¶Dauid prayeth God most earnestly to deliuer hym from his enemies, who with their slaunderous tongues, false accusations, and craftie fetches, seke all maner of wayes howe to destroy hym, wheras yet in deede they cannot put in execution their malice, but by Gods permission.
[unspec A] 1 DElyuer me O God from the euyll man: and preserue me from (a) 1.1 the outragious man.
2 Who in heart imagine mischiefes: and set forwarde to warre euery day.
3 They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lyppes. Selah.
4 Kepe me O God from the handes of the vngodly: preserue me from (b) 1.2 the outragious man, who haue deuised to thrust my feete [from me.]
5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net abroade with cordes in the hygh wayes: they haue set trappes for m•• Selah.
6 I haue sayde vnto God, thou art my Lorde: heare the voyce of my prayers O God.
7 O Lorde God the strength of my sal∣uation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battayle.
8 Graunt not vnto the vngodly [his] [unspec B] desires O God: bryng not to passe his mischeuous imagination [lest] they shoulde be made to proude. Selah.
9 Let the labour of his owne lippe couer him: [who is] head of them that com∣passe me about.
10 Let hotte coales be burnyng vpon them: he wyll cast them downe into the fire into deepe pittes, that they may ne∣uer ryse vp agayne.
11 A man full of tongue can not prosper vpon the earth: euyll shall hunt the out∣ragious person to ouerthrowe hym.
12 I am sure that God will dispatche the cause of the afflicted: and he wyll geue iudgement for the needy.
13 Truely the ryghteous wyll confesse it vnto thy name: they that deale vp∣rightly shall dwell before thy face.