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with a song, and magnify it with promised to help me, for thou art thanksgiving.

32 This also shall please the Lord, better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

33 The humble shall consider this, and be glad: seek ye after God, and your soul shall live.

34 For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

35 Let heaven and earth praise him: the sea, and all that moveth therein.

36 For God will save Sion, and build the cities of Juda, that men may dwell there, and have it in possession.

my house of defence, and my castle.

3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man:

4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art ny hope, even from my youth.

5 Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born: thou art lie that took me out of my mother's womb: my praise shall be always of thee.

6 I am become as it were a monster unto many, but my sure trust is in thee.

37 The posterity also of his ser- 7 0 let my mouth be filled with vants shall inherit it; and they that thy praise, that I may sing of thy love his name shall dwell therein. glory and honour all the day long. Psalın 70. Deus, in adjutorium. 8 Cast me not away in the time HASTE thee, O God, to deliver of age; forsake me not when my

O Lord.

me; make haste to help me, strength faileth me: 9 For mine enemies speak against 2 Let them be ashamed and con-me; and they that lay wait for my founded, that seek after my soul; soul take their counsel together, let them be turned backward and saying, God hath forsaken him; put to confusion, that wish me evil. persecute him, and take him; for 3 Let them for their reward be there is none to deliver him. soon brought to shame, that cry over me, There, there.

4 But let all those that seek theel be joyful and glad in thee: and let all such as delight in thy salvation say alway, The Lord be praised.

5 As for me, I am poor and in misery: haste thee unto me, O Gol. 6 Thou art my helper, and my Redeemer: O Lord, make no long tarrying.

10 Go not far from me, O God; my God, haste thee to help me..

11 Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my soul; let them be covered with shame and dishonour, that seek to do me evil.

12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway, and will praise thee more and more.

13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousness and salvation; for I know no end thereof.

The fourteenth Day. 14 I will go forth in the strength MORNING PRAYER. of the Lord God, and will make Psalm 71. In te, Domine, speravi. mention of thy righteousness only. IN thee, O Lord, have I put my 15 Thou, O God, hast taught trust; let me never be put to me from my youth up until now; confusion, but rid me, and deliver therefore will I tell of thy wondrous me in thy righteousness; incline works.

thine ear unto me, and save me. 16 Forsake me not, O God, in 2 Be thou my strong hold, where-mine old age, when I am grey-headunto I may alway resort: thou hast ed, until I have showed thy strength

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unto this generation, and thy power 9 They that dwell in the wil to all them that are yet for to come. derness shall kneel before him; his 17 Thy righteousness, O God, enemies shalt lick the dust. is very high, and great things are they that thou hast done: O God, who is like unto thee!

18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me! and yet didst thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.

19 Thou hast brought me to great honour, and comforted me On every side:

10 The kings of Tharsis and of the isles shall give presents; the kings of Arabia and Saba shall bring gifts.

11 All kings shall fall down before him; all nations shall do him service. 12 For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth; the needy also, and him that hath no helper.

13 He shall be favourable to the simple and needy, and shall preserve the souls of the poor.

20 Therefore will I praise thee, 14 He shall deliver their souls and thy faithfulness, O God, play-from falsehood and wrong; and dear ing upon an instrument of music: shall their blood be in nis sight. unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

15 He shall live, and unto him shall be given of the gold of Arabia;

21 My lips will be fain when I prayer shall be made ever unto sing unto thee; and so will my soul, him, and daily shall he be praised. whom thou hast delivered. 16 There shall be an heap of corn

22 My tongue shall also talk of in the earth, high upon the hills, thy righteousness all the day long; his fruit shall shake like Libanus, for they are confounded and brought and shall be green in the city like unto shame, that seek to do me evil. grass upon the earth.

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Psalm 72. Deus, judicium. 17 His name shall endure for IVE the king thy judginents, fever; his name shall remain under O God, and thy righteousness the sun amongst the posterities, unto the king's son. which shall be blessed through him;

2 Then shall he judge thy peo-and all the heathen shall praise him. ple accordling unto right, and defend! 18 Blessed be the Lord God, even the God of Israel, which only doeth wondrous things;

the poor.

