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Lord call the people to thy thought,
vvhich haue beene thine so long:
The vvhich thou hast redeemd & brought
from bondage sore and strong.
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Haue minde I say, and thinke vpon,
remember it full vvell:
Thy pleasant place, thy mount Sion,
vvhere thou vvast vvont to dvvell.
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Lift vp thy foote and come in haste,
and all thy foes deface:
VVhich novv at pleasure rob and vvaste,
vvithin thy holy place.
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Amid the congregations all
thine enemies roare O God:
They set as signes on euery vvall,
their banners splaid abroad.
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As men vvith axes hevv the trees,
that on the hils doe grovv:
so shine the bils and svvords of these
vvithin thy Temple novv.
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The seeling savvde, the carued bords,
the goodly grauen stones,
VVith axes, hammers, bils and svvords,
they beate them dovvne at once.
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Thy places they consume vvith flame,
and eke in all this toile,
The house appointed for thy name,
they raze dovvne to the soyle.
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And thus they say vvithin their heart,
dispatch them out of hand:
Then burne they vp in euery place,
Gods houses through the land.
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Yea, thou no signe of help dost send.
our Prophets all are gone:
To tell vvhen this our plague shall end,
among vs there is none.
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VVhen vvilt thou Lord once end this shame
and cease thine enemies strong
Shall they alvvay blaspheme thy name,
and raile on thee so long?
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VVhy dost vvith-dravv thy hand aback,
and hide it in thy lap?
O plucke it out and be not slacke
to giue thy foes a rap.
The second part.
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O God that art my King and Lord,
and euermore hast beene:
Yea, thy good grace throughout the vvorld
for our good help hath seene.
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The seas that are so deepe and dead,
thy might did make them dry:
And thou didst breake the Serpents head,
and he therein did dye.
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Yea, thou didst breake the heads so great,
of VVhales that are so fell:
And gau••st them to the folke to eate,
that in the desart dvvell.
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••hou mad'st a spring of streames to rise
from rocks both hard and hye:
And eke thy hand hath made likevvise
deepe riuers to be dry.
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Both day and eke the night are thine,
by thee they vvere begun:
Thou setst to serue vs vvith their shine,
the light and eke the Sunne.
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Thou dost appoint the ends & coasts
of all the vvorld about:
Both Summer heats, and VVinters frosts,
thy hand hath found them out.
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Thinke on O Lord, no time forget
thy foes that thee defame:
And hovv the foolish folke are set
to raile vpon thy name.
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O let no cruell beasts deuoure
thy Turtle that is true:
Forget not alvvaies in thy povver,
the poore that much doe rue.
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Regard thy couenant, and behold
thy foes possesse the land:
All sad and d••rke, forvvorne and old,
our realme as novv doth stand.
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Let not the simple goe avvay
vvith disappointed shame:
But let the poore and needy aye
giue praise vnto thy name.
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Rise Lord, let be by thee maintainde
the cause that is thine ovvne:
Remember hovv that thou blasphemde
art by the foolish one.
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The voyce forget not of thy foes,
for the presuming hye
Is more and more increast of those
that hate thee spitefully.