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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
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The Works of Flavius Josephus
Josephus
[1] Blessed be God my rocke: who teacheth my handes to warre, and my fingers to fyght [No book]
[2]My holynesse and my fortresse, my refuge, and my only deliuerer: my buckler, in hym I haue put my trust, who subdueth my people vnder me [No book]
[3]O God, what is man that thou doest knowe hym? what is the sonne of man that thou doest thynke of hym [No book]
[4]Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away [No book]
[5]Bowe thy heauens O God and come downe: touche the mountaynes and they shall smoke [No book]
[6]Cast out terrible lightninges and feare them: shoote out thyne arrowes and consume them [No book]
[7]Sende downe thine hand from aboue: deliuer me and take me out of the great waters, from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am [No book]
[8]Whose mouth vttereth vanitie: and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood [No book]
[9]O Lorde I wyll syng a newe song vnto thee: and I wyll syng psalmes vnto thee vpon a Lute, [and vpon] an instrument of ten strynges [No book]
[10]Who geueth victorie vnto kynges: who redeemeth Dauid his seruaunt from peryll of the sworde [No book]
[11]Redeeme me and deliuer me from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am: whose mouth vttereth vanitie, and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood [No book]
[12]That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes: that our daughters may be as corners [stones] grauen after the fashion as a palace is [No book]
[13]That the corners of our houses may be fylled, yeeldyng foorth all maner of stoore: that our cattell may bring foorth thousandes, [yea] ten thousandes in our streates [No book]
[14]That our oxen may be strong [to labour] that there be no decay: no leadyng into captiuitie, and no complaynyng in our streates [No book]
[15]Happy are the people that be in such a case: blessed is the people who haue God for their Lorde [No book]
Source: studybible.org
Author: Flavius Josephus
Translation: William Whiston, L.A. (1737)

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