That afterward the memory
of them cannot be found.
[verse 6] My foes thou hast made good dispatch,
and all their towns destroy'd:
Thou hast their fame with them defac'd,
through all the world so wide.
[verse 7] Know thou that he which is above
for evermore shall reign,
And in the seat of equity
true judgement will maintain.
[verse 8] With justice he will keep and guide
the world and every wight:
And so will yeeld with equity
to every man his right.
[verse 9] He is protectour of the poor
what time they be opprest:
He is mall adversity
their refuge and their rest.
[verse 10] And they that know thy holy name,
therefore shall trust in thee:
For thou forsakest not their suit
in their necessity.
The second part.
[verse 11] Sing psalms therefore unto the Lord
that dwells on Sion hill:
Publish among all nations
his noble acts and will.
[verse 12] For he is mindful of the bloud
of those that be opprest:
For getting not th' afflicted heart
that seeks to him for rest.
[verse 13] Have mercy, Lord, on me poor wretch,
whole enemies still remain,
Which from the gates of death are wont,
to raise me up again.
[verse 14] In Sion that I might set forth
thy praise with heart and voice,
And that in thy salvation, Lord,
my soul might still rejoyce.
[verse 15] The heathen stick fast in the pit
that they themselves prepar'd,
And in the net that they did set
their own feet fast are snar'd.
[verse 16] God shews his judgements, which were good
for every man to mark,
When as you see the wicked man
ly trapt in his own wark.
[verse 17] The wicked and deceitful men
go down to hell for ever,
And all the people of the world,
that will not God remember.
[verse 18] But sure the Lord will not forget
the poor mans grief and pain:
The patient people never look
for help of God in vain.
[verse 19] O Lord arise, lest men prevail
that he of wordly might:
And set the heathen solk receive
their judgement in thy sight.
[verse 20] Lord, strike such terrour, fear, and dread,
into the hearts of them,
That they may know assuredly
they be but mottal men.