The .cv. Psalme.
Confesse
& acknowledge the Lord, and call vpon hys name:
Teach his studies to the people, & make them learne the same.
Describe the Lorde and synge to hym, and talke of hys wonders.
Reioyse in hys moste holy name, and be hys glad sekears.
Let them all haue a merie herte, that seke the Lorde I saye:
Seke ye the Lorde and eke hys powre, seke the Lordes face alwaye.
Remembre the wonderfull thynges, that by the Lorde are wrought:
And eke his signes and the iudgmentes, that his mouth hath forth brought.
O sede of Habraham I saye, that worshypt God truly.
O chyldren of Iacob, that was chosen most certenly.
O ye chyldren of goddes chosen, our Lord and God is he:
Whose iudgemētes are in all the earth, most euident to se.
For he is euer myndfull of hys faythfull promises:
And of the worde he would haue kept, in thousandes of ages.
This dyd he confyrme by promise, to Habraham truly:
And by an oth to Isaac, byndynge hym selfe therby.
To make this a lawe to Iacob, he set it in sure staye:
And to make it a couenaunt, to Israell for aye:
And thus he sayde. To the wyl I geue the Cananites landes
To make them thyne enheritaunce, I put them in thyne handes.
When they therfore were verie fewe and an household full small
And were strangers in that cōtrey and had no grounde at all.
And when they from one nation, to an other dyd flyt:
And eke from kyngdome to kyngdome, and dyd in no place sytte.
Yet dyd the Lord suffer no man, his people to oppresse:
But for theyr sakes he plaged kynges, & put them to distresse.
Tuche not (sayde he) myne annoynted, men dedicate to me:
Ne hurte any of my prophetes, that preach my veritie.
Then caused he a greate famen vpon the earth to rise.
And made all maner vitales scant, beyonde all maner syse.
And before them he sent a man, for to prepare theyr waye:
Iosephe was solde into bondage, and seruitude I saye.
They bounde his fete in fetters strong, he was there lyke to dye:
Untyll the tyme his cause was knowne, and Goddes worde dyd him trye.
Then sent the kyng and toke him out, the rular of that lande:
He that had rule of much people, dyd relesse Iosephes bande.
And in his house he gaue him rule, ouer boeth greate and smalle:
And in all his possessions, he gaue him rule of all.
That he myght rule his officers, after hys owne deuise:
And that he myght teach the elders, wisedome to make them wise.
Then Israell (Iosephes father) downe into Egypt came:
And Iacob lyued a straynger, in the contrey of Cham.
And the numbre of hys people God dyd encrease greatly:
And made them for theyr enimies, to stronge and to myghtie.
Then turned he Thegyptians hertes, to hate his people all:
That they myght studie by disceyte, to make his seruantes thralle.
Then sent he Moses his seruant, a man faythfull in dede:
And Aaron whom he had chosen, his busines to spede.
These men wrought his wonderfull worckes, emonge his enimies:
And his sygnes in the land of Cham before his peoples eies.
Then sent he suche a dearckenes that it made all thynges obscure:
Yet dyd these men neuer repugne, his worde nor his pleasure.
Theyr waters he turned to bloude, and slewe theyr fyshes all:
And the earth brought forth frogges that dyd in their kynges closetes crall.
And at his commaundment ther came on them all maner flyes:
And into all theyr coastes there came lysse far beyonde all syse.
And in steade of theyr swete suers, he gaue them stormes of hayle:
And in theyr lande there rayned downe, flammynge fier wythout faile.
He strake and destroyed theyr vynes, and eke theyr fygge trees all:
And all the trees of theyr contreys, wheron those stormes dyd falle.
At his commaundement also, there came grassehoppars fell:
And many moe caterpyllars, thē any man coulde tell.
These dyd deuour and eate vp quite al the grasse of theyr lande:
They dyd suffer no maner fruite vpon their grounde to stande.
In fyne he slewe al the first borne, of theyr contrey certayne:
That is to saye euen the first fruites, of all theyr myght and mayne.
Then led he forth his flocke loded wyth syluer and wyth golde:
And in theyr kynreddes none was weake, were he neuer so olde.
And all Egypt reioyced much, when they gan to departe:
For the feare of the Lordes people, had stryke them to the herte.
He spred abroade a cloude in steade, of a veyle them to hyde.
Ryght so dyd he a flameynge fyre, to shyne in the nyght tyde,
And when the people cried to him, he gaue them quayles plentie:
And with breade that fell from heauē he dyd them satisfie.
And laste of al the greate rocke brake, and waters gan flowe out:
Through places that were passynge drye, lyke a riuerfull stoute.
For he retayned styll in myde, hys promise moste holy:
Made to his seruaunt Abraham, whoe worshipt him trulye.
And he led forth his owne people, with ioye and reioyceynge:
So dyd he his beloued men, with most ioyful syngynge.
And to them he gaue the contreis, of men that were Heathen:
That they myght possesse thynges that were by theyr laboure gotten.
To the ende that they myght obserue hys lawes and holde hys laye:
Wherfore I saye prayse ye the Lorde, prayse ye the Lorde I saye.
