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One thing have I defired of the Lord, which I will require even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to vifit his temple.

5 For in the time of trouble he hall hide me in his tabernacle yea, in the fecret place of his dwelling fhall he hide me, and fet me up upon a rock

of stone.

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6 And now fhall he lift up mine head above mine ene

mies round about me.

7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness: I will fing and Ipeak praifes unto the Lord.

8 Hearken unto my voice, O Lord, when I cry unto thee: have mercy upon me, and hear

me.

9 My heart hath talked of thee; Seek ye my face: thy face, Lord, will I feek.

10 O hide not thou thy face from me nor caft thy fervant away in difpleasure.

II Thou haft been my fuccour: leave me not, neither forfake me, O God of my falvation.

12 When my father and my mother forfake me the Lord taketh me up.

13 Teach me thy way, O Lord and lead me in the right way, because of mine enemies.

14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adverfaries: for there are falfe witneffes rifen up against me, and fuch as fpeak wrong.

15 1 fhould utterly have fainted but that I believe verily to fee the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

16 O tarry thou the Lord's leifure be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy truft in the Lord,

PSAL. 28. Ad te, Domine.

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NTO thee will I cry, Lord my ftrength: thi no feorn of me, left if th make as though thou hear a not, I become like them tl. go down into the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unt thee: when I hold up my hand towards the mercy feat of th holy temple.

3 O pluck me not away, nether deftroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers: which peak friendly to their neigh bours, but imagine mischief i their hearts.

Reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their own inventions.

5 Recompenfe them after the work of their hands: pay them that they have deserved.

6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands: therefore fhall he break them down, and not build them up.

7 Praised be the Lord : for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions.

8 The Lord is my strength, and my fhield; my heart hath trufted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my fong will I praife him.

9 The Lord is my ftrength: and he is the wholfome defence of his Anointed.

10 O fave thy people, and give thy bleffing unto thine inheritance: feed them, and set them up for ever.

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7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire; the voice of the Lord thaketh the wilderness: yea, the Lord fhak

eth the wilderness of Cades.

8 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to bring forth young, and difcovereth the thick bushes: in his temple doth every man speak of his honour. 9 The Lord fitteth above the water-flood and the Lord remaineth a King for ever.

10 The Lord fhall give ftrength unto his people: the Lord fhall give his people the bleffing of peace,

MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 30. Exaltabo te, Domine.

magnify thee,

5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life: heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

6 And in my prosperity I said, I fhall never be removed: thou Lord, of thy goodness hadit made my hill fo ftrong.

7 Thou didst turn thy face from me and I was troubled, 8 Then cried I unto thee, O Lord and gat me to my Lord right humbly.

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9 What profit is there in my blood: when I go down to the pit?

10 Shall the duft give thanks unto thee: or fhall it declare thy truth?

11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

12 Thou haft turned my heavinefs into joy: thou haft put off my fackcloth, and gilded me with gladness.

13 Therefore fhall every good man fing of thy praife without ceating: O my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever..

PSAL. 31. In te, Domine, fperavi.. 'N thee, O Lord, have I put

put to confufion; deliver me in thy righteoufaefs..

2 Bow down thine ear to me:: make hafte to deliver me.

be thou strong rock

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7 I have hated them that hold of fuperftitious vanities: and my truft hath been in the Lord. 8 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy for thou haft confidered my trouble, and haft known my foul in adverfities. 9 Thou haft not fhut me up into the hand of the enemy: but haft fet my feet in a large room.

10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: and mine eye is confumed for very heavinefs; yea, my foul and my body.

11 For my life is waxen old with heavinefs and my years with mourning.

12 My ftrength faileth me, because of mine iniquity: and my bones are confumed.

13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies, but efpecially among my neighbours and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me; and they that did fee me without conveyed themfelves from me.

14 I am clean forgotten, as a dead man out of mind: I am become like a broken veffel.

15 For I have heard the blafphemy of the multitude: and fear is on every fide, while they confpire together against me, and take their counfel to take away my life.

16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord I have faid, Thou art my God.

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17 My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that perfecute me.

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18 Shew thy fervant the light of thy countenance and fave me for thy mercies fake.

19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for 1 have called upon thee let the ungodly be put to confufion, and be put to filence in the grave,

20 Let the lying lips be put to filence: which cruelly, dif dainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

21 O how plentiful is th goodness which thou haft la up for them that fear ther: and that thou haft prepared them that put their truft in the even before the fons of men !

22 Thou shalt hide them vily by thine own prefence froma the provoking of all men: thou fhalt keep them fecretly in thy tabernacle from the ftrife of tongues.

