6 I am weary of my groaning: ungodly come to an end; bu güle every night wash I my bed, and thou the just.

water my couch with my tears.

10 For the righteous God eth 7 My beauty is gone for very the very hearts and reins. trouble, and worn away because of 11 My help cometh of Gri, who all nine enemies. preserveth them that are true of

8 Away from me, all ye that heart. work vanity; for the Lord hath 12 God is a righteous judge, heard the voice of my weeping. strong, and patient; and God is 9 The Lord hath heard my pe-provoked every day. tition; the Lord will receive my 13 If a man wilt not turn, he prayer. will whet his sword; he hath bent 10 All mine enemics shall be his bow, and made it ready, cofounded, and sore vexed; they shall be turned back, and put to shame suddenly.

Psalm 7. Domine, Deus meus. Lord, my God, in thee have put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me;

14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 15 Behold, he travaileth with mischief; he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness.

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16 He hath graven and digged up. pit, and is fallen himself into the 2 Lest he devour my soul like destruction that he made for other. a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help. ́

and thou hast put all things in sub-dwelleth in Slon; show the peopls Jection under his feet; of his doings:

7 All sheep and oxen; yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the

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12 For when he maketh inqui sition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the com plaint of the poor.

13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble which I suffer

9 O Lord, our Governor, how ex-of them that hate me, thou that cellent is thy name in all the world!

The second Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 9. Confitebor tibi.. Will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; will speak of all thy marvellous works.

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liftest me up from the gates of death;

14 That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken.

6 For he hath said in his heart, of the earth be no more exalted Tush, I shall never be cast down, against them. there shall no harm happen unto

me.

7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and fraud; under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity.

8 He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor.

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Psalm 11. In Domino confido. N the Lord put I my trust; how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill?

2 For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart.

3 For the foundations will be cast down; and what hath the righteous

9 For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, done? that he may ravish the poor.

10 He doth ravish the poor, when he getteth him into his net. 11 He falleth down and humbleth himself, that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains.

4 The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's seat is in heaven.

5 His eyes consider the poor, and his eye-lids try the children of men. 6 The Lord alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth 12 He hath said in his heart, his soul abhor. Tush, God hath forgotten; he 7 Upon the ungodly he shall hideth away his face, and he will rain snares, fire and brimstone, never see it. storm and tempest: this shall be 13 Arise, O Lord God, and lift their portion to drink. up thine hand; forget not the poor. 8 For the righteous Lord loveth 14 Wherefore should the wick-righteousness: his countenance ed blaspheme God, while he doth will behold the thing that is just. say in his heart, Tush, thou God EVENING PRAYER. carest not for it?

15 Surely thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong,

Psalm 12. Salınım me fac. HELP me, Lord, for there is

not one godly man left; for the faithful are minished from a16 That thou mayest take the mong the children of men. matter into thy hand: the poor 2 They talk of vanity every one committeth himself unto thee; for with his neighbour; they do but thou art the helper of the friendless. flatter with their lips, and dissem17 Break thou the power of the ble in their double heart. ungodly and malicious; take away his ungodliness, and thou shalt find

none.

18 The Lord is King for ever and ever, and the heathen are perished out of the land.

3 The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

4 Which have said, With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak: who is Lord over us?

19 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest 5 Now, for the comfortless trou. their heart, and thine ear hearken-bles sake of the needy, and because eth thereto. of the deep sighing of the 20 To help the fatherless and poor, 6 I will up, saith the Lord, and poor unto their right, that the man' will help every one from him that

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swelleth against him, and will set they deceived: the poison of asps him at rest. is under their lips. 7 The words of the Lord are 6 Their mouth is full of cursing pure words, even as the silver and bitterness; their feet are swift which from the earth is tried, and to shed blood.

purified seven times in the fire. 7 Destruction and unhappiness 8 Thou shalt keep them, O is in their ways, and the way of Lord; thou shalt preserve him peace have they not known; there from this generation for ever. is no fear of God before their eyes: 9 The ungodly walk on every side: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke. Psalm 13. Usque quo, Domine ? How long wilt thou forget me,

8 Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the Lord? 9 There were they brought in O Lord; for ever? how long for God is in the generation of the great fear, even where no fear was; wilt thou hide thy face from me?

