PSALM XXII .

Deus, Deus, meus.

1.

My God, my God, why hast Thou me forsaken?
Woe me, from me why is Thy presence taken,
So farr from seing myne unhealthfull eyes;
So farr from hearing to my roaring cryes?

2.

O God, my God, I cry while day appeareth,
But, God, Thy eare my crying never heareth:
O God, the night in moane to Thee I spend,
Yet to my plaint Thou dost no audience lend.

3.

But Thou art holy, and dost hold Thy dwelling

PSALM XXI .

Domine, in virtute tua.

1.

New joy, new joy unto our king,
Lord, from Thy strength is growing;
Lord, what delight to him doth bring
His safety, from Thee flowing!

2.

Thou hast given what his heart woulde haue,
Nay, soon as he but moved
His lips to craue what he should craue,
He had as him behoved.

3.

Yea, Thou prevent'st ere ask he could,

PSALM XX .

Exaudiat te Dominus.

1.

Let God the Lord heare thee,
Ev'n in the day when most thy troubles be;
Let name of Jacob's God,
When thou on it dost cry,
Defend thee still from all thy foes abroad.

2.

From sanctuary high
Let Him come down, and help to thee apply;
From Syon's holy topp
Thence let Him undertake,

PSALM XIX .

Caeli enarrant.

1.

The heavnly frame sets forth the fame
Of Him that only thunders;
The firmament, so strangely bent,
Shewes His hand-working wonders.

2.

Day unto day doth it display,
Their course doth it acknowledg,
And night to night succeding right
In darkness teach cleere knowledg.

3.

There is no speech nor language which

PSALM XVIII .

Diligam te.

1.

Thee will I loue, O Lord, with all my heart's delight,
My strength, my strongest rock, which my defence hast been;
My God and helping God, my might and trustfull might,
My never pierced shield, my ever-saving horn,
My refuge, refuge then when I am most forlorn:
Whom then shall I invoke but Thee, most worthy prayse,
On Whom against my foes my only safty stayes?

2.

PSALM XVII .

Exaudi, Domine, justitiam.

1.

My suite is just, just Lord, to my suite hark;
I plain, sweete Lord, my plaint for pitty mark;
And since my lipps feign not with Thee,
Thyne eares voutchsafe to bend to me.

2.

O, let my sentence passe from Thyne own face,
Show that Thy eyes respect a faithfull case,
Thou that by proofe acquainted art
With inward secrets of my heart.

3.

PSALM XVI .

Conserva me.

1.

Saue mee, Lord, for why, Thou art
All the hope of all my heart:
Witness thou, my soule, with me,
That to God, my God, I say, —
Thou, my Lord, Thou art my stay,
Though my works reach not to Thee.

2.

This is all the best I proue,
God and godly men I loue,
And foresee their wretched paine
Who to other gods do run;
Their blood offrings I do shun;

PSALM XV .

Domine, quis habitabit.

In tabernacle Thyne, O Lord, who shall remayne?
Lord, of Thy holy hill who shall the rest obtayne?
Even he that leads of life an uncorrupted traine,
Whose deeds of righteous heart, whose hearty words be plain;
Who with deceitfull tongue hath never usd to faine,
Nor neighbour hurts by deed, nor doth wth slaunder staine;
Whose eyes a person vile do hold in high disdain,
But doth, with honour great, the godly entertaine;

PSALM XIV .

Dixit insipiens.

1.

The foolish man by fleshe and fancy led,
His guilty heart with this fond thought hath fed;
There is no Glod it raigneth.

2.

And so thereafter he and all his mates
Do works which earth corrupts and Heaven hates:
Not one that good remaineth.

3.

Even God Himself sent down His peircing ey,
If of this clayey race He could espy
One that His wisdom learneth.

4.

PSALM XIII .

Usque quo, Domine?

1.

How long, O Lord, shall I forgotten be?
What, ever?
How long wilt Thou Thy hidden face from me
Dissever?

2.

How long shall I consult with carefull sprite
In anguish?
How long shall I with foes' triumphant might
Thus languish?

3.

Behold me, Lord, let to Thy hearing creep
My crying;
Nay, giue me eyes and light, least that I sleep