ We make our boast of God all the day long: and we wyll confesse thy name for euer. Selah.

⁹ But nowe thou art farre of, and thou puttest vs to confusion: neither goest thou foorth with our armies.¹⁰ Thou makest vs to turne away backwarde from the enemie: so that they which hate vs, do make vs a spoyle vnto them.¹¹ Thou hast delyuered vs as sheepe to be eaten: and thou hast scattered vs among the heathen.¹² Thou hast solde thy people for naught: and thou hast taken no money for them.¹³ Thou hast made vs a rebuke to our neighbours: to be laughed to scorne and had in derision of them that are rounde about vs.¹⁴ Thou hast made vs [to be] a fable among the heathen: [and to be such] that the people shake their head at vs.¹⁵ My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face couereth me: ¹⁶ for [to heare] the voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer, and for to see the enemie and the auenger.

¹⁷ [And though] all this be come vpon vs: [yet] we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt.¹⁸ Our heart is not turned backe, neither our steppes be declined out of thy pathes: ¹⁹ no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death.²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god: ²¹ woulde not God searche it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the heart.²² For thy sake also are we kylled all the day long: and are counted as sheepe appoynted to be slayne.²³ Stirre vp O Lorde, why slepest thou? awake & be not absent from vs for euer: ²⁴ wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation?²⁵ For our soule is brought lowe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto ye grounde.²⁶ Aryse vp thou our ayde, and redeeme vs: for thy louyng kindnesse sake.