23 Thanks be to the Lord: for he hath fhewed me marvellous great kindness in a ftrong city.

24 And when I made hafte, I faid: I am caft out of the fight of thine eyes.

25 Nevertheless, thou heardeft the voice of my prayer: when I cried unto thee.

26 O love the Lord, all ye his faints: for the Lord preferveth them that are faithful, and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer.

27 Be ftrong, and he fhall establish your heart: all ye that put your truft in the Lord.

EVENING PRAYER. PSAL. 32. Beati quorum. Bemers is forgiven : and Leffed is he whofe unright

whose fin is covered.

2 Bleffed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no fin and in whose spirit there is no guile.

3 For while I held my tongue : my bones confumed away through my daily complaining.

4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is like the drought in fummer.

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7-For this fhall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayeft be found but in the great water floods they fhall not come nigh him.

Thou art a place to hide me in, thou fhalt preferve me from trouble: thou fhalt compafs me about with fongs of deliverance.

9 I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou fhalt go and I will guide thee with mine eye.

10 Be ye not like to horfe and mule, which have no understanding : whofe mouths must be held with bit and bridle, left they fall upon thee.

11 Great plagues remain for the ungodly but whofo putteth his truft in the Lord, mercy embraceth him on every fide.

12 Be glad, O ye righteous, and rejoice in the Lord: and be joyful all ye that are true of heart. PSAL. 33. Exultate, jufti.

all the hoft of them by the breath of his mouth.

7 He gathereth the waters of the fea together, as it were upon an heap and layeth up the deep, as in a treasure-house.

Let all the earth fear the Lord: ftand in awe of him, all ye that dwell in the world;

9 For he fpake, and it was done he commanded, and it ftood fast.

10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and cafteth out the counfels of princes.

11 The counfel of the Lord fhall endure for ever and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

12 Bleffed are the people whofe God is the Lord Jehovah and bleffed are the folk that he hath chofen to him to be his inheritance.

13 The Lord looked down from heaven, and beheld all the children of men: from the habitation of his dwelling he confidereth all them that dwell on the earth.

14 He fashioneth all the hearts

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye of them; and understandeth all

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righteous for it becometh well the juft to be thankful. 2 Praife the Lord with harp: fing praises unto him with the lute and inftrument of ten ftrings.

Šing unto the Lord a new fong fing praises luftily unto him with a good courage.

: 4 For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithful.

5 He loveth righteoufnefs and judgement: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made: and

their works.

15 There is no king that can be faved by the multitude of an hoft: neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.

16 A horfe is counted but a vain thing to save a man í neither fhall he deliver any man by his great ftrength.

17 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him: and upon them that put their truft in his mercy;

18 To deliver their foul from death and to feed them in the time of dearth.

19 Our foul hath patiently tarried

tarried for the Lord our help and our thield.

for he ever the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers.

20 For our heart shall rejoice in him because we have hoped in his holy Name.

21 Let thy merciful kindnefs, O Lord, be upon us like as we do put our truft in thee.

PSAL. 34. Benedicam Domino. I the Law the hall ever Will alway give thanks unto

be in my mouth.

2 My foul fhall make her boaft in the Lord: the humble fhall hear thereof, and be glad. 3 O praife the Lord with me: and let us magnify his Name together.

4 I fought the Lord, and he heard me yea, he delivered me out of all my fear. 5 They had an eye unto him, and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed.

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Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him: yea, and faveth him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him and delivereth them. 8 O tafte, and fee how gra

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cious the Lord is: bleffed is the

man that trusteth in him.

9 O fear the Lord, ye that are his faints for they that fear him lack nothing.

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10 The lions do lack, and fuffer hunger: but they who feek the Lord fhall want no manner of thing that is good.

11 Come, ye children, and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 What man is he that lufteth to live and would fain fee, good days?

13 Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips that they

fpeak no guile.

14 Efchew evil, and do good: feek peace, and ensue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are

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17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth them: and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will fave fuch as be of an humble spirit.

19 Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of all.

20 He keepeth all his bones : fo that not one of them is broken.

21 But misfortune fhall flay the ungodly and they that hate the righteous fhall be defolate.

22 The Lord delivereth the fouls of his fervants : and all they that put their trust in him fhall not be deftitute.

MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 35. Judica me, Domine. PLEAD thou my caufe, O. Lord, with them that ftrive. with me and fight thou against them that fight against me.

2 Lay hand upon the shield and buckler and ftand up to help me.

3 Bring forth the fpear, and ftop the way against them that perfecute me: fay unto my soul, I am thy falvation.

4 Let them be confounded, and put to fhame, that feek after my foul let them be turned back, and brought to confufion, that imagine mifchief for me."

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5 Let them be as the duft before the wind: and the angel of the Lord scattering them..

6 Let their way be dark and flippery : and let the angel of the Lord perfecute them.

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