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The whole Psalter translated into English Metre

which contayneth an hundreth and fifty Psalmes

Parker, Matthew (1504-1575)

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The first Quinquagene.

To the Reader.

Of the vertue of Psalmes.

Henrie Haward Earle of Surrie in his Ecclesiastes.

Here beginneth the second booke of Psalmes.

The Seconde Quinquagene of Dauids Psalter, translated into Englishe Metre.

Here beginneth the thirde Booke of Psalmes.

Here beginneth the fourth Booke of Psalmes.

The third and last Quinquagene of Dauids Psalter, translated into Englishe Metre.

Psalme. CV.

Here beginneth the fifth Booke of Psalmes.

Psalme. CVII.

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Certayne verses of the sayd Psalme otherwise translated.

Gloria Patri for diuers Metres.

Te Deum.

The song of the three Children.

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Psalme. CV.

The Argument.

Gods actes here lauded be: by stories order tolde:
His pact alledge: no thanke to man: but God most due extolde.

O prayse in voyce the Lord,
Syng out wyth iust accord:
Exalt hys name: search out hys fame,
Hys worthy dedes record.

Confitemi ni domino

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O prayse in voyce the Lord: vpon hys name to call
Denounce and tell the people cleare: his doynges liberall.

2

Syng out, wyth iust accorde: and play in instrumentes:
Tell all hys factes most meruelous: sprede out hys ornamentes.

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Exalt hys name wyth ioy: most hye, and most deuyne:
And let theyr hart that seke the Lord: to mirth all glad inclyne.

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Search out hys fame and power: the Lordes right famous arke:
Seeke here hys face still euermore: draw nye to note hys warke.

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Hys worthy deedes recorde: which he hath wrought as God,
His strange foreshewes: hys godly domes: so past his mouth abrode

O prayse in voyce the Lord,
Syng out wyth iust accorde:
Exalt hys name: search out hys fame,
Hys worthy dedes recorde.

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Ye seede of Abraham: hys seruaunt thys respect:
I you appeale, praise ye the Lord: ye Iacobs stocke elect.

7

He is the Lord our God: yea none I say but hee:
His iudgementes be in all the world: but most wyth vs to see.

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For he hys couenant myndth: for euer it to do:
In thousand worldes, still fast to stand, hys word commaunded so.

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Hys pact to Abraham: fast made, with fayth endude:
Hys othe also to Isaac: agayne the same renude.

10

And he this league as law: to Iacob sure decreed:
To Israell as testament: for euer well to speede.

11

Thus saying, geue I will: to the land Canaan:
For plot of your inheritaunce: as met with lyne by man.

12

But thus when few they were: to them in lyke respect:
And there in land as straungers set: as Pilgrimes whole reiect.

13

And strayed from land to land: of nations wandringly:
From countries wyde to other realmes: of people diuersly.

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14

He suffred yet no man: to do them any wrong:
For all theyr sake: yea kinges be chect: and plaged them among.

15

He sayd, touch not my Christes: that sacred flocke to mee:
My Prophetes true: afflict not ye: which preach my maiestie.

O prayse in voyce the Lord,
Syng out wyth iust accorde:
Exalt hys name: search out hys fame,
Hys worthy dedes recorde.

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When he sent dearth on earth: to stop theyr foodes reliefe:
And stroyed of bread: the sustenance: which stayd their strength most chiefe

17

A man before he sent: to them as herbeger,
Lo Ioseph sold to seruitude: to serue in Egipt theare.

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Whose feete they wrung in stockes: by Putiphars complaynt:
In iron cast wyth chaynes I bound: hys lyfe felt hard constraynt.

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Untill the tyme was come: that iust hys cause was seene:
Whom God approued: and throughly tryed: by Oracle deuine.

20

The kyng then sent and hym: dyd lose by men of hys:
The Prince that there: the people ruld: did him frō bondes dismisse.

21

He made hym Lord in chiefe: of all hys court about:
And ruler sole: of all hys goods: in hys Empyre full out.

22

That he might bynde and lose: his Dukes and lordes at wyll:
And wit to teache: hys sages all: by hys approued skill.

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O prayse in voyce the Lord,
Syng out wyth iust accorde:
Exalt hys name: searche out hys fame,
Hys worthy dedes recorde.

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So Israell in went: to Egypt glad and sad:
This Iacob olde: a straunger liued: in land of Cham the bad.

24

And there God multiplied: hys people notably,
And made hym far: more strong and big: then were hys foes at eye.

25

The Moores then changd theyr hartes: as God dyd them detect:
That they dyd hate: his people sore: wt guiles hys seruantes checkt.

26

Then God sent Moses out: hys seruant good and true:
Yea Aaron eke: whom he dyd chose: his hart on them dyd rue.

27

Which there to them dyd splay: his workes and wordes by signes
Hys meruels rare: in land of Cham: such power thē God resignes.

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And he depe darkenes sent: all thinges then darke was so:
The signes themselfe: ne Moses yet: rebeld Gods wyll to do.

29

He turnd theyr waters all: to bloud, not them they dranke:
He slue theyr fish: theyr nourishment: for all theyr waters stanke.

30

The Lord euen so brought frogs: in numbers wonderfull:
Which crept vpon: the beds of kynges: theyr priuy chambers full.

31

He spake the worde then came: on heapes all kynde of flies:
So lyse of dust: as myngyns small: in all theyr costes dyd ryse.

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32

For all theyr raynes and dewes: he gaue them hayle to change,
And flames of fyer: so mixt wyth thē: in all their landes most strange.

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Wherwyth he smote their vines: their fig trees flat to ground:
He brake euen down: their fruitful trees: in all their quarters round

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And when hys worde came forth: of grashoppers on heape:
In numbers theare: nigh infinite: dyd Caterpillers leape.

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Which dyd all whole deuoure: theyr grasse about the land:
Yea frute and all: that grew in soyle: thus heauy lay hys hand.

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Theyr fruites first borne he slue: in all theyr realme in length:
Their pryme ofspring: most principal: of all their natures strength.

O prayse in voyce the Lord,
Syng out wyth iust accorde:
Exalt hys name: searche out hys fame,
Hys worthy deedes recorde,

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He then dyd lead them out: wyth gold and siluer stuft:
And none there was: in all theyr tribes: that fell or febly puft.

38

So Egypt ioyd full glad: when they went out of realme:
For they the Iewes: drad fearefully: theyr feare so fell on them.

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He spred on them a cloud: to couer them by day:
Wyth piller bryght: to cleare the nyght: he dyd dyrect their way.

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At theyr request and sute: he brought them quayles for meate:
He filled them: with bread of heauen: sweete aungels foode to eate.

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He claue and opte the rock: whence water flowed full prest:
They ran lyke streames: in wildernes: to comfort man and beast.

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For why he bare in mynde: hys holy promise thus:
Hys loue also: to Abraham: hys seruaunt vertuous.

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And full wyth ioy and myrth: he led hys people forth:
Hys deare electes: wyth iubilies: so taken well in worth.

O prayse in voyce the Lorde,
Syng out wyth iust accorde:
Exalt hys name: searche out hys fame,
Hys worthy deedes recorde.

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And last he gaue them whole: the gentils landes by met:
They all possest: for heritage: for which the people swet.

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To thend that they should kepe: hys statutes true and ryght:
That they should aye: obserue his lawes: prayse ye this lord of might

O prayse in voyce the Lorde,
Syng out wyth iust accorde:
Exalt hys name: searche out hys fame,
Hys worthy deedes recorde.