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¹ I wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God: with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generatio to another.² For I sayde, mercy shall for euer endure: thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens.³ I haue made a couenaunt with my chosen: I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt.⁴ I wyll establishe thy seede for euer: and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.

⁵ O God, the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes: and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes.⁶ For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God: [and who] is like vnto God amongst the children gods?⁷ God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes: and to be feared aboue al them that are about him.⁸ O God, Lorde of hoastes, who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde: and thy trueth is on euery side thee.⁹ Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea: when her waues aryse, thou delayest them.¹⁰ Thou hast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded: thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme.¹¹ The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin.¹² Thou hast made the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon do reioyce in thy name.¹³ Thou hast a mightie arme: thy hand is strong, and thy right hand is exalted.¹⁴ Iustice and iudgement is the foundation of thy throne: mercy and trueth shall go before thy face.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that knoweth a triumphant noyse: O God, they shall walke in the light of thy countenaunce.¹⁶ They shall make them selues merie dayly in thy name: and in thy righteousnes they shall exalt them selues.¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy louing kindnes thou wylt lift vp our hornes.¹⁸ For our shielde is of God: and our king is of the most holy of Israel.

¹⁹ Thou hast spoken somtimes in visions vnto thy saintes: and hast sayde, I haue added ayde vpon the mightie, I haue exalted one chose out of the people.²⁰ I haue founde Dauid my seruaunt: I haue annoynted him with myne holye oyle.²¹ Therfore my hande shalbe assured vnto him: and mine arme shall strengthen hym.²² The enemie shal not be able to do him violence: the sonne of wickednesse shall not afflict hym.²³ I wyll breake into peeces his foes before his face: and ouerthrowe them that hate hym.²⁴ My trueth also and my mercy shalbe with hym: and in my name shall his horne be exalted.²⁵ I wyll set also his dominion in the sea: and his right hande in the fluddes.²⁶ He shall make inuocation vnto me: [saying] thou art my father O my God, and my fortresse of saluation.²⁷ And I will make him my first borne: in higher state then kinges of the earth.²⁸ My mercy wyll I kepe for hym euermore: and my couenaunt shal stand fast with hym.²⁹ His seede also wyll I make to endure for euer: and his throne as the dayes of heauen.³⁰ But if his chyldren forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgement: ³¹ if they breake my statutes, and kepe not my commaundementes,³² I will then visite their transgressions with a rodde: and their wickednesse with stripes.³³ Neuerthelesse, my louyng kyndnesse I wyll not take vtterly from hym: I wyl not breake my promise with hym.³⁴ I wyll not violate my couenaunt: nor alter the thyng that is gone out of my lyppes.³⁵ I haue sworne once by my holynesse: that I wyll not speake an vntrueth vnto Dauid.³⁶ His seede shall endure for euer: and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me.³⁷ [And] as the moone which shall continue for euermore: and shalbe a faithful witnesse in heauen. Selah.

³⁸ But thou hast abhorred & forsake thine annoynted: & art sore displeased at him.³⁹ Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, [castyng it] on the grounde.⁴⁰ Thou hast ouerthrowe all his walles: and broken downe his strong holdes.⁴¹ All they that go by the way spoyle hym: he is become a rebuke vnto his neyghbours.⁴² Thou hast exalted the ryght hande of his enemies: and made all his aduersaries to reioyce.⁴³ Thou hast turned the harde edge of his sworde: and thou hast not lifted him vp in the battayle.⁴⁴ Thou hast brought his noble estate to an ende: and hast cast his throne downe to the grounde.⁴⁵ Thou hast shortened the dayes of his youth: and thou hast couered him with shame. Selah.⁴⁶ O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire?⁴⁷ Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?⁴⁸ What man is he that lyueth and shall not see death? can he delyuer his owne soule from the hande of hell? Selah.⁴⁹ Lorde where are become thy former olde louyng kyndnesses: [which] thou dydst sweare vnto Dauid by thy fayth [that thou wouldest perfourme.]⁵⁰ Remember O Lorde the dishonour * of thy seruauntes: I beare in my bosome [the dishonour of] all people that be mightie.⁵¹ Who beyng thine enemies O God do dishonour: who do dishonour the footsteppes of thine annoynted.⁵² Blessed be God for euermore: so be it, and so be it.