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¹ Heare my prayer (o LORDE) considre my desyre: answere me for thy treuth & rightuousnesse sake.² And entre not in to iudgment with thy seruaunt, for in thy sight shal no man lyuynge be iustified.³ For the enemie persecuteth my soule, he smyteth my life downe to the grounde, he layeth me in the darcknesse, as the deed men of the worlde.⁴ Therfore is my sprete vexed within me, and my herte within me is desolate.⁵ Yet do I remebre the tymes past, I muse vpo all yi workes, yee I exercise my self in the workes of thy hondes.⁶ I stretch forth my hondes vnto the, my soule crieth vnto the out of the thyrstie londe.

⁷ Sela. Heare me (o LORDE) and that soone, for my sprete waxeth faynte: hyde not yi face fro me, lest I be like vnto the that go downe in to the graue.⁸ Oh let me heare thy louynge kyndnesse by tymes in the mornynge, for in the is my trust: shewe thou me the waye that I shulde walke in, for I lift vp my soule vnto the.⁹ Delyuer me (o LORDE) fro myne enemies, for I resorte vnto the.¹⁰ Teach me to do the thinge that pleaseth the, for thou art my God: let thy louynge sprete lede me forth vnto the londe of rightuousnesse.¹¹ Quycke me (o LORDE) for thy names sake, and for thy rightuousnesse sake brynge my soule out of trouble.¹² And of thy goodnesse scater myne enemies abrode, and destroye all them that vexe my soule, for I am thy seruaunt.