14 O that my people would have hearkened unto me; for if Ifrael had walked in my ways, 315 I fhould foon have put down their enemies, and turnmy hand against their ad ed versaries. 8 Arife, O God, and judge thou the earth; for thou shalt take all heathen to thine in→ heritance. Pfalm lxxxiii. fimilis? Deus, quis OLD not thy tongue, O to 16 The haters of the Lord should have been found liars; H but their time fhould have lence: refrain not thyfelf, O endured for ever. 17 Hefhould have fed them alfo with the fineft wheatflour; and with honey out of the ftony rock should I have fatisfied thee. EVENING PRAYER. Pfalm lxxxii. Deus fletit. Go OD ftandeth in the congregation of princes; he is a Judge among gods. 2 How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the perfons of the ungodly. God, keep not still fi 3 Defend the poor and fatherlefs; fee that fuch as are in need and neceffity have right. 4 Deliver the outcaft and poor; fave them from the hand of the ungodly. 5 They will not be learned, nor understand, but walk on ftill in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have faid, Ye are gods, and ye are the children of the Moft Higheft; 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. God; 2 For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring; and they that hate thee have lift up their head. 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people, and taken counsel against thy fecret ones. 4 They have faid, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people, and that the name of Ifrael may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have caft their heads together with one confent, and are confederate againft thee; 6 The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; the Moabites, and Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Affur alfo is joined with them, and have holpen the children of Lot. 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites ; unto Sifera, and unto Jabin at the brook of Kifon; To Who perished at Endor, lay her young; even thy altars, and became as the dung of O Lord of hofts, my King and the earth. II Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb; yea, make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana; 12 Who fay, Let us take to ourselves the houfes of God in poffeffion. 13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the ftubble before the wind. 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that confumeth the mountains. 15 Perfecute them even fo with thy tempeft, and make them afraid with thy ftorm. 16 Make their faces afhamed, O Lord, that they may feek thy Name. 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more; let them be put to fhame, and perish. 18 And they fhall know that thou, whofe Name is Jehovah, art only the Moft Highest over all the earth. Pfalin lxxxiv. Quam dilecta! How amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of O my God. 4 Bleffed are they that dwell in thy houfe; they will be alway praifing thee. 5 Bleffed is the man whose ftrength is in thee; in whose heart are thy ways. 6 Who, going through the vale of mifery, ufe it for a well; and the pools are filled with water. 7 They will go from strength to ftrength, and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. 8 O Lord God of hofts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob. 9 Behold, O God, our des fender, and look upon the face of thine Anointed. 10 For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand. II I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence; the Lord will give grace and worship; and no good thing fhall he withhold from them that live a godly life. 13 O Lord God of hofts, bleffed is the man that putteth his trust in thee. Pfalm lxxxv. Benedixifti, L ORD, thou art become gracious unto thy land; Hofts! 2 My foul hath a defire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. 3 Yea, the fparrow hath found her an houfe, and the fwallow a neft, where the may thou thou haft turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou haft forgiven the offence of thy people, and covered all their fins.. 3. 3 Thou haft taken away all thy difpleasure, and turned thyfelf from thy wrathful indignation. 4 Turn us then, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger ceafe from us. 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever? and wilt thou Atretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? 6 Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy fal- 13 Righteoufnefs fhall go before him, and he shall di rect his going in the way. The Seventeenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Pfalm lxxxvi. Inclina, Domine. Ow down thine ear, O B Lord, and hear me; for I am poor, and in mifery. 2 Preserve thou my foul; for I am holy my God, fave thy fervant that putteth his trust in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord; for I will call daily upon thee. 4 Comfort the foul of thy fervant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my foul. 5 For thou, Lord, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. vation. 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will fay concerning me; for he thall speak peace unto his people, and to his faints, that they turn not again. 9 For his falvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kiffed each other. 11 Truth fhall flourish out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from hea ven. 12 Yea, the Lord shall show loving kindness, and our land hall give her increase. 6 Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer, and ponder the voice of my humble defires. 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee; for thou heareft me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; there is not one that can do as thou doeft. 9 All nations whom thou haft made, fhall come and worship thee, O Lord; and fhall glorify thy Name. 10 For thou art great, and doeft wondrous things: thou art God alone. A a 11 Teach 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walk in thy truth: O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy Name. 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and will praise thy Name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou haft delivered my foul from the nethermoft hell. 3 I will think upon Rabab and Babylon, with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philistines alfo, and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo there was he born. 5 And of Sion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and the moft High shall ftablish her. 6 The Lord fhall rehearse it, when he writeth up the people, that he was born there. 7 The fingers also and trumpeters fhall he rehearse: All my fresh fprings fhall be in thee. 14 O God, the proud are rifen against me; and the congre-. gations of naughty men have fought after my foul, and have not fet thee before their eyes. 15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compaffion and mercy, long-fuffering, plente-tion, I have cried day Lord, God of my falvaous in goodness and truth. 16 Ŏ turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy ftrength unto thy fervant, and help the fon of thine hand-maid. 17 Show fome token upon me for good; that they who hate me may fee it, and be ashamed, because thou, Lord, haft holpen me, and comforted me. Pfalm lxxxvii. Fundamenta ejus. Pfalm lxxxviii. Domine, Deus. and night before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy prefence; incline thine ear unto my calling; 2 For my foul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I have been even as a man that hath no ftrength. Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave, who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 4 5 Thou haft laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darknefs, and in the deep. 6 Thine 17 They came round about me daily like water, and compaffed me together on every fide. 18 My lovers and friends haft thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my fight. EVENING PRAYER. Pfalm lxxxix. M Mifericordias Domini. Y fong fhall be alway of the loving-kindness of 10 Doft thou how won- the Lord; with my mouth will ders among the dead? or shall I ever be showing thy truth, the dead rife up again and from one generation to anopraise thee ? ther. * 11 Shall thy loving-kind- 2 For I have faid, Mercy nefs be showed in the grave? fhall be fet up for ever, thy or thy faithfulnefs in deftruc- truth fhalt thou ftablish in tion ? the heavens. 12. Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten? 13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and early shall my prayer come before thee. 14 Lord, why abhorreft thou my foul, and hideft thou thy face from me? 15 I am in mifery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I fuffered with a troubled mind. 16 Thy wrathful difpleafure goeth over me, and the fear of thee hath undone me. 3 I have made a covenant with my chofen; I have fworn unto David my fervant. 4 Thy feed will I ftablish for ever, and fet up thy throne from one generation to another. 5 O Lord, the very heavens fhall praise thy wondrous works; and thy truth in the congregation of the faints. 6 For who is he among the clouds, that thall be compared unto the Lord ? 7 And what is he among the gods, that fhall be like unto the Lord? feared in the council of the faints, and to be had in re 8 God is very greatly to be A a 2 verence |