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 Jf a man will not turn, he will whet his sword : he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

He hath prepared for him the instruments of death : he ordeineth his arrowes against the persecutours.

Behold, he travaileth with mischief : he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth vngodliness.

He hath graven and digged vp a pit : and is faln himself into the destruction that he made [for other.]

For his travail shall come vpon his own head : and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

J will give thanks vnto the Lord, according to his righteousness : and I will praise the name of the Lord most high.

The viii. Psalm

Domine Dominus noster.

O Lord, our Governour, how excellent is thy Name in all the world : thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of very babes, and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies : that thou mightest still the enemy, and the avenger.

For J will consider thy heavens, even the works of thy fingers : the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.

What is man that thou art mindfull of him : and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Thou madest him lower then the Angels : to crown him with glory and worship.

Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands : and thou hast put all things in subjection vnder his feet.

All sheep and oxen : yea and the Beasts of the Field.

The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the Sea :