Blessed be the Lord, my rock
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A Psalme of David. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth mine hands to fight, and my fingers to battell.
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He is my goodnes and my fortresse, my towre and my deliuerer, my shield, and in him I trust, which subdueth my people vnder me.
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Lord, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!
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Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
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Bow thine heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines and they shall smoke.
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Cast forth the lightning and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and consume them.
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Send thine hand from aboue: deliuer me, and take me out of the great waters, and from the hand of strangers,
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Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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I wil sing a new song vnto thee, O God, and sing vnto thee vpon a viole, and an instrument of ten strings.
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It is he that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings, and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sworde.
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Rescue me, and deliuer me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falshood:
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That our sonnes may be as the plantes growing vp in their youth, and our daughters as the corner stones, grauen after the similitude of a palace:
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That our corners may be full, and abounding with diuers sorts, and that our sheepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousand in our streetes:
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That our oxen may be strong to labour: that there be none inuasion, nor going out, nor no crying in our streetes.
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Blessed are the people, that be so, yea, blessed are the people, whose God is the Lord.