The whole Psalter translated into English Metre which contayneth an hundreth and fifty Psalmes |
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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.
Syng out wyth iust accord:
Exalt hys name: search out hys fame,
Hys worthy dedes record.
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O prayse in voyce the Lord: vpon hys name to callDenounce and tell the people cleare: his doynges liberall.
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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.
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.
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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.
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And he this league as law: to Iacob sure decreed:To Israell as testament: for euer well to speede.
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Thus saying, geue I will: to the land Canaan:For plot of your inheritaunce: as met with lyne by man.
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But thus when few they were: to them in lyke respect:And there in land as straungers set: as Pilgrimes whole reiect.
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And strayed from land to land: of nations wandringly:From countries wyde to other realmes: of people diuersly.
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He suffred yet no man: to do them any wrong:For all theyr sake: yea kinges be chect: and plaged them among.
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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.
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
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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.
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The kyng then sent and hym: dyd lose by men of hys:The Prince that there: the people ruld: did him frō bondes dismisse.
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He made hym Lord in chiefe: of all hys court about:And ruler sole: of all hys goods: in hys Empyre full out.
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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.
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.
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And there God multiplied: hys people notably,And made hym far: more strong and big: then were hys foes at eye.
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The Moores then changd theyr hartes: as God dyd them detect:That they dyd hate: his people sore: wt guiles hys seruantes checkt.
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Then God sent Moses out: hys seruant good and true:Yea Aaron eke: whom he dyd chose: his hart on them dyd rue.
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Which there to them dyd splay: his workes and wordes by signesHys 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.
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He turnd theyr waters all: to bloud, not them they dranke:He slue theyr fish: theyr nourishment: for all theyr waters stanke.
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The Lord euen so brought frogs: in numbers wonderfull:Which crept vpon: the beds of kynges: theyr priuy chambers full.
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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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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,
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.
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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.
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.
Syng out wyth iust accorde:
Exalt hys name: searche out hys fame,
Hys worthy deedes recorde.
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