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¹ O giue thankes vnto the Lord, call vpon his name: make knowen his deeds among the people. ² Sing vnto him; sing Psalmes vnto him: talke yee of all his wondrous workes. ³ Glory yee in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce, that seeke the Lord. ⁴ Seeke the Lord, and his strength: seeke his face euermore. ⁵ Remember his maruellous workes, that hee hath done: his wonders, and the iudgements of his mouth, ⁶ O yee seede of Abraham his seruant: yee children of Iacob his chosen. ⁷ He is the Lord our God: his iudgements are in all the earth.

⁸ He hath remembred his couenant for euer: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. ⁹ Which couenant he made with Abraham, and his oath vnto Isaac: ¹⁰ And confirmed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant: ¹¹ Saying, Unto thee will I giue the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance. ¹² When they were but a few men in number: yea very few, & strangers in it. ¹³ When they went from one nation to another: from one kingdome to another people. ¹⁴ He suffred no man to doe them wrong: yea he reproued kings for their sakes: ¹⁵ Saying, Touch not mine anointed; and doe my Prophets no harme. ¹⁶ Moreouer hee called for a famine vpon the land: he brake the whole staffe of bread. ¹⁷ Hee sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was sold for a seruant. ¹⁸ Whose feete they hurt with fetters: he was layd in iron. ¹⁹ Untill the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him. ²⁰ The king sent and loosed him: euen the ruler of the people, and let him goe free. ²¹ Hee made him lord of his house: and ruler of all his substance: ²² To binde his princes at his pleasure: and teach his Senatours wisedome. ²³ Israel also came into Egypt: and Iacob soiourned in the land of Ham. ²⁴ And hee increased his people greatly: and made them stronger then their enemies.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people: to deale subtilly with his seruants. ²⁶ Hee sent Moses his seruant: and Aaron whom he had chosen. ²⁷ They shewed his signes among them: and wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ Hee sent darknesse, and made it darke: and they rebelled not against his word. ²⁹ Hee turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish. ³⁰ The land brought foorth frogs in abundance: in the chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spake, and there came diuers sorts of flies: and lice in all their coasts. ³² Hee gaue them haile for raine: and flaming fire in their laud. ³³ Hee smote their Uines also, and their figge trees: and brake the trees of their coastes. ³⁴ He spake, and the locusts came: and catterpillers, and that without number, ³⁵ And did eate vp all the herbes in their land: and deuoured the fruite of their ground. ³⁶ Hee smote also all the first borne in their land: the chiefe of all their strength. ³⁷ Hee brought them foorth also with siluer and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. ³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed: for the feare of them fell vpon them. ³⁹ He spread a cloud for a couering: and fire to giue light in the night. ⁴⁰ The people asked, and he brought quailes: and satisfied them with the bread of heauen. ⁴¹ He opened the rocke, and the waters gushed out: they ranne in the dry places like a riuer. ⁴² For he remembred his holy promise: and Abraham his seruant. ⁴³ And he brought forth his people with ioy: and his chosen with gladnesse: ⁴⁴ And gaue them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people: ⁴⁵ That they might obserue his statutes, and keepe his Lawes, Praise ye the Lord.