1A Psalme to give instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?

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Deuteronomy 29:20, Deuteronomy 29:20, Psalms 79:13, Psalms 100:3, Psalms 79:13

2Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

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Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 10:16, Exodus 15:16, Deuteronomy 32:9, Exodus 15:13

3Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.

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Lamentations 1:10, Psalms 79:1, Daniel 9:17, Lamentations 1:10, Psalms 79:1

4Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes.

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Lamentations 2:7, Lamentations 2:7, Matthew 24:15, Matthew 24:15, 2 Chronicles 36:17

5He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:

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2 Chronicles 2:14, Jeremiah 46:22, Jeremiah 46:23, 1 Kings 5:6, 2 Chronicles 2:14

6But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.

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1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:35, 1 Kings 6:29, 1 Kings 6:32

7They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.

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2 Kings 25:9, 2 Kings 25:9, Psalms 89:39, Psalms 89:39, Isaiah 64:11

8They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.

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Psalms 83:4, Psalms 83:4, Esther 3:8, Esther 3:9, 2 Kings 2:3

9We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.

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Amos 8:11, Ezekiel 7:26, 1 Samuel 3:1, Amos 8:11, Ezekiel 7:26

10O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?

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Psalms 89:50, Psalms 89:51, Psalms 89:50, Psalms 89:51, Psalms 13:1

11Why withdrawest thou thine hand, euen thy right hand? drawe it out of thy bosome, and consume them.

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Lamentations 2:3, Lamentations 2:3, Psalms 44:23, Isaiah 64:12, Psalms 78:65

12Euen God is my King of olde, working saluation in the middes of the earth.

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Psalms 44:4, Psalms 44:4, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Isaiah 33:22

13Thou didest deuide the sea by thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

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Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:21, Psalms 78:13, Psalms 78:13, Ezekiel 29:3

14Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.

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Isaiah 27:1, Isaiah 27:1, Psalms 104:25, Psalms 104:26, Psalms 104:25

15Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.

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Numbers 20:11, Numbers 20:11, Isaiah 48:21, Exodus 17:5, Exodus 17:6

16The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

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Psalms 136:7, Psalms 136:9, Psalms 136:7, Psalms 136:9, Matthew 5:45

17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

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Deuteronomy 32:8, Deuteronomy 32:8, Acts 17:26, Acts 17:26, Acts 14:17

18Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.

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Psalms 39:8, Psalms 39:8, Deuteronomy 32:6, Revelation 16:19, Deuteronomy 32:6

19Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.

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Song of Solomon 2:14, Song of Solomon 2:14, Matthew 10:16, James 2:5, James 2:6

20Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.

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Psalms 106:45, Psalms 106:45, Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 17:7

21Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.

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Psalms 12:5, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 9:18, Ezra 3:11, Psalms 103:6

22Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.

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Psalms 74:18, Psalms 74:18, Isaiah 52:5, Psalms 53:1, Isaiah 52:5

23Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.

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Psalms 65:7, Isaiah 37:29, Psalms 65:7, Isaiah 37:29, Lamentations 2:16