Livered: help me with thy right| 2 He verily is my strength and hand, and hear me. my salvation; he is my defence, so that I shall not greatly fall. 6 God hath spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice and divide Sichem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 3 How long will ye imagine mischief against every man? ye shall be slain all the sort of you; yea, as a tottering wall shall ye be, and like 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasses is mine; Ephraim also is the a broken hedge. strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver; 8 Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; Philistia, be thou glad of me. 9 Who will lead me into the strong city? who will bring me into Edom? 10 Hast not thou cast us out, O God? wilt not thou, O God, go out with our hosts? 11 O be thou our help in trouble; for vain is the help of man. 12 Through God will we do great acts; for it is he that shall tread down our enemies. 2 From the ends of the earth will I call upon thee, when my heart is in heaviness. 4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt; their delight is in lies; they give good words with their mouth, but curse with their heart. 5 Nevertheless, my soul wait thou still upon God; for my hope lis in him. 6 He truly is my strength, and my salvation; he is my defence, so that I shall not fall. 7 In God is my health and my glory, the rock of my might; and in God is my trust. 8 O put your trust in him alway, ye people; pour out your hearts before him; for God is our hope. 9 As for the children of men, they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful upon the weights; they are altogether lighter than vanity itself. 30 set me up upon the rock that 100 trust not in wrong and robis higher than I; for thou hast been bery; give not yourselves unto my hope, and a strong tower for vanity: if riches increase, set not me against the enemy. your heart upon them. 4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever, and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings. 11 God spake once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God; 12 And that thou, Lord, art mer 5 For thou, O Lord, hast heard my desires, and hast given an heri-ciful; for thou rewardest every man tage unto those that fear thy name. according to his work. 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life, that his years may endure throughout all generations. Psalm 63. Deus, Deus meus. GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. 7 He shall dwell before God for 2 My soul thirsteth for thee; my ever: O prepare thy loving mercy flesh also longeth after thee, in a and faithfulness, that they may barren and dry land where no preserve him. water is. 8 So will I always sing praise unto thy name, that I nay daily perform my vows. The twelfth Day. MY soul truly waitete stiet salvation. 3 Thus have I looked for thee in holiness, that I might behold thy power and glory; 4 For thy loving-kindness is better than the life itself: my lips shall praise thee. or thee in this manner, and lift my 5. As long as I live will I magnify my hands in thy name. 6 My soul shall be satisfied, even the Lord, and put his trust in hima; as it were with marrow and fatness, and all they that are true of iret when my mouth praiseth thee with shall be glad. joyful lips. 7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking? 8 Because thou hast been my helper; therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 65. Te decet hymnus, THOU, O God, art praised in Sion; and unto thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. 2 Thou that hearest the prayer, 9 My soul hangeth upon thee; unto thee shall all flesh come. thy right hand hath upholden me. 3 My misdeeds prevail against 10 These also that seek the hurt me: O be thou merciful unto our of my soul, they shall go under the sins. earth. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou 11 Let them fall upon the edge choosest, and receivest unto thee? of the sword, that they may be a he shall dwell in thy court, and portion for foxes. shall be satisfied with the pleasures 12 But the King shall rejoice in of thy house, even of thy holy God; all they also that swear by temple. him shall be commended: for the 5 Thou shalt show us wonderful mouth of them that speak lies shall things in thy righteousness, O God be stopped. of our salvation; thou that art the Psalm 64. Exaudi, Deus. hope of all the ends of the earth, HEAR my voice, O God, in my and of them that remain in the prayer; preserve my life from broad sea. fear of the enemy. 1 6 Who in his strength setteth 2 Hide me from the gathering fast the mountains, and is girded together of the froward, and from about with power. the insurrection of wicked doers; 7 Who stilleth the raging of the 3 Who have whet their tongue sea, and the noise of his waves, and like a sword, and shoot out their the madness of the people. arrows, even bitter words, 8 They also that dwell in the 4 That they may privily shoot uttermost parts of the earth shall at him that is perfect: suddenly do be afraid at thy tokens, thou that they hit him, and fear not. makest the out-goings of the morn 5 They encourage themselves in ing and evening to praise thee. mischief, and commune among 9 Thou visitest the earth, and themselves, how they may lay blessest it; thou makest it very snares; and say, that no man shall plenteous. see them. 10 The river of God is full of 6 They imagine wickedness, and water: thou preparest their corn, practise it; that they keep secret for so thou providest for the earth. among themselves,, every man in 11 Thou waterest her furrows; the deep of his heart. thou sendest rain into the little val 7 But God shall suddenly shoot leys thereof; thou makest it soft at them with a swift arrow, that with the drops of rain, and blessest they shall be wounded. the increase of it. 8 Yea, their own tongues shall 12 Thou crownest the year with make them fall; insomuch that thy goodness; and thy clouds drop whoso seeth them, shall laugh the fatness. to scorn. 