- [To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith,
of Asaph.]
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- Sing we meryly vnto the Lorde our strength: make a chearefull noyse vnto the Lorde of Iacob.
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- Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute.
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- Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day.
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- For this was made a statute for Israel: and a lawe of the God of Iacob.
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- This he ordayned in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he came out of the lande of Egypt: [where] I hearde a tongue [whiche] I knewe not.
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- I eased his shoulder from the burthen: and his handes ceassed from making pottes.
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- Thou calledst vpon me in troubles, and I deliuered thee: I hearde thee out of the middest of a thunder, I proued thee also at the waters of strife.
Selah.
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- [Then I sayd] heare O my people: and I wyll geue thee a charge O Israel in protesting vnto thee.
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- If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me.
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- I am God thy Lorde which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wyde, and I wyll fill it.
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- But my people woulde not heare my voyce: and Israel would not [obey] me.
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- So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations.
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- O that my people woulde haue hearkened vnto me: O that Israel had walked in my wayes.
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- I should soone haue tamed their enemies: and turned myne hande against their aduersaries.
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- The haters of God shoulde haue ben founde liers: and their time should haue endured for euer.
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- He woulde haue fed them also with the finest wheate flowre: and I would haue satisfied thee with honie out of the stonie rocke.
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