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CHAP. XXXIV.

1 Dauid prayseth God, and exhorteth other thereto by his experience. 8 They are blessed that trust in God. 11 He exhorteth to the feare of God. 15 The Priuiledges of the righteous.

¹ [A Psalme of Dauid, when he changed his behauiour before Abimelech: who droue him away & he departed.] I will blesse the Lord at all times: his prayse shall continually bee in my mouth.

To see good dayes.

² My soule shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall heare thereof, and be glad.

³ O magnifie the Lord with me, and let vs exalt his name together.

⁴ I sought the Lord, and hee heard me; and deliuered mee from all my feares.

⁵ They looked vnto him, and were lightned: and their faces were not ashamed.⁵

⁶ This poore man cried, and the Lord heard him; and saued him out of all his troubles.

⁷ The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that feare him, and deliuereth them.

⁸ O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

⁹ O feare the Lord yee his Saints: for there is no want to them that feare him.

¹⁰ The young lyons doe lacke, and suffer hunger: but they that seeke the Lord, shall not want any good thing.

¹¹ Come yee children, hearken vnto me: I will teach you the feare of the Lord.

¹² What man is hee that desireth life; and loueth many dayes, that he may see good?¹²

¹³ Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lippes from speaking guile.

¹⁴ Depart from euill, and doe good: seeke peace and pursue it.

¹⁵ The eies of the Lord are vpon the righteous; and his eares are open vnto their crie.¹⁵

¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against them that doe euill; to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

¹⁷ The righteous crie, and the Lord heareth; and deliuereth them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸ The Lord is nigh vnto them that are of a broken heart: and saueth such as be of a contrite spirit.¹⁸

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.

²⁰ He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

²¹ Euill shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shalbe desolate.²¹

²² The Lord redeemech the soule of his seruants: and none of them that trust in him, shalbe desolate.

Psalms Chapter 34 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):

⁵ Or, they flowed vnto him.
¹² Pet.3. 10.
¹⁵ Iob.36.7. psal.33.18. 1.Pet.3.12.
¹⁸ Heb. to the broken of heart. , Heb. contrite of spirit.
²¹ Or, shalbe guilty.

* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania