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.

¶ Deus quis Similis. Psalme. lxxxiii. I. H

¶ The people of Israell pray vnto the Lord to delyuer them from theire enemies bothe at home and far of, which imagined nothing but their destruccyon: and they desyre that all suche wicked people maye, accor¦ding as God was accostomed, be stricken with the stormye tempests of Gods wrathe, that they maye know that the Lord is most hye vp∣on the earthe.

DO not (O God) refrayne thy tounge, in silence, doo not staye: Withholde not Lord thy selfe so long nor make no more delaye. * 1.1 [verse 2] For why, beholde thy foes and see. how they doo rage and crye, And those that beare an hate to thee, holde vp theyr heades on hye.

[verse 3] Against thy folke they vse disceate, and craftly they enquire: For thine elect to lye in wayte, theyr councell doth conspire [verse 4]

4 Come on (sayd they) let vs expell, and plucke these folke awaye: So that the name of Israell, may vtterly decay.

[verse 5] They all conspire within theyr hart, how they may thee withstand: Agaynst the Lorde to take a parte, they are in league and bande. [verse 6] The tentes of all the Edomites, the Ismalites also: The Hagarenes and Moabites, with diuers other more.

[verse 7] Geball with Ammon, and likewise, dothe Amalece conspire: The Phillistines against thee ryse, with them that dwell at Cyre. [verse 8] And Assur eke is well apaide, with them in league to be: And doeth become afence and ayde, to Lots posteritie.

[verse 9] As thou diddest to the Madianites, so serue them Lorde echeone: As to Cicer and to Iabin, beside the broke kison. [verse 10] Whom thou in Endor diddest descry, and wast them through thy might, That they like doung on earth did lye, and not in open sighte.

[verse 11] Make them now & theyr Lords appere, like Zeb and Oreb then:

As Zebah and Zalmana we are, the kynges of Madian. [verse 12] Whiche said, let vs throughout the land, in all the costes abrode: Posses and take into our hand, the fayer houses of God.

[verse 13] Tourn them O God with storms as fast as wheeles that haue no staye: Or lyke as chaffe, whiche men doo cast, with windes to flee awaye. [verse 14] Lyke as the fire, with rage and fume, the mightye forest spilles: And as the flame doth quyte consume, the mountaynes and the hilles.

[verse 15] So let the tempest of thy wrath, vpon theyr neckes be layde: And of thy stormy wynde and shower, Lorde make them all afrayed. [verse 16] Lorde brynge them all I thee desire, to suche rebuke and shame That it may cause them to enquire, and learne to seke thy name.

[verse 17] And let them euermore dayly, to shame and sclaunder fall And in rebuke and oblique, to perish eke with all. [verse 18] That they may know & fele full well, that thou art called Lord And that alone thou doest excell, and raygne throughout the worlde.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sing this as the. lxxvii. P