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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
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Shem Tob's Hebrew Matthew (1400)
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[1]O God the Lord of [all] auengeaunce: the Lorde of [all] auengeaunce shewe thy [glorious maiestie. [No book]
[2]Be exalted O thou iudge of the world: and rewarde the proude after their deseruyng [No book]
[3]O God howe long shall the vngodly: howe long shall the vngodly triumph [No book]
[4]All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues [No book]
[5]They oppresse thy people O God: and they afflict thine heritage [No book]
[6]They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death [No book]
[7]And they say, tushe the Lorde seeth it not: neither doth the God of Iacob vnderstande it [No book]
[8]Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised [No book]
[9]He that hath planted the eare, shall he not heare? yf he shapeth the eye, shall he not see [No book]
[10]He that chasteneth the heathen, shall not he punishe? it is he that teacheth man knowledge [No book]
[11]God knoweth the thoughtes of man: that they are but vanitie [No book]
[12]Blessed is the man O Lorde, whom thou wylt chasten: and whom thou wylt instruct in thy lawe [No book]
[13]That thou mayest geue hym patience in tyme of aduersitie: vntyll the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly [No book]
[14]For God wyll not reiect his people: neither wil he forsake his inheritaunce [No book]
[15]For iudgement shalbe reduced vnto iustice: and after it shall all such as be vpryght of heart [be iudged. [No book]
[16]Who will ryse vp with me agaynst the malicious? or who wyll take my part agaynst workers of wickednesse [No book]
[17]If God had not ben an ayde vnto me: it had not fayled much but my soule had dwelled in silence [No book]
[18]But when I sayde my foote hath slypped: thy mercy O God helde me vp [No book]
[19]In the multitude of my cogitations from the bottome of my heart: thy comfortes dyd recreate my soule [No book]
[20]Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee: which [seate] maketh wrong to be enacted for a law [No book]
[21]They flocke together agaynst the soule of the ryghteous: and condemne the innocent blood [No book]
[22]But God is to me a refuge: and my Lorde is the rocke of my confidence [No book]
[23]And he wyll recompence them their wickednesse, and destroy them in their owne malice: God our Lorde wyll destroy them [No book]
Source: studybible.org
Author: Shem-Tob ben Isaac Ibn Shaprut (14th century)

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