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¹ O God the Lord of [all] auengeaunce: the Lorde of [all] auengeaunce shewe thy [glorious maiestie.]² Be exalted O thou iudge of the world: and rewarde the proude after their deseruyng.³ O God howe long shall the vngodly: howe long shall the vngodly triumph?⁴ All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues.⁵ They oppresse thy people O God: and they afflict thine heritage.⁶ They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death.⁷ And they say, tushe the Lorde seeth it not: neither doth the God of Iacob vnderstande it.⁸ Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised?⁹ He that hath planted the eare, shall he not heare? yf he shapeth the eye, shall he not see?¹⁰ He that chasteneth the heathen, shall not he punishe? it is he that teacheth man knowledge.¹¹ God knoweth the thoughtes of man: that they are but vanitie.

¹² Blessed is the man O Lorde, whom thou wylt chasten: and whom thou wylt instruct in thy lawe.¹³ That thou mayest geue hym patience in tyme of aduersitie: vntyll the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly.¹⁴ For God wyll not reiect his people: neither wil he forsake his inheritaunce.¹⁵ For iudgement shalbe reduced vnto iustice: and after it shall all such as be vpryght of heart [be iudged.]¹⁶ Who will ryse vp with me agaynst the malicious? or who wyll take my part agaynst workers of wickednesse?¹⁷ If God had not ben an ayde vnto me: it had not fayled much but my soule had dwelled in silence.¹⁸ But when I sayde my foote hath slypped: thy mercy O God helde me vp.¹⁹ In the multitude of my cogitations from the bottome of my heart: thy comfortes dyd recreate my soule.²⁰ Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee: which [seate] maketh wrong to be enacted for a law?²¹ They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood.²² But God is to me a refuge: and my Lorde is the rocke of my confidence.²³ And he wyll recompence them their wickednesse, and destroy them in their owne malice: God our Lorde wyll destroy them.