9 Lord. thou knowest all myl 2 I will keep my mouth as it desire ; and my groaning is not were with a bridle, while the un. hid from thee.

godly is in my sight. 10 My heart panteth, my 3 i held my tongue, and spake strength hath failed ine, and the nothing: I kept siience, yea, sight of mine eyes is gone from me, even from good words; but it

11 My lovers and my neig:.- was pain and grief to ine. hoirs did stand looking upon my 4 My heart was hot within me: trouble, and my kinsmen stood and while I was thus musing the afar off.

fire kindled, and at the last I 12 They also that sought after spake will my longue: my life, laid snares for me ; and 5 Lord, let me know my end, they that went about to do me and the number of my days, that evil, talked of wickedness, and may be certified how long I imagined deceit all the day long. have to live.

13 As for me, I was like a deaf 6 Behold, thou hast made my man, and heard not; and as one days as it ivere a span long, and that is dunib, who doth not open inine age is even as nothing in his mouth.

respect of thee; and verily every 14 I became even as a man man living is altogether vanity: that heareth not, and in whose 7 For man walketh in a vaini mouth are no reproofs. shadow, and disquieleth himself

15 For in thee, O Lord, have in vain; he neapeth up richies, I put my trust ; thou shalt answer and cannot tell who shall gather for me, O Lord, my God. them.

16 I have required that they, & And now, Lord, whai is my even mine enemies, should not hope? truly my hope is even in triumph over me; for when iny thee. foot slipt, they rejoiced greatly g Deliver me from all mine against me.

offences, and make me not a re. 17 And I truly am set in the buke into the foolish. plague, and any heaviness is ever

10 I became dunb, and open in my sight:

ed not my mouth; for it was thy 18 For I will confess my wick- doing edness, and be sorry for my sin. 11 Take thy plague away from

19 But mine enemies live, and me: I am even consumed by the are mighty; and they that hate me means of thy heavy hand. wrongfully are many in number. 12 When thou with rebukes

20 They also that reward evil dost chasten man for sin, thou for good are against me; because makest his beauty to consume I follow the thing that good is. away, like as it were a moth fret

21 Forsake me not, O Lord, iny ting a garnient: every man thera God; be not thou far from ine. fore is but vanity.

22' Haste thee to help me, 0 13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, Lord, God of my salvation. and with thine ears consider my

Psalm 39. Diri, Custodiam. calling; hold not thy peace at I Said, I will take heed to my ways, my tears:

that I oftend not in my tongie.) 14 For I am a stronger with

my

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thee, and a sojourner, as all 12 I have not hid thy rightefathers were.

ousness within my heart; my 15 O spare me a little. that I talk hath been of thy trulh, and

1 may recover my strength, before of thy salvation. I go hence, and be uc more 13 I have 'not kept back thy seen.

loving mercy and trutb from the Psalm 40. Expectans expectati. great congregation. I Waited patiently for the Lord, 14 Withdraw not thou thy

and he inclined unto me, and mercy from me, O Lord; let thy heard my calling

loving-kindness and thy truth 2 He broughi ine also ont of the alway preserve me. horrible pit, out of the mire and 15 For innumerable troubles clay, and set my feet upon the are come about me; my sins rock, and ordered my goings. have taken sứch hold upon me

3 Aud he hath put a new song that I am not able to look up in my mouth, even a thauksgiv-yea, they are more in number ing unto our God.

Jihan the hairs of my head, and 4 Many shall see it, and fear, my heart hath failed me. and shall put their trust in the '16 O Lord, let it be thy pleaLord.

sure to deliver me; make haste. 15 Blessed is the man that hath O Lord, to help me. set his hope in the Lord, and 17 Let then be ashamed, and turned not unto the proud, and confounded together, that seek to such as go about with lies. after my soul to destroy it; let

6 O Lord, my vod, gree: are them be driven backward, and the wondrous works which thou put to rebuke, that wisla me hast done; like as be also thy evil. thougits, which are to us-ward; 13 Let them be desolate, and and yet there is no man that or- rewarded with shame, that say dereth them unto thee.

unto me, Fie upon (nee, fie upon 7 If I should declare them, and thee. speak of them, they should be 19 Let all those that seek thee, more than I am able to express. be joyful and glad in thee; and

8 Sacrifice and meat-offering let such as love thy salvation, say thou wouldest not, but mine ears alway, The Lord be praised. hast thou opened.

