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¹ Praise ye the Lord. O giue thankes vnto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer. ² Who can vtter the mighty acts of the Lord? who can shew foorth all his praise? ³ Blessed are they that keepe iudgement: and he that doeth righteousnesse at all times. ⁴ Remember me, O Lord, with the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people: O visite me with thy saluation: ⁵ That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may reioyce in the gladnesse of thy nation: that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶ Wee haue sinned with our fathers: we haue committed iniquitie, we haue done wickedly. ⁷ Our fathers vnderstood not thy wonders in Egypt, they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies: but prouoked him at the sea, euen at the Red-sea. ⁸ Neuerthelesse hee saued them for his Names sake: that hee might make his mighty power to be knowen. ⁹ He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried vp: so hee led them through the depthes, as through the wildernes. ¹⁰ And he saued them from the hand of him that hated them: and redeemed them from the hand of the enemie. ¹¹ And the waters couered their enemies: there was not one of them left. ¹² Then beleeued they his words: they sang his praise.

¹³ They soone forgate his works: they waited not for his counsell: ¹⁴ But lusted exceedingly in the wildernes: & tempted God in the desert. ¹⁵ And he gaue them their request: but sent leannesse into their soule. ¹⁶ They enuied Moses also in the campe: and Aaron the Saint of the Lord. ¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram. ¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt vp the wicked. ¹⁹ They made a calfe in Horeb: and worshipped the molten image. ²⁰ Thus they changed their glory, into the similitude of an oxe that eateth grasse. ²¹ They forgate God their Sauiour: which had done great things in Egypt: ²² Wonderous workes in the lande of Ham: and terrible things by the red Sea. ²³ Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: to turne away his wrath, lest hee should destroy them. ²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land: they beleeued not his word: ²⁵ But murmured in their tents: and hearkened not vnto the voyce of the Lord. ²⁶ Therefore he lifted vp his hande against them: to ouerthrow them in the wildernesse: ²⁷ To ouerthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ They ioyned themselues also vnto Baal-Peor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead. ²⁹ Thus they prouoked him to anger with their inuentions: and the plague brake in vpon them. ³⁰ Then stood vp Phinehas, and executed iudgement: and so the plague was stayed. ³¹ And that was counted vnto him for righteousnesse: vnto all generations for euermore. ³² They angred him also at the waters of strife: so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: ³³ Because they prouoked his spirit: so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.

³⁴ They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them: ³⁵ But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes. ³⁶ And they serued their idoles: which were a snare vnto them. ³⁷ Yea they sacrificed their sonnes, and their daughters vnto deuils, ³⁸ And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whome they sacrificed vnto the idoles of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. ³⁹ Thus were they defiled with their owne works: and went a whoring with their owne inuentions. ⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritance. ⁴¹ And he gaue them into the hand of the heathen: and they that hated them, ruled ouer them. ⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them: and they were brought into subiection vnder their hand. ⁴³ Many times did he deliuer them: but they prouoked him with their counsell, and were brought low for their iniquitie. ⁴⁴ Neuertheles he regarded their affliction: when he heard their crie. ⁴⁵ And hee remembred for them his couenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. ⁴⁶ He made them also to be pitied, of all those that caried them captiues. ⁴⁷ Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen to giue thankes vnto thy holy Name: and to triumph in thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel from euerlasting to euerlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord.