31 But if his children forsake my he deliver his soul from the hand of law, and walk not in my judgments; hell?

32 If they break my statutes, 48 Lord, where are thy old lor. and keep not my commandments; ing-kindnesses, which thou swarest I will visit their offences with the unto David in thy truth? rod, and their sin with scourges. 49 Remember, Lom, the rebuke

33 Nevertheless, my loving-kind- that thy servants have, and how I ness will I not utterly take from do bear in my bosom the rebukes him, nor suffer my truth to fail. of many people;

S4 My covenant will I not break, 50 Where with thine enemies nor alter the thing that is gone out have blasphemed thee, anti slanderof my lips: I have sworn once by my led the footsteps of thine Anointed : holiness, that I will not fail David. Praised be the Lord for evermore.

35 His seed shall endure for ever, Amen and Amen. and his seat is like as the sun before me.

The eighteenth Day. 36 He shall stand fast for ever

MORNING PRAYER more as the moon, and as the Psalm 90. Domine, refugium. faithful witness in heaven.

, 37 But thou hast. abhorred and from one generation to another. forsaken thine Anoiuted, and art

2 Before the mountains were displeased at him.

Isrought forth, or ever the earth 58 Thou hast broken the cove- and the world were maile, thou art nant of thy servant, and cast his Gud from everlasting, and world crown to the ground.

without end. 39 'Thou hast overthrown all his Thou turnest man to destruc. hedges, and broken down his strong tion; again thou sayest, Come again, holds.

ye children of men. 40 All they that go by spoil him,

4 For a thousand years in the and he is become a reproach to his sight are but as yesterday, seeing neighbours.

that is past as a watch in the night. 41 Thou hast set up the right 5 As soon as thou scatterest them, hand of his enemies, and made all they are even as asleep, and fade his allversaries 10 rejoice. away suddenly like the grass.

42 Thou hast taken away the 6' In the morning it is green, and edge of his sword, and givest him groweth up; but in the evening it not victory in the battle. is cut ciowri, dried up, and withered.

13 Thou hast put out his glory, 7 För we consume away in thy and cast his throne down to the displeasure, and are afraid at thy ground.

wrathful indignation. 14 The days of his youth hast 8 Thou hast set our misdeec's thou shortened, and covered him before thee, and our secret sins in with dishonour.

the light of thy countenance. 45 Lord, how long wilt thon hide 9 For when thou art. angry, all our thyself? for ever and shall thy days are gone; we bring our years wrath burn like fire ?

to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 46 O remember how short my 10 The days of our age are threetime is; wherefore hast thou made score years and ten; and though all men for naught?

mnen be so strong that they come w 47 What man is he that liveth, fourscore years, yet is their strength md shall not sec death? and shali then but labour and sorrow; so

soon passeth it away, and we are 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou gone. behold, and see the reward of the

11 But who regardeth the pow-ungodly. er of thy wrath? for even there

9 For thou, Lord, art my hope;

after as a man feareth, so is thy thou hast set thine house of defence displeasure.

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last, and be gracious unto thy

servants.

14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us; and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

16 Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory.

very high.

10 There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him up, because he hath known my name.

17 And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of our hands 15 He shall call upon me, and upon us; O prosper thou our handy will hear him; yea, I am with work. him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

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shall they be destroyed for ever; 2 Arise, thou Judge of the world, but thou, Lord, art the Most High- and reward the proud after their deserving.

est for evermore.

8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, 3 Lord, how long shall the unlo, thine enemies shall perish; and godly, how long shall the ungodly all the workers of wickedness shall triumph?

be destroyed.

4 How long shall all wicked doers

9 But mine horn shall be exalt-speak so disdainfully, and make ed like the horn of an unicorn; for such proud boasting!

I am anointed with fresh oil.

5 They smite down thy people,

10 Mine eye also shall see his O Lord, and trouble thine heritage. lust of mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that arise up against me.

6 They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.

11 The righteous shall flourish 7 And yet they say, Tush, the like a palm-tree, and shall spread Lord shall not see, neither shall abroad like a cedar in Libanus. the God of Jacob regard it.

