[Almighty God, we invoke Thee, the Fountain of everlasting Light; and intreat Thee to fend forth thy truth into our hearts, and to pour upon us the Glory of thy brightness, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.] PSALM LXII. Lord, I suffer violence, answer for me : What shall I say? or what shall He anfwer me, whereas I myself have done it. I will recount to Thee all my years: in the bitterness of my foul. Lord, if life be such, and the life of my spirit in such things, Thou shalt chaften me, and quicken me: behold, in peace is my bitterness most bitter. But Thou hast delivered my foul, that O Thee, from break of day it should not perish: Thou hast cast all I fought the refidue of my years: I faid I shall not fee The Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more: and the inhabitant of reft. My generation is taken away, and is rolled up away from me: as the tent of the shepherds. My life is cut off as by a weaver: while I was yet beginning, He cut me off. From morning even unto night, Thou wilt make an end of me: I hoped even until morning; as a lion, so hath He broken all my bones. From morning even unto evening, Thou wilt make an end of me: as the young of the swallow, fo will I cry, I will meditate as a dove. my fins behind thy back. Because Hell shall not confess to Thee, neither shall Death praise Thee: they that go down into the pit, shall not await thy truth. The living, the living, he shall give Thee thanks, as I also this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. O Lord, save me: and we will fing our pfalms all the days of our life, in the House of The Lord. 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. Antiphon. LL the days of our life, save us, O Lord. Oioueae. ᅣ N the Highest praise ye God. Oioueae. PSALMS CXLVIII., CXLIX., CL. Mine eyes are wafted away : looking ( PRAISE The Lord from the Heavens. upwards. [See Lauds for Monday.] ↑ From the First Sunday after the Octave of The Epiphany to Quadragefima, in the ordinary Wednesday Service, this Hymn is faid AT LAUDS. ALES Diei nuntius Jefum ciamus vocibus Tu Christe! fomnum difcute, Deo Patri fit Gloria! strain; And Christ, th'awakener of our fouls, Calls us to life and light again. THE herald bird of Day proclaims "Take hence!" He cries, "the bed of floth! Jesu! with mourning voice we call, And pour on us thy new-born light! Glory to God The Father be! A A men. From Prudentius. men. V. In the morning, O Lord, I will meditate upon Thee. R. Because Thou hast been my helper. CHAPTER. 1 Cor. xvi. ATCH ye, and pray; stand fast in the faith; quit you like men, be strong: let all things be done with charity. Thanks be to God. Throughout the Summer is said the ECCE jam noctis tenuatur umbra V. In the morning, O Lord, I will meditate upon Thee. B. Because Thou hast been my helper. Antiphon. HE Lord hath raised up unto us a horn of salvation, in the house of PSALM. Venite exultemus. O COME, let us be joyful. From the FIRST SUNDAY after the Octave of THE EPIPHANY to QUADRAGESIMA, in the ordinary Wednesday Service, the following Hymn is faid IN LAUDS. RERUM Creator Optime! Te Christe Sancte! poscimus, Mentes manusque tollimus, Vides malum quod fecimus, Gloria Tibi Domine! Qui natus es de Virgine; Cum Patre et Spiritu Sancto, Per fempiterna fecula. Throughout the Summer is said the Hymn NOCTE surgentes vigilemus omnes. ARISE we in the nightly watches waking. [See Matins for Monday.] PSALM LII. [PS. LIII. E. V.] [To the end, for Amalech, of the Understanding of David. A Pfalm for Meditation. Voice of The Holy Spirit against the Jews.] T HE Lord will turn a - way. Oioueae. Dixit infipiens. HE fool hath said in his heart: there is no God. Corrupt are they, and become abominable in their iniquities: there is none that doeth good. God looked down from Heaven upon the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. But they are all gone out of the way; they all become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not even one. Will they not know, all that work wickedness: who eat up my people like the food of bread? They have not called upon God: there they trembled for fear where no fear was. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they are confounded because God hath despised them. Who will give salvation unto Ifrael out of Syon? when God shall have turned again the captivity of his people: then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel be right glad. [O most merciful God! look down from thy Holy Heaven and put an end to our folly; so that, delivered from vain fears, we may please Thee alone, in entire purity of heart, through our Lord Jesus Chrift. Amen.] PSALM LIII. SAVE me, O God is not faid at Nocturns. [See the Office for Prime.] PSALM LIV. [PS. LV. E. V.] [To the end, in verses. Understanding of David. A Pfalm for Prayer. Voice of Christ against the Jews of Judah.] Exaudi, Deus orationem. HEAR my prayer, O God : and despise not my fupplication; be intent unto me, and hearken unto me. I am grieved in my exercising: and I am troubled by the voice of the enemy, and by the tribulation of the finner. For they have turned iniquities upon me: and in wrath they have molested me. My heart is disquieted within me : and the fear of death is fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath overwhelmed me. And I faid, Who will give me wings as of a dove: and I will flee away and be at reft ? Lo! I departed far away in flight : and abode in the wilderness. I waited for Him who hath saved me: from poorness of spirit, and from the tempeft. Cast them down, O Lord! divide their tongues: for I have spied unrighteousness and ftrife in the city. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and labour in the midst of it, and unrighteousness. Usury and guile: hath not failed from its fstreets. For if mine enemy had reviled me: I would verily have borne with it. And if he who hated me had spoken great things against me: peradventure I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou, a man of one mind with me: my guide and mine acquaintance. Who took pleasant meats along with me: in the House of God we walked in agreement. Let death come upon them: and let them descend alive into Hell. For wickedness is in their dwellings: in the midst of them. |