- A Psalme to giue instruction,
of Ethan the Ezrahite.
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- I will sing the mercies of the Lorde for euer: with my mouth will I declare thy trueth from generation to generation.
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- For I said, Mercie shalbe set vp for euer: thy trueth shalt thou stablish in ye very heauens.
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- I haue made a couenant with my chosen: I haue sworne to Dauid my seruant,
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- Thy seede will I stablish for euer, & set vp thy throne from generation to generation.
Selah.
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- O Lord, euen the heauens shall prayse thy wonderous worke: yea, thy trueth in the Congregation of the Saints.
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- For who is equall to the Lorde in the heauen?
and who is like the Lord among the sonnes of the gods?
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- God is very terrible in the assemblie of the Saints, and to be reuerenced aboue all, that are about him.
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- O Lorde God of hostes, who is like vnto thee, which art a mightie Lord, and thy trueth is about thee?
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- Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waues thereof arise, thou stillest them.
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- Thou hast beaten downe Rahab as a man slaine: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mightie arme.
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- The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.
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- Thou hast created the North and the South: Tabor and Hermon shall reioyce in thy Name.
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- Thou hast a mightie arme: strong is thine hand, and high is thy right hand.
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- Righteousnesse and equitie are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and trueth goe before thy face.
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- Blessed is the people, that can reioyce in thee: they shall walke in the light of thy countenance, O Lord.
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- They shall reioyce continually in thy Name, and in thy righteousnes shall they exalt them selues.
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- For thou art the glory of their strength, and by thy fauour our hornes shall be exalted.
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- For our shield apperteineth to the Lorde, and our King to the holy one of Israel.
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- Thou spakest then in a vision vnto thine Holy one, and saydest, I haue layde helpe vpon one that is mightie: I haue exalted one chosen out of the people.
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- I haue found Dauid my seruant: with mine holy oyle haue I anoynted him.
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- Therefore mine hande shall be established with him, and mine arme shall strengthen him.
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- The enemie shall not oppresse him, neither shall the wicked hurt him.
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- But I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
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- My trueth also and my mercie shall be with him, and in my Name shall his horne be exalted.
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- I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.
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- He shall cry vnto mee, Thou art my Father, my God and the rocke of my saluation.
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- Also I wil make him my first borne, higher then the Kings of the earth.
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- My mercie will I keepe for him for euermore, and my couenant shall stande fast with him.
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- His seede also will I make to endure for euer, and his throne as the dayes of heauen.
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- But if his children forsake my Lawe, and walke not in my iudgements:
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- If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:
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- Then will I visite their transgression with the rod, and their iniquitie with strokes.
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- Yet my louing kindnesse will I not take from him, neither will I falsifie my trueth.
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- My couenant wil I not breake, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
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- I haue sworne once by mine holines, that I will not fayle Dauid, saying,
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- His seede shall endure for euer, and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me.
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- He shalbe established for euermore as the moone, and as a faythfull witnes in the heauen.
Selah.
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- But thou hast reiected and abhorred, thou hast bene angry with thine Anoynted.
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- Thou hast broken the couenant of thy seruant, and profaned his crowne, casting it on the ground.
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- Thou hast broken downe all his walles: thou hast layd his fortresses in ruine.
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- All that goe by the way, spoyle him: he is a rebuke vnto his neighbours.
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- Thou hast set vp the right hand of his enemies, and made all his aduersaries to reioyce.
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- Thou hast also turned the edge of his sworde, and hast not made him to stand in the battell.
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- Thou hast caused his dignitie to decay, and cast his throne to the ground.
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- The dayes of his youth hast thou shortned, and couered him with shame.
Selah.
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- Lord, howe long wilt thou hide thy selfe, for euer?
shall thy wrath burne like fire?
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- Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
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- What man liueth, and shall not see death?
shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.
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- Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swarest vnto Dauid in thy trueth?
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- Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy seruants, which I beare in my bosome of all the mightie people.
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- For thine enemies haue reproched thee, O Lorde, because they haue reproched the footesteps of thine Anointed.
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- Praised be the Lord for euermore.
So be it, euen so be it.
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