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For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,

In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,

In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most high,

In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.

Who is he then that sayth, and it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?

Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?

Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.

Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.

We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.

Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.

Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.

Till the Lord looke downe, and beholde from heauen.

I called vpon thy Name, O Lord, out of the lowe dungeon.

Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.

Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.

O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my life.

O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.

Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.

Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.

Persecute with wrath and destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.

The Lord hath accomplished his indignation: he hath powred out his fierce wrath, he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath deuoured the foundations thereof.

The anger of the Lord hath scattered them, he will no more regard them: they reuerenced not the face of the Priestes, nor had compassion of the Elders.

The breath of our nostrels, the Anoynted of the Lord was taken in their nets, of whome we sayde, Vnder his shadowe we shalbe preserued aliue among the heathen.

Thy punishment is accomplished, O daughter Zion: he will no more carie thee away into captiuitie, but he will visite thine iniquitie, O daughter Edom, he wil discouer thy sinnes.