- A Psalme to giue instruction,
committed to Asaph.
- 1
- O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer?
why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?
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- Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
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- Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.
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- Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes.
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- He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:
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- But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.
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- They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.
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- They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.
- 9
- We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.
- 10
- O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee?
shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?
- 11
- Why withdrawest thou thine hand, euen thy right hand?
drawe it out of thy bosome, and consume them.
- 12
- Euen God is my King of olde, working saluation in the middes of the earth.
- 13
- Thou didest deuide the sea by thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
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- Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.
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- Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.
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- The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.
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- Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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- Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lorde, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.
- 19
- Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.
- 20
- Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.
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- Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.
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- Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.
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- Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.
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