12 Such as are planted in the 8 Take heed, ye unwise among house of the Lord, shall flourish in the people: O ye fools, when will the courts of the house of our God.lye understand?

13 They also shall bring forth 9 He that planted the ear, shall more fruit in their age, and shall he not hear? or he that made the be fat and well liking; eye, shall he not see?

14 That they may show how true 10 Or he that nurtureth the the Lord my strength is, and that heathen, it is he that teacheth man there is no unrighteousness in him. knowledge; shall not he punish? 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are but vain.

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 93. Dominus regnavit. THE Lord is King, and hath put on glorious apparel; the Lord hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength.

2 He hath made the round world so sure, that it cannot be moved.

3 Ever since the world began, hath thy seat been prepared; thou art from everlasting.

4 The floods are risen, O Lord, the floods have lift up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, Q Lord, and teachest him in. thy law;

13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity, until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.

14 For the Lord will not fail his people; neither will he forsake his inheritance;

15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgment: all such as are true heart shall follow it.

5 The waves of the sea are migh-in ty, and rage horribly; but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.

6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very sure: holiness becometh thine house for ever.

Psalm 94. Deus ultionum. Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, thou God, to whom Vengeance belongeth, show thyself.

16 Who will rise up with me jagainst the wicked? or who will take my part against the evil-doers?

17 If the Lord had not helped me, it had not failed, but my soul had been put to silence.

18 But when I said, My foot hath slipped; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

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19 In the multitude of the sor

20 Wilt thou have any thing todo Sing unto the Lord a new song;

with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?

21 They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the strength of my people. confidence.

4 For the Lord is great, and can. 23 He shall recompense them not worthily be praised; he is more their wickedness, and destroy them to be feared than all gods.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and show our-nour due unto his name; bring preselves glad in him with psalms.

3 There shall go a fire before the Lord, all ye lands; sing, rehim, and burn up his enemies on joice, and give thanks. every side. 6 Praise the Lord upon the harp; 4 His lightnings gave shine unto sing to the harp with a psalm of the world; the earth saw it, and thanksgiving.

was afraid.

7 With trumpets also and

5 The hills melted like wax at the shawms, O show yourselves joyful presence of the Lord; at the pre-before the Lord the King. sence of the Lord of the whole earth. 8 Let the sea make a noise, and 6 The heavens have declared his all that therein is; the round world, righteousness, and all the people and they that dwell therein. 9 Let the floods clap their hands,

have seen his glory.

7 Confounded be all they that and let the hills be joyful together worship carved images, and that before the Lord; for he is come to delight in vain gods: worship him, judge the earth.

all ye gods.

8 Sion heard of it, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, O

Lord.

9 For thou, Lord, art higher than all that are in the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods.

10 O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the thing which is evil: the Lord preserveth the souis of bis saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly.

10 With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Psalm 99. Dominus regnavit.

THE Lord is King, be the people

never so impatient; he sitteth between the Cherubim, be the earth never so unquiet.

2 The Lord is great in Sion, and high above all people.

3 They shall give thanks unto thy name, which is great, wonderful, and holy.

11 There is sprung up a light for the righteous, and joyful gladness 4 The King's power loveth judg for such as are true-hearted. ment; thou hast prepared equity; 12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righ-thou hast executed judgment and teons, and give thanks for a remem-righteousness in Jacob. brance of his holiness.

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 98. Cantate Domino. Sing unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done marvellous things.

2 With his own right hand, and with his holy arm, hath he gotten himself the victory.

5 O magnify the Lord our God, and fall down before his footstool; for he is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among such as call upon his naine: these called upon the Lord, and he heard them.

7 He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar; for they kept his tes timonies, and the law that he gave

3 The Lord declared his salvation; them. his righteousness hath he openly

8 Thou heardest them, O Lord showed in the sight of the heathen. our God; thou forgavest them, O 4 He hath remembered his mercy God, and punishedst their own inand truth toward the house of Israel, ventions. and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God.

5 Show yourselves joyful unto

9 O magnify the Lord our God, and worship him upon his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.