- [To the chiefe Musician,
A Psalme of Dauid.]
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- In thee, O Lord, doe I put my trust, let me neuer be ashamed: deliuer me in thy righteousnesse.
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- Bowe downe thine eare to me, deliuer me speedily: be thou my strong rocke, for an house of defence to saue me.
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- For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therfore for thy names sake lead me, and guide me.
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- Pull me out of the net, that they haue layd priuily for me: for thou art my strength.
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- Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed mee, O Lord God of trueth.
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- I haue hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
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- I will be glad, and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast considered my trouble;
thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities;
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- And hast not shut me vp into the hand of the enemie: thou hast set my feete in a large roome.
- 9
- Haue mercy vpon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
mine eie is consumed with griefe, yea my soule and my belly.
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- For my life is spent with griefe, and my yeeres with sighing: my strength faileth, because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are consumed.
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- I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a feare to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without, fled from me.
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- I am forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
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- For I haue heard the slaunder of many, feare was on euery side: while they tooke counsell together against me, they deuised to take away my life.
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- But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I sayd, Thou art my God.
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- My times are in thy hand: deliuer me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
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- Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant: saue me for thy mercies sake.
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- Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue.
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- Let the lying lippes be put to silence: which speake grieuous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
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- O how great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layd vp for them that feare thee: which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sonnes of men!
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- Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence, from the pride of man: thou shalt keepe them secretly in a pauilion, from the strife of tongues.
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- Blessed be the Lord;
for hee hath shewed me his maruellous kindnesse, in a strong citie.
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- For I sayd in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eies: Neuerthelesse thou heardest the voice of my supplications, when I cryed vnto thee.
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- O loue the Lord, all yee his Saints: for the Lord preserueth the faithfull, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
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- Be of good courage, and hee shall strenghten your heart: all ye that hope in the Lord.
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