- A Psalme to giue instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah.
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- Wee haue heard with our eares, O God: our fathers haue tolde vs the workes, that thou hast done in their dayes, in the olde time:
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- Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thine hand, & planted them: how thou hast destroyed the people, & caused them to grow.
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- For they inherited not the lande by their owne sworde, neither did their owne arme saue them: but thy right hand, and thine arme and the light of thy countenance, because thou didest fauour them.
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- Thou art my King, O God: send helpe vnto Iaakob.
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- Through thee haue we thrust backe our aduersaries: by thy Name haue we troden downe them that rose vp against vs.
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- For I do not trust in my bowe, neither can my sworde saue me.
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- But thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate vs.
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- Therefore will wee praise God continually, and will confesse thy Name for euer.
Selah.
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- But now thou art farre off, and puttest vs to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
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- Thou makest vs to turne backe fro the aduersary, & they, which hate vs, spoile for theselues.
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- Thou giuest vs as sheepe to bee eaten, and doest scatter vs among the nations.
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- Thou sellest thy people without gaine, and doest not increase their price.
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- Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.
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- Thou makest vs a prouerbe among the nations, & a nodding of the head among the people.
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- My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face hath couered me,
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- For the voyce of the slaunderer and rebuker, for the enemie and auenger.
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- All this is come vpon vs, yet doe wee not forget thee, neither deale wee falsly concerning thy couenant.
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- Our heart is not turned backe: neither our steps gone out of thy paths,
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- Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.
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- If wee haue forgotten the Name of our God, and holden vp our hands to a strange god,
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- Shall not God searche this out?
for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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- Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, & are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
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- Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
awake, be not farre off for euer.
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- Wherefore hidest thou thy face?
and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?
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- For our soule is beaten downe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the ground.
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- Rise vp for our succour, and redeeme vs for thy mercies sake.
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