- [Prayse ye the Lorde.]
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- Confesse you [it] vnto god, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer.
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- Who can expresse the valiaunt actes of God: who can publishe abrode all his prayse?
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- Blessed are they that kepe iudgement: and do iustice at all times.
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- Remember me O God according to the fauour that thou bearest vnto thy people: O visite me with thy saluation.
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- That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, that I may reioyce at the gladnes of thy people: [and] that I may glorie with thyne inheritaunce.
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- We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly.
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- Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt, neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes: but they rebelled at the sea, euen at the red sea.
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- Neuerthelesse, he saued them for his names sake: that he myght make his power to be knowen.
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- And he rebuked the red sea, and it was dryed vp: so he led them through the deepe, as through a wyldernesse.
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- And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them: & redeemed them from the hande of the enemie.
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- As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them: there was not one of them left remayning.
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- Then beleued they his wordes: and song prayse vnto him.
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- But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes: they woulde not wayte for his counsell.
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- And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse: and they tempted God in the desert.
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- And he gaue them their desire: and sent leannes withal into their soule.
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- They enuied also at Moyses in the tentes: [and] at Aaron the saint of God.
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- So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan: and couered the company of Abiram.
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- And the fire was kindled in their company: the flambe brent vp the vngodly.
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- They made a calfe in Horeb: and worshipped the moulten image.
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- Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calfe that eateth hay.
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- They forgat God their sauiour, who had done so great thynges in Egypt:
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- wonderous workes in ye land of Cham, [and] terrible thinges at the red sea.
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- Wherfore he appointed to destroy them, had not Moyses his chosen stand in the breache before hym: to turne away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.
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- Yea they thought scorne of the lande most to be desired: they gaue no credite vnto his worde.
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- But they murmured in their tentes: they would not hearken vnto the voyce of God.
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- Then lift he vp his hand against them, to geue them an ouerthrowe in the wildernesse:
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- to geue their seede an ouerthrowe amongst the nations, and to scatter them in sundry landes.
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- They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor: they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead.
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- And they prouoked the [Lorde] vnto anger with their owne inuentions: and a plague fell mightily amongst them.
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- Then stoode vp Phinehes, he executed iustice: and so the plague ceassed.
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- And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse: in generation and generation for euermore.
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- They also prouoked [God] at the waters of strife: and all was not well with Moyses for their sakes.
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- For they had caused an alteration to be of his spirite: so that he spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.
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- Moreouer, they destroyed not the Heathen: as God commaunded them.
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- But they were mingled amongst the Heathen: and learned their workes.
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- Insomuch that they dyd seruice vnto their idols: whiche were to the a snare.
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- Yea they sacrifised their sonnes: and their daughters vnto deuils.
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- And they shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes and of their daughters: whom they sacrifised vnto the idols of Chanaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.
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- Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions.
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- Therfore was the wrath of God kindeled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his owne inheritaunce.
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- And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen: and they that dyd hate them, were lordes ouer them.
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- Their enemies oppressed them: and brought them into subiection vnder their hande.
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- Many a time dyd [God] deliuer them, but they rebelled [against hym] with their owne inuentions: and were brought downe for their wickednes.
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- Neuerthelesse, he did beholde them in their aduersitie: in geuing eare to their complaint.
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- And he remembred his couenaunt: and repented, according to the multitude of his mercies.
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- Yea he made all those that led them away captiue: to pitie them.
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- Saue vs O God our Lorde, and gather vs from among the Heathen: that we may geue thankes to thy holy name, and glory of thy prayse.
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- Blessed be God the Lord of Israel from world to world without end: and let all people say, so be it.
Prayse ye the Lord.
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