The dangers of the pilgrim
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Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
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The wicked with pride doeth persecute the let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.
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For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth he contemneth the Lord.
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The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
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His wayes alway thy iudgements are hie aboue his therefore defieth he all his enemies.
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He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
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He lieth in waite in the in the secret places doeth hee murder the his eyes are bent against the poore.
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He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his he lyeth in waite to spoyle the he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.
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He croucheth and therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
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He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
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Arise, O Lord lift vp thine forget not the poore.
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Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
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Yet thou hast seene for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine the poore committeth himselfe vnto for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.
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Breake thou the arme of the wicked and searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.
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The Lord is King for euer and the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land.
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Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the thou preparest their thou bendest thine eare to them,
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To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.