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Shem Tob's Hebrew Matthew (1400)
ShemTob
The Bishops' Bible (1568)
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[No book] [1] Lyke as the Hart brayeth for water brookes: so panteth my soule after thee O God
[No book] [2]My soule is a thirst for the Lorde, yea euen for the lyuyng Lorde: when shall I come to appeare before the face of the Lorde
[No book] [3]My teares haue ben my meate day and nyght: whyle they dayly say vnto me where is [nowe] thy God
[No book] [4]And I powred out of me my very heart, remembryng this howe that before tyme I haue passed with a great number, bringyng the vnto the house of the Lord: with a voyce of ioy & prayse, [& with] a company that kept holy day
[No book] [5]Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I will yet acknowledge him only to be a present saluation
[No book] [6]My Lorde, my soule is discouraged within me: because I remember thee from the lande of Iordane, and from the litle hyll Hermonim
[No book] [7]One deepe calleth another at the noyse of thy water pypes: all thy waues and stormes are gone ouer me
[No book] [8]God wyll graunt his louing kindnesse on the day tyme: and in the nyght season I wyll syng of hym, and make my prayer vnto the Lorde of my lyfe
[No book] [9]I wyll say vnto the Lorde of my strength: why hast thou forgotten me, why go I thus heauyly through the oppression of myne enemie
[No book] [10]It was as a sworde in my bones, when myne enemies dyd cast me in the teeth: in saying dayly vnto me, where is nowe thy Lorde
[No book] [11]Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wil yet acknowledge him to be only my present saluation, and my Lorde
Author: Shem-Tob ben Isaac Ibn Shaprut (14th century)

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