Or, according to the Season (viz., after The Purification). Throughout the Summer is said the Hymn Nocte furgentes vigilemus omnes. Arise we in the nightly watches waking. [See Matins for Monday.] PSALM XXXVIII. [Ps. XXXIX. E. V.] [To the end, to Iduthun himself. A Song of David. A Pfalm for Prayer. Voice of Apostles and Martyrs under trial.] T Verily, man passeth by as an image : and in vain is he disquieted. He heapeth up riches: and knoweth not for whom he shall gather them. And now, what is my expectation?: is not The Lord? and my substance is with HAT I offend not. World without Thee. end. Amen. Dixi Cuftodiam. SAID, I will keep my ways: that I offend not with my tongue. I put a guard on my mouth: whilft the finner stood before me. I became dumb, and was humbled; and I kept filence from good things: and my grief was renewed. My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out. I spake with my tongue: Lord, let me know mine end. And the number of my days what it is: that I may know what is wanting to me. Behold, Thou hast made my days as a measure: and my substance is even as nothing before Thee. Verily, all things are vanity: every living man. Deliver me from all mine iniquities : Thou hast given me to be a rebuke unto the foolish. I became dumb, and opened not my mouth, for it was thy doing: remove thy scourges from me. From the might of thy hand I have failed away: with rebukes, because of his iniquity, Thou hast corrected man. Thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely, vainly is any man disquieted. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: with thine ears give heed unto my tears. Be not filent, for I am a stranger with Thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers. O spare me that I may be refreshed before I go hence: and shall be no more. [O Lord, keep our ways, that we offend not with the tongue; and kindle the fire of The Spirit in our meditations; so that we may lay up those treasures in this world, which by thy gift we may obtain everlastingly, through Christ our Lord. Amen.] PSALM XXXIX. [PS. XL. E. V.] For evils came about me which are without number: mine iniquities have ['To the end, a Pfalm to David himself. A Pfalm laid hold upon me, and I am not able to of Thanksgiving and Prayer. The Voice of the Church respecting The Lord's Refurrection.] behold. Expectans expectavi. WITH expectation I awaited The Lord: and He gave heed unto me. And He hearkened unto my prayers: and brought me out of the pit of misery, and out of the miry dregs. And He fet my feet upon the rock: and ordered my goings. And He put a new song in my mouth: even a thanksgiving unto our God. Many shall fee it, and fear: and shall put their truft in The Lord. Blessed is the man whose trust is in The Name of The Lord: and hath not regarded vanities or lying follies. O Lord, my God! many are the wondrous works which Thou hast done: and in thy thoughts there is no one like unto Thee. I have declared, and have spoken: they are multiplied above number. Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not: but Thou hast perfected mine ears to me. Burnt - offering and fin-offering haft Thou not required: then said I, Lo! I come. In the Head of the Book it is written of me that I should do thy will; my God, I have willed it: and thy law is in the midft of my heart. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me. Let it be thy pleasure, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, look down to help me. Let them be confounded and put to shame together, that seek after my foul: to destroy it. Let them be turned backward, and put to shame: that wish me evil. Let them forthwith bear their confusion: that say unto me, well done! well done! Let all those that feek Thee, be joyful and glad in Thee: and let them that love thy falvation say alway, The Lord be magnified. But I am mendicant and poor: yet The Lord careth for me. Thou art my Helper and Redeemer: O my God! Thou shalt make no long tarrying. Glory be to The Father, and to The Son: and to The Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen. I have declared thy righteousness in the great Church: lo! I will not refrain my S lips, O Lord, Thou knowest. Thy righteousness I have not hid within my heart: I have spoken thy truth and thy salvation. I have not hidden thy loving mercy and truth: from the great council. But Thou, O Lord, put not far away thy compassions from me: thy mercy and thy truth have ever upheld me. Antiphon. HAT I offend not with my tongue. [God, the only hope of thy servants, whom the Head of the Book of Books hath taught, shall come to judge the world; plant, we befeech Thee, thy law in the midst of our hearts, that shewing forth thy righteousness, we may be delivered from the dangers which surround us, through Christ our Lord. Amen.] PSALM XL. [Ps. XLI. E. V.] [O Eternal God! Who dost mercifully pardon our offences, who vouchsafest to make a way to escape [To the end, a Pfalm to David himself. A in the evil day, and fuccoureft the poor with thy Pfalm of Lamentation. The Voice of the Church teaching, and of the Patience of Christ.] BLESSED is he that understandeth concerning the poor and needy: The Lord shall deliver him in the evil day. The Lord preferve him, and keep him alive, and make him blessed upon earth: and deliver him not into the will of his enemies. The Lord bring help to him upon his bed of forrow: Thou hast made all his bed in his fickness. I faid, Lord be merciful unto me: heal my foul, for I have sinned against Thee. Mine enemies have spoken evil of me: When shall he die, and his name perish? And if he came to fee me, he spoke vanity: his heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went out: and spake to the fame purpose. All mine enemies whispered against me: against me did they imagine evil to me. They purposed a wicked word against me: whether will he that sleepeth not add also, that he rise