Dauids prayer in extreme distresse.
the 8. key.
Holie Dauid being fled into a caue, and beseeged round about by Sauls armie, explicating his distressse, 6. prayeth to be deliuered.
1 Of vnderstanding to Dauid, when he was in the caue, a prayer. 1. Reg 14.
2 VVITH my voice I haue cried to our Lord: with my voice I haue prayed to our Lord.
3 I powre out my prayer in his sight, and I pronounce my tribulation before him.
4 When my spirit faileth of myself, and thou hast knowne my pathes.
In this way, which I walked, they hid a snare for me.
5 I looked toward the right hand, and saw: and there was none that would know me.
Flight hath failed me: and there is none to require my soule.
6 I haue cried to thee ô Lord, I haue sayd: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the liuing.
7 Attend to my petition: because I am humbled excedingly.
Deliuer me from them that persecute me: because they are made strong ouer me.
8 Bring forth my soule out of prison, to confesse vnto thy name: the iust expect me, til thou reward me.