Original Douay Rheims Bible (1582 & 1610)

THE BOOKE OF PSALMES

Al are exhorted to praise God and trust in his assured prouidence.
the 3. key.
The Psalmist exciteth himself, and al others to praise God for his singular regard, and prouidence of al that trust in him: 3. shewing that neither princes, nor other men are able to helpe, 5. but God can and doth continually releue al sortes of necessities.
1 Alleluia, of Aggæus, and Zacharie.
2 MY soule prayse thou our Lord, I wil praise our Lord in my life: I wil sing to my God as long as I shal be.
3 Put not confidence in princes: in the sonnes of men, in whom there is no saluation.
4 His spirit shal go forth, and he shal returne into his earth: in that day al their cogitations shal perish.
5 Blessed is he, whose helper is the God of Iacob, his hope in our Lord his God: 6 who made heauen and earth, the sea, and al thinges, that are in them.
7 Which keepeth truth for euer, doth iudgement for them that suffer wrong: geueth foode to the hungrie.
8 Our Lord looseth the fettered: our Lord illuminateth the blind.
Our Lord lifteth vp the bruised, our Lord loueth the iust.
9 Our Lord keepeth strangers, the pupil, and widow he wil receiue: and the wayes of sinners he wil destroy.
10 Our Lord wil reigne for euer thy God ô Sion, in generation and generation.