24 And he increased his people exceedingly and made them ftronger than their enemies; 25 Whose heart turned so, that they hated his people and dealt untruly with his ferv ants. 26 Then sent he Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chofen; 27 And these shewed his to kens among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and it was dark and they were not obedient unto his word. 29. He turned their waters into blood and flew their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs: yea, even in their kings chambers. 31 He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies: and lice in all their quarters. 32 He gave them hailftones for rain and flames, of fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and fig-trees: and destroyed the trees that were in their coafts. 34 He fpake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable: and did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. 35 He smote all the first-born in their land even the chief of all their strength. 36 He brought them forth alfo with filver and gold: there was not one feeble person among their tribes. 37 Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were afraid of them. 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night season. 39 At their defire he brought quails: and he filled them with the bread of heaven. 5 40 He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out: fo that rivers ran in the dry places, 41 For why? he remembered his holy promife: and Abraham his fervant. 42 And he brought forth his people with joy: and his chofen with gladness; 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they took the labours of the people in possession; 44 That they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. EVENING PRAYER. PSAL. 106. Confitemini Domino. 0 Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Who can express the noble acts of the Lord: or shew forth all his praife! 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgement: and do righteousness. 4 Remember me, O Lord, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: o vifit me with thy falvation; 5 That I may fee the felicity of thy chosen: and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance. 6 We have finned with our fathers: we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly. 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance: but were difobedient at the fea, even at the Red fea. 8 Nevertheless, he helped them for his Name's fake: that he might make his power to be known. 9 He rebuked the Red fea also, and it was dried up: fo he led them through the deep as through a wilderness. 10 And 10 And he faved them from the adversaries hand and delivered them from the hand of the enemy. 11 As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them there was not one of them left. 12 Then believed they his words: and fang praise unto him. 13 But within a while they forgat his works: and would not abide his counsel; 14 But lust came upon them in the wilderness and they tempted God in the defert. 15 And he gave them their defire: and fent leanness withal into their foul. 16 They angered Moses also in the tents and Aaron the faint of the Lord. 17 So the earth opened and fwallowed up Dathan: and co. vered the congregation of Abi ram. 18 And the fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt up the ungodly. 19 They made a calf in Horeb: and worshipped the molten image. 20 Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay; 21 And they forgat God their Saviour: who had done fo great things in Egypt; 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham: and fearful things by the Red fea. 23 So he faid he would have destroyed them, had not Mofes his chofen stood before him in the gap to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them. 24 Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no credence unto his word; 25 But murmured in their tents: and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord, 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness: among all pofterities for evermore. 32 They angered him also at the waters of strife: fo that he punished Mofes for their fakes; 33 Because they provoked his fpirit: fo that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen as the Lord commanded them; 35 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their works; 36 Infomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay: yea, they offered their fons and their daughters unto devils; 37 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their fons, and of their daughters: whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with biood. 38 Thus were they stained with their own works: and went a whoring with their own inventions. 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people: infomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen: and and they that hated them were 41 Their enemies oppreffed 42 Many a time did he deliver them: but they rebelled against him with their own in ventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. 43 Nevertheless, when he faw their adversity: he heard their complaint. 44 He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies: yea, he made all those that led them away captive to pity them. 45 Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from a mong the heathen that we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, and make our boast of thy praife. 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Ifrael from everlasting, and world without end and let all the people fay, Amen. MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 107. Confitemini Domino. Give thanks unto the Lord, ; and his mercy endureth for ever. Orhana 2. Let them give thanks, whom the Lord hath redeemed: and delivered from the hand of the enemy; 3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west from the north, and from the south. 4 They went aftray in the wilderness out of the way: and found no city to dwell in; 5 Hungry and thirsty: their foul fainted in them. 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress; 7 He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt. 80 that men would there. fore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! 9 For he fatisfieth the empty foul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness; To Such as fit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: being faft bound in mifery and iron. 11 Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord: and lightly regarded the coun sel of the most Highest; 12 He also brought down their heart through heaviness: they fell down, and there was none to help them. 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their distress. 14 For he brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death: and brake their bonds in funder. 15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass: and smitten the bars of iron in funder. 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickedness. 18 Their foul abhorred all manner of meat: and they were even hard at death's door. 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their distress. 20 He fent his word, and healed them and they were saved from their deftruction. 21 that men would therefore praife the Lord for his goodness: goodness and declare the won- 22 That they would offer un 23 They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters, 24 These men fee the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep, 25 For at his word the stormy wind arifeth which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep their foul melteth away because of the trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man: and are at their wits end. 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivereth them out of their distress. 29 For he maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof are ftill. he 30 Then are they glad because they are at reft: and fo bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doeth for the child ren of men! 32 That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the feat of the elders! 33 Who turneth the floods in✓ to a wilderness and drieth up the water-springs. 34 A fruitful land maketh he barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35 Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water and water-springs of a dry ground. 36 And there he fetteth the hungry that they may build them a city to dwell in; 37 That they may sow their land, and plant vineyards: to yield them fruits of increase. 38 He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceedingly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 39 And again, when they are minished and brought low: through oppreffion, through any plague or trouble; 40 Though he fuffer them to be evil entreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness; 41 Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery: and maketh him housholds like a flock of sheep. 42 The righteous will confider this, and rejoice and the mouth of all wickedness shail be stopped. 43 Whoso is wife will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. EVENING PRAYER. PSAL. 108. Paratum cor meum. ready, my O God, my heart is ready: I will fing and give praise with the best member that I have. 2 Awake, thou lute and harp: I myself will awake right early. 3 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the people: I will fing praises unto thee among the nations. 4 For thy mercy is greater than the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. 5 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. 6 That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand fave them, and hear thou me. 7 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will rejoice therefore, and divide Sichem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead 8 Gilead is mine, and Manafses is mine: Ephraim also is the strength of my head; 9 Judah is my law-giver, Moab is my wash-pot: over Edom will I caft out my shoe; upon Philistia will I triumph. 10 Who will lead me into the strong city and who will bring me into Edom? Hast not thou forsaken us, O God and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? 12 O help us against the ene my for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we shall do great acts: and it is he that shall tread down our enemies. H PSAL. 109. Deus laudum. OLD not thy tongue, O God of my praise : for the mouth of the ungodly, yea, the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me. 2 And they have spoken against me with false tongues : they compaffed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a caufe. 3 For the love that I had unto them, lo, they take now my contrary part: but I give myself unto prayer. 4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my good-will. 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan stand at his right hand. on him, when let fentence him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into fin. and 7 Let his days be few let another take his office. 8 Let his children be fatherless: and his wife a widow. 9 Let his children be vaga bonds, and beg their bread: let them feek it alfo out of defolate places. 10 Let the extortioner consume all that he hath: and let the stranger spoil his labour. -11 Let there be no man to pity him: nor to have compaffion upon his fatherless children. 12 Let his pofterity be destroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out. 13 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the fight of the Lord: and let not the fin of his mother be done away. 14 Let them alway be before the Lord: that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth; 15 And that, because his mind was not to do good: but perfe. cuted the poor helpless man, that he might flay him that was vexed at the heart... 16 His delight was in curfing and it shall happen unto him: he loved not bleffing, therefore shall it be far from him. 17 He clothed himself with curfing like as with a raiment: and it shall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him: and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal. 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies: and to those that speak evil against my foul. 20 But deal thou with me, O Lord God thing into thy 21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor: and my heart is wounded within me. 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth: and am driven away as the grafshopper. 23 My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatness. |