again? Yea, even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread: hath greatly supplanted me. But Thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up again: and I shall requite them. By this I know Thou hast favoured me: because mine enemy shall not rejoice over me. But Thou hast upholden me, because of mine innocence: and Thou hast established me before thy face for ever. mercy; comfort us, we entreat Thee, in our forrows, and whilst Thou dost punish our fins in the flesh, mercifully bestow medicine upon our fouls, through Christ our Lord. Amen.] PSALM XLI. [PS. XLII. E. V.] [To the end, understanding to the Sons of Korah. A Pfalm of defire, with lamentation. The Voice of Penitents haftening to the fountains of waters.] Quemadmodum. LIKE as the hart longeth for the fountains of waters: so longeth my foul after Thee, O God. My foul hath thirsted for God, The living Fountain: when shall I come and appear before the face of God? Tears were to me for my bread day and night: while it is said unto me daily, Where is thy God? These things I remembered, and I poured out my foul in me: for I will pass over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even into the House of God. In the voice of joy and thanksgiving: the found of feasting. Wherefore art thou sad, O my foul: and why doft thou trouble me? Put thy trust in God, for I will yet give Him thanks: the health of my countenance and my God. Within is my foul vexed: therefore will I remember Thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon. Deep calleth to deep: in the voice of thy cataracts. All thy heights and thy waves: have passed over me. In the day-time The Lord hath granted me his mercy: and in the night season a fong unto Him. With me is prayer unto the God of my life: I will say unto God, Thou art my upholder; Why haft Thou forgotten me?: why go I So be it. | forrowfully, while the enemy afflicteth me? Blessed be The Lord God of Ifrael: world without end; So be it. For they possessed not the land through their own fword: and their own arm did not fave them. But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance: because Thou wast well pleased with them. Thou art Thyself my King, and my God: Who commandest health unto Jacob. Through Thee with the horn will we overthrow our enemies : and in Thy Name will we spurn them that rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow: and my fword shall not fave me. For Thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and haft put them to confufion that hate us. We will make our boast of God all the day long: and in Thy Name will we give thanks for evermore. But now Thou hast repelled and confounded us: and Thou, God, wilt not go forth with our armies. Thou hast turned us back from our enemies: and they which hated us, fpoil for themselves. Thou haft given us like sheep for food: and haft scattered us among the Gentiles. Thou hast fold thy people for naught: and there was no reckoning in the exchange for them. Thou hast made us the reproach of our neighbours: a scoff and derision of them that are round about us. Thou haft made us to be a by-word among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people. All the day long my shame is before me: and the confufion of my face hath covered me. From the voice of the slanderer and blafphemer: from the face of the enemy and perfecutor. And though all this came upon us, yet did we not forget Thee: nor have we behaved ourselves frowardly in thy cove nant. And our heart hath not turned back- righteousness: and thy right hand shall ward: yet haft Thou turned our paths from thy way. For Thou didst abase us unto the place of affliction: and coveredst us with the shadow of death. If we have forgotten The Name of our God: and holden up our hands to any strange God, Shall not God search it out?: for He hath known the hidden things of the heart. For thy fake also are we killed all the day long and are counted as sheep for the flaughter. : Up, Lord, why sleepest Thou: arife, and caft us not off for ever. Wherefore hideft Thou thy face: and forgettest our want and our trouble? For our foul is humbled in the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the ground. Arife, O Lord, help us: and redeem us for Thy Name's fake. [Arife, O Lord! and help us, and deliver us from the reproach of our fins; and do Thou, who didft vanquish before our face the kingdoms of the Gentiles, deliver us, by the light of thy countenance, from the affaults of our enemies, through our Lord Jesus Chrift. Amen.] conduct thee wondroufly. Thine arrows are sharp, and the people shall fall under Thee: into the hearts of the King's enemies. Thy feat, O God, endureth for ever and ever: the fceptre of uprightness is the fceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity: wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Myrrh, and perfume, and cassia, are in thy garments, out of the ivory palaces: out of which King's daughters have delighted Thee in thine honour. Upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in a vesture of gold: wrought about diversely. Hearken, O daughter, and fee and incline thine ear: forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. So shall the King defire thy beauty: for He is The Lord thy God, and they shall worship Him. The daughters of Tyre, with their gifts : all the rich among the people shall intreat thy countenance. All the glory of the King's daughter is from within, in golden fringes: she is clothed about with variety. There shall be brought to the King, virgins after her: her neighbours shall be brought unto Thee. With joy and gladness shall they be brought: they shall be led into the Temple of the King. Instead of thy fathers, fons are born unto Thee: Thou shalt make them princes over all the earth. They shall remember Thy Name, O Lord: from every generation to another. Wherefore the people shall give thanks unto Thee for evermore: and world without end. Glory be to The Father. |