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- I haue loued: because God hath hearde my voyce [and] my prayers.
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- Because he hath enclined his eare vnto me: therfore I wyll call vpon hym as long as I lyue.
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- The snares of death compassed me rounde about: and the paynes of hell toke holde on me.
I founde anguishe and heauinesse,
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- but I called vpon the name of God: [saying] O God, I beseche thee deliuer my soule
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- Gratious is God and ryghteous: our Lorde is mercifull.
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- God gardeth the simple: I was brought to the extremitie, and he preserued me.
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- Returne O my soule vnto thy rest: for God hath rewarded thee.
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- For [thou O Lorde] hast deliuered my soule from death: myne eyes from teares, and my feete from fallyng.
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- I wyll walke before the face of God: in the lande of the lyuyng.
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- I beleued, therfore I wyll speake: I was sore afflicted,
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- insomuch that I said in my rashnesse euery man is a lyer.
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- What rewarde shal I geue vnto God: for all the benefites that he hath done vnto me?
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- I wyll take the cuppe of saluation: and I wyll call vpon the name of God.
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- I wyll pay my vowes nowe vnto God: in the presence of all his people.
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- The death of his saintes: is precious in the eyes of God.
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- It is euen so O God, for I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handemayde: thou hast loosed my bondes in sunder.
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- I wyll offer vnto thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuyng: and I wyll call vpon the name of God.
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- I wyll pay my vowes vnto God in the sight of all his people:
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- in the courtes of Gods house, euen in the myddest of thee O Hierusalem.
Prayse ye the Lorde.
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