1   Vnderstanding ^note to Asaph.

1   My people attend ye to ^note my law: incline your eare vnto the wordes of my mouth.

2   I wil open my mouth in ^note parables: I wil speake ^note propositions from the beginning.

3   How great thinges haue we heard and ^note haue knowne them, and ^note our fathers haue told vs.

4   They were not hid from their children, in an other generation.

4   Telling the prayses of our Lord, and his powers, and his meruelous workes which he hath done.

5   And he ^note raised vp testimonie in Iacob: and ^note made a law in Israel.

5   How great thinges he commanded our fathers, ^note to make the same knowne to their children:

6   that ^note an other generation may know.

6   The children that shal be borne, and shal rise vp, and shal tel their children.

7   That they may ^note put their hope in God, and may ^note not forget the workes of God: and may ^note seeke after his commandmentes.

8   That they become not as their fathers: ^note a peruerse generation and exasperating.

8   A generation, that hath not directed their hart, their spirit hath not bene faithful towards God.

9   The ^note children of Ephrem bending, and shooting with bow: were turned in the day of battel.

10   They kept not the testament of God: and in his law they would not walke.

11   And they forgate his benefites, and his meruelous workes, which he shewed them.

12   Before their fathers he did meruelous thinges in the land of Ægypt, in the filde ^note of Tanis.

13   He diuided the sea & brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

14   And he ^note conducted them in a cloude by day: and al the night by light of fire.

15   He stroke the rocke in ^note the desert: and gaue them water to drinke as in a great depth.

16   And he broughtforth water out of the rocke: and made waters runne downe as riuers.

17   And they added as yet to sinne vnto him: they prouoked the Highest to wrath in the place ^note without water.

18   And they tempted God in their hartes: so that they asked ^note meats for their liues.

19   And they spake euil of God: they saide: ^note Can God prepare a table in the desert?

20   Because he stroke the rocke and waters ranne, & torrentes flowed:

20   Can he also giue ^note bread, or prepare a table for his people?

21   Therfore our Lord heard, and ^note made delay: and ^note fire was kindled in Iacob, and wrath ascended vpon Israel.

22   Because they beleued not in God, nor hoped in his saluation.

23   And he commanded the cloudes from aboue, and opened the gates of heauen.

24   And he rayned them Manna to eate, and bread of heauen he gaue to them.

25   Bread ^note of Angels did man eate: he sent them victuals in abundance.

26   He ^note transported the Southwinde from heauen: and in his powre he brought in the South westwinde.

27   And he rayned vpon them flesh as dust: and as the sand of the sea fethered fowles.

28   And they fel in the middes of their campe: about their tabernacles.

29   And they did eate and were filled excedingly, and their desire he brought to them:

30   They were not defrauded of their desire.

30    ^noteAs yet their meats were in their mouth:

31   And the wrath of God ascended vpon them.

31   And he killed their fat ones, and ^note the chosen of Israel he hindered.

32   In al these things they sinned as yet: and they beleued not in his meruelous workes.

33   And their daies failed in vanitie: and their years ^note in hast.

34   When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned, and ^note early they came to him.

35   And they remembred that God is their helper: and the high God is their redemer.

36   And they loued him ^note with their mouth, and with their-tongue they did lie to him.

37   But their hart was not right with him: neither were they counted faithful in his testament.

38    ^noteBut he is merciful, and wil be propicious to their sinnes: and he wil not destroy them.

38   And he abunded to turne away his wrath: and he kindled not al his wrath.

39   And he remembred that they are flesh: ^note spirit going, and not returning.

40   09Q0263How ^note often haue they exasperated him in the desert: prouoked him to wrath in the place without water.

41   And ^note they returned, and tempted God: and the holie one of Israel they exasperaed.

42   They did not remember his hand: in the day that he redemed them from the hand of the afflicter.

43   As he put ^note his signes in Ægypt, and his wonders in the filde of Tanis.

44   And he turned ^note their riuers into bloude, & their ^note showers that they might not drinke.

45   He sent vpon them ^note a ^note swarme of flies, and it eate them: and ^note the frogge, and it destroyed them.

46   And he gaue their fruites to ^note the blast, and their labors to ^note the locuste.

47   And he killed their vineyeardes with ^note haile: and their mulberie trees with ^note horefrost.

48   And he deliuered ^note their beast to haile: and their possession ^note to fire.

49   He sent vpon them ^note the wrath of his indignation: indignation, & wrath, and tribulation: immissions ^note by euil angels.

50   He made a way to the path of his wrath, he spared not their liues from death: and their cattel he shut vp in death.

51   And ^note he stroke al the firstborne in the land of Ægypt: the first fruites of al their labors in the tabernacles ^note of Cham.

52   And he ^note tooke away his people as sheepe: and led them as a flock in the desert.

53   And he brought them forth in hope, and they feared not: and the sea couered their enemies.

54   And he brought them into ^note the mount of his ^note sanctification, the mount, which his right hand purchased.

54   And he cast ^note out the gentiles from their face: and by lot he diuided the land of them in a corde of distribution:

55   And he made the tribes of Israel to dwel in their tabernacles.

56   And ^note they tempted, and exasperated God the highest, and they kept not his testimonies.

57   And they turned away themselues, & kept not the couenant: euen as their fathers, they were turned as a ^note crooked bow.

58   They incensed him to wrath in their ^note hilles: and in their ^note grauens they prouoked him ^note to emulation.

59   God heard, and contemned: and he brought Israel to nothing ^note excedingly.

60   And he reiected the tabernacle ^note of Silo, his tabernacle, ^note where he dwelt among men.

61   And he deliuered ^note their force into captiuitie: and their beautie into the hands of the enemie.

62   And he ^note shut vp his people in the sword: and he dispised his inheritance.

63    ^noteFyre deuoured their young men: and their virgins were not lamented.

64   Their ^note Priestes fel by the sworde: and their widowes were not wept for.

65   And ^note our Lord was raised vp as one that sleepeth: as a mightie man hauing surfited of wine.

66   And he stroke his enimies on the hinder partes: an euerlasting reproch he gaue to them.

67   And he reiected the tabernacle ^note of Ioseph: and the tribe of Ephraim he chose not.

68   But he chose the tribe ^note of Iuda, mount Sion which he loued.

69   And he built ^note his sanctuarie as of vnicornes in the land, which he hath founded for euer.

70   And ^note he chose Dauid his seruant, and tooke him from the flockes of sheepe: from after the ewes with yong he tooke him.

71   To ^note feede Iacob his seruant, and Israel his inheritance.

72   And he fedde them in the innocencie of his hart: and in the vnderstandings of ^note his hands he conducted them.

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