Bishops(i)
1 Confesse you [it] vnto God, call vppon his name: cause the people to vnderstande his deuises
2 Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes
3 Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God
4 Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore
5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth
6 (105:6a) O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob
7 (105:6b) he is God our Lord, his iudgementes are in all the earth
8 (105:7a) He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt (for he promised a worde to a thousande generations:
9 (105:7b) euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac
10 (105:8) And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt
11 (105:9) Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce
12 (105:10a) When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it
13 (105:10b) and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people
14 (105:11) He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes
15 (105:12) Touche not mine annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes
16 (105:13) Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande: and he made all maner of foode to fayle
17 (105:14) But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt
18 (105:15) Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes: the iron entred into his soule
19 (105:16) Vntill the tyme came that his cause [was knowen:] the worde of the Lorde tryed hym
20 (105:17) The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym
21 (105:18) He made him Lorde of his house: and ruler of all his substaunce
22 (105:19) That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde: and teache his senatours wysdome
23 (105:20) Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham
24 (105:21) And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies
25 (105:22) Whose heart so turned that they hated his people: and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes
26 (105:23a) [Then] he sent Moyses his seruaunt, and Aaron whom he had chosen
27 (105:23b) they did their message, workyng his signes among them, and wonders in the lande of Cham
28 (105:24) He sent darknes, & it was darke: and they went not from his wordes
29 (105:25) He turned their waters into blood: and slue their fishe
30 (105:26) Their lande brought foorth frogges: yea euen in their kinges chaumbers
31 (105:27) He spake the worde, and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes: [and] of lyce in all their quarters
32 (105:28) He gaue them haylestones for rayne: [and] flambes of fire in their lande
33 (105:29) He smote their vines also & figge trees: and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes
34 (105:30) He spake the worde, and the grashoppers came: & caterpillers innumerable
35 (105:31) And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande: and deuoured the fruite of their grounde
36 (105:32) He smote al the first borne in their land: euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence
37 (105:33) He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde: there was not one feeble person in their tribes
38 (105:34) Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were smytten with dread of them
39 (105:35) He spred out a cloude to be a couering: and fire to geue light in the night season
40 (105:36) The [people] required and he brought quayles: and he filled them with the bread of heauen
41 (105:37) He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out: so that streames ranne in drye places
42 (105:38) For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt
43 (105:39) And he brought foorth his people with gladnes: [and] his chosen with a ioyfull noyse
44 (105:40) And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen, and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people
45 (105:41) To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes: and obserue his lawes. Prayse ye the Lorde