1   Vnto ^note the end, ^note in songes, ^note vnderstanding to Dauid.

2   Heare my prayer ô God, despise not my petition.

3   Attend to me; and heare me.

4   I am made sorowful in my ^note exercise: and am trubled at the voice of the enimie: and at the tribulation of the sinner.

4   Because they haue ^note wrested iniquities vpon me: & ^note in anger they were trublesome to me.

5   My hart is trubled in me: and ^note the feare of death is falne vpon me.

6   Feare and trembling are come vpon me: and ^note darkenes hath couered me.

7   And I said: ^note Who wil geue me wings as of a doue, and I wil fly: and rest?

8    ^noteLoe I haue gone far flying away: and I abode in the wildernes.

9   I ^note expected him, that saued ^note me from ^note pusillanimitie of spirit, and ^note tempest.

10    ^notePrecipitate ô Lord, and ^note diuide their tongues: because I haue sene ^note iniquitie, and ^note contradiction in the citie.

11   Day and night shal iniquitie compasse it vpon the walles therof; and ^note labour in the middest therof, and ^note iniustice.

12   And there hath not ceased out of the streetes therof ^note vsurie, and guile.

13   For ^note if myne enimie had spoken euil to me, I would verely haue borne it.

13   And if he that hated me had spoken great thinges vpon me:

13   I would perhaps haue hid myselfe from him.

14   But ^note thou a man of the same minde: my ^note guide, and my familiar.

15   Which diddest ^note take swete meats together with me, in the ^note house of God we walked with consent.

16   Let ^note death come vpon them: and let them goe downe quicke into hel.

16   Because there is wickednes in their habitations, in ^note the middes of them.

17   But I haue cried to God, and our Lord wil saue me.

18   In ^note the euening, and morning, & at midday, I wil ^note speake, and declare, and he wil heare my voice.

19   He wil redeme my soule in peace from them, that approch to me: because among manie ^note they were with me.

20   God wil heare, and he ^note which is before the worldes wil humble them.

21   For there is ^note no change with them, & they feared not God: he hath streached forth his hand in repaying.

22   They haue contaminated his testament, they are ^note diuided by the wrath of his countenance; and ^note his hart hath approched.

22    ^noteHis wordes are made softer then oile: and ^note the same are dartes.

23    ^noteCast thy care vpon our Lord: and he wil nourish thee: he wil not geue ^note fluctuation to the iust for euer.

24   But thou ô God wilt bring ^note them downe into the pitte of destruction.

24    ^noteBloudy and deceitful men shal not liue halfe their daies. but I wil hope in thee ô Lord.

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