20' As.for me, I am poor and 9 Burni-offerings and sacrifice needy. but the Lord careth fur for sin hast thou not required : me. then said I, Lo, I come.

21 Thou art my helper and re10 In the volume of the book deemer; make no long tarrying, it is written of ice, that I should.O my God fulfil thy will, O my God: I am EVENING PRAYER. content to do it; yea, thy law is Psalm 41. Beatus qui intelligit. within my heart. 11 i have declared thy righte- Deth the poor and needy; the

BLESSED is he that considera ousness in the great congregation: Lord shall deliver him in tje' time 1o, I will not refrain my lips, of of trouble. Lord and that thou knowest. 4 The Lord preserve hi ), and

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keep him alive, that he may bel. 3 My tears have been my meat blessed upon earth.; and deliver day and night, while they daily say not thou him into the will of his unto me, Where is now thy God enemies.

4 Now when I think there. 3 The Lord comfort him when upon, I pour out my heart by

I be lieth sick upon his bed; make myself; for I went with the mui thou all his bed in his sickness. titude, and brought them forth

4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto into the house of God; mc; heal my soul, for I have 5 In the voice of praise and sinned against thee.

thanksgiving, among such as keep 5 Mine enemies speak evil of holy-day. me; When shall be die, and his 6 Why art thou so full of heaname perish ?

viness, ó my soul? and why art : 6 And if he come to see me, thou so disquieted within me? he speaketh vanity, and his heart 7 Put thy trust in God; for I conceiveth salsehood within him- will yet give him thanks for the self; and when he cometh forth, help of his countenance. he telleth it.

8 My God, my soul is vexed 7 All mine enemies whisper within me; therefore will I retogether against me, even against member thee concerning the land me do they imagine this evil. of Jordan, and the little hill of

8 Let the sentence of guilti- Hermon. Dess proceed against him, and 9 One deep calleth another, now that he lieth, let him rise up because of the noise of the water

pipes ;

all thy waves and stormy 9 Yea, even mine own familiar are gone over me. friend whom I trusted, who did 10 The Lord hath granted his also eat of my bread, bath laid loving-kindness in this day-time, great wait for me.

and in the night-season did I sing 10 But be thou merciful unto of him, and made my prayer unme, O Lord; raise thou me up to the God of my life. again, and I shall reward them. 11 I will say unto the God of

11 By this I know thou favour- my strength, Why hast thou for est me, that mine enemy doth gotten me? Why go I thus heanot triumph against me. vily, while the enemy oppress.

12 And when I am in my eth me? health, thou upholdest me, and 12 My bones are smitten asuna shall set me before thy face for der as with a sword, while mine

enemies ihat trouble me cast me 13 Blessed be the Lord God of in the teeth; Israel, world without end. Amen. 13 Namely, while they say dai.

Psalm 42. Quemadmodum. ly unto me, Where is now thy God! LIKE as the hart desireth the 14 Why art thou so vexed, O

water-brooks, so longeth my my soul? and why art thou so soul after thee, O God. disquieted within me?

2 My soul is athirst for God, 15 O put thy trust in God; for yea, even for the living God: I will yet thank him, which is the When skall I come to appear be help of my countenance, and my fore the presence of God?

Goal.

no more.

ever.

Psalm 13. Judica ne, Deus. 6 Through thee will we over. GIVE sentence with me, o God, throw our enemies, and in thy

and defend my cause against name will we tread them under the ungodly people; O deliver me that rise up against us. îrom the deceitful and wicked 7 For I will not trust in my man;

bow; it is not iny sword that shad 2 For thou art the God of my help me. strength : why hast thou put me & But it is thou that savest us from thee? and why go I so from our enemies, and puttest heavily, while the enemy oppress-them to coufusion that hate us. eth me?

