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IN thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: let me never bee put to confusion, deliver me in thy righteousnesse.
2 Bow down thine ear to me: make haste to deliver me.
3 And be thou my strong rock, and the house of de∣fence: that thou maist save me.
4 For thou art my strong rock, and my castle: be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy names sake.
5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth.
7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities: and my trust hath been in the Lord.
8 I will be glad, and rejoyce in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble, and hast known my soule in adversities.
9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the ene∣my: but hast set my feet in a large room.
10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: and mine eye is consumed for very heavinesse: yea, my soul and my body.
11 For my life is waxen old with heavinesse: and my yeares with mourning.
12 My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity: and my bones are consumed.
13 I became a reproofe among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and they of mine ac∣quaintance were afraid of mee, and they that did see me without, conveyed themselves from me.
14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I am become like a broken vessell.
15 For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude: and feare is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsell to take away my life.
16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord: I have said, Thou art my God.
17 My time is in thy hand, deliver me from the hand of mine enemies: and from them that persecute me.
18 Shew thy servant the light of thy countenance: and save me for thy mercies sake.
19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have cal∣led upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and be put to silence in the grave.
20 Let the lying lips be put to silence: which cruelly,
disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.
21 O how plentifull is thy goodnesse, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee: and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the sonnes of men!
22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence, from the provoking of all men: thou shalt keep them se∣cretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues.
23 Thanks be to the Lord: for he hath shewed mee marvellous great kindnesse in a strong city.
24 And when I made haste, I said: I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes.
25 Neverthelesse thou heardest the voyce of my pray∣er: when I cried unto thee.
26 O love the Lord, all ye his Saints: for the Lord pre∣serveth them that are faithfull, and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer.
27 Be strong, and he shall stablish your heart: all yee that put your trust in the Lord.
O God our rock & the house of our defence, let us be glad and rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation. Consider, O Lord, our trouble, and in thy pity know our souls beset round a∣bout with enemies and adversities: Shut us not up into the hands of our enemies, nor our lives within the grave. Our time, O Lord, is in thy hand, to thee pertain the issues of life and death, and though our strength hath failed us because of our iniquity, and our bones are vex∣ed by reason of our sins, yet our hope is in thee, O Lord, we have said, Thou art our God: deliver us from all our enemies bodily and
ghostly: turn our sadnesse into joy, and our mourning into gladnesse, lest our bodies and soules be consumed for very heavinesse. Let us not be put to confusion nor to silence in the grave, but let us see thy marvellous loving kindnesse, and partake of thy plentifull good∣nesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, even before the sonnes of men. O let us never be cast out of the sight of thine eyes, but deal with us in mercy and loving kindnesse. Into thy hands we commend our spirits, re∣signing our selves up to thy providence and disposition, either to life or death, as thou in thy infinite wisdome shalt finde most propor∣tionable to thy glory, and our eternall good, beseeching thee to be our guide to death, and to lead us for thy Name sake to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.