- To him that excelleth vpon Gittith.
A Psalme committed to Asaph.
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- Sing ioyfully vnto God our strength: sing loude vnto the God of Iaakob.
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- Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.
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- Blowe the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed, at our feast day.
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- For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Iaakob.
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- Hee set this in Ioseph for a testimonie, when hee came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that I vnderstoode not.
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- I haue withdrawen his shoulder from the burden, and his handes haue left the pots.
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- Thou calledst in affliction and I deliuered thee, and answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I prooued thee at the waters of Meribah.
Selah.
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- Heare, O my people, and I wil protest vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me,
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- Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.
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- For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.
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- But my people would not heare my voyce, and Israel would none of me.
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- So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnes of their heart, & they haue walked in their owne cousels.
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- Oh that my people had hearkened vnto me, and Israel had walked in my wayes.
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- I would soone haue humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand against their aduersaries.
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- The haters of the Lorde should haue bene subiect vnto him, and their time should haue endured for euer.
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- And God would haue fedde them with the fatte of wheat, and with honie out of the rocke would I haue sufficed thee.
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