Confitemini Dom. Ps.106.N.

The people dispersed unto Antiochus, do magnify the goodness of God among the repentant, and pray to be gathered from among the heathens, that they may praise his name.

Sing this as the 95 Psalm.
The first part The second part The third part
Praise ye the Lord, for he is good,
his mercy ‘dures for aye:
2 Who can express his noble acts,
or all his praise display?
3 They blessed are that judgment keep,
and justly do alway:
With favor of thy people Lord,
remember me I pray.
4 And with thy saving health, O Lord,
vouchsafe to visit me:
That I the great felicity
of thine elect may see.
5 And with thy people joy I may
a joyful mind possess:
And may with thine inheritance,
a glorying heart express.
6 Both we and eke our fathers all,
have sinned everyone:
We have committed wickedness,
and lewdly we have done.
7 The wonders great which thou O Lord,
hast done in Egypt land:
Our fathers though they saw them all
yet did not understand.
Nor they thy mercies multitude
did keep in thankful mind,
But at the sea, yea the red sea,
rebelled most unkind.
8 Nevertheless he saved them,
for honor of his name:
That he might make his power known,
and spread abroad his fame.
9 The red sea he did then rebuke,
and forthwith it was dried:
And as in wilderness, so through
the deep he did them guide.
10 He saved them from the cruel hand
of their despiteful foe:
And from the enemies hand he did
deliver them also.

11 The waters their oppressors whelmed,
not one was left alive:
12 Then they believed his words, and praise
in song they did him give.
13 But by and by unthankfully
his works they clean forgate:
And for his counsel and his law
they did neglect to wait.
14 But lusted in the wilderness
with fond and greedy lust;
And in the desert tempted God,
the stay of all their trust.
15 And then their wanton minds’ desire
he suffered them to have,;
But wasting leanness therewithal,
into their soul he gave.
16 Then when they lodged in their tents,
at Moses they did grutch;
Aaron the holy of the Lord
so did they envy much.
17 Therefore the earth did open wide,
and Dathan did devour:
And all Abiram’s company
did cover in that hour.
18 In their assembly kindled was
the hot consuming fire;
And wasting flames did then burn up
the wicked in his ire.
19 Upon the hill of Horeb they
an Idol Calf did frame;
And there the molten image they
did worship of the same.
20 Into the likeness of a Calf,
That feedeth on their grass,
Thus they their glory turned, and all
their honor did deface.
21 And God their only Savior
unkindly they forgot;
Which many great and mighty things
in Egypt land had wrought.

22 And in the land of Ham, for them
most wondrous works hath done:
And by the red sea dreadful things
performed long a-gone.
23 Therefore for their so showing them
forgetful and unkind;
To bring destruction on them all
he purposed in his mind.
Had not his chosen Moses stood
before him in the break;
To turn his wrath least he on them,
with slaughter should him wreak.
24 They did despise the pleasant land,
that he behight to give,
Yea, and the words that he had spoke
they did no whit believe.
25 But in their tents with grudging hearts
they wickedly repined.
Nor to the voice of God the Lord
they gave an harkening mind.
26 Therefore against them lifted he
his strong revenging hand;
Them to destroy in wilderness,
ere they should see the land.
27 And to destroy their seed among
the nations with his rod,
And through the countries of the world
to scatter them abroad.
28 To Baal-peor then they did
adjoin themselves also:
And eat the offerings of the dead,
so they forsook him though.
29 Thus with their own inventions,
his wrath they did provoke;
And in his so enkindled wrath
the plague upon them broke.
30 But Phinehas stood up with zeal
the sinners’ vile to slay;
And judgment he did execute,
and then the plague did stay.

 
The forth part The fifth part  
31 It was imputed unto him
for righteousness that day;
And from thenceforth so counted is
from race to race for aye.
32 At waters eke of Meribah
they did him angry make;
Yea, so far forth that Moses was
then punished for their sake;
33 Because they vexed his spirit so sore,
that in impatient heat,
His lips spake unadvisedly,
his fervor was so great.
34 Nor as the Lord commanded them,
they slew the people though
35 But were among the heathen mixed,
and learned their works also.
36 And did their idols serve, which were
their ruin and decay;
37 To fiends their sons and daughters they
did offer up and slay;
38 Yea, with unkindly murdering knife
the guiltless blood they spilt;
Yea, their own sons and daughters blood,
without all cause of guilt.
Whom they to Canaan Idols then
offered with wicked hand,
And so with blood of innocents
defiled was the land.
39 Thus were they stained with the works
of their own filthy way;
And with their own inventions
a-whoring did they stray.
40 Therefore against his people was
the Lord’s wrath kindled sore:
And even his own inheritance,
therefore he did abhor.
41 Into the hands of heathen men,
he gave them for a prey;
And made their foes their Lords, whom they
were forced to obey.

 
42 Yea, and their hateful enemies
oppressed them in the land;
And they were humbly made to stoop,
as subject to their hand.
43 Full oftentimes from trial had he,
delivered them before;
But with their counsels they to wrath
provoked him evermore.
Therefore they by their wickedness
were brought full low to lie:
44 Yet when he saw them in distress,
he hearkened to their cry.
45 He called to mind his covenant,
which he to them had swore:
And by his mercies multitude,
repented him therefore.
46 And favor he them made to find
before the sight of those
That led them captive from their land,
when erst they were their foes.
47 Save us O Lord, that art our God,
save us O Lord we pray;
And from among the heathen folk,
Lord gather us away.
48 That we may spread the noble praise
of thy most holy name:
That we may glory in thy praise,
and sounding of thy fame.
49 The Lord the God of Israel,
be blest forevermore:
Let all the people say Amen,
praise ye the Lord therefore.

 

  

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