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[1]<Awyse instruction of Ethan the Ezrachite.> I wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God: with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generation to another
[2]ForI sayde, mercy shall for euer endure: thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens
[3]Ihaue made a couenaunt with my chosen: I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt
[4]Iwyll establishe thy seede for euer: and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation. Selah
[5]OGod, the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes: and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes
[6]Forwho is he in the cloudes that shal matche God: [and who] is like vnto God amongst the children gods
[7]Godis very terrible in the assemblie of saintes: and to be feared aboue al them that are about him
[8]OGod, Lorde of hoastes, who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde: and thy trueth is on euery side thee
[9]Thourulest the ragyng of the sea: when her waues aryse, thou delayest them
[10]Thouhast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded: thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme
[11]Theheauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin
[12]Thouhast made the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon do reioyce in thy name
[13]Thouhast a mightie arme: thy hand is strong, and thy right hand is exalted
[14]Iusticeand iudgement is the foundation of thy throne: mercy and trueth shall go before thy face
[15]Blessedis the people that knoweth a triumphant noyse: O God, they shall walke in the light of thy countenaunce
[16]Theyshall make them selues merie dayly in thy name: and in thy righteousnes they shall exalt them selues
[17]Forthou art the glory of their strength: and in thy louing kindnes thou wylt lift vp our hornes
[18]Forour shielde is of God: and our king is of the most holy of Israel
[19]Thouhast spoken somtimes in visions vnto thy saintes: and hast sayde, I haue added ayde vpon the mightie, I haue exalted one chose out of the people
[20]Ihaue founde Dauid my seruaunt: I haue annoynted him with myne holye oyle
[21]Therforemy hande shalbe assured vnto him: and mine arme shall strengthen hym
[22]Theenemie shal not be able to do him violence: the sonne of wickednesse shall not afflict hym
[23]Iwyll breake into peeces his foes before his face: and ouerthrowe them that hate hym
[24]Mytrueth also and my mercy shalbe with hym: and in my name shall his horne be exalted
[25]Iwyll set also his dominion in the sea: and his right hande in the fluddes
[26]Heshall make inuocation vnto me: [saying] thou art my father O my God, and my fortresse of saluation
[27]AndI will make him my first borne: in higher state then kinges of the earth
[28]Mymercy wyll I kepe for hym euermore: and my couenaunt shal stand fast with hym
[29]Hisseede also wyll I make to endure for euer: and his throne as the dayes of heauen
[30](89:30a)But if his chyldren forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgement
[31](89:30b)if they breake my statutes, and kepe not my commaundementes
[32](89:31)I will then visite their transgressions with a rodde: and their wickednesse with stripes
[33](89:32)Neuerthelesse, my louyng kyndnesse I wyll not take vtterly from hym: I wyl not breake my promise with hym
[34](89:33)I wyll not violate my couenaunt: nor alter the thyng that is gone out of my lyppes
[35](89:34)I haue sworne once by my holynesse: that I wyll not speake an vntrueth vnto Dauid
[36](89:35)His seede shall endure for euer: and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me
[37](89:36)[And] as the moone which shall continue for euermore: and shalbe a faithful witnesse in heauen. Selah
[38](89:37)But thou hast abhorred & forsake thine annoynted: & art sore displeased at him
[39](89:38)Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, [castyng it] on the grounde
[40](89:39)Thou hast ouerthrowe all his walles: and broken downe his strong holdes
[41](89:40)All they that go by the way spoyle hym: he is become a rebuke vnto his neyghbours
[42](89:41)Thou hast exalted the ryght hande of his enemies: and made all his aduersaries to reioyce
[43](89:42)Thou hast turned the harde edge of his sworde: and thou hast not lifted him vp in the battayle
[44](89:43)Thou hast brought his noble estate to an ende: and hast cast his throne downe to the grounde
[45](89:44)Thou hast shortened the dayes of his youth: and thou hast couered him with shame. Selah
[46](89:45)O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire
[47](89:46)Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men
[48](89:47)What man is he that lyueth and shall not see death? can he delyuer his owne soule from the hande of hell? Selah
[49](89:48)Lorde where are become thy former olde louyng kyndnesses: [which] thou dydst sweare vnto Dauid by thy fayth [that thou wouldest perfourme.
[50](89:49)Remember O Lorde the dishonour of thy seruauntes: I beare in my bosome [the dishonour of] all people that be mightie
[51](89:50)Who beyng thine enemies O God do dishonour: who do dishonour the footsteppes of thine annoynted
[52](89:51)Blessed be God for euermore: so be it, and so be it
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