The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold I. Hopkins & others: conferred with the Ebrue, with apt Notes to synge the[m] withal

The people dispersed vnder Antiochus doo magnifie the goodnes of God emonge the iust and repentant: Desiring to be brought agayne into the lande by Gods mercyfull vysytacion. And after the manifold meruayles of God wrought in their deliueraunce forth of Egipt and the great ingratitude of the people rehearsed, they doo praye and dedesier to be gathered from among the Heathē to the entent they may prayse the name of the God of Israell.

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Sing this as the .lxxxxv.

[The first parte.]

Prayse ye the Lod, for he is good,
his mercye dures for ay:
Who can expresse his noble actes,
or all his prayse display.
They blessed are that iugment kepe,
and iustly doo alwaye:
With fauour of thy people, Lorde,
remember me I pray,

And with thy sauing health O Lorde,
vouchesafe to visite me:
That I the great felicytie,
of thine elect may see.
And with thy peoples ioy I may,
a ioyfull minde posses:
And may with thine inheritance,
a glorying hart expres.

Bothe we and eke our fathers all,
haue sinned euery one:
We haue committed wickednes,
and leudly we haue done,

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The wonders great which thou O lord
hast done in Egipt land:
Our fathers, though they saw them al,
yet did not vnderstand.

Nor they thy mercies multitude,
did kepe in thankfull mind?
But at the sea yea the red sea,
rebelled most vnkind.
Neuertheles he saued them,
for honor of hys name,
That he might make his power knowne
and spred abrode with fame.

The red sea he did then rebuke,
and forthwith it was dryed:
And as in wildernes, so through,
the depe he did them guide
He saued them from the cruel hand,
of their despitefull foe
And from the enmies hand he did,
deliuer them also.

The second parte.

The waters their oppressors whelmd,
not one was left alyue,
Then they beleued his wordes, & praise
in song they did him geue.
But by and by vnthankefully,
his workes they cleane forgat:
And for his counsell and his will,
they did neglect to wayte.

But lusted in the wildernes,
with fond and gredy lust,

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And in the desert tempted God,
the stay of all theyr trust,
And then theyr wanton mindes desire
he suffred them to haue,
but wasting leannes therwithall
into their soule he gaue,

Then, when they lodged in the tentes,
at Moses they did grutch,
Aaron the holy of the Lorde,
so did they enuie muche.
Therfore the earth did open wide,
and Dathan did deuoure:
And all Abrams companye,
did couer in that houre.

In their assemblie kindled was,
the whote consuming fyre,
And wasting flame did then burne vp,
the wicked in his ire.
Upon the hill of Horeb they
an idole calf did frame,
And there the molten image they
did worship of the same.

Into the likenes of a calfe,
that fedeth on the grasse:
Thus they their glory turnd and all,
their honor did deface.
And God their only sauiour,
vnkindly they forgot,
Which many great and mighty things
in Egip land hadt wrought,

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The third parte.

And in the land of Ham for them.
most wondrous works had done
And by the red sea dredfull things
performed long agone.
Therfore for their so shewing them,
forgetfull and vnkind,
To bring destruction on them all
he purposde in his minde.

Had not his chosen Moses stoode,
before them in the breake:
To turne his wrath, lest he on them,
with slaughter should him wreke.
They did despise the pleasant land,
that he beheght to geue:
Yea and the workes that he had spoke,
they did no whit beleue:

But in their tents with grudging hart,
they wickedly repined,
Nor to the voyce of God the Lorde,
they gaue a harkning mynde,
Therfore against them lifted he,
his strong reuenging hand,
Them to destroy in wildernes,
ere they should see the land.

And to destroy theyr sede among
the nations with his rod,
And through the contrees of the world
to scatter them abrode.
To Baal Peor then they did,
adioyne themselues also,

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And eate the offringes of the dead
so they forsoke him tho.

Thus with theyr owne inuentions,
his wrath they did prouoke,
And in his so inkindled wrath,
the plage vpon them broke.
But Phineas stoode vp with zeale,
the sinners vile to slay,
And iudgement he did execute,
and then the plage did stay,

The .iiii. parte.

It was imputed vnto him,
for righteousnes that day,
And from thenceforth so compted is
from race to race for aye.
At waters eke of Meribah,
they did him angry make,
Yea so far fourth that Moses was
then punisht for theyr sake,

Because they vext his sprite so sore,
that in impatient heate
His lippes spake vnaduisedly,
his feruor was so greate.
Nor as the Lorde commaunded them,
they slew the people thoe,
But were among the heathen mixt,
and learnde their workes also,

And did their idoles serue, whiche were
their ruine and decay,
To feends their sonnes & daughters they
did offer vp and slay.

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Yea with vnkindly murdring knife,
the giltles bloud they spilt,
Yea theyr owne sons & daughters bloud
without all cause of gilt,

Whom they to Canaan idoles then,
offerd with wicked hand,
And so with blood of innocents,
defyled was the land.
Thus wer they stayned with the works
of their owne filthy way,
And with their owne inuentions,
a whoring did they stray.

Therfore against his people was
the Lordes wrath kindled sore,
And euen his owne inheritance
therfore he did abhorre.
Into the handes of heathen men,
he gaue them for a prey:
And made theyr foes the lords whō they
were forced to obey.

The .v. parte.

Yea and their hatefull enemies,
opprest them in the land:
And they were humbly made to stoope
as subiectes to theyr hand.
Full oftentimes from thrall had he,
deliuerd them before,
But with their counsels they to wrath
prouoked him euermore.

Therfore they by their wickednes,
were brought full low to lye.

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Yet when he saw them in distres,
he harkned to theyr crye.
He calld to mind his couenant,
which he to them had swore.
And by his mercies multitude,
repented him therfore.

And fauour he them made to finde,
before the sight of those:
That led them captiue from their land,
when erst they were their foes.
Saue vs, O Lorde that art our God,
saue vs O Lord we pray,
And from among the Heathen folke,
Lorde, gather vs away.

That we may spred the noble prayse,
of thy most holy name,
That we may glory in thy prayse
and sounding of thy fame.
The Lorde the God of Israell,
be blest for euermore.
Let all the people say Amen.
prayse ye the Lord therfore.

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Confitemine domino.

Psal. Cvi.

[The first parte.]

The second parte.

The third parte.

The .iiii. parte.

The .v. parte.