9 We make our bnast of God al! 3 0 send out thy light and thy day long, and will praise thy truth, that they may lead me, and name for ever. bring me unto thy holy hill, and 10 But now thou art far off, and to thy dwelling.

puttest us to confusion; and goest 4 And that I may go unto the not forth with our armies. altar of God, even unto the God 11 Thou makest us to turn our of my joy and gladness; and backs upon our enemies, so that upon the harp will I give thanks they which hate us spoilourgoodi. unto thee, O God, my God.

12 Thou lettest us be eaten up 5 Why art thou so heavy, like sheep, and hast scattered us my soul? and why art thou so dis-among the heathen. quieted within me?

13 Thou sellest thy people for 6 O pul thy trust in God; for nought, and takest no money for I will yet gi:e him thanks, which them. is the help of my countenance,

14 Thou makest us to be re and my God.

baked of our neighbours, to be The ninth Day.

laughed to scorn, and had in deMORNING PRAYER.

rision of them that are round Psalnı 44. DEW3, uuribus.

about us. WE

E have heard with our ears, 15 Thou makest us to be a by.

O God, our fathers have toid wordamong the hea!hen, and that us what thou hast done in their the people shake their heads at us. time of oil.

16 My confusion is daily before 2 How thou hast driven out the me, and the shame of my face heathen witlıthy hand, and plant-bath covered me; ed them in; how thou hast destroy. 17 For the voice of the sian. ed the nations and cast them out. derer and blasphemier, for the

3 For they gat not the land injenemy and avenger: possession through their own 18 And though all this be como sword, neither was it their own upon us, yet do we not forget arm that helped them ;

thee, nor behave O'ırselves fro4 But thy right land, and ihine wardly in thy covenant. arm, and ihe light of thy counte- 19 our heart is not turned back, nance; because thou hádst a fa-Ineither our steps gone out of thy voor unto ihem.

way ; 5 Thou art my King, O God ; 20 No, not when thou hast Send helu unto Jacob.

Ismitten us into the place of dra.

gons, and covered up with the for ever; the sceptre of thy king shadow of death.

dom is a right sceptre. 21 If we have forgotten the 8 Thou hast loved righteousname of our God, and holden up ness, and hated iniquity; where our bands to any strange god, fore God, even thy God, bath shall not God search it out? for anointed thee with the oil of gladhe knoweth the very secrets of ness above thy fellows. the heart.

9 All thy garments smell of 22 For thy sake also are we kill- myrrh, aloes, and cassia; out of ed all the day long, and are the ivory palaces, whereby they counted as sheep appointed to be have made thee glad. slain.

10 Kings' daughters were among 23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thy honourable women; upon thy thou ? awake, and be not absent right hand did stand the queen from us for ever.

in a vesture of gold, wroug!! 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy about with divers colours. sace, and forgettest our misery and 11 Hearken, o daughter, and trouble ?

consider , incline thine ear; for25 For our soul is brought low, get also thine own people, and even unto the dust; our belly thy father's house, cleaveth unto the ground. 12 So shall the King have plea

26 Arise, and help us, and de- sure in thy beauty; for he is thy liver us, for thy mercies' sake Lord God, and worship thou Psalm 45. Eructavit cor meum.

him. MY

Y heart is inditing of a good 13 And the daughter of Terre

matter; I speak of the things shall be there with a gift; like as which I have made unto the the rich also among the people King.

shall make their supplication be2 My tongue is the pen of a fore thee. ready writer

14 The King's daughter is all 3 Thou art fairer than the chil- glorious within ; her clothing is Qren of men ;

full of grace are thy of wrought gold. lips, because God hath blessed 15 She shall be brought unto thee for ever.

the King in raiment of needle. 4 Gird thee with thy sword work; the virgins that be her fel. upon thy thigh, 0 thou most lows sliall bear her company, and mighty, according to thy worship shall be brought unto thee. and renown.

16 With joy and gladness shall 5 Good luck have thou with they be brought, and shall enter thine honour: ride on, because of into the King's palace. the word of truth, of meekness and 17 Instead of thy fathers thou righteousness, and thy right hand shalt have children, wbom thou shall ieach thee terrible things. mayest make princes in all lands.

6 Thy arrows are very sharp,l. 18 I will remember thy name and the people shall be subdued from one generation to another, unto thee, even in the midst therefore shall the people give among the King's enemies. thanks unto thee world without

7 Thy seas on Andurethsend.