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.

PSALME. LVII.

The Argument.

Another most great daunger, much like to the former, which is s••t foorth, 1. Sam. 24. gaue the occasion of wri∣ting this Psalme: whereof we may gather, that it lieth in the hand of God, not onlie with how great, but with how long miseries (yea, euen by wicked men) he wil ex∣ercise his seruants, and therfore that we must praie con∣tinuallie, as wel for the gifts of constancie, and perse∣uerance, as for the gift of faith. Jn other things this Psalme is to the same purpose, as certeine other that went before, and written of like occasion.

THE PARAPHRASIS.

1 NOw at the length, ô Lord, it is high time that thou either looke vpon me: or else I am vndone. Wherefore, haue mercie, haue mercie vpon mee, I saie, ô God: for this my soule

doth onlie trust in thee, and I flie onlie vnto thee, vnder the shadow of whose wings, I may lie hid so long, whilest these great calamities do passe ouer.

2 I crie vnto thee, ô God most high, that thou wouldest finish that, which thou hast begun in me.

3 And so doubtles wil it come to passe. For the Lord wil send helpe from heauen, because I find none in the earth: and he wil not suffer mee so shamefullie to be deuoured. For there wil come downe from the heauen, to deliuer me, two inuin∣cible helpes for defence, euen his mercie, and that most high and sure faith, which he declareth in the perfourming of his promises.

4 In the meane season, I graunt my selfe exposed of the one side to the pawes of the lions, and the crueltie of most outragious men: and of the other side, to y^e false slanders of most shameles accusers, whose teeth are like vnto speares and arrowes, and their tong more hurtful, than most sharpe swords.

5 But thou, ô God, declare that thou dwellest e∣uen aboue the heauens: and cause that thy glorie may be published throughout the whole world.

6 Whither soeuer I mooue my foote, their net is spread to take me, I doe lie, as it were, throwne downe vpon the earth: I see before mine eies the pit, into the which they hope to cast me downe headlong, but the matter wil go otherwaies. For they contrariwise shal fal into the selfe-same pit.

7 Therefore, ô God, I being now prepared, with my whole heart, with my whole heart, I saie, haue great desire to praise thee, both with my voice and harpe.

8 Go to, my tongue: go to, both lute and harpe: awake with me in the morning.

9 Euen the gentils, most farre distant, shal heare me declaring thy praises, the people shal heare me sing vnto thee.

10 For surelie, thy goodnes extendeth it selfe vn∣to

the heauens, and thy truth vnto the clouds.

11 Declare thy selfe, ô God, to sit aboue the verie heauens, and shew forth thy glorie to the whole world.