Voce mea ad. Ps.77.I.H.

David rehearseth his great afflictions and grievous temptations, whereby he is driven to consider his former conversation, and the course of God’s works in the preservation of his servants, and so he confirmeth his faith against these temptations.
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I with my voice to God do cry
with heart and hearty cheer:
My voice to God I lift on high,
and he my suite doth hear.
 
2 In time of grief I sought to God,
by night no rest I took:
But stretched my hands to him abroad,
my soul comfort forsook.
 
3 When I to think on God intend,
my trouble then is more:
I spake but could not make an end,
my breath was stopped so sore.
 
4 Thou holdst mine eyes always from rest,
that I always awake:
With fear am I so sore oppressed,
my speech doth me forsake.
 
5 The days of old in mind I cast,
and oft did think upon,
The times and ages that are past,
full many years a-gone.
 
6 By night my songs I call to mind,
once made thy praise to show:
And with my heart much talk I find,
my spirits do search to know.
 
7 Will God said I, at once for all,
cast off his people thus:
So that henceforth no time he shall
be friendly unto us?
 
8 What is his goodness clean decayed,
for ever and a day?
Or is his promise now delayed?
and doth his truth decay?
 
9 And will the Lord our God forget
his mercies manifold?
Or shall his wrath increase so hot,
his mercies to withhold?
 
10 At last I said my weakness is
the cause of this mistrust:
God’s mighty hand can help all this
and change it when he lust.
11 I will regard and think upon:
the working of the Lord,
Of all his wonders past and gone,
I gladly will record.
 
12 Yea all his works I will declare,
and what he did devise:
To tell his facts I will not spare,
and eke his counsel wise.
 
13 Thy works O Lord, are all upright,
and holy all abroad:
What one hath strength to match the might
of thee O Lord our God?
 
14 Thou art a God that oft didst show
thy wonders every hour.
And so dost make thy people know,
thy virtue and thy power.
 
15 And thine own folk thou dost defend
with strength and stretched arm:
The sons of Jacob that descend,
and Joseph’s seed from harm.
 
16 The waters Lord perceived thee,
the waters saw thee well:
And they for fear aside did flee,
the depths on trembling fell.
The clouds that were both thick and black
did rain full plenteously:
The thunder in the air did crack,
thy shafts abroad did flee.
 
17 The thunder in the air was heard,
the lightnings from above:
 
18 With flashes great made them afeared,
the earth did quake and move.
 
19 Thy waves within the seas do lie,
thy paths in waters deep:
Yet none can there thy steps espy,
nor know thy paths to keep.
 
20 Thou leadest thy folk upon the land,
as sheep on every side.
Through Moses and through Aaron’[s hand,
thou didst them safely guide.

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