3 The mountains also shall bring peace, and the little hills righteousness unto the people.

19 And blessed be the name of his Majesty for ever: and all the 4 He shall keep the simple folk by earth shall be filled with his Matheir right, defend the children of jesty. Amen, Amen. the poor, and punish the wrongdoer. EVENING PRAYER. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endureth, from one generation to another.

6 He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool, even as the drops that water the earth.

7 In his time shall the righteous flourish; yea, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth.

8 His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world's end.

Psalm 73. Quam bonus Israel!
TRULY God is lovi & unto Is-

rael; even unto such as are of

a clean heart.

2 Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone, my treadings had well nigh slipt.

3 And why? I was grieved at the wicked: I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity.

4 For they are in no peril of Ideath; but are lusty and strong.

5 They come in to misfortune like other folk; neither are they plagued like other men.

22 Nevertheless, I am alway by thee; for thou hast holden me by my right hand.

6 And this is the cause that they 23 Thou shalt guide me with thy are so holden with pride, and over-counsel, and 'ter that receive me whelmed with cruelty. with glory.

7 Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust.

8 They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy; their talking is against the Most High.

9 For they stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven, and their tongue goeth through the world.

10 Therefore fall the people unto them, and thereout suck they no small advantage.

24 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee.

25 My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

26 For lo, they that forsake thee shall perish; thou hast destroyed all them that commit fornication against thee.

27 But it is good for me to hold 11 Tush, say they, how should me fast by God, to put my trust God perceive it? is there know-in the Lord God, and to speak of ledge in the Most High? all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

12 Lo, these are the ungodly these prosper in the world; and these have riches in possession: and I said, Then have 1 cleansed my heart in vain, and washed mine hands in innocency.

13 All the day long have I been punished, and chastened every morning.

Psalm 74. Ut quid, Deus?

God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long? why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

20 think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased, and redeemed of old.

14 Yea, and I had almost said 3 Think upon the tribe of thine even as they; but lo, then I should inheritance, and mount Sion, wherehave condemned the generation of in thou hast dwelt. thy children.

4 Lift up thy feet, that thou 15 Then thought I to understand mayest utterly destroy every ene this; but it was too hard for me, my, which hath done evil in thy

16 Until I went into the sanctu-sanctuary. ary of God: then understood I the end of these men ;

17 Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places, and castest them down and destroyest them.

18 O how suddenly do they consume, perish, and come to a fearful end!

5 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy congregations, and set up their banners for tokens.

6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees, was known to bring it to an excellent work;

7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers.

19 Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh; so shalt thou make 8 They have set fire upon thy their image to vanish out of the city. holy places, and have defiled the 20 Thus my heart was grieved, dwelling-place of thy name, even and it went even through my reins. unto the ground.

21 So foolish was I, and ignorant,

9 Yea, they said in their hearts, even as it were a beast before thee. Let us make havock of them alto

gether: Thus have they burnt up! 24 Forget not the voice of thine all the houses of God in the land. enemies: the presumption of them

10 We see not our tokens; there that hate thee increaseth ever is not one prophet more; no, not more and more. one is there among us, that understandeth any more.

The fifteenth Day. 11 () God, how long shall the MORNING PRAYER. adversary do this dishonour? how

Psalm 75. Confitebimur tibi. long shall the eneiny blaspheme thy name for ever?

UNTO thee, O God, do we give 12 Why withilrawest thou thy

thanks; yea, unto thee do we hand? why pluckest thou not thy

give thanks. right hand out of thy bosom, to con- that do thy wondrous works declare.

2 Thy name also is so nigh; and suine the enemy? 13 For God is my King of old; tion, I shall judge according wito

3 When I receive the congregathe help that is done upon earth,

right. he doeth it himself. 14 Thou didst divide the sea inhabiters thereof: I bear up the

4 The earth is weak, and all the through thy power; thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the

pillars of it.

