Gods prouidence in suffering euil.
the 3. key.
Holie Dauid inueigheth against dissembling wicked men. 7. describeth their
manifold punishments, 11. wherin the iust shal be comforted.
1 Vnto the end, destroy not, to Dauid in, the inscription of the title.
2 IF in very dede you speake iustice: iudge right thinges ye sonnes of men.
3 For in the hart you worke iniquities: in the earth your handes forge iniustice.
4 Sinners are alienated from the matrice, they haue erred from the wombe: they haue spoken false thinges.
5 They haue furie according to the similitude of a serpent: as of the aspe that is deafe, and stoppeth his eares.
6 Which wil not heare the voice of the inchanters, and of the sorcerer inchanting wisely.
7 God shal breake their teeth in their mouth, the cheeke tooth of the lions, our Lord wil breake in pieces.
8 They shal come to nothing as water running downe: he hath bent his bow til they be weakened.
9 As waxe that melteth, shal they be taken away: fyre hath falne on them, and they haue not seene the sunne.
10 Before your thornes did vnderstand the old bryar: as liuing so in wrath he swalloweth them.
11 The iust shal reioice when he shal see reuenge: he shal wash his handes in the bloud of a sinner.
12 And man shal say: If certes there be fruite to the iust: there is a God certes iudging them on the earth.