fins have taken fuch hold up on me, that I am not able to look up ; yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me; make hafte, O Lord, to help me. 17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, that seek after my foul to deftroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that with me evil. 18 Let them be defolate, and rewarded with fhame, that say unto me, Fie upon thee, fie upon thee. 19 Let all thofe that feek thee, be joyful and glad in thee; and let fuch as love thy falvation, fay alway, The Lord be praised. 20 As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord careth for me. 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer; make no long tarrying, O my God.. EVENING PRAYER. Pfalm xli. Beatus qui intelligit. B may be bleffed upon earth; and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies. 3 The Lord comfort him when he lieth fick upon his bed; make thou all his bed in his ficknefs... 4 I faid, Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my foul, for I have finned against thee. O 5. Mine enemies fpeak evil of me; When shall he die, and his name perifh?', 6 And if he come to fee me, he speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falfhood within himfelf; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it. 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me, even againft me do they imagine this evil. 8 Let the fentence of guiltiness proceed against him, and now that he lieth, let him rife up no more.uzdanj 9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend whom I trusted, who did alfo eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me. 10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord; raise thou me up again, and I fhall reward them. 11 By this I know thou faLeffed is he that confider- voureft me, that mine enemy eth the poor and needy; doth not triumph against me. the Lord fhall deliver him in 42 And when I am in my the time of trouble-health, thou upholdest me, 2 The Lord preserve him, and fhalt fet me before thy and keep him alive, that he face for ever. 13 Bleffed 13 Bleffed be the Lord God because of the noise of the of Ifrael, world without end. water-pipes; all thy waves and wstorms are gone over me. Amena 10 The Lord hath granted Pfalmxlii. Quemadmodum. his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night-season did I fing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. L IKE as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my foul after thee, O God. borg My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say untome, Where is now thy God? 4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; 29' 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day. 79 11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why haft thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy opprefleth me? 12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth.. 13 Namely, while they say, daily unto me, Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, Omy foul? and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my coun 6 Why art thou so full of tenance, and my God. heaviness, O my foul? and why art thou so disquieted Pfalm xliii. Judica me, Deus. I within me? 3 Ofend out thy light and thy countenance; because thy truth, that they may lead thou hadft a favour unto me, and bring me unto thy them. holy hill, and to thy dwelling. 4 And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unfo the God of my joy and gladnefs; and upon the harp will I give thanks: unto thee, O God, my God. 5 Why art thou fo heavy, O my foul? and why art thou fo difquieted within me? 6 O put thy truft in God; for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. The Ninth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Pfalm xliv. Deus, auribus. W E have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us what thou haft done in their time of old. 2 How thou haft driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou haft destroyed the nations and caft them out. 3 For they gat not the land in poffeffion through their own fword, neither was it their own arm that helped them; 4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of 5 Thou art my King, O God; fend help unto Jacob. 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies, and in thy Name will we tread them under that rife up against us. 7 For I will not truft in my bow; it is not my fword that fhall help me. 8 But it is thou that faveft us from our enemies, and putteft them to confufion that hate us. 9 We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name for ever. 10 But now thou art far off, and putteft us to confufion; and goeft not forth with our armies. II Thou makeft us to turn our backs upon our enemies, fo that they which hate us fpoil our goods. 12 Thou letteft us be eaten up like sheep, and hast seattered us among the heathen. 13 Thou felleft thy people for nought, and takeft no money for them. 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn, and had in derifion of them that are round about us. 15 Thou makeft us to be a by-word among the heathen, and and that the people fhake deliver us, for thy mercies their heads at us. 16 My confufion is daily 1 fake.. before me, and the fhame of Bfalm xlv. Eructavit cor my face hath covered me;,, 17 For the voice" of the flanderer and blafphemer, for the enemy and avenger. 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourfelves frowardly in thy cove nant. 19 Our heart is not turned back, neither our fteps gone out of thy way; 20 No, not when thou haft fmitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the fhadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any ftrange god, fhall not God fearch it out? for he knoweth the very fecrets of the heart. 22 For thy fake alfo are we killed all the day long, and are counted as theep appointed to be flain. 23 Up, Lord, why fleepeft thou? awake, and be not abfent from us for ever. 24 Wherefore hideft thou thy face, and forgetteft our mifery and trouble? . meum. 25 For our foul is brought low, even unto the duft; wherefore God, even thy our belly cleaveth unto the ground. M good matter; 1 ipeak Y heart is inditing of a of the things which I have made unto the King. 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 3 Thou art fairer than the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, becaufe God hath bleffed thee for ever. 4 Gird thee with thy fword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty, according to thy worship and renown. 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on, because of the word of truth, of meeknefs and righteoufnefs, and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. are very 6 Thy arrows fharp, and the people fhall be fubdued unto thee, even' in the midft among the King's enemies. 7 Thy feat, O God, endureth for ever; the fceptre of thy Kingdom is a right fceptre. 8 Thou haft loved righteoufnefs, and hated iniquity; 26 Arife, and help us, and God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladnefs above thy fellows. Pfalm xlvi. Deus nofter refugium. OD help in trouble. 2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the fea. 9 All thy garments fmell Name from one generation of myrrh, aloes, and caffia: to another; therefore shall out of the ivory palaces, where- the people give thanks unto by they have made thee glad. thee, world without end. 10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women; upon thy right hand did ftand the queen in a vef ture of gold, wrought about Gre is our hope and with divers colours. 11 Hearken, O daughter, and confider; incline thine ear; forget alfo thine own people, and thy father's houfe. 12 So fhall the king have pleasure in thy beauty; for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him. 13 And the daughter of Tyre fhall be there with a gift; like as the rich alfo among the people fhall make their fupplication before thee. 14 The King's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. 15 She fhall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work; the virgins that be her fellows fhall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. 16 With joy and gladness fhall they be brought, and fhall enter into the King's palace. 17 Instead of thy fathers thou fhalt have children, whom thou mayeft make princes in all lands. 18 I will remember thy 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempeft of the fame. 4 The rivers of the flood thereof fhall make glad the city of God; the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Highest. 5 God is in the midft of her, therefore shall she not be removed; God fhall help her, and that right early. 6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away. 7 The Lord of hofts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. 8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord, what deftruction he hath brought upon the earth. 9 He maketh wars to cease |