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| ON thee, O Lord my God, relies | |
| My onely trust from bloudy spight; | |
| Of all my raging enemies | |
| Oh let thy mercy me acquite; | |
| Lest they, like greedy lyons, rend | 5 |
| My soule, while none shall it defend. | |
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| O Lord, if I this thing have wrought; | |
| If in my hands be found such ill; | |
| If I with mischief ever sought | |
| To pay good turnes, or did not still | 10 |
| Doe good unto my causeless foe | |
| That thirsted for my overthrow; | |
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| Then let my foe in eager chase | |
| O’ertake my soule, and proudly tread | |
| My life below, and with disgrace | 15 |
| In dust laye downe mine honour dead. | |
| Rise up in rage, O Lord, eft soone | |
| Advance thine arm against my fo'ne. | |
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| And wake for me, till thou fulfill | |
| My promis’d right: so shall glad throngs | 20 |
| Of people flock unto this hill. | |
| For their sakes then reuenge my wrongs | |
| And rouse thyself. Thy judgments be | |
| O’er all the world: Lord, judge thou me. | |
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| As truth and honest innocence | 25 |
| Thou find’st in me, Lord, judge thou me; | |
| Settle the just with sure defence: | |
| Let me the wicked’s malice see | |
| Brought to an end: for thy just eye | |
| Doth heart and inward reines descry. | 30 |
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| My safety stands in God, who shields | |
| The sound in heart, whose doome, each day, | |
| To just men and contemners yeelds | |
| Their due. Except he change his way, | |
| His sword is whet, to blood intended; | 35 |
| His murdering bow is ready bended. | |
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| Weapons of death he hath addrest, | |
| And arrowes keene to pierce my foe, | |
| Who late bred mischiefe in his breast; | |
| But when he doth on travell goe, | 40 |
| Brings forth a lye; deep pits doth delve, | |
| And falls into his pits himselve. | |
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| Back to his own head shall rebound | |
| His plotted mischiefe; and his wrongs | |
| His crowne shall craze: but I shall sound | 45 |
| Jehouah’s praise with thankful songs, | |
| And with his glorious name expresse, | |
| And tell of all his righteousnesse. | |
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