The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.

PSALME 9. (Book 9)

A prayer of poore and oppressed people against their persecutors.

MORNING PRAYER. (Book 9)

I Will giue thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will speak of all thy marvellous works.

2 I will be glad and reioyce in thee: yea, my songs will I make of thy name, O thou most Highest.

3 While mine enemies are driven back: they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

4 For thou hast maintained my right, and my cause: thou art set in the throne that iudgest right.

5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and de∣stroyed the vngodly thou hast put out their

name for ever and ever.

6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetuall end: even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, their memoriall is perished with them.

7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath also prepared his seat for iudgement.

8 For he shall iudge the world in righteous∣nesse: and minister true iudgement unto the peo∣ple.

9 The Lord also will be a defence for the op∣pressed: even a refuge in due time of trouble.

10 And they that know thy name, will put their trust in thee: for thou Lord hast never failed them that seek thee.

11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Si∣on: shew the people of his doings.

12 For when he maketh inquisition for bloud, be remembreth them: and forgotteth not the com∣plaint of the poore.

14 Have mercy upon me, O Lord: consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee: thou that liftest me up from the gates of death.

14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion: I will reioyce in thy salvation.

15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the same net which they hid privi∣ly, is their foot taken.

16 The Lord is known to execute iudge∣ment: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands.

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell: and all the people that forget God.

18 For the poore shall not alway be forgot∣ten: the patient abiding of the meek shall not pe∣rish for ever.

19 Up Lord, and let not man have the upper hand: let the heathen be iudged in thy sight.

20 Put them in fear (O Lord:) that the hea∣then may know themselves to be but men.

The Prayer.

O Lord God who art a defence for the op∣pressed, and a refuge in due time of trouble, have mercy upon us thy servants, who are violent∣ly assaulted by enemies without, and weaknesses and temptations within. Thou never failest them that seek thee, but lovest to heare the poore make their complaint unto thee in their trouble, and art known to execute judgement upon them that oppresse them. Pitty us, and look upon the trouble we suffer of them that hate us: deli∣ver us from the strivings of our adversaries, lift us up from the gates of death, that being safe under thy mercies and protection, we may give thankes unto thee with our spirits & voyces, we may em∣brace

thee with a lively faith, feare thee with all our hearts, serve thee with all our powers & fa∣culties both of soule and body, all the dayes of our life, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.