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2 Thy truth also remaineth from 2 I have sworn, and am steadone generation to another; thou fastly purposed, to keep thy righthast laid the foundation of the earth, eous judgments. 3 I am troubled above measure;

and it abideth.

3 They continue this day accord-quicken me, O Lord, according to ing to thine ordinance; for all things thy word. serve thee.

4 If my delight had not been in thy law, I should have perished in my trouble.

5 I will never forget thy commandments; for with them thou hast quickened me.

6 I am thine: O save me, for I have sought thy commandments. 7 The ungodly laid wait for me, to destroy me; but I will consider thy testimonies.

8 I see that all things come to an end; but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Quomodo dilexi!

4 Let the free-will offerings of my mouth please thee, O Lord; and teach me thy judgments.

5 My soul is alway in my hand;" yet do I not forget thy law.

6 The ungodly have laid a snare for me; but yet I swerved not from thy commandments.

7 Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever; and why? they are the very joy of my heart.

8 I have applied my heart to ful fil thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

Iniquos odio habni.

LORD, what love have I unto Hate them that imagine evil thy law! all the day long is my

study in it.

things; but thy law do I love. 2 Thou art my defence and shield; 2 Thou, through thy command-and my trust is in thy word. ments, hast made me wiser than 3 Away from me, ye wicked; I mine enemies; for they are ever will keep the commandments of my God.

with me.

3 I have more understanding 4 O stablish me according to thy than my teachers; for thy testimo-word, that I may live; and let me nies are my study. not be disappointed of my hope.

4 I am wiser than the aged; be- 5 Hold thou me up, and I shall cause I keep thy commandments. be safe; yea, my delight shall be 5 I have refrained my feet from ever in thy statutes. every evil way, that I may keep thy word.

6 Thou hast trodden down all thern that depart from thy statutes; for they imagine but deceit.

6 I have not shrunk from thy judgments; for thou teachest me. 7 Thou puttest away all the un70 how sweet are thy words godly of the earth like dross; there. unto my throat; yea, sweeter than fore I love thy testimonies. honey unto my mouth!

8 Through thy commandments I get understanding: therefore hate all evil ways.

8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judg 1ments.

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Feci iudicium.

Deal with the thing that is lawful and right; O give me not over unto mine oppressors.

The twenty-sixth Day.
MORNING PRAYER.

Lucerna pedibus meis.

2 Make thou thy servant to de

TIY word is a lantern unto my light in that which is good, that the leet, and a light unto my paths. proud do me no wrong.

3 Mine eyes are wasted away, 4 Thy word is tried to the ut with looking for thy health, and for termost, and thy servant loveth it. the word of thy righteousness. 5 I am small and of no reputa

4 O deal with thy servant ac- tion; yet do I not forget thy comcording unto thy loving mercy, and mandments.

teach me thy statutes.

6 Thy righteousness is an ever5 I am thy servant; O grant me lasting righteousness, and thy law understanding, that I may know is the truth.

thy testimonies.

7 Trouble and heaviness have

6 It is time for thee, Lord, to taken hold upon me; yet is my delay to thine hand; for they have light in thy commandments. destroyed thy law.

7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stones.

8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments; and all false ways I utterly abhor.

Mirabilia.

THY testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my scul keep

them.

8 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant me understanding, and I shall live.

EVENING PRAYER. Clamari in toto corde meo. Call with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord, I will keep thy statutes.

help me, and I shall keep thy tes2 Yea, even unto thee do I call;

timonies.

2 When thy word goeth forth,| it giveth light and understanding unto thee; for in thy word is my 3 Early in the morning do I cry unto the simple.

3 I opened my mouth, and drew in my breath; for my delight was

in thy commandments.

4 O look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

5 Order my steps in thy word; and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

6 O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men; and so shall I keep thy commandments.

trust.

watches; that I might be occupied 4 Mine eyes prevent the night in thy words.

5 Hear my voice, O Lord, accor ding unto thy loving-kindness; quick. en me according as thou art wont.

6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me, and are far from thy law.

7 Be thou nigh at hand, O Lord; for all thy commandments are true. 7 Show the light of thy counte-I have known long since, that thou 8 As concerning thy testimonies, nance upon thy servant, and teach hast grounded them for ever.

me thy statutes.

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Vide humilitatem. Consider mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not forget

Justus es, Domine.

RIGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord; and true is thy judgment.

thy law.

2 Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me; quicken me according

2 The testimonies that thou hast to thy word. commanded are exceeding righte-| ous and true.

3 My zeal hath even consumed me; because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

3 Health is far from the ungodly; for they regard not thy statutes. 4 Great is thy mercy, O Lord; quicken me as thou art wont. 5 Many there are that trouble

me, and persecute me; yet do I 7 0 let my soul live, and it shall not swerve from thy testimonies. praise thee; and thy judgments 6 It grieveth me when I see the shall help me. transgressors; because they keep not thy law.

7 Consider, O Lord, how I love thy commandments; O quicken me according to thy loving-kindness.

8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for do not forget thy commandments.

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The twenty-seventh Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psaim 120. Ad Dominum. WHEN I was in trouble, I calleu upon the Lord, and he

8 Thy word is true from everlasting; all the judgments of thy| righteousness endure for evermore. Principes persecuti sunt. PRINCES have persecuted me heard me.

