Dauids confidence. ¶2; To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid the seruant of the Lorde, which spake vnto the Lord the wordes of this song (in the day that the Lorde deliuered him from the hande of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul) and sayd,

1   I will loue thee dearely, O Lord my strength.

2    ^{note note}The Lorde is my rocke, and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth me, my God and my strength: in him will I trust, my shield, the horne also of my saluation, and my refuge.

3   I will call vpon the Lorde, which is worthie to be ^note praysed: so shall I be safe from mine enemies.

4   The ^note sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.

5   The ^note sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.

6   But in my trouble did I call vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God: he heard my voyce out of his Temple, and my crye did come before him, euen into his eares.

7    ^noteThen the earth trembled, and quaked: the foundations also of the mountaines mooued and shooke, because he was angrie.

8   Smoke went out at his nostrels, & a ^note consuming fire out of his mouth: coales were kindled thereat.

9   He bowed the heauens also & came downe, and ^note darkenes was vnder his feete.

10   And he rode vpon ^note Cherub and did flie, and he came flying vpon the wings of the winde.

11   He made darkenes his ^note secrete place, and his pauilion round about him, euen darkenesse of waters, and cloudes of the ayre.

12   At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.

13   The Lord also thundred in the heauen, and the Highest gaue ^note his voyce, haylestones and coales of fire.

14   Then hee sent out ^note his arrowes and scattred them, and he increased lightnings and destroyed them.

15   And the chanels of waters were seene, and the ^note foundations of the worlde were discouered at thy rebuking, O Lorde, at the blasting of the breath of thy nostrels.

16   He hath sent downe from aboue and taken mee: hee hath drawen mee out of many ^note waters.

17   He hath deliuered mee from my ^note strong enemie, and from them which hate me: for they were ^note too strong for me.

18   They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.

19   Hee brought mee foorth also into a large place: ^note hee deliuered mee because hee fauoured me.

20   The Lord rewarded me according to my ^note righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:

21   Because I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.

22   For all his Lawes were before mee, and I did not cast away his ^note commaundements from mee.

23   I was vpright also with him, & haue kept me from my ^note wickednes.

24   Therefore the Lorde rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, and according to the purenes of mine hands in his sight. Power commeth of God.

25   With the ^note godly thou wilt shewe thy selfe godly: with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.

26   With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward.

27   Thus thou wilt saue the poore people, and wilt ^note cast downe the proude lookes.

28   Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes.

29   For by thee I haue ^note broken through an hoste, and by my God I haue leaped ouer a wall.

30   The way of God is vncorrupt: the ^note worde of the Lord is tried in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

31   For who is God besides the Lord? and who is mightie saue our God?

32   God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my ^note way vpright.

33   He maketh my feete like hindes feete, and setteth me vpon mine ^note high places.

34   He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of ^note brasse is broken with mine armes.

35   Thou hast also giuen me the ^note shield of thy saluation, and thy right hand hath stayed me, and thy ^note louing kindenes hath caused me to increase.

36   Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder mee, and mine heeles haue not slid.

37    ^noteI haue pursued mine enemies, and taken them, and haue not turned againe till I had consumed them.

38   I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

39   For thou hast girded me with strength to battell: them, that rose against me, thou hast subdued vnder me.

40   And thou hast ^note giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

41   They ^note cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lorde, but hee answered them not.

42   Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes.

43   Thou hast deliuered me from the contentions of the people: thou hast made me the head of the ^note heathen: a people, whom I haue not ^note knowen, shal serue me.

44   As soone as they heare, they shall obey me: the strangers shall ^note be in subiection to me.

45   Strangers shall ^note shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers.

46   Let the Lorde liue, and blessed be my strength, and the God of my saluation be exalted.

47   It is God that giueth me power to auenge me, and subdueth the people vnder me.

48   O my deliuerer from mine enemies, euen thou hast set mee vp from them, that rose against me: thou hast deliuered mee from the ^note cruell man.

49   Therefore ^note I will prayse thee, O Lorde, among the nations, and wil sing vnto thy Name.

50   Great deliuerances giueth hee vnto his King, and sheweth mercie to his anoynted, euen to Dauid, and to his ^note seede for euer.

Gods excellent workes.

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