5 I said unto the fools, Deal not waters. 15 Thou smotest the heads of

so madly; and to the ungodly, Set Leviathan in pieces, and gavest him

not up your horn. to be meat for the people in the and speak not with a stiffneck;

6 Set not up your horn on high, wilderness. 16 Thou broughtest out fountains, from the east, nor fiom the west,

7 For promotion cometh neither and waters out of the hard rocks; nor yet from the south. thou driedst up mighty waters. 8 And why? God is the Judge; 17 The day is thine, and the he putteth down

one, and setteth night is thine; thou hast prepared

up another. the light and the sun.

9 For in the hand of the Lord 18 Thou hast set all the borders there is a cup, and the wine is red; of the earth; thou hast made sum- it is full mixt, and he poureth out mer and winter.

of the same. 19 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy hath rebuked ; the ungodly of the earth shall drink

10 As for the dregs thereof, all and how the foolish people hath them,

and suck them out. blasphemed thy name.

11 But I will talk of the Govl of 20 O deliver not the soul of thy Jacob, and praise him for ever. turtle dove unto the multitude of

12 All the horns of the ungolly the enemies; and forget not the also will I break, and the horns of congregation of the poor for ever.

the righteous shall be exalted. 21 Look upon the covenant; for all the earth is full of darkness and

Psalm 76. Notus in Judæa. cruel habitations.

IN Jury is God known; his name 22 Olet not the simple go away

is ashamed; but let the poor and 2 At Salem is his tabernacle, needy give praise unto thy name. and his dwelling in Sion.

23 Arise, O God, maintain thine 3 There brake he the arrows of own cause; remember how the the bow, the shield, the sword, and foolish man blasphemeth thce daily. the battle.

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4 Thou art of more honour and ever; and is his promise come utmight than the hills of the robbers. terly to an end for evermore?

5 The proud are robbed; they 9 Hath God forgotten to be gra have slept their sleep; and all the cious; and will he shut up his lov men whose hands were mighty, ing-kindness in displeasure? have found nothing. 10 And I said, It is mine own in6 At thy rebuke, O God of Ja- firmity; but I will remember the cob, both the chariot and horse are years of the right hand of the Most fallen.

7 Thou, even thou art to be feared; and who may stand in thy sight, when thou art angry?

8 Thou didst cause thy judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth trembled, and was still,

9 When God arose to judgment, and to help all the meek upon earth.

Highest.

11 I will remember the works of the Lord, and call to mind the wonders of old time.

12 I will think also of all thy works, and my talking shall be of thy doings.

13 Thy way, O God, is holy: who is so great a God as our God? 10 The fierceness of man shall 14 Thou art the God that doeth turn to thy praise, and the fierce-wonders, and hast declared thy ness of them shalt thou refrain, power among the people.

11 Promise unto the Lord your 15 Thou hast mightily delivered God, and keep it, all ye that are thy people, even the sons of Jacob round about him; bring presents and Joseph.

onto him that ought to be feared. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, 12 He shall refrain the spirit of the waters saw thee, and were a princes, and is wonderful among fraid; the depths also were troubled. the kings of the earth. 17 The clouds poured out waPsalm 77. Voce mea ad Dominum. ter, the air thundered, and thine Will cry unto God with my arrows went abroad.

voice; even unto God will I cry 18 The voice of thy thunder was with my voice, and he shall heark-heard round about: the lightnings shone upon the ground; the earth

en unto me.

2 In the time of my trouble I was moved and shook withal. sought the Lord: my sore ran, and 19 Thy way is in the sea, and ceased not in the night-season; my thy paths in the great waters, and soul refused comfort. thy foot-steps are not known."

3 When I am in heaviness, I 20 Thou leddest thy people like will think upon God; when my sheep, by the hand of Moses and heart is vexed, I will complain. Aaron. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so feeble that I cannot speak.

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EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 78. Attendite, popule. HEAR my law, O my people; incline your ears unto the words of my mouth.

5 I have considered the days old, and the years that are past. 6 I call to remembrance my song, and in the night I commune 2 I will open my mouth in a parwith mine own heart, and searchable; I will declare hard sentences out my spirits.

7 Will the Lord alsent himself for ever; and will he be no more intreated?

8 Is his mercy clean gone for

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3. Which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us;

4 That we should not hide them

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