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| [1] Truely the Lorde is very good vnto Israel: vnto such as haue a cleane heart |
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| [2]Neuerthelesse, my feete were almost gone from me: my steppes had almost slypt |
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| [3]For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked [flowe] in all kynde of prosperitie |
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| [4]For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong |
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| [5]They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men |
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| [6]And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment |
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| [7]Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them |
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| [8]They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously |
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| [9]For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde |
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| [10]Therfore [God] his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full [cuppe. |
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| [11]And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest |
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| [12]Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches |
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| [13]Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne: and wasshed my handes in innocencie |
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| [14]All the day long I haue ben scourged: and chastened euery mornyng |
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| [15]If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children |
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| [16]Therfore I considered howe I might vnderstande this: but it was to paynefull in myne eyes |
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| [17]Untyll I went vnto the sanctuarie of God: and vnderstood the ende of them |
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| [18]Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed |
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| [19]Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread |
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| [20]They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie |
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| [21]Ueryly thus was my heart inflamed: thus was my reynes pricked |
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| [22]So foolishe was I and voyde of vnderstanding: I was euen a bruite beast before thee |
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| [23]Neuerthelesse I am alway with thee: for thou hast holden me by my ryght hande |
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| [24]Thou hast guyde me with thy counsayle: and after that thou receauedst me with glorie |
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| [25]Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee |
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| [26]My fleshe and my heart fayleth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer |
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| [27]For lo, they that kepe them selues a loofe from thee shall perishe: thou destroyest euery one that committeth fornication agaynst thee |
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| [28]But it is good for me to come neare vnto God: [wherfore] I put my trust in thee O Lorde God, that I may declare all thy workes |
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