PSAL. CIIII.
* 1.1O Gyue thankes vnto the Lorde: and cal [ A] vpon his name: tel ye people what thin∣ges he hath done.* 1.2
O let your songes be of hym: prayse him, and let your talkyng be of all his wonderous workes.
Giue his holy name a good report, let their hertes reioyse that seke the Lorde.
Seke the Lorde and his strength: seke his face euermore.
Remembre the merueylous workes that he hath done, his wonders and the iudgementes of his mouth.
O ye sede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye chyl∣dren of Iacob his chosen.
He is the Lord our God, whose punishmen∣tes are thorow out all the worlde.
He is alwaye myndefull of his couenaunt, and promyse that he made to a thousand gene∣racions.
Yea the couenaunte that he made with Abraham:* 1.3 and the othe that he sware vnto Isaac.
And appoynted the same vnto Iacob for a lawe: and to Israell for an euerlastynge te∣stament.
Sayinge: vnto the will I giue the lande of Canaan, the lot of your heritage.
[ B] When there was yet but a fewe of them: & the straungers therin.
What tyme as they wente frome one na∣cion to an other: frome one kyngdome to an other.
He suff••ed no man to hurt them, but* 1.4 repro∣ued euen kynges for their sakes.
Touche not myne annoynted, doo my Pro∣phetes no harmt.
* 1.5Moreouer he called for a dearthe vpon the lande: and destroyed all the prouysion of breed.
But he had sente a man before them, ••••••n Ioseph: whiche was solde to be a bonde ser∣uaunt.
They hurt his fete in the stockes: the yron pearsed his hert.
Vntyll the tyme that his worde came: and tyll the worde of the Lorde hadde tryed hym.
Then sent the kynge, and caused him to be delyuered: the prynce of the people hade lette him goo.
He made him Lorde of his house: and rul•••• of all his substaunce.
That he myghte enforme his prynces after his wyll: and teache his senatours wyse∣dome.
Israel also came in to Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Ham. [ C]
But he increased his people excedingly: and made them stronger then their ennemies.
Whose herte tourned so, that they hated his people: and dealte vntruly with his ser∣uauntes.
Then sent he Moses his seruaunt, & Aaron: whom he had chosen.
These dyd his tokens among them,* 1.6 & won∣ders in the land of Ham.
He sente darcknesse, and it was darcke:* 1.7 for they were not obedient vnto his worde.
He turned their waters in to bloud,* 1.8 & slewe their fysshe.
* 1.9Their landes brought forth frogges: yea euen in their kynges chambres.
* 1.10He spake the worde: and there came all maner of flyes and lyce in all their quar∣ters.
He gaue them hayle stones for rayne: and fla∣mes of fyre in their hande.
He smote their vineyardes and figge trees: and destroyed the trees that were in their co∣stes.
* 1.11He spake the worde, and there were gres∣hoppers and caterpyllers innumerable.
These a••e vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured their frutes of the grounde.
* 1.12He smote all the first borne in the land, euē the chief of al their substaunce.
He brought them forth with siluer & golde: there was not one feble person amonge theyr [ D] trybes.
Egypt was glad of their departing, for they were afrayde of them.
* 1.13He sp••edde oute a cloude to be a coue∣rynge: and fyre to gyue lyghte in the nyghte season.
* 1.14At their desire there came quayles: and he filled them with the breed of heuen.
* 1.15He opened the rocke of stone, and the wa∣ters flowed oute: so that ryuers ranne in the wyldernesse.
For why? he remembred his holye promyse whiche he hadde made vnto Abraham his ser∣uaunt.
Thus he brought forth his people with ioy:* 1.16 and his chosen with gladnesse.
And gaue them the landes of the Heythen: obserue