2 How long shall I seek counsel righteous.

in my soul, and be so vexed in my mock at the counsel of the poor; 10 As for you, ye have made a heart? How long shall mine ene-because he putteth his trust in the mies triumph over me?

3 Consider, and hear me, 0

Lord.

Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, Israel out of Sion? When the Lord 11 Who shall give salvation unto that I sleep not in death;

4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

turneth the captivity of his people,
then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel
shall be glad.

The third Day.
MORNING PRAYER.

5 But my trust is in thy mercy, and my heart is joyful in thy salva-Psalm 15. Domine, quis habitabit?

tion.

6 I will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me; yea, I will praise the name of the Lord most Highest.

Psalm 14. Dixit insipiens. THE fool hath said in his heart,

There is no God.

LORD, who shall dwell in thy

tabernacle? or who shall rest

upon thy holy hill?

2 Even he that leadeth an uncor rupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart:

3 He that hath used no deceit 2 They are corrupt, and become in his tongue, nor done evil to his abominable in their doings; there neighbour, and hath not slandered is none that doeth good, no not one. his neighbour:

3 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, and seek after God:

4 He that setteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes, and maketh much of them that fear the Lord:

4 But they are all gone out of 5 He that sweareth untoliis neighthe way, they are altogether be-bour, and disappointeth him not, come abominable; there is none though it were to his own hindrance: that doeth good, no not one. 6 Het hath not given his mo 5 Their throat is an open se-ney upon usury, nor taken reward pulchre; with their tongues have against the innocent:

7 Whoso doeth these things, shall, thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me; for I am ut never fall. terly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

Psalm 16. Conserva me, Domine
PRESERVE me, O God; for in
thee have I put my trust.
20 my soul, thou hast said unto
the Lord, Thou art my God; my
goods are nothing unto thee.

3 All my delight is upon the saints that are in the earth, and upon such as excel in virtue.

4 Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.

5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. 6 I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me: in4 But they that run after ano-cline thine ear to me, and hearken ther God shall have great trouble. unto my words.

5 Their drink-offerings of blood 7 Show thy marvellous lovingwill I not offer, neither make men-kindness, thou that art the Savi tion of their names within my lips. our of them which put their trust 6 The Lord himself is the por-in thee, from such as resist thy tion of mine inheritance, and of my right hand. cup; thou shalt maintain my 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a

lot.

8 Keep me as the apple of an fair ground; yea, I have a goodly eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

heritage.

9 From the ungodly, thai trouble 8 I will thank the Lord for giv-me; mine enemies compass me ing me warning; my reins also round about, to take away my soul. chasten me in the night season.

9 I have set God always before me; for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall not fall.

10 Wherefore my heart glad, and my glory rejoiced; flesh also shall rest in hope.

10 They are inclosed in their own fat, and their mouth speaketh proud things.

11 Thy lie waiting in our way was on every side, turning their eyes my down to the ground.

12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a lion's whelp lurking in secret places.

11 For why? thou shalt not leave my soul in hell; neither shalt thou suffer thy Holy One to see 13 Up, Lord, disappoint him, and cast him down; deliver my soul from the ungodly, which is a sword of thine:

corruption.

2 Thou shalt show me the path of life: in thy presence is the fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore.

14 From the men of thy hand, O Lord, from the men I say, and Psalm 17. Exauli, Domine. from the evil world; which have HEAR the right, O Lord, con- their portion in this life, whose sider my complaint, and hear-bellies thou fillest with thy hid ken unto my prayer, that goeth treasure. not out of feigned lips.

15 They have children at their 2 Let my sentence come forth desire, and leave the rest of their from thy presence, and let thine substance for their babes. eyes look upon the thing that is equal.

16 But as for me, I will behold thy presence in righteousness; and 3 Thou hast proved and visited when I awake up after thy likemine heart in the night season;¡ness, I shall be satisfied with it..