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 . That J may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion : I will reioice in thy salvation.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made : in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken.

The Lord is known to execute iudgement : the vngodly is trapped in the work of his own hands.

The wicked shall be turned into hell : and all the people that forget God.

For the poore shall not alway be forgotten : the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever.

Vp Lord, and let not man have the vpper hand : let the heathen be iudged in thy sight.

Put them in fear, O Lord : that the heathen may know themselves to be but men.

The x. Psalm.

Vt quid Domine?

Why standest thou so far off, O Lord : and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble?

The vngodly for his own lust doth persecute the poor : let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined.

For the vngodly hath made boast of his own hearts desire : and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth.

The vngodly is so proud that he careth not for God : neither is God in all his thoughts.

His wayes are alway grievous : thy iudgements are far above out of his sight, and therefore defieth he all his enemies.

For he hath said in his heart, Tush, J shall never be cast down : there shall no harm happen vnto me.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and fraud : vnder his tongue is vngodliness, and vanity.

He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets : and privily in his lurking dens doth he murther the innocent, his eyes are set against the poore.