The psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each Psalme : whereunto is added Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian people, in all occasions and necessities.

PSALME 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 meditation.

2 O hearken thou unto the voyce of my calling, 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 unto thee, and will look up.

4 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wick∣ednesse: 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 leasing: the Lord will abhorre both the bloud thirsty and deceitfull man.

7 But as for me, I will come into thy house, even up∣on the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I wor∣ship toward thy holy temple.

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

9 For there is no faithfulnesse in his mouth: their in∣ward parts are very wickednesse.

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

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

12 And let all them that put their trust in thee, rejoyce: they shall ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest

them, they that love thy name shall be joyfull in thee.

13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righte∣ous: and with thy favourable kindnesse 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, de∣fend us and all thy holy Church from the fraud and malice of blood-thirsty and deceitfull men, and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity: but let thy blessings bee 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, and may be joyfull in thee. O lead us in thy righ∣teousnesse that we become not a rejoycing to our enemies, but that we may worship thee in feare, and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee, and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.