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- O giue thankes vnto the Lord, call vpon his name: make knowen his deeds among the people.
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- Sing vnto him;
sing Psalmes vnto him: talke yee of all his wondrous workes.
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- Glory yee in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce, that seeke the Lord.
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- Seeke the Lord, and his strength: seeke his face euermore.
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- Remember his maruellous workes, that hee hath done: his wonders, and the iudgements of his mouth,
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- O yee seede of Abraham his seruant: yee children of Iacob his chosen.
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- He is the Lord our God: his iudgements are in all the earth.
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- He hath remembred his couenant for euer: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
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- Which couenant he made with Abraham, and his oath vnto Isaac:
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- And confirmed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant:
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- Saying, Unto thee will I giue the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance.
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- When they were but a few men in number: yea very few, & strangers in it.
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- When they went from one nation to another: from one kingdome to another people.
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- He suffred no man to doe them wrong: yea he reproued kings for their sakes:
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- Saying, Touch not mine anointed;
and doe my Prophets no harme.
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- Moreouer hee called for a famine vpon the land: he brake the whole staffe of bread.
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- Hee sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was sold for a seruant.
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- Whose feete they hurt with fetters: he was layd in iron.
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- Untill the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.
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- The king sent and loosed him: euen the ruler of the people, and let him goe free.
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- Hee made him lord of his house: and ruler of all his substance:
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- To binde his princes at his pleasure: and teach his Senatours wisedome.
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- Israel also came into Egypt: and Iacob soiourned in the land of Ham.
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- And hee increased his people greatly: and made them stronger then their enemies.
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- He turned their heart to hate his people: to deale subtilly with his seruants.
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- Hee sent Moses his seruant: and Aaron whom he had chosen.
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- They shewed his signes among them: and wonders in the land of Ham.
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- Hee sent darknesse, and made it darke: and they rebelled not against his word.
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- Hee turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish.
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- The land brought foorth frogs in abundance: in the chambers of their kings.
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- He spake, and there came diuers sorts of flies: and lice in all their coasts.
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- Hee gaue them haile for raine: and flaming fire in their laud.
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- Hee smote their Uines also, and their figge trees: and brake the trees of their coastes.
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- He spake, and the locusts came: and catterpillers, and that without number,
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- And did eate vp all the herbes in their land: and deuoured the fruite of their ground.
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- Hee smote also all the first borne in their land: the chiefe of all their strength.
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- Hee brought them foorth also with siluer and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
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- Egypt was glad when they departed: for the feare of them fell vpon them.
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- He spread a cloud for a couering: and fire to giue light in the night.
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- The people asked, and he brought quailes: and satisfied them with the bread of heauen.
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- He opened the rocke, and the waters gushed out: they ranne in the dry places like a riuer.
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- For he remembred his holy promise: and Abraham his seruant.
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- And he brought forth his people with ioy: and his chosen with gladnesse:
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- And gaue them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people:
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- That they might obserue his statutes, and keepe his Lawes, Praise ye the Lord.
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