done any such thing; or if there up a pit, and is fallen baself into be any wickedness in my hands; the destruction that he made for 4 If I have rewarded evil unto other. him that dealt friendly with me ; 17 For his travail shall come yea, I have delivered him that pon his own head, and his wickwithout any cause is mine enemy;edness shall fall on his own pate 5 Then let mine enemy perse- 18 I will give thanks unto the cute my soul, and take me; yea, Lord, according to his righteouslet him tread my life down upon ness; and I will praise the name the earth, and lay mine honour of the Lord most high. in the dust. Psalm 8. Domine, Dominus noster. 6 Stand up, O Lord, in thy Lord, our Governor, how exwrath, and lift up thyself. because cellent is thy name in all the of the indignation of mine ene-world; thou that hast set thy mies; arise up for me in the judg-glory above the heavens! ment that thou hast commanded: 2 Out of the mouth of very 7 And so shall the congre- babes and sucklings hast thou or gation of the people come about dained strength, because of thine thee for their sakes therefore enemies, that thou mightest still lift up thyself again. the enemy and the avenger. 8 The Lord shall judge the 3 For I will consider thy hea people give sentence with me, vens, even the works of thy finO Lord, according to my righte-gers; the moon and the stars ousness, and according to the in-which thou hast ordained. nocency that is in me. 90 let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins. 11 My help cometh of God, who preserveth them that are true of heart. 12 God is a righteous judge, strong, and patient; and God is provoked every day. 13 If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 Thou madest him lower than the angels, to crown him with glory and worship. 6 Thou makest him to have do minion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; 7 All sheep and oxen; yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; he or- 9 O Lord, our Governor, how daineth bis arrows against the excellent is thy name in all the persecutors. world! 15 Behold, he travaileth with mischief; he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness. 6 He hath graven and digged will speak of all thy marvellous daughter of Sion: I will rejoice works. in thy salvation. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in 15 The heathen are sunk down thee; yea, my songs will I make of in the pit that they made; in the thy name, O thou Most Highest. same net which they hid privily 3 While mine enemies are dri-is their foot taken. ven back, they shall fall and pe- 16 The Lord is known to exerish at thy presence: cute judgment; the ungodly is 4 For thou hast maintained my trapped in the work of his own right and my cause; thou art set hands. in the throne that judgest right. 17 The wicked shall be turned 5 Thou hast rebuked the hea-into hell, and all the people that then, and destroyed the ungodly; forget God. ever and ever. thou hast put out their name for 13 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten; the patient abiding 60 thou enemy, destructions of the meek shall not perish for are come to a perpetual end ;ever. even as the cities which thou hast 19 Up, Lord, and let not man destroyed, their memorial is pe-have the upper hand; let the rished with them. heathen be judged in thy sight. 7 But the Lord shall endure 20 Put them in fear, O Lord, for ever; he hath also prepared that the heathen may know themLis seat for judgment. selves to be but men. 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness, and minister true judgment unto the people: 9 The Lord also will be a de-l fence for the oppressed, even a refuge in due time of trouble. Psalm 10. Ut quid, Domine? WHY standest thou so far off, O Lord, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble? 2 The ungodly, for his own lust, doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined. 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee 3 For the ungodly hath made for thou, Lord, hast never failed boast of his own heart's desire, them that seek thee. and speaketh good of the covet 11 O praise the Lord which ous, whom God abhorreth. dwelleth in Sion; show the peo ple of his doings: 4 The ungodly is so proud, that he careth not for God, neither is 12 For when he maketh inqui-God in all his thoughts. sition for blood he remembereth 5 His ways are alway grievthem, and forgetteth not the com-lous; thy judgments are far above plaint of the poor. out of his sight, and therefore de 13 Have mercy upon me, O fieth he all his enemies. Lord; consider the trouble which 6 For he hath said in his heart, I suffer of them that hate me, Tush, I shall never be cast down, thou that liftest me up from the there shall no harm happen unto gates of death: me. 14 That I may show all thy 7 His mouth is full of curs praises within the ports of theling. deceit. and fraud; ander bis tongue is ungodliness and vanity. 8 He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor. Psalm 11. In Domino confida. N the Lord put I my trust, how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the bill? 2 For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their 94r he lieth waiting secretly arrows within the quiver, that even as a lion lurketh he in his they may privily shoot at them den, that he may ravish the poor. which are true of heart. 