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Prayse the Lord, and call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people.
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Sing vnto him, sing prayse vnto him, and talke of all his wonderous workes.
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Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.
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Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.
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Remember his marueilous woorkes, that he hath done, his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth,
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Ye seede of Abraham his seruant, ye children of Iaakob, which are his elect.
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He is the Lorde our God: his iudgements are through all the earth.
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He hath alway remembred his couenant & promes, that he made to a thousand generations,
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Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak:
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And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,
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Saying, Vnto thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.
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Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,
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And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdome to another people,
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Yet suffered he no man to doe them wrong, but reprooued Kings for their sakes, saying,
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Touche not mine anointed, and doe my Prophets no harme.
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Moreouer, he called a famine vpon ye land, and vtterly brake the staffe of bread.
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But he sent a man before them: Ioseph was solde for a slaue.
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They helde his feete in the stockes, and he was laide in yrons,
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Vntill his appointed time came, and the counsell of the Lord had tryed him.
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The King sent and loosed him: euen the Ruler of the people deliuered him.
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He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance,
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That he shoulde binde his princes vnto his will, and teach his Ancients wisedome.
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Then Israel came to Egypt, and Iaakob was a stranger in the land of Ham.
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And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressours.
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He turned their heart to hate his people, and to deale craftily with his seruants.
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Then sent he Moses his seruant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
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They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham.
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He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission.
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He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish.
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Their land brought foorth frogs, euen in their Kings chambers.
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He spake, and there came swarmes of flies and lice in all their quarters.
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He gaue them haile for raine, and flames of fire in their land.
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He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes.
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He spake, and the grashoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable,
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And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground.
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He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength.
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He brought them forth also with siluer and golde, and there was none feeble among their tribes.
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Egypt was glad at their departing: for the feare of them had fallen vpon them.
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He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.
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They asked, and he brought quailes, and he filled them with the bread of heauen.
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He opened the rocke, and the waters flowed out, and ranne in the drye places like a riuer.
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For he remembred his holy promes to Abraham his seruant,
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And he brought forth his people with ioy, and his chosen with gladnesse,
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And gaue them the lands of the heathen, and they tooke the labours of the people in possession,
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That they might keepe his statutes, and obserue his Lawes. Prayse ye the Lord.