The Psalmes of Dauid truly opened and explaned by paraphrasis, according to the right sense of euerie Psalme. With large and ample arguments before euerie Psame, declaring the true vse thereof. To the which is added a briefe table, shewing wherevnto euery Psalme is particularly to be applied, according to the direction of M. Beza and Tremellius. Set foorth in Latine by that excellent learned man Theodore Beza. And faithfully translated into English, by Anthonie Gilbie, and by him newly purged from sundrie faultes escaped in the first print, and supplied with the principal pointes of euerie Psalme, summarilie set downe in a table at the end of the booke.

THE PARAPHRASIS.

1 HEare now, ô God, if euer thou heardest my praiers: and do not refuse me thy suppliant.

2 Giue eare vnto me, I saie, and heare me so greatlie troubled, that I am compelled with la∣mentation to turne my selfe hither and thither, and maruelouslie to tosse to and fro.

3 For what doth not mine enimie threaten me? what doth not this vile man practise to oppresse me? with what rage and hatred, he being inflamed, doth he inuade me?

4 Wherfore, my heart doth tremble within me, & I am striken with the terrors of most present death.

5 I tremble altogether for feare, and am hor∣riblie afraide.

6 Finallie, I am compelled to breake foorth in∣to these words: Ah! who can giue mee wings, as it were of a doue, being thus beset on euerie side?

whereby I may flie awaie, and finde rest in some place:

7 Behold, I wil flie most far awaie: and I would not cease to flie stil, whilest I should come into the wildernes to remaine there:

8 And would deliuer my selfe from this outragi∣ous tempest with al speede.

9 But thou Lord deuoure them, and moue discord amongst them, disturbe their counsels and assem∣blies, as their wickednes deserueth. How miserable is the state of that citie at this present? al things now are there ful of oppression and contention.

10 Such are their maners now, which watch their wals daie and night: there is nothing heard within them, but mutual oppression and iniuries.

11 Al places are filled with wickednes: guile and deceit doth rule in their streetes.

12 Furthermore, which is the most greeuous thing of al, he doth not me this iniurie, to whome I haue bin an enimie (for if it were so, I could better beare it,) I saie it is no open enimie, which doth thus rage against me, of whome I might haue taken heede:

13 But thou, my companion, thou by whose coun∣sels I was gouerned, thou my chief familiar friend:

14 With whome I did alwaies consult, which went by my side, when I did go to the house of the Lord.

15 Let death therefore come suddenlie vpon them, and punish them: and let the graue swalowe them aliue at vnwares, seeing that they are altoge∣ther ful of so great wickednes.

16 But I wil crie vnto God, & the Lord, no doubt, wil saue me.

17 I wil not cease to whisper with my selfe, and praie morning and euening, and at middaie, I saie, whilest I be heard.

18 And surelie, me thinke that I am now deliue∣red,

and wholie restored, although these men, nei∣ther few nor weake, do make a sore battel against me.

19 For doubtles, God wil heare me, and wil op∣presse them. For hee sitteth as the iudge of the world from the beginning: speciallie, seeing these men continue in their wickednes, and haue cast a∣waie al feare of God.

20 For that wicked man hath assaulted him, of whome he neuer receiued anie iniurie: therefore he is guiltie of great infidelitie.

21 For his words were in deede softer than anie butter, but he fostered nothing within himselfe but war: and a man would haue said, that his commu∣nication was sweeter than oile, and yet he thought to giue me my deadlie wound.

22 Go to then, my seelie soule, why dost thou tor∣ment thy selfe anie longer? cast off al this thy bur∣then vpon the Lord, which wil prouide for thee, and wil not suffer, that the innocent shal alwaies continue ouerthrowne.

23 Therefore, ô God, cast these men headlong to be consumed in the bottome of the graue: let these men, that are so desirous to shed bloud, and faith∣les, be cut off in the mids of the race of their life: but I wil flie vnto thee.