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.

¶ Nonne deo subiecta. Psalm. lxii. I. H.

¶ Dauid declareth by hys example, and by the nature of God, that he must truste in God alone: and thereunto exhorteth people, seyng that all is vanytie and withoute God all goeth to nought and we are all∣wayes taught that God only is of power to saue, and that he rewar∣deth man, according to hys workes.

MY soule to God, shall geue good hede * 1.1 and him alone entende: For why? my health & hope to spede, doth whole on him depende. [verse 2] For he alone is my defence, my rocke, my health, my ayde: He is my stay that no pretence, shall make me much dismaide.

[verse 3] O wicked folke how long will ye, vse crafts? sure ye must fall: For as a rotten hedge ye be, and like a tuttering wall. [verse 4]

4 whom God doth loue ye seke alwayes, to put hym to the worse: Ye loue to lye, with mouth ye prayse. and yet your hart doth curse.

[verse 5] Yet still my soule doth whole depend, on God my chief desire: From all false feates, me to defend, none but him I require. [verse 6] He is my rocke, my strength, my towre, my health is of his grace: He doth support me that no powre, can moue me out of place.

[verse 7] God is my glory and my health, my soules desire and lust, My fort, my strength, my stay, my wealth. God is mine onely trust. [verse 8] Oh haue your hope in him alway, ye folke with one accorde: Poure out your harts to hym, and saye, our trust is in the Lorde.

[verse 9] The sonnes of men deceitptfull are, on balaunce but a sleyght: with thinges most vayne doo them cōpare for they can kepe no weyght. [verse 13] Trust not in wrong, robbry, or stealth, let vayne delytes be gon: Though goods wel got flow in with welth set not your hartes theron.

[verse 11] The Lorde long sith one thing doth tell, whiche here to minde I call:

He spake it oft, I hard it well, that God alone doeth all. [verse 12] And that thou (Lorde) art good and kynd, thy mercy doth excede: So that all sortes whiche thee shall finde, according to theyr dede.

Notes

• * 1.1

  ¶Sing this as the. lxi. psalme.