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- O God the Lord of [all] auengeaunce: the Lorde of [all] auengeaunce shewe thy [glorious maiestie.]
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- Be exalted O thou iudge of the world: and rewarde the proude after their deseruyng.
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- O God howe long shall the vngodly: howe long shall the vngodly triumph?
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- All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues.
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- They oppresse thy people O God: and they afflict thine heritage.
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- They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death.
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- And they say, tushe the Lorde seeth it not: neither doth the God of Iacob vnderstande it.
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- Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised?
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- He that hath planted the eare, shall he not heare?
yf he shapeth the eye, shall he not see?
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- He that chasteneth the heathen, shall not he punishe?
it is he that teacheth man knowledge.
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- God knoweth the thoughtes of man: that they are but vanitie.
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- Blessed is the man O Lorde, whom thou wylt chasten: and whom thou wylt instruct in thy lawe.
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- That thou mayest geue hym patience in tyme of aduersitie: vntyll the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly.
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- For God wyll not reiect his people: neither wil he forsake his inheritaunce.
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- For iudgement shalbe reduced vnto iustice: and after it shall all such as be vpryght of heart [be iudged.]
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- Who will ryse vp with me agaynst the malicious?
or who wyll take my part agaynst workers of wickednesse?
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- If God had not ben an ayde vnto me: it had not fayled much but my soule had dwelled in silence.
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- But when I sayde my foote hath slypped: thy mercy O God helde me vp.
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- In the multitude of my cogitations from the bottome of my heart: thy comfortes dyd recreate my soule.
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- Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee: which [seate] maketh wrong to be enacted for a law?
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- They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood.
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- But God is to me a refuge: and my Lorde is the rocke of my confidence.
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- And he wyll recompence them their wickednesse, and destroy them in their owne malice: God our Lorde wyll destroy them.
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