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EAR this, all people, and give ear, all in the world that dwell;

2 Both low and high, both rich and poor. My mouth fhall wifdom tell;

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My heart fhall knowledge meditate. 4 I will incline mine ear

To parables; and on the harp my fayings dark declare.

5 Amidst those days that evil be, why fhould I, fearing, doubt? When of my heels th' iniquity fhall compass me about.

6 Whoe'er they be that in their wealth their confidence do pitch,

And boast themselves, because they are become exceeding rich.

7 Yet none of these his brother can redeem by any way,

Nor can he unto God for him

fufficient ransom pay:

8 (Their foul's redemption precious is, and it can never be,)

9 That ftill he should for ever live, and not corruption fee.

ro For why, he feeth that wife men die,

and brutish fools alfo

Do perish, and their wealth, when dead. to others they let go.

11 Their inward thought is, that their house and dwelling-places fhall

Stand thro' all ages; they their lands by their own names do call.

12 But yet in honour fhall not man abide continually ;

But paffing hence, may be compar'd unto the beafts that die. 13 Thus brutish folly plainly is their wisdom and their way; Yet their posterity approve what they do fondly fay.

14 Like sheep they in the grave are laid, and death fhall them devour ; And in the morning upright men fhall over them have pow'r: Their beauty from their dwelling fhal confume within the grave...

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But from hell's hand God will me free, for he fhall me receive.

16 Be thou not then afraid when one
enriched thou dost see,

Nor when the glory of his house
advanced is on high.

17 For he shall carry nothing hence,
when death his days doth end :
Nor fhall his glory after him
into the grave defcend.

18 Although he his own foul did bless, whilft he on earth did live, (And when thou to thyfelf doft well, men will thee praises give.)

19 He to his father's race fhall go, they never fhall fee light.

20 Man honour'd, wanting knowledge, is like beasts that perish quite.

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PSALM L.

HE mighty God, the Lord,
hath spoken and did call

The earth, from rifing of the fun,
to where he hath his fall.

2 From out of Zion hill, which of excellency

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And beauty the perfection is,
God fhined gloriously.

Our God fhall furely come,

keep filence shall not he:

Before him fire fhall wafte, great storms

shall round about him be.

4 Unto the heavens clear

he from above fhall call, And to the earth likewife, that he may judge his people all. 5 Together let my faints

unto me gather'd be:

Those that by facrifice have made a covenant with me. 6 And then the heavens fhall his righteousness declare: Because the Lord himfelf is he by whom men judged are, 7 My people Ifra'l hear,

fpeak will I from on high; Against thee I will teftify: God, ev'n thy God am I.

8 I for thy facrifice

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no blame will on thee lay,
Nor for burnt-off'rings which to me
thou off'redft ev'ry day.

I'll take no calf, nor goats,
from house or fold of thine

10 For beasts of foreft, cattle all
on thousand hills are mine.
II The fowls on mountains high
are all to me well known:

Wild beasts, which in the fields do lie, ev'n they are all mine own.

12 Then, if I hungry were,

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I would not tell it thee;
Because the world, and fullness all,
thereof belongs to me.

Will I eat flesh of bulls?

or goats blood drink will I?

14 Thanks offer thou to God, and pay

thy vows to the most High.

15 And call upon me when

in trouble thou fhalt be; I will deliver thee, and thou my name fhalt glorify. 16 But to the wicked man

God faith, My laws and truth Should'st thou declare? how dar'st thou my cov❜nant in thy mouth? [take 17 Sith thou inftruction hat'st, which fhould thy ways direct, And, fith my works behind thy back thou caft'ft, and doft reject.

18 When thou a thief didft fee,

with him thou didst confent,
And with the vile adulterers

partaker on thou went.
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19 Thou