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Psalme. LXXXII.

The Argument.

This Psalme is thret: and lesson good,
to iudges stately romes:
Amid the Iewes: as Christ he stoode,
and blamde their wrongfull domes.

Deus stetit in Synagoga.


1

God standth in mids: of Princes hye,
when they to counsayle fall:
And iudge he is: theyr dedes to try,
he iudgeth theyr iudgements all.

2

He once shall say: how long wyll ye,
geue sentence wrongfully:
How long wyll ye: acceptours be,
of persons wickedly.

Sela.


3

Defend the poore: and fatherles,
speake law to theyr behoue:
Of men afflict: in heauines,
in ryght theyr cause approue.

4

The nedies sute: ryd ye hys cause,
deliuer hym wyth spede:
And plucke the poore: from all the clawes,
of wycked bribers drede.

5

They nothyng know: nor vnderstand,
they walke in darkenes depe:
The bases reele: of all the land,
for ryght, men mourne and wepe.

6

I sayd no lesse: but Gods ye bee,
so hye I you esteemd:
Of God most hye: as childern free,
I you in office deemde.

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7

But ye shall dye: as wretched men,
to children most vnlike:
To tyrauntes lyke: as one of them,
ye all shall fall in dyke.

8

Ryse thou O God: iudge thou the land,
where wronge hath such excesse:
To heritage: thy mighty hand,
shall clayme all heathennes.