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¹ My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me? ye wordes of my coplaynte are farre fro my health.² O my God, I crie in the daye tyme, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.³ Yet dwellest thou in the Sanctuary, o thou worshipe of Israel.⁴ Oure fathers hoped in the, they trusted in the, ad thou dyddest delyuer them.⁵ They callled vpon the, and were helped: they put their trust in the, and were not cofounded.⁶ But as for me, I am a worme and no man: a very scorne of me and the outcast of the people.⁷ All they yt se me, laugh me to scorne: they shute out their lippes, and shake their heades.⁸ He trusted in God, let him delyuer him: let him helpe hi, yf he wil haue him.⁹ But thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wobe: thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet vpon my mothers brestes.¹⁰ I haue bene left vnto the euer sence I was borne, thou art my God, eue fro my mothers wombe.

¹¹ O go not fro me the, for trouble is harde at honde, and here is none to helpe me.¹² Greate bulles are come aboute me, fatt oxen close me in on euery syde.¹³ They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as it were a rampinge and roaringe lyon.¹⁴ I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of ioynt: my hert in the myddest off my body is euen like meltinge waxe.¹⁵ My strength is dried vp like a potsherde, my tunge cleueth to my goomes, and thou hast brought me in to the dust of death.¹⁶ For dogges are come aboute me, the coucell of ye wicked hath layed sege agaynst me.¹⁷ They pearsed my hondes and my fete, I might haue tolde all my bones: as for them, they stode staringe and lokinge vpon me.¹⁸ They haue parted my garmentes amonge them, ad cast lottes vpon my vesture.¹⁹ But be not thou farre fro me, o LORDE: thou art my sucoure, haist the to helpe me.²⁰ Delyuer my soule from the swearde, my dearlinge from the power of the dogge.²¹ Saue me from the lyons mouth, and heare me fro amonge the hornes off the vnicornes.

²² So will I declare thy name vnto my brethren, in the myddest off the congregacion will I prayse the.²³ O prayse the LORDE ye that feare him: Magnifie him all ye sede of Iacob, & let all ye sede of Israel feare hi.²⁴ For he hath not despysed ner abhorred the myserable estate of the poore: he hath not hyd his face fro me, but whe I called vnto him, he herde me.²⁵ I wil prayse the in the greate congregacion, and perfourme my vowes in the sight off all the that feare the.²⁶ The poore shal eate ad be satisfied: they yt seke after ye LORDE shal prayse him: youre herte shal lyue for euer.²⁷ All the endes of the worlde shal remembre themselues, & be turned vnto the LORDE: and all the generacions of the Heithen shal worsh pe before him.²⁸ For the kyngdome is the LORDES, and he shal be the gouernoure of ye Heithen.²⁹ All soch as be fat vpo earth, shal eate also and worshipe:³⁰ All they that lye in the dust, and lyue so hardly, shall fall downe before him.³¹ The sede shall serue him, and preach of the LORDE for euer. They shal come, & declare his rightuousnes: vnto a people that shal be borne, who the LORDE hath made.