Mary sidney herbert psalms 103

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PSALM XXXI.
In te, Domine, speravi.

1. xiv. REJOYCE in God, O ye
        That righteous be;
    For cherfull thankfulness,
    It is a comely part
        In them whose heart
    Doth cherish rightfulness.

Yet I confess in that tempestuous hast
    I said that I from out Thy sight was cast;
        But Thou didst heare when I to Thee did cry.

PSALM.

But He shall them deride who by the Heav'n's is borne,
        He shall laugh them to scorn,
And after speake to them with breath of wrathful fire,
        And vex them in His ire;
And say, O Kings, yet have I set My King vpon
        My holy hill Syon;
And I will (sayeth his king) the Lord's decree display,
        And say,�that He did say,�
Thou art My Son indeed, this day begott by Me:
        Ask, I will giue to Thee
The heathen for Thy child's-right, and will Thy realme extend
        Farr as world's farthest end.

he altered xxii., but had not succeeded in Ps. xlii. And so the earth did fall to tremble and to quake,
        The mountains proudly high, and their foundations, bent
    With motion of His rage, did to the bottom shake.     In th' innocence of me
        My hands shall washed be,
    And with those hands about Thy altar waite
        That I may still expresse
        With voyce of thankfulness
    The works performed by Thee, most wondrous great.

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7. THE earth is God's, and what the globe of earth containeth,
        And all that in that globe doth dwell,
    For by His power the land vpon the ocean raigneth,
        Through Him the floods to their beds fell.

st. For Thou, deare Lord, Thou me besetst,
        Thy rodd and Thy staffe be
            To comfort me:
    Before me Thou a table setst,
        Even when foes' envious ey
            Doth it espy.

But ever, ever shall
        His counsells all
    Throughout all ages last;
    The thinking of that mind
        No end shall find
    When time's time shall be past. Heare, Lord, when I my voice display,
        Heare to haue mercy eke on me;
    'Seek ye My face,' when Thou didst say,
        In truth of heart I answerd Thee:
                                O Lord, I will
                                Seek Thy face still.

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