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.

Verba mea auribus percipe. Psal. v. Th. Stern.

¶ Dauid hauing suffered greate calamitie, as well by Doeg and Achi∣tophell Sauls flaterers, as by other infinit enemies, calleth to God for succor, shewing howe requisite it is, That god shuld punish

the malicious enuye of hys aduersaryes. After beyng assured of pros¦perous successe, he conceiueth comforte: concluding, that when God shall deliuer him, other also shall be partakers of the same mercyes.

INclyne thyne eares vnto my wordes, * 1.1 O Lorde my playnt consider. [verse 2] And heare my voyce my kyng my God, to thee I make my prayer. [verse 3] Heare me betime, Lorde, tary not, for I will haue respect, My prayer early in the morne, to thee for to direct.

[verse 4] And I will trust through patience, in thee my God alone: That art not pleasd with wickednes, and ill with thee dwelleth none. [verse 5] And in thy sight shall neuer stande. * 1.2 these furious fooles, O Lorde: Uaine workers of iniquitie, Thou hast alwayes abhorde,

[verse 6] The liers and the flatterers, thou shalt destroy them then: And God will hate the bloud thirstye, and the deceitfull man. [verse 7] Therfore will I come to thy house, * 1.3 trusting vpon thy grace: And reuerently will worship thee, toward thine holy place.

[verse 8] Lorde leade me in thy rightuousnes, for to confounde my foes: And eke the way that I shall walke, before my face disclose, [verse 9]

9 For in their mouthes there is no truth, theyr hart is foule and vayne: [verse 10] Their throte an open sepulchre, their tonges doo glose and fayne,

[verse 11] Destroy their false conspiracies, that they may come to nought: [verse 12] Subuert them in theyr heapes of sinne, which haue rebellion wrought. [verse 13] But those that put theyr trust in thee, let them be glad alwayes: And render thankes for thy defence, and geue thy name the prayse.

[verse 14] For thou with fauour wilt increase, the iustand righteous still: And with thy grace as with a shilde, defend him from all ill. * 1.4

Notes

• * 1.1

  ¶ Sing this as the thirde Psalme.
• * 1.2

  The wicked can not escape Gods punish∣ment, who wil iudge all the worlde.
• * 1.3

  In the depest of his tēptati∣ons he putteth hys full confy∣dence in God.
• * 1.4

  Heb that will crowne hym.