Misericordias. Ps.89.I.H.

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To sing the mercies of the Lord, my tongue shall never spare And with my mouth from age to age, thy truth I will declare. 2 For I have said, that mercy shall forevermore remain, In that thou dost the heavens stay thy truth appeareth plain. 3 To mine elect, saith God, I made a covenant and behest: My servant David to persuade, I swear and did protest. 4 Thy seed for ever will I stay, and ‘stablish it full fast: And still uphold thy throne alway, from age to age to last. 5 The heavens show with joy and mirth, thy wondrous works, O Lord: Thy Saints within thy Church on earth, thy faith and truth record. 6 Who with the Lord is equal then in all the clouds abroad? Among the sons of all the Gods what one is like our God? 7 God in assembly of the Saints is greatly to be dread: And over all that dwell about, in terror to be had. 8 Lord God of hosts in all the world, what one is like to thee; On every side most mighty Lord thy truth is seen to be. 9 The raging sea by thine advice, thou rulest at thy will: And when the waves thereof arise, thou mak’st them calm and still. 10 And Egypt thou Lord hast subdued, and thou hast it destroyed: Yea, thou my foes with mighty arm, hast scattered all abroad.	11 The heavens are thine, and still have been, likewise the earth and land: The world with all that is therein, thou foundedst with thy hand. 12 Both North and South, with East and West, thyself didst make and frame: Both Tabor mount and eke Hermon, rejoice and praise thy name. 13 Thine arm is strong and full of power all might therein doth lie: The strength of thy right hand each hour, thou liftest up on high. 14 In righteousness and equity, thou hast thy seat and place: Mercy and truth are still with thee, and go before thy face. 15 That folk is blest that knoweth aright, thy present power O God: For in the favor of thy sight, they walk full safe abroad. 16 For in thy name throughout the day, thy joy and much rejoice: And through thy righteousness have they a pleasant same and noise. 17 For why? their glory, strength, and aid in thee alone doth lie: Thy goodness eke that hath us stayed, shall lift our horn on high. 18 Our strength that doth defend us well, the Lord to us doth bring: The holy one of Israel he is our guide and King. 19 Sometimes thy will unto thy Saints in visions thou didst show: And thus then didst thou say to them, thy mind to make them know. A man of might I have erect your King and guide to be: And set him up whom I elect, among the folk to me.
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20 My servant David I appoint, whom I have searched out: And with my holy oil anoint, him King of all the rout. 21 For why? my hand is ready still, with him for to remain. And with mine arm also I will, him strengthen and sustain. 22 The enemies shall him not oppress, they shall him not devour: Ne yet the sons of wickedness, on him shall have no power. 23 His foes likewise I will destroy, before his face in sight: And those that hate him I will plague, and strike them with my might. 24 My truth and mercy eke withal, shall still upon him lie: And in my name his horn eke shall be lifted up on high. 25 His kingdom will I set to be upon the sea and land: And eke the running floods shall he embrace with his right hand. 26 He shall depend with all his heart, on me and thus shall say: My father and my God thou art, my rock of health and stay. 28 As my first born I will him take, of all on earth that springs: His might and honor I shall make above all worldly Kings. 29 My mercy shall be with him still, as I myself have told: My faithful covenant to fulfill my mercy I will hold. 30 And eke his seed I will sustain forever strong and sure: So that his seat shall still remain, while heaven and earth endure.	31 If that his sons forsake my Law, and so begin to swerve: And of my judgments have none awe, nor will not them observe: 32 Or if they do not use aright, my statues to them made: And set all my commandments light, and will not keep my tread; 33 Then with the rod will I begin their doings to amend: And so with scourging for their sin, when that they do offend. 34 My mercy yet and my goodness, I will not take him fro: Nor handle him with craftiness, and so my truth forgo. 5 But sure my covenant I will hold, with all that I have spoke: No word the which my lips have told shall alter or be broke. 36 Once swore I by my holiness, and that perform will I: With David I will keep promise, to him I will not lie. 37 His seed forevermore shall reign, and eke his throne of might. As doth the Sun it shall remain for ever in my sight. 38 And as the moon within the sky forever standeth fast: A faithful witness from on high, so shall his Kingdom last. 39 But now O Lord, thou dost reject, and now thou changest cheer: Yea thou art wroth with thine elect, thine own anointed dear. 40 The covenant with thy servant made Lord thou hast quite undone: And down upon the ground also hast cast his royal Crown.
The fifth part
41 Thou pluck’st his hedges up with might, his walls thou dost confound: Thou beatest eke his bulwarks down, and break’st them to the ground. 42 That he is sore destroyed and torn of comers by throughout, And so is made a mock and scorn to all that dwell about. 43 Thou their right hand hast lifted up, that him so sore annoy: And all his foes that him devour, lo thou hast made to joy. 44 His swords edge thou didst take away, that should his foes withstand: To him in war no victory thou giv’st, nor upper hand. 45 His glory thou dost also waste, his throne, his joy, and myrrh. By thee is overthrown, and cast full low upon the earth. 46 Thou hast cut off, and make full short his youth and lusty days: And raised of him an ill report, with shame and great dispraise. 47 How long away form me, O Lord, for ever wilt thou turn? And shall thine anger still alway, as fire consume and burn? 48 O call to mind, remember then, my time consumed fast, Why hast thou made the sons of men, as things in vain to waste. 49 What man is he that liveth here, and death shall never see; Or from the hand of hell his soul shall he deliver free? 50 Where is O Lord, thine old goodness, so oft declared before: Which by thy truth and uprightness to David thou hast sworn? 51 The great rebukes to mind I call, that on thy servants lie: The railing of the people all born in my breast have I. 52 Wherewith O Lord, thine enemies blasphemed have thine name: The steps of thine anointed one they cease not to defame. 53 All praise to thee O Lord, of hosts, both now and eke for aye, Through sky, and earth, and all the coasts: Amen, Amen, I say.