- [To the chiefe musition vpon (an instrument) of eyght stringes,
a psalme of Dauid.]
- 1
- Saue thou [me] O God, for there is not one godly man left: for the faythfull are diminished from among the chyldren of men.
- 2
- Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.
- 3
- God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: [and] the tongue that speaketh great thinges.
- 4
- Whiche say, we wyll preuayle with our tongue: our lippes are our owne, who is Lorde ouer vs?
- 5
- For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, [hym] whom the [wicked] hath snared.
- 6
- The wordes of God be wordes pure, as the siluer tryed in a furnace of earth: and purified seuen times.
- 7
- [Wherfore] thou wylt kepe the godly, O God: thou wylt preserue euery one of them from this generation for euer.
- 8
- The vngodly walke on euery side: when the worst sort be exalted amongst the chyldren of men.
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