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Exultate deo,

Psalme. lxxxi.

I.H.

An exhortation to prayse God bothe in harte and voyce for his benefytes, and to worship him only: God condemneth the ingratitude, and sheweth what greate benefites they haue loste thorowe theyr owne malyce.

[1]

Be lyghte and glad in God reioyce

which is our strength & staie
be ioyfull and lyfte vp your voyce,
to Iacobs God I say,

[2]

prepare your instrumentes most mete

some ioyfull psalme to synge,
stryke vp with harp and lute so swete
on euery pleasant stryng.

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3

Blow as it were in the new mone,

with trumpets of the best:
As it is vsed to be done,
at any solemne feast.

4

For this is vnto Israell,

a statute and a trade:
A lawe that must be kept full well,
which Iacobs God hath made.

5

This clause with Ioseph was decreed,

when he from Egipt came:
That as a witnes all his sede,
shoulde still obserue the same.

6

When God I say, had so preparde,

to bryng him from that land:
Where as the speach which he had heard,
he did not vnderstand.

7

I from his shoulders toke saith he,

the burden cleane awaye:
And from the furnace quit him free,
from burnyng bricke of claye,

8

When thou in grief, diddest cry and cal

I holpe thee by and by:
And I did aunswer the withall,
in thunder secretly.

9

Yea at the waters of discorde,

I did thee tempt and proue:
Wheras the goodnes of the Lorde,
with muttering thou diddest moue,

10

Heare O my folke, O Israell,

and I assure it thee:

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Regarde and marke my wordes full wel
if thou wilt cleaue to me.

11

Thou shalte no God in thee reserue,

of any land abrode:
Nor in no wise to bow or serue,
a straunge and forraine God.

12

I am the Lorde, thy God, and I,

from Egipt set thee free:
Then aske of me aboundauntly,
and I will geue it the.

13

And yet my people woulde not heare,

my voyce when that I spake:
Nor Israell would not obey,
but did me quite forsake.

14

Then did I leaue them to their will,

in hardnes of theyr hart
To walke in theyr owne counsels still,
them selues they might peruert.

15

O that my people would haue hard,

the wordes that I did say:
And eke that Israell would regarde,
to walke within my waye.

16

How soone would I cōfound their foes,

and bring them downe full lowe:
And tourne my hand vpon all those,
that woulde them ouerthrowe.

17

And they that at the Lorde doo rage,

as slaues shoulde seke him till:
But of his folke the time and age,
should florish euer still,

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18

I would haue fed them with the croppe,

and finest of the wheate:
And make the rock with hony droppe,
that they theyr filles should eate.