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Psalme. CXXXV.
The Argument.
This Psalme endited seemth, for ministers in quiere,Gods workes it telth, vayne Gods it scornth, it singth Gods laudes full cleare.
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O worship thanke and praise: the name of God the Lord,Ye seruauntes all: of thys your God: laud ye with one accord.
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Ye ministers which stand: in God the Lordes good house:And kepe the courtes: of this our God: O prayse hym glorious.
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Laude ye the Lord for why: the Lord is gracious,Syng out his name: for sweete it is: to man delicious.
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The Lord no doubt hath chose: vnto hymselfe in care.Olde Iacobs stocke: all Israell: for hys peculyar.
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I knowe the Lord is great: and hye I him esteemeAnd that our God: passth other Gods: which mē for gods do deeme.
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And what it lyketh them: the Lord doth it in deede,In heauen and earth: in sea full out: in deepes where fishes breede.
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He vapours lifth from earth: and they to clouds do renne,He lightnings turnth: to raine in store: he winds drawth out of dēne.
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To quite their cruelnes he smote in Egypt land:Theyr fruites first got: not one to scape: from man to beast in band.
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In midst of thee: the Lord his signes and wonders sent:Thou Egipt land, which Pharao, and all his seruants shente.
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He many countryes smote, and dyuerse nations slew:He vanguished: most mighty kings: and made them all to rew.
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Of Ammorites theyr kyng: hight Seon hie in throne:So Og, that hog: of Basan king: and Canaans realmes echeone.
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And gaue theyr lands and holds: for heritage of right:For heritage: to Israell: his people whole and quite.
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O Lord thy name endureth: for euer world to ende:From age to age: thy memory: in fame shal stil extend.
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For now the Lord hath iudged: his peoples cause most playne:He them auengd: and pleasd he was with all his flocke agayne.
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The Gentyls, Images: be siluer molt and gold:But handy worke: of wretched men: how euer they be fold
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Mouthes haue they made in them? but speake nothing at al,So eyes they haue: and nought they see, blind Gods and casuall.
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And eares they haue in shape, and yet they heare no sound:Where beast most domme: hath life and sprite, no breth in them is found.
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As they be all to see, theyr makers be the leke:Domme deafe, and dead, brute stockes and blocks: so all which thē do seeke.
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Ye house of Israell, do well, prayse ye the Lord,Yea Aarons house, preach ye his praise: the lords great actes record
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Ye Leuis house and seede, blesse ye the Lord all wholeYe all that feare and worship true, this Lord most hye extoll.
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O praysed be the Lord, of Sion nighte and day,His place is set Hierusalem: O prayse the Lord I say.
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