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Psalm C.xlix. Cantare Domino.

O synge to the Lorde, a newe songe


Thy voyce to hym direct:
Let the whole company prayse hym
Of the saincts and elect.


Let Israel, in hys maker
Be glad with thanckfull voyce:
Let all the chyldren, of Sion
In their kynge much reioyce.
Hys name to laude and magnifie
In all their daunce and playes:
Upon the {t}abret, and the harpe
Let them synge to hym prayse.
Let the sayncts and, all the elect
Reioyce with great glorye:
Let them be ioyfull, and ryght glad
In their beds where they lye.
Let all the words, they shall vtter
Sounde to the prayse of God:
And in their hands, a two edge sworde
For the wicked a rod.
To be auengd, on the Heathen
That peruerse generation:


Puttynge the people, to reprofe
To shame and great vexacion.
To subdue their, kyngs and rulers
And nobles of their lands:
Castynge them, in captiuitie
Into stronge yron bandes.
That they on them, may be auengd
Euen as it is wrytten:
Suche honour haue, all the elect
From the Lorde aboue geuen.
The sure hope, truste, and confidence
That he had on the Lorde:
Is here exprest, and manifest
As thys Psalme doth recorde.