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¹ We haue herde with or eares (o God) or fathers haue tolde vs, what thou hast done in their tyme, of olde.² How thou hast dryue out the Heithen wt thy honde, & plated the in: how thou hast destroyed the nacions & cast the out.³ For they gat not the londe in possession thorow their owne swerde, nether was it their owne arme that helped them.⁴ But thy right hade, thyne arme & the light of thy countenaunce, because thou haddest a fauoure vnto them.⁵ Thou art ye kinge & my God, thou sendest helpe vnto Iacob.⁶ Thorow ye, wil we ouerthrowe oure enemies: & in thy name will we treade them vnder, that ryse vp agaynst vs.⁷ For I will not trust in my bowe, it is not my swerde yt shal helpe me.⁸ But it is thou that sauest vs fro oure enemies, and puttest them to confucion that hate vs.

⁹ We will allwaye make oure boast of God, and prayse thy name for euer.¹⁰ Sela. But now thou forsakest vs, & puttest vs to confucion, and goest not forth with oure hoostes.¹¹ Thou makest vs to turne oure backes vpon oure enemies, so that they which hate vs, spoile oure goodes.¹² Thou lettest vs be eaten vp like shepe, & scatrest vs amonge the Heithen.¹³ Thou sellest thy people for naught, & takest no moneye for them.¹⁴ Thou makest vs to be rebuked of or neghbours, to be laughed to scorne aud had in derision, of them that are rounde aboute vs.¹⁵ Thou hast made vs a very byworde amonge the Heithen, & that the people shake their heades at vs.¹⁶ My cofucion is daylie before me, & the shame of my face couereth me.

¹⁷ For the voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer, for the enemie and auenger.¹⁸ All this is come vpon vs, & yet haue we not forgotten the, ner behaued oure selues vnfaithfully in thy couenaunt.¹⁹ Oure hert is not turned backe, nether oure steppes gone out of thy waye.²⁰ That thou smytest vs so in the place of the serpet, & couerest vs with ye shadowe of death.²¹ Yf we had forgotten the name of oure God, & holde vp oure hondes to eny straunge God: Shulde not God fynde it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the hert.²² But for thy sake we are kylled all the daie longe, and are counted as shepe apoynted to be slayne.²³ Vp LORDE, why slepest thou? Awake, and cast vs not of for euer.²⁴ Wherfore hydest thou thy face? wilt thou clene forget oure misery and oppressio?²⁵ For oure soule is brought lowe euen vnto the dust, and oure bely cleueth vnto the grounde.²⁶ Arise o LORDE, helpe vs, and delyuer vs for thy mercie sake.