The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.

¶ The fifth parte.

[verse 41] And styll lyke dust before the winde, I driue them vnder feate: And swepe them out lyke filthy claye, that stinketh in the streat. [verse 42] Thou kepest me from sedicious folke, that still in stryfe be led: And thou doest of the heathen folke, apoint me to be hed.

[verse 43] A people straunge to me vnknowen, and yet they shall me serue: And at the first obey my word, wheras mine owne will swarue. [verse 44] I shalbe ircksom to mine owne, they will not see my light: But wander wide out of theyr wayes, and hide them out of sight.

[verse 45] But blessed be the lyuyng Lorde. most worthy of all prayse: That is my rocke and sauing health, praysed be he alwayes. [verse 46] For God it is that gaue me power, reuenged for to be: And with his onely worde subdued, the people vnto me.

[verse 47] And fro my foe me deliuered, and set me hier then those: That cruell and vngodly were, and vp against me rose. [verse 48]

48 And for this cause, O Lorde my God, to thee geue thankes I shall? And syng out prayses to thy name, among the Gentils all.

[verse 49] That gauest great prosperitie, vnto the kyng I saye: To Dauid thy anoynted kyng, and to his seede for aye.