The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold I. Hopkins & others: conferred with the Ebrue, with apt Notes to synge the[m] withal

He prayseth the singuler goodnes of God who hathe of all the people of the worlde chosen a peculier people to him selfe, and hauyng chosen them, neuer ceaseth to doo them good, euen for his promes sake.

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Sing this as the. lxxxxv.

[The first parte.]

Geue prayses vnto God the Lorde,
and call vpon his name:
Among the people eke declare,
his workes, to spred his fame.
Sing ye vnto the Lorde, I say,
and sing vnto him prayse,
And talke of all the wondrous workes,
that he hath wrought alwayes.

In honor of his holy name,
reioyse with one accorde,
And let the hart also reioyse
of them that seke the Lorde.
Seke ye the Lord, and seke the strength
of his eternall might,

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And seke his face continually,
And presence of his sight.

The wondrous works that he hath don,
kepe still in mindfull hart,
Ne let the iugements of his mouth,
out of your minde depart,
Ye that of faithfull Abraham,
his seruant are the sede,
Ye his elect, the children that
of Iacob doo procede:

For he, he only is I say,
the myghty Lord our God,
And his most rightfull iugements are
through all the earth abrode.
His promise and his couenant,
whiche he hath made to his
He hath remembred euermore,
to thousandes of degrees.

The .ii. parte.

The couenant which he hath made,
with Abraham long agoe,
And faithfull othe which he hath sworne
to Isaac also,
And did confirme the same for law,
that Iacob should obey:
And for eternall couenant
to Israell for ay,

When thus he said, loe I to you,
all Canaan land will geue,
The lot of your inheritance
wherin your sede shall lyue,

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Although their number at that tyme,
did very small appeare,
Yea very small, and in the land
they then but strangers were.

Whyle yet they walkt from land to lande,
without a sure abode,
And while fro sondry kingdomes they
did wander all abrode,
And wrong at none oppressers hand,
he suffred them to take,
But euen the great and mighty kinges,
reproued for their sake.

And thus he sayd, touche ye not those,
that mine anoynted be,
Ne doo the prophets any harme,
that doo pertayne to me.
He calld a dearth vpon the land,
of death he stroyed the store:
But he against their time of nede,
had sent a man before.

The third parte.

Euen Ioseph which had once ben solde
to liue a slaue in woe:
Whose feete they hurt in stocks, whose soule,
the iron pearst also.
Untill the tyme came when his cause,
was knowne apparantly,
The mighty word of God the Lord,
his faultles truth did trye.

The king sent and deliuerd him,
from prison where he was:

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The ruler of the people then,
did freely let hym pas:
And ouer all hys house he made,
him Lorde to beare the swey,
and of his substance made him haue,
the rule and all the stay,

That he might to his will instruct
the princes of his land,
And wisdomes lore his auncyent men,
might teache to vnderstand.
Then into the Egiptian land,
came Israell also:
And Iacob in the land of Ham,
did liue a straunger thoo.

His people he excedingly,
in number made to flowe:
And ouer all their enemies,
in strength he made them growe.
Whose hart he turnd, that they with hate
his people did entreate:
And did his seruantes wrongfully,
Abuse with false deceite.

His faithfull seruant Moses then,
and Aaron whom he chose,
He did commaund to goe to them,
his message to disclose.
The wondrous message of his signes,
among them they did shewe:
And wonders in the land of Ham,
then did they worke also.

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Darknes he sent, and made it darke,
in dede of brighter day,
And vnto his commission
they did not disobey.
He turnd theyr waters into bloud,
he did their fishes slay:
Their land brought frogs, euē in ye place
where their king Pharao lay.

He spake and at his voyce there came,
great swarmes of noysome flyes,
And all the quarters of theyr land,
were filld with crauling lyse.
He gaue them colde and stony hayle,
in stede of milder rayne:
And firy flames within theyr land,
he sent vnto theyr payne.

He smote their vines, and al theyr frees
wheron their figges did growe,
And all the trees within their coastes,
downe did he ouerthrowe,
He spake: then caterpillers did,
and greshoppers abound,
Which eate the grasse in all their land
and frute of all their ground.

The .v. parte.

The first begotten in their land,
eke deadly did he smite,
Yea the beginning and first frute,
of all theyr strength and might,
With gold and siluer he them brought,
from Egipt land to passe,

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And in the number of their tribes,
no feble one there was.

Egipt was glad and ioyfull then,
when they did thense depart:
For terrour and the feare of them,
was fallen vpon theyr hart.
To shroude them frō the parching heat
a cloude he did display:
And fire he sent to geue them lyght,
when night had hid the day.

They asked and he caused quayles,
to rayne at their request,
And fully with the bread of heauen,
their hunger he represt.
He opend then the stony rock,
and waters gushed out,
And in the drye and parched groundes
lyke riuers ranne about.

For of his holy couenant,
ay myndefull was he thoe:
Which to his seruant Abraham,
he plighted long agoe.
He brought his people forth with mirth
and his elect with ioy:
Out of the cruell land where they,
had lyued in great anoye.

And of the heathen men he gaue,
to them the frutefull landes,
The labors of the people eke
they toke into theyr hands.

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That they his holy statutes might,
obserue for euermore
And faithfully obey his lawes,
prayse ye the Lorde therfore.

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Psalm. Cv.

[The first parte.]

The .ii. parte.

The third parte.

The .v. parte.