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.

Exultate deo, Psalme. lxxxi. I. H.

¶ An exhortation to prayse God bothe in harte and voyce for his bene∣fytes, and to worship him only: God condemneth the ingratitude, and sheweth what greate benefites they haue loste thorowe theyr owne malyce,

〈♫〉〈♫〉 BE lyghte and glad in God reioyce 〈♫〉〈♫〉 which is our strength & staie be ioyfull and 〈♫〉〈♫〉 lyfte vp your voyce, to Iacobs God I say, pre∣pare 〈♫〉〈♫〉 your instrumentes most mete some ioy∣full 〈♫〉〈♫〉 psalme to synge, stryke vp with harp and 〈♫〉〈♫〉 ••ute so swete on euery pleasant stryng,

[verse 3] Blow as it were in the new mone, with trumpets of the best: As it is vsed to be done, at any solemne feast. [verse 4] For this is vnto Israell, a statute and a trade: A lawe that must be kept full well, which Iacobs God hath made.

[verse 5] This clause with Ioseph was decreed, when he from Egipt came: That as a witnes all his sede, shoulde still obserue the same. [verse 6] When God I say, had so preparde, to bryng him from that land: Where as the speach which he had heard, he did not vnderstand.

[verse 7] I from his shoulders toke saith he, the burden cleane awaye: And from the furnace quit him free, from burnyng bricke of claye, [verse 8] When thou in grief, diddest cry and cal I holpe thee by and by: And I did aunswer the withall, in thunder secretly.

[verse 9] Yea at the waters of discorde, I did thee tempt and proue: Wheras the goodnes of the Lorde, with muttering thou diddest moue, [verse 10] Heare O my folke, O Israell, and I assure it thee:

Regarde and marke my wordes full wel if thou wilt cleaue to me.

[verse 11] Thou shalte no God in thee reserue, of any land abrode: Nor in no wise to bow or serue, a straunge and fortaine God. [verse 12] I am the Lorde, thy God, and I, from Egipt set thee free: Then aske of me aboundauntly, and I will geue it the.

[verse 13] And yet my people woulde not heare, my voyce when that I spake: Nor Israell would not obey, but did me quite forsake. [verse 14] Then did I leaue them to their will, in hardnes of theyr hart To walke in theyr owne counsels still, themselues they might peruert.

[verse 15] O that my people would haue hard, the wordes that I did say: And eke that Israell would regarde, to walke within my waye. [verse 16] How soone would I cōfound their foes and bring them downe full lowe: And tourne my hand vpon all those, that woulde them ouerthrowe.

[verse 17] And they that at the Lorde doo rage, as slaues shoulde seke him till: But of his folke the time and age, should florish euer stilll. [verse 18]

18 I would haue fed them with the croppe, and finest of the wheate: And make the rock with hony droppe, that they theyr filles should eate.