Dauids deuotion in banishment.
the 8. key.
Dauid in banishment with great affection desireth to vnite himselfe with God
in meditation, 4. purposing and promising euer to praise him: 10. prophicieth the vaine endeuoures,
and condemnation of his enimies; and his owne aduancement.
1 A Psalme of Dauid when he was in the desert of Iuda (1. Reg. 21.)
2 O GOD my God to thee I watch, from the morning light. My soule hath thirsted to thee, my flesh to thee very manie wayes.
3 In a desert land, and inaccessible, and without water, so in the holie haue I appeared to thee, that I might see thy strength, and thy glorie.
4 Because thy mercie is better then liues, my lippes shal prayse thee.
5 So wil I blesse thee in my life: and in thy name I wil lifte vp my hands.
6 As with marrow and fatnes let my soule be filled: and my mouth shal praise with lippes of exultation.
7 If I haue bene mindful of thee vpon my bedde, in the morning I Wil meditate on thee: 8 because thou hast bene my helper.
9 And in the couert of thy winges I wil reioice, my soul hath cleaued after thee: thy right hand hath receiued me.
10 But they in vaine haue sought my soule, they shal enter into the inferiour partes of the earth.
11 They shal be deliuered into the handes of the sworde, they shal be the portions of foxes.
12 But the king shal reioice in God, al shal be praised that sweare by him: because the mouth is stopped of those that speake wicked thinges.