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

PSALME. 83. (Book 83)

A Prayer against the Enemies of the Church, particularly, sacrilegious persons.

HOld not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence: refrain not thy selfe, O God.

2 For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring: and they that hate thee have lift up their head.

3 They have imagined craftily against thy people: and taken counsell against thy secret ones.

4 They have said, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in re∣membrance.

5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent: and are confederate against thee.

6 The tabernacles of the Edoinites, and the Ismaelites: the Moabites and H••garenes.

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre.

8 Assur also is ioyned unto them: and have holpen the children of Lot.

9 But do thou to them as unto the Madia∣nites: unto Sisera, and unto Iabin, at the brook of Rison.

10 Which perished at Endor: and became as the dung of the earth.

11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb: yea, make all their princes like as Ze∣ba and Salmana.

12 Which say, Let us take to our selves: the houses of God in possession.

13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel: and as the stubble before the winde.

14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood: and as the flame that consumeth the mountaines.

15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest: and make them afraid with thy storme.

16 Make their faces ashamed, O Lord: that they may seek thy name.

17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more: let them be put to shame and perish.

18 And they shall know that thou (whose name is Iehovah:) art onely the most highest over all the earth.

The Prayer.

O Lord God who wert known to thy people Israel by thy name Iehovah, thou art onely the highest over all the earth, arise and defend thy people, and deliver thy secret ones from the murmurings, councels, and crafty imaginations of thine enemies against them. Fixe the founda∣tions of the Church upon a Rocke, and preserve thine inheritance in peace and safety. Infatuate the councels, restrain the sacrilegious appetites of all such persons who would rob all thy houses and take them to their owne possession, and make their faces so ashamed and their hearts afraid, that they may return from covetousnesse and impiety, and seek thy Name, repenting of all their sinnes, and living in justice and religion, that at last they may come into an everlasting possession of thy house, and of thy Temple where thine Honour dwelleth and reigneth eternally world without end. Amen.