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¹ A Psalme to giue instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?² Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.³ Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.⁴ Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes.⁵ He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:⁶ But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.⁷ They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.⁸ They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.⁹ We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.¹⁰ O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?¹¹ Why withdrawest thou thine hand, euen thy right hand? drawe it out of thy bosome, and consume them.

¹² Euen God is my King of olde, working saluation in the middes of the earth.¹³ Thou didest deuide the sea by thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.¹⁴ Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.¹⁵ Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.¹⁶ The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.¹⁷ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lorde, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.¹⁹ Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.²⁰ Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.²¹ Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.²² Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.²³ Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.