9 And all men that see it shall say, This hath God done; for they shall perceive that it is his work. 10 The righteous shall rejoice in 13 They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness; and the little hills shall rejoice on every side. 14 The folds shall be full of sheep: the valleys also shall stand mouth, and gave him praises with so thick with corn, that they shall my tongue. laugh and sing. Psalm 66. Jubilate Deo. OBE joyful in God, all ye lands; 16 If I incline unto wickedness with mine heart, the Lord will not hear me. 1 sing praises unto the honour of 17 But God hath heard me, and his name; make his praise to be considered the voice of my prayer. glorious. 18 Praised be God, who hath 2 Say unto God, O how won- not cast out my prayer, nor turned derful art thou in thy works; his mercy from me. through the greatness of thy power Psalm 67. Deus misereatur. shall thine enemies be found liars GOD be merciful unto us, and unto thee. bless us, and show us the light 3 For all the world shall worship of his countenance, and be merci thee, sing of thee, and praise thy ful unto us; Name. 2 That thy way may be known 40 come hither, and behold the upon earth, thy saving health works of God, how wonderful he is among all nations. In his doing toward the children of inen. 3 Let the people praise the, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee. 5 He turned the sea into dry land, o that they went through the wa- 4 0 let the nations rejoice and ter on foot; there did we rejoice be glad; for thou shalt judge the hereof. folk righteously, and govern the 6 He ruleth with his power for nations upon earth. ver; his eyes behold the people ;| 5 Let the people praise thee, O and such as will not believe, shall God; let all the people praise thee. not be able to exalt themselves. 6 Then shall the earth bring 7 O praise our God, ye people, forth her increase; and God, even and make the voice of his praise to our own God, shall give us his be heard; blessing. 8 Who holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to slip. 9 For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou also hast tried us, like as silver is tried. 10 Thou broughtest us into the mare, and laidst trouble upon our loins. 11 Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads; we went through tire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. 7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the world shall fear him. The thirteenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 68. Exurgat Deus., TET God arise, and let his ene4 mies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him, 2 Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away; 12 I will go into thine house with and like as wax melteth at the fire, burnt-offerings, and will pay thee so let the ungodly perish at the my vows, which I promised with presence of God. my lips, and spake with my mouth, 3 But let the righteous be glad, when I was in trouble. and rejoice before God; let them also be merry and joyful. 40 sing unto God, and sing 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks and praises unto his name; magnify goats. him that rideth upon the heavens, 14 O come hither, and hearken, as it were upon an horse: praise all ye that fear God, and I will tell him in his name JAH, and rejoice you what he hath done for my soul. before him. 15 I called unto him with my 5 He is a father of the fatherless, DAY 13. and defendeth the cause of the even the God who helpeth us, and widows; even God in his holy ha- poureth his benefits upon us. bitation. 20 He is our God, even the God 6 He is the God that maketh of whom cometh salvation: God men to be of one mind in an house, is the Lord, by whom we escape and bringeth the prisoners out of death. captivity; but letteth the runagates 21 God shall wound the head of continue in scarceness. his enemies; and the hairy scalp 70 God, when thou wentest of such a one as goeth on still in forth before the people; when thou his wickedness. wentest through the wilderness, 22 The Lord hath said, I will 8 The earth shook, and the hea-bring my people again, as I did vens dropped at the presence of from Basan, mine own will I bring God; even as Sinai also was moved again, as I did sometime from the at the presence of God, who is tire deep of the sea, God of Israel. . 23 That thy foot may be dipped 9 Thou, O God, sentest a gra- in the blood of thine enemies, and cious rain upon thine inheritance, that the tongue of thy dogs may be and refreshedst it when it was red through the same. weary. 