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without a cause; but my heart] 2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from standeth in awe of thy word. lying lips, and from a deceitful

21 am as glad of thy word, as tongue. one that findeth great spoils.

3 As for lies, I hate and abhor thein; but thy law do I love.

4 Seven times a-day do I praise thee; because of thy righteous judg

ments.

5 Great is the peace that they have who love thy law; and they are not offended at it.

6 Lord, I have looked for thy saving health, and done after thy commandments.

3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue? even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar.

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5 My soul hath long dwelt among them that are enemies unto peace. 6 I labour for peace; but when speak unto them thereof, they 7 My soul hath kept thy testimo-make them ready to battle. nies, and loved them exceedingly. Psalm 121. Levavi oculos meos. Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies; for all my ways are before thee.

Appropinquet deprecatio.
LE my
ET my complaint come before

standing according to thy word.
2 Let my supplication come be-
fore thee; deliver me according to
thy word.

3 My lips shall speak of thy praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

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4 Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word; for all thy commandments are righteous.

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2 My help cometh even from the Lord, who hath made heaven.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord himself is thy keeper; the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;

6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.

5 Let thine hand help me; for have chosen thy commandments. 7 The Lord shall preserve thee 6 I have longed for thy saving from all evil; yea, it is even he health, O Lord; and in thy law is that shall keep thy soul. my delight.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy.

gcing out and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore.

Psalm 122. Lætatus sum. Was glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

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2 They had swallowed us up quick; when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

3 Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul.

2 Our feet shall stand in thy| gates, O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself.

4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord, to tes

4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soul.

5 But praised be the Lord, who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

6 Our soul is escaped even as a

tify unto Israel, to give thanks un-bird out of the snare of the fowler; to the name of the Lord. the snare is broken, and we are de

5 For there is the seat of judg-livered.

ment, even the seat of the house of 7 Our help standeth in the name David. of the Lord, who hath made hea

6 O pray for the peace of Jeru-ven and earth. salem; they shall prosper that love thee.

Psalm 125. Qui confidunt.

7 Peace be within thy walls, and THEY that put their trust in plenteousness within thy palaces.

the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion, which may not be re8 For my brethren and compa-moved, but standeth fast for ever. rions' sakes, I will wish thee pros- 2 The hills stand about Jerusaperity. lem; even so standeth the Lord 9 Yea, because of the house of round about his people, from this the Lord our God, I will seek to time forth for evermore. do thee good. 3 For the rod of the ungodly Psalm 123. Ad te levavi oculos cometh not unto the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put

meos.

UNTO thee lift I up mint eyes, their hand unto wickedness.

heavens.

thou that the

2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even So our eyes wait upon the Lord our Ged, until he have mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us; for we are utterly despised.

4 Do well, O Lord, unto those that are good and true of heart.

5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 126. In convertendo.

W the captivity of Sion, then

HIEN the Lord turned again

were we like unto them that dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with joy. 3 Then said they among the heathen, the Lord hath done great things for them.

4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy,and with the despitefulness of the proud. Psalm 124. Nisi quia Dominus. [F the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say; if the Lord himself had not been 4 Yea, the Lord hath done great on our side, when men rose up things for us already; whereof we against us;

rejoice.

5 Turn our captivity, O Lord, Psalm 129. Sæpe expugnaverunt. As the rivers in the south.

6 They that sow in tears, shall MANY a time have they fought against me from my youth reap in joy. up, may Israel now say;

7 He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.

Psalm 127. Nisi Dominus.

2 Yca, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up; but they have not prevailed against me.

3 The plowers plowed upon my back, and made long furrows;

4 But the righteous Lord hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in

EXCEPT the Lord build the pieces.

house, their labour is but lost that build it.

2 Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain. 3 It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

4 Lo, children and the fruit of the womb, are an heritage and gift

that cometh of the Lord.

5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Psalın 128. Beati omnes. LESSED are all they that fear the Lord, and walk in hist ways.

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5 Let them be confounded and turned backward, as many as have evil will at Sion.

6 Let them be even as the grass growing upon the house-tops, which withereth afore it be plucked up;

7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom.

8 So that they who go by say not so much as, 'The Lord prosper you, we wish you good luck in the name of the Lord.

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Psalm 130. De profundis. UT of the deep have I cailed unto thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.

2 O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint.

3 If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it?

4 For there is mercy with thee

2 For thou shalt eat the labour therefore shalt thou be feared.

of thine hands: O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.

5 I look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him; in his word is

3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitful my trust.

vine upon the walls of thine house. 6 My soul flecth unto the Lord

4 Thy children like the olive branches, round about thy table. 5 Lo, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

before the morning-watch, I say, before the morning-watch.

70 Israel, trust in the Lord; for with the Lord there is mercy,and 6 The Lord from out of Sion with him is plenteous redemption. shall so bless thee, that thou shalt 8 And he shall redeem Isra see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy from all his sins. Life long;

7 Yea, that thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

Psalm 131. Domine, non est.
TORD, I am not high-minded;
I have no proud looks.
2 I do not exercise myself in

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