1 The Psalme of Dauid before he was annoynted.
OVR Lord is my illumination, and my saluation, whom shal I feare? Our Lord is the protectour of my life, of whom shal I be afrayd?
2 Whiles the harmeful approch vpon me, to eate my flesh. Mine enemies that truble me, them selues are weakened and are fallen.
3 If campes stand together against me, my hart shal not feare. If battel rise vp against me, in this wil I hope.
4 One thing I haue asked of our Lord, this wil I seeke for, that I may dwel in the house of our Lord al the dayes of my life. That I may see the pleasentnes of our Lord, and visite his temple.
5 Because he hath hid me in his tabernacle: in the day of euils he hath protected me, in the secrete of his tabernacle.
6 In a rocke he hath exalted me: and now he hath exalted my head ouer mine enemies. I haue gone round about, and haue immolated in his tabernacle an host of iubilation: I wil sing, and say a Psalme to our Lord.
7 Heare ô Lord my voice, wherwith I haue cried to thee: haue mercie on me, and heare me.
8 My hart hath sayd to thee, my face hath sought thee out: thy face ô Lord I wil seeke.
9 Turne not away thy face from me: decline not in wrath from thy seruant. Be thou my helper: forsake me not, neither despise me ô God my Sauiour.
10 Because my father and my mother haue forsaken me: but our Lord hath taken me.
11 Geue me a law ô Lord in thy way: and direct me in the right path, because of mine enemies.
12 Deliuer me not into the soules of them that truble me: because vniust witnesses haue risen vp against me, and iniquity hath lyed to it selfe.
13 I beleue to see the good things of our Lord, in the land of the liuing.
14 Expect our Lord, doe manfully: and let thy hart take courage, and expect thou our Lord.