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

PSALME 5. (Book 5)

A prayer for blessing upon all pious people, and for protection against the malice of wicked men.

POnder my words, O Lord: consider my me∣ditation.

2 O hearken thou unto the voyce of my cal∣ling, my King and my God: for unto thee will I make my prayer.

3 My voyce shalt thou hear betimes. O Lord: early in the morning will I direct my prayer un∣to thee, and will looke up.

4 For thou are the God that hast no pleasure in wickednesse: neither shall any evill dwell with thee.

5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight: for thou hatest all them that work vanity.

6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak lea∣sing:

the Lord will abhorre both the bloudthirstie and deceltfull ••man.

7 But as for me, I will come into thy house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousnesse be∣cause of mine enemies: make thy way plain before my face.

9 For there is no faithfulnes in his mouth: their inward parts are very wickednesse.

10 Their throat is an open sepulchre: they flatter with their tongue.

11 Destroy thou them, O God, let them pe∣rish through their own imaginations: cast them out in the multitude of their ungodlines, for they have rebelled against thee.

12 And let all them that put their trust in thee, reioyce: they shal ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them, they that love thy name shall be ioyfull in thee.

13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing un∣to the righteous: and with thy favourable kinde∣nes wilt thou defend him, as with a shield.

The Prayer.

O Most Holy and blessed Lord God, who canst take no pleasure in wickednesse, neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling, defend us and

all thy holy Church from the fraud and malice of bloud-thirsty and deceitfull men, and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity: but let thy blessings be upon the righteous, and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield, that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks, & may be joyfull in thee. O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoyceing to our enemies, but that we may worship thee in feare, and come into thy house to make our pray∣ers unto thee, and to give thee thanks for the mul∣titude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen.