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¹ A Psalme to giue instruction comitted to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.² I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.³ Which we haue heard and knowen, & our fathers haue tolde vs.⁴ Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, & his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:⁵ How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commaunded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:⁶ That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:⁷ That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:⁸ And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient & rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.

⁹ The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.¹⁰ They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,¹¹ And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.¹² Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.¹³ He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.¹⁴ In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.¹⁵ He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.¹⁶ He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.¹⁷ Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,¹⁸ And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.¹⁹ They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?²⁰ Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?²¹ Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, & also wrath came vpon Israel,²² Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.²³ Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,²⁴ And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.²⁵ Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.²⁶ He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.²⁷ Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.²⁸ And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.²⁹ So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.³⁰ They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,³¹ When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.³² For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.³³ Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.³⁴ And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.³⁵ And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.³⁷ For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.³⁸ Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, & destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, & did not stirre vp all his wrath.³⁹ For he remebred that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

⁴⁰ How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?⁴¹ Yea, they returned, & tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.⁴² They remebred not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,⁴³ Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,⁴⁴ And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke.⁴⁵ Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.⁴⁶ He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.⁴⁷ He destroied their vines with haile, & their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.⁴⁸ He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.⁴⁹ Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.⁵⁰ He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,⁵¹ And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.⁵² But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, & led them in the wildernes like a flocke.⁵³ Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.⁵⁴ And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.⁵⁵ He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.⁵⁶ Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,⁵⁷ But turned backe & delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.⁵⁸ And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.⁵⁹ God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,⁶⁰ So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,⁶¹ And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.⁶² And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.⁶³ The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.⁶⁴ Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.⁶⁵ But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, & as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,⁶⁶ And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.⁶⁷ Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.⁶⁹ And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.⁷⁰ He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.⁷¹ Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.⁷² So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.