24 It is well seen, O God, how 10 Thy congregation shall dwell thou goest; how thou, my God and therein; for thou, O God, hast of King, goest in the sanctuary. thy goodness prepared for the poor. 25 The singers go before, the minstrels follow after; in the midst 11 The Lord gave the word are the damsels playing with the great was the company of the timbrels. preachers. 26 Give thanks, O Israel, unto 12 Kings with their armies did God the Lord, in the congregations, flee, and were discomfited, and from the ground of the heart. they of the household divided the 27 There is little Benjamin their spoil. ruler, and the princes of Juda their 13 Though ye have lain among council; the princes of Zebulon, the pots, yet shall ye be as the and the princes of Nephthali, wings of a dove that is covered 28 Thy God hath sent forth with silver wings, and her feathers strength for thee; stablish the like gold. thing, O God, that thou hast 14 When the Almighty scatter-wrought in us. ed kings for their sake, then were 29 For thy temple's sake at Jethay as white as snow in Salmon. rusalem: so shall kings bring pre15 As the hill of Basan, so is sents unto thee. 1 God's hill; even an high hill, as 30 When the company of the the hill of Basan. spear-men, and multitude of the 16 Why hop ye so, ye high hills? mighty, are scattered abroad atong this is God's hill, in the which it the beasts of the people, so that pleaseth him to dwell; yea, the they humbly bring pieces of silver; Lord will abide in it for ever. and when he hath scattered the 17 The chariots of God are people that delight in war; twenty thousand, even thousands 31 Then shall the princes came of Angels; and the Lord is among out of Egypt; the Morians' land them as in the holy place of Sinai. shall soon stretch out her hands 18 Thou art gone up on high, unto God. thou hast led captivity captive, and 32 Sing unto God, ye kingreceived gifts for men; yea, even doms of the earth; O sing praises for thine enemies, that the Lord unto the Lord, God might dwell among them. 33 Who sitteth in the heavens 13 Praised be the Lord daily, over all, from the beginning: Lo, he doth send out his voice; yea, 14 Hear me, O God, in the muland that a mighty voice. titude of thy mercy, even in the 34 Ascribe ye the power to truth of thy salvation. God over Israel, his worship and strength is in the clouds. 15 Take me out of the mire, that I sink not; O let me be delivered 35 O God, wonderful art thou from them that hate me, and out in thy holy places: even the God of the deep waters. soul. of Israel, he will give strength and 16 Let not the water-flood drown power unto his people. Blessed me, neither let the deep swallow be God. ne up; and let not the pit shut EVENING PRAYER. her mouth upon me. Psalm 69. Salvum me fac. 17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy SAVE me, O God; for the wa-loving-kindness, is comfortable; ters are come in, even unto my turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies: 2. I stick fast in the deep mire,! 18 And hide not thy face from where no ground is; I am come thy servant; for I am in trouble: mto deep waters, so that the floods O haste thee, and hear me. 19 Draw nigh unto my soul, and 3 I am weary of crying, my save it; O deliver me, because of throat is dry; my sight faileth me mine enemies. for waiting so long upon my God. run over me. 20 Thou hast known my reproof, 4 They that hate me without a my shame, and my dishonour cause are more than the hairs of mine adversaries are all in thy my head; they that are mine ene-sight. mies, and would destroy me guilt- 21 Thy rebuke hath broken my less, are mighty. heart; I am full of heaviness: I 5 I paid them the things that I looked for some to have pity on never took: God, thou knowest my me, but there was no man, neither impleness, and my faults are not found I any to comfort me. 22 They gave me gall to eat: and 6 Let not them that trust in thee, when I was thirsty, they gave me O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed vinegar to drink. lid from thee. ered my face. for my cause; let not those that 23 Let their table be made a seek thee be confounded through snare to take themselves withal; me, O Lord God of Israel.. and let the things that should have 7 And why? for thy sake have I been for their wealth, be unto them Buffered reproof: shame hath co-an occasion of falling. 24 Let their eyes be blinded, that 8 I an become a stranger unto they see not; and ever bow thou my brethren, even an alien unto down their backs. 25 Pour out thine indignation 9 For the zeal of thine house upon them, and let thy wrathful hath even eaten me, and the re-displeasure take hold of them. bukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me. my mother's children. 10 Iwept, and chastened myself with fasting, and that was turned to my reproof. 26 Let their habitation be void, and no man to dwell in their tents. 27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk how they may vex them whom thou 11 I put on sackcloth also, and hast wounded. they jested upon me. 28 Let them fall from one wick12 They that sit in the gate speak edness to another, and not come against me, and the drunkards into thy righteousness. make songs upon me. 29 Let them be wiped out of the 13 But, Lord, I make my prayer book of the living, and not be writunto thee in an acceptable time. 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