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If his children forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgements;

If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

1611 marginal noteHeb. profane my statutes.

The dayes of our yeres are threescore yeeres and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourescore yeeres, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soone cut off, and we flie away.

1611 marginal noteHebr. as for the dayes of our yeeres, in them are seuentie yeeres.

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hand: to day if yee will heare his voyce,

¶ If it had not bene the LORD who was on our side: nowe may Israel say:

If it had not bene the LORD, who was on our side, when men rose vp against vs:

If thou, LORD, shouldest marke iniquities: O LORD, who shal stand?

If thy children will keepe my couenant and my testimonie, that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit vpon thy throne for euermore.

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning.

If I doe not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth; if I preferre not Ierusalem aboue my chiefe ioy.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the head of my ioy.