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.

¶ Vt quid deus. Psalme. lxxiiii. I. H.

¶ The faythfull complayne of the destruction of the church and true re∣lygyon, vnder the name of Sion and the aultars destroyed: And tru∣styng in the myght and free mercyes of God, by hys couenaunt they require help and succor for the glory of Gods holy name, the saluaty∣on of his pore afflicted seruaunts & the cōfusion of his proud enemies

WHy art thou Lorde so longe from vs, in all this daunger depe? * 1.1 why doth thine anger kindle thus, at thyne owne pasture shepe? [verse 2] Lorde call the people to thy thought, which haue ben thine so long:

The which thou hast redemd & brought, from bondage sore and strong.

[verse 3] Haue minde and thinke vpon, remember it full well: Thy pleasant place thy mount Sion, where thou wast wont to dwell. [verse 4] Lift vp thy fote and come in hast, and all thy foes deface: Whiche now at pleasure rob and wast within thy holy place.

[verse 5] A mid thy congregations all, thine enemies roare (O God: They set as signes on euery wall, theyr banners splayde abrod. [verse 6] As men with axes hew the trees, that on the hils do grow: So shine the bils and swords of these, within thy temples now.

[verse 7] The selings sawde, the carued bordes, the godly grauen stones: with axces, hammers, billes & swordes they beate them downe at ones. [verse 8] Thy places they consume with flame, and eke in all this toile: The house appointed to thy name, they race downe to the soyle.

[verse 9] And thus they sayde within theyr hart, dispatche them out of hand: Then burnt they vp in euery part, Gods houses through the land [verse 10]

10 Yet thou no sigue of helpe dost sende, our Prophets all are gone: To tell when this our plage shuld ende among vs there is none.

[verse 11] Whē wilt thou lord once end this shame and cease thyne enemies strong: Shall they alway blaspheme thy name and rayle on thee so long? [verse 12] Why dost with draw thy hand a backe? and hide it in thy lappe: O pluck it out and be not slack, to geue thy foes a rappe.

¶ The second part.

[verse 13] O God thou art my kyng and Lorde, and euermore hast ben: yeathy good grace throughout the world for our good helpe hathe seen. [verse 14] The seas that are so depe and dead, thy might did make them drye: And then didst breake the serpents head, that he therin did dye.

[verse 15] yea thou didst breake the heads so great of whales that are so fell: And gauest them to the folkes to eate, that in the desertes dwell. [verse 16] Thou madest a spring with streames to rise from rock both hard and hye: And eke thy hand hath made lykewyse, depe riuers to be drye.

[verse 17] Bothe day and eke the night are thyne, by thee they were begonne,

Thou settest to serue vs with theyr shine, the light and eke the sunne, [verse 18] Thou doest appoint the endes and costs of all the earth about: Both sommer heates, and winter frosts, thy hand hath founde them out.

[verse 19] Thinke on (O Lorde (no time forget. thy foes that thee defame: And how the folish folke are set, to rayle vpon thy name. [verse 20] O let no cruell beast deuoure, thy Turtle that is true: Forget not alwayes in thy powre, the poore that much doo rue.

[verse 21] Regarde thy couenaunt and beholde, thy foes posses, the lande: All sad and darke, for worne and old, our realine as now doth stand. [verse 22] Let not the simple go away, with disapointed shame: But let the poore and nedye aye. geue prayse vnto thy name.

[verse 23] Ryse Lord, let be by thee mainteined, the cause that is thyne owne: Remember how that thou blasphemde, art by the folysh one. [verse 24] The voyce forget not of thy foes, for they presumyng hie: Is more and more encreast of those, that hate thee spitefully.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sing this as the. lxxii. ps