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[1] <Prayse ye the Lorde.> Confesse you [it] vnto god, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer
[2] Who can expresse the valiaunt actes of God: who can publishe abrode all his prayse
[3] Blessed are they that kepe iudgement: and do iustice at all times
[4] Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people: O visite me with thy saluation
[5] That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people: [and] that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce
[6] We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly
[7] Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt, neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes: but they rebelled at the sea, euen at the red sea
[8] Neuerthelesse, he saued them for his names sake: that he myght make his power to be knowen
[9] And he rebuked the red sea, and it was dryed vp: so he led them through the deepe, as through a wyldernesse
[10] And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them: & redeemed them from the hande of the enemie
[11] As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them: there was not one of them left remayning
[12] Then beleued they his wordes: and song prayse vnto him
[13] But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes: they woulde not wayte for his counsell
[14] And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse: and they tempted God in the desert
[15] And he gaue them their desire: and sent leannes withal into their soule
[16] They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes: [and] at Aaron the saint of God
[17] So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram
[18] And the fire was kindled in their company: the flambe brent vp the vngodly
[19] They made a calfe in Horeb: and worshipped the moulten image
[20] Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay
[21] (106:21a) They forgat God their sauiour, who had done so great thynges in Egypt
[22] (106:21b) wonderous workes in ye land of Cham, [and] terrible thinges at the red sea
[23] (106:22) Wherfore he appointed to destroy them, had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym: to turne away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them
[24] (106:23) Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired: they gaue no credite vnto his worde
[25] (106:24) But they murmured in their tentes: they would not hearken vnto the voyce of God
[26] (106:25a) Then lift he vp his hand against them, to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse
[27] (106:25b) to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations, and to scatter them in sundry landes
[28] (106:26) They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor: they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead
[29] (106:27) And they prouoked the [Lorde] vnto anger with their owne inuentions: and a plague fell mightily amongst them
[30] (106:28) Then stoode vp Phinehes, he executed iustice: and so the plague ceassed
[31] (106:29) And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse: in generation and generation for euermore
[32] (106:30) They also prouoked [God] at the waters of strife: and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes
[33] (106:31) For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite: so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes
[34] (106:32) Moreouer, they destroyed not the Heathen: as God commaunded them
[35] (106:33) But they were mingled amongst the Heathen: and learned their workes
[36] (106:34) Insomuch that they dyd seruice vnto their idols: whiche were to the a snare
[37] (106:35) Yea they sacrifised their sonnes: and their daughters vnto deuils
[38] (106:36) And they shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters: whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan, and the lande was defiled with blood
[39] (106:37) Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions
[40] (106:38) Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce
[41] (106:39) And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen: and they that dyd hate them, were lordes ouer them
[42] (106:40) Their enemies oppressed them: and brought them into subiection vnder their hande
[43] (106:41) Many a time dyd [God] deliuer them, but they rebelled [against hym] with their owne inuentions: and were brought downe for their wickednes
[44] (106:42) Neuerthelesse, he did beholde them in their aduersitie: in geuing eare to their complaint
[45] (106:43) And he remembred his couenaunt: and repented, according to the multitude of his mercies
[46] (106:44) Yea he made all those that led them away captiue: to pitie them
[47] (106:45) Saue vs O God our Lorde, and gather vs from among the Heathen: that we may geue thankes to thy holy name, and glory of thy prayse
[48] (106:46) Blessed be God the Lord of Israel from world to world without end: and let all people say, so be it. Prayse ye the Lord
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