10 He doth ravish the poor, 3 For the foundations will be when he getteth him into his net. cast down; and what hath the 11 He falleth down an hum-righteous done? bleth himself, that the congrega- 4 The Lord is in his holy tem tion of the poor may fall into the ple; the Lord's seat is in heaven hands of his captains. 5 His eyes consider the poor 12 He hath said in his heart, and his eye-lids try the children Tush, God hath forgotten; he of men. never see it. hideth away his face, and he will 6 The Lord alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him 13 Arise, O Lord God, and lift that delighteth in wickedness, up thine hand; forget not the poor. doth his soul abhor. 14 Wherefore shall the wick- 7 Upon the ungodly he shall ed blaspheme God, while he doth rain snares, fire and brimstone, say in his heart, Tush, thou God storm and tempest: this shall be carest not for it? their portion to drink. 15 Surely thou hast seen it; for 8 For the righteous Lord loveth thou beholdest ungodliness and righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just. wrong, 16 That thou mayest take the EVENING PRAYER. matter into thy hand: the poor Psalm 12. Salvum me fac. committeth himself unto thee; HELP me, Lord, for there is for thou art the helper of the not one godly man left; for friendless. the faithful are minished from among the children of men. 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; take away his ungodliness, and thou shalt find none. 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever, and the heathen are perished out of the land. 2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart. 3 The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 19 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou prepar4 Which have said, With our est their heart, and thine ear tongue will we prevail; we are bearkeneth thereto. they that ought to speak: who is 20 To help the fatherless and Lord over us? poor unto their right, that the 5 Now, for the comfortless trouman of the earth be no more ex-blessake of the needy, and because alted against them. of the deep sighing of the poor 6 I will up, saith the Lord, and 4 But they are all gone out of will help every one from him the way, they are altogether be that swelleth against him, and will come abominable; there is none set him at rest.. that doeth good, no not one. 7 The words of the Lord are 5 Their throat is an open sepure words, even as the silver pulchre; with their tongues have which from the earth is tried, and they deceived: the poison of asps purified seven times in the fire. is under their lips. 8. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever. 6 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. 9 The ungodly walk on every 7 Destruction and unhappiness side: when they are exalted, the is in their ways, and the way of children of men are put to re- peace have they not known; there buke. is no fear of God before their eyes. Psalm 13. Usque quo, Domine? 8 Have they no knowledge, that HOW long wilt thou forget me, they are all such workers of misO Lord; for ever? how long chief, eating up my people as it wilt thou hide thy face from me?were bread, and call not upon the 2 How long shall I seek course! | Lord? in my soul, and be so vexed in my 9 There were they brought in heart? How long shall mine ene-great fear, even where no fear mies triumph over me? was; for God is in the generation Olof the righteous.. 3 Consider, and hear me, Lord my God; lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it. 10 As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the Lord. 11 Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Sion? When the 5 But my trust is in thy mercy, Lord turneth the captivity of his and my heart is joyful in thy sal-people, then shall Jacob rejoice and Israel shall be glad. vation. 61 will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me; yea, I will praise the name of the Lord most Highest. Psalm 14. Dixit insipiens. THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. The third Day. MORNING PRAYER. LORD, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest upon thy holy hill? 2 Even he that leadeth an un2 They are corrupt, and become corrupt life, and doeth the thing abominable in their doings; there which is right, and speaketh the is none that doeth good, no not truth from his heart: one. 3 He that hath used no deceit 3 The Lord looked down from in his tongue, no" done evil to heaven upon the children of men, his neighbour, and hath not slan to see if there were any that would dered his neighbour: understand, and seek after God: 4 He that setteth not by him. self; but is lowly in his own eyes, there is pleasure for evermore. and maketh much of them that Psalm 17. Exaudi, Domine. fear the Lord: HEAR the right, O Lord, con5 Ile that sweareth unto his sider my complaint, and hearneighbour, and disappointeth himken unto my prayer, that goeth not, though it were to his own not out of feigned lips. hindrance: 2 Let my sentence come forth 6 He that hath not given his from thy presence, and let thine money upon usury, nor taken re-eyes look upon the thing that is ward against the innocