6. That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand fave them, and hear thou me. 7. God. hath fpoken in his holiness: I will rejoice there fore, and divide Sichem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is mine, and Manaffes is mine Ephraim alfo is the strength of my head. 9 Judah is my law-giver; Moab is my waih-pot over Edom will I cast out my shoe; upon Philiftia will I triumph. 10 Who will lead me into the strong city and who will bring me into Edom t 11 Haft not thou forfaken us, God and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hofts? 12 O help us against the enemy: for vain is the help of man. 2 And they have spoken againit me with false tongues : they compaffed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. 3 For the love that I had unto them, lo, they now take my contrary part but I give inyfelf unto prayer. 4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my good will. 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan tand at his right hand. 6 When fentence is given upon him, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into fin. 7 Let his days be few another take his office. and let 8 Let his children be fatherlefs and his wife a widow. 9 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread: let them feek it alfo out of defolate places. 10 Let the extortioner confume all that he hath and let the ftranger fpoil his labour. 11 Let there be no man to pity him nor to have compaffion upon his fatherless children. 12 Let his pofterity be destroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out. 13 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the fight of the Lord and fet not the fin of his mother be done away. 14 Let them alway be before the Lord that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth; 15 And that, because his mind was not to do good: but persecuted the poor helpless man, that he might flay him that was vexed at the heart. 16 His delight was in curfing, and it shall happen unto him: he loved not bleffing, therefore shall it be far from him. 17 He clothed himself with curfing, like as with a raiment: and it shall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him: and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal. 19. Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies: and to those that fpeak evil against my foul. 20 But deal thou with me, o Lord God, according unto thy Name: for sweet is thy mercy. 21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor and my heart is wounded within me. 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the grafshopper. 23 My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatness. 24 I became also a reproach unto them they, that looked upon me, shaked their heads. 25 Help me, O Lord my God: O fave me according to thy mercy. 26 And they shall know, how that this is thy hand and that his righteousness endureth for thou, Lord, hait done it. 27 Though they curse, yet bless thou and let them be confounded that rife up against me; but let thy servant rejoice. 28 Let mine adverfaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confufion, as with a cloke. 29 As for me, I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth and praise him among the multitude. 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to fave his foul from unrighteous judges. ever. 4 The merciful and gracious Lord hath fo done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance. 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him he shall. ever be mindful of his covenant. 6 He hath thewed his people the power of his works that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgement: all his commandments are true. 8 They stand fast for ever and wever and are done in truthe and equity. MORNING PRAYER. Pfalm cx. Dixit Dominus. TH HE LORD faid unto my Sit thou on my right hand, untill make thine enemies thy footstool. 9 He fent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his Name. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom a good understanding have all they that be do thereafter; the praife of it endureth for ever. 2 The Lord shall fend the rod of thy power out of Sion thou ruler, even in the midst among thine enemies. 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee freewillofferings with an holy worthip: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. 4 The Lord sware, and will not repent: Thou art a prieft for ever after the order of Melchifedech. 5 The Lord upon thy right hand: thall wound even kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies: and smite in funder the heads over divers countries. 7 He thall drink of the brook in the way therefore thail he lift up his head. I Pl. cxi. Confitebor tibi. WILL give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart secretly among the faithful, and in the congregation. : 2 The works of the Lord are great fought out of all them that have pleasure therein. 3 His work is worthy to be praifed and had in honour: and B Pf. cxii. Beatus vir. LESSED is the man that feareth the Lord: he hath great delight in his commandments. 2 His feed thall be mighty upon earth the generation of the faithful thall be bieffed. 3 Riches and plenteousness shall be in his house and his righteousness endureth for ever. 4 Unto the godly there arifeth up light in the darkness : he is merciful, loving, and righteous. 5 A good man is merciful, and lendeth and will guide his words with difcretion. 6 For he thall never be moved: and the righteous shall be had in everlafting remembrance. 7 He will not be afraid of any evil tidings: for his heart standeth faft, and believeth in the Lord. 8 His heart is established, and will not shrink until he fee his defire upon his enemies. 9 He hath dispersed abroad, and given to the poor and his righteousness remaineth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour. 10 The ungodly shall fee it, and it shall grieve him he shalt gnath with his teeth, and confume away; the desire of the ungodly shall perish. P Pf. cxiii. Laudate, pueri. RAISE the Lord, ye servants: O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore. 3 The Lord's Name is praised: from the rifing up of the fun, unto the going down of the fame. 4 The Lord is high above all heathen and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling fo high and yet humbleth himfelf to behold the things that are in heaven and earth? 6 He taketh up the fimple out of the dust and lifteth the poor out of the mire; 7 That he may set him with the princes: even with the princes of his people. 8 He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of children. EVENING PRAYER. Pfalm cxiv. In exitu Ifrael. THEN Ifrael came out of WHEND Egypt and the house of Jacob from among the strange people; 2 Judah was his fanctuary: and Ifrael his dominion. 3 The fea faw that, and fled: Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like young sheep. 5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddeft: and thou Jor dan, that thou wast driven back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams: and ye little hills, like young theep? 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the prefence of the Lord at the prefence of the God of Jacob, 8 Who turned the hard rock into a standing water: and the Hint stone into a springing well. Pl. cxv. Non nobis, Domine. от unto N us, Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name give the praife: for thy ovingmercy, and for thy truth's fake. 2 Wherefore shall the heathen fay: Where is now their God? 3 As for our God, he is in hea. ven he hath done whatfoever pleased him. 4 Their idols are filver and even the work of men's gold hands. 5 They have mouths, and speak not: eyes have they, and fee not. 6 They have ears, and hear not: noses have they, and smell not. 7 They have hands, and handle not; feet have they, and walk not neither speak they through their throat. 8 They, that make them, are like unto thein and fo are all fuch as put their trust in them. 9 But thou, house of Ifrael, trust thou in the Lord: he is their fuccour and defence. 10 Ye house of Aaron, put your trust in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 11 Ye that fear the Lord, put your truft in the Lord he is their helper and defender. 12 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and he shall bless us: even he thall bless the house of Ifrael, he shall bless the house of Aaron. 13 He shall bless them that fear the Lord: both small and great. 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children. 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord who made heaven and earth. 16 All the whole heavens are the Lord's the earth hath he given to the children of men. 17 The dead praise not thee, O Lord neither all they that go down into filence. 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for evermore. Praise the Lord. 1 3 The snares of death compassed me round about: and the pains of hell gat hold upon me. 4 I thall find trouble and heaviness; and I will call upon the Name of the Lord O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my foul. 5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous yea, our God is iner ciful. 6 The Lord preferveth the fimple: I was in mifery, and he helped me. 7 Turn again then unto thy rest, O my foul for the Lord hath rewarded thee. 8 And why? thou hast delivered my foul from death mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. 10 I believed, and therefore will 1 fpeak; but I was fore troubled: I faid in my haste, All men are liars. 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord: for all the benefits that he hath done unto me? 12 I will receive the cup of falvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the prefence of all his people right dear in the tight of the Lord is the death of his faints. 14 Behold, O Lord, how that I am thy fervant: I am thy fervant, and the fon of thine handmaid; thou hast broken my bonds in funder. 15 I will offer to thee the facrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord. 2 For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord $ endureth for ever. Praise the Lord. Pf. cxviii. Confitemini Domino. GIVE thanks unto the Lord, gracious because his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let Ifrael now confefs, that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now confefs: that his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Yea, let them now, that fear the Lord, confefs: that his mercy endureth for ever. 5 1 called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large. 6 The Lord is on my fide: I will not fear what man doeth unto me. 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore thall I fee my defire upon mine enemies. 8 It is better to truft in the Lord than to put any contidence in man. 9 It is better to truft in the Lord than to put any confi dence in princes. 10 All nations compaffed me round about but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them. 11 They kept me in on every fide; they kept me in, I fay, on every fide but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them. 12 They came about me like bees, and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns: for in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them. 13 Thou haft thrust fore at me, that I might fall but the Lord was my help. 14 The Lord is my strength, and iny fong: and is become my falvation. 15 The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass. 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the pre-eminence: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass. 17 1 shall not die, but live: and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chaftened and corrected me: but he hath not given me over unto death. 19 Open me the gates of right. cousness that I may go into them, and give thanks unto the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter into it. 21 I will thank thee, for thou haft heard me: and art become my falvation. 22 The fame ftone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner. 23 This is the Lord's doing : and it is marvellous in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Help me now, O Lord : O Lord, fend us now profperity 26 Bleffed be he that cometh in the Name of the Lord we have wished you good luck, ye that are of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord, who hath thewed us light bind the facri fice with cords, yea, even unto the horns of the altar. 28 Thou art my God, and I will thank thee thou art my God, and I will praise thee. 29 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he his gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. EVENING PRAYER. Pfalm xix. Beati immaculati. LESSED are those that are undefiled in the way: and walk in the law of the Lord. B 2 Bleffed are they that keep bis teftimonies and feek him with their whole heart. 3 For they who do no wickedness: walk in his ways. 4 Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments. 5 O that my ways were made so direct: that I might keep thy ftatutes! 6 So thall I not be confounded: while I have respect unto all thy Commandments. 71 will thank thee with an unfeigned heart when I thall have learned the judgements of thy righteousness. 8 I will keep thy ceremonies: forfake me not utterly! W In quo corriget? HEREWITHAL shall a young man cleanfe his way even by ruling himfelf after thy word. 2 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not go wrong out of thy command ments. 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart that I should not fin against thee. 4 Bleffed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy ftatutes. 5 With my lips have I been telling of all the judgements of thy mouth. 6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy teftimonies : as in all manner of riches. 7 I will talk of thy commandments and have respect unto thy ways. 8 My delight shall be in thy statutes and I will not forget thy word. Retribue fervo tuo. DO well unto thy fervant: that I may live, and keep thy word. 2 Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wondrous things of thy law. 3 I am a firanger upon earth: O hide not thy commandments from me. 4 My foul breaketh out for the very fervent defire that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 5 Thou haft rebuked the proud: and curfed are they that do err from thy commandments. 60 turn from me thame and rebuke for I have kept thy teftimonies. 7 Princes also did fit and speak against me but thy fervant is occupied in thy statutes. 8 For thy teftimonies are my delight and my counsellors. Adhæfit pavimento. |