- [A Psalme of Dauid.]
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- O God I call vpon thee, haste thee vnto me: geue eare vnto my voyce whylest I crye vnto thee.
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- Let my prayer be directed before thy face [as] an incense: let the liftyng vp of mine handes [be] an euenyng sacrifice.
- 3
- Set a watch O God before my mouth: and kepe the doore of my lippes.
- 4
- Inclyne not myne heart to any euyll thyng, wherby I myght commit any vngodly act with men that be workers of iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.
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- I wishe that the ryghteous woulde smite me and reproue me: for it is louing kyndnesse.
But let not pretious baulmes breake mine head: for as yet euen my prayer is agaynst their wickednesse.
- 6
- Let their iudges be thrust downe headlong from a rocke: then they wyll heare my wordes, for they be sweete.
- 7
- Our bones lye scattered vpon the graues mouth: lyke as when one breaketh and heweth [wood] vpon the earth.
- 8
- For mine eyes loke vnto thee O God the Lorde: in thee is my trust, cast not my soule out [of me.]
- 9
- Kepe me from the snare which they haue layde foorth for me: and from the trappes of them that be workers of iniquitie.
- 10
- Let the vngodly fall together into their owne nettes: but let me in the meane season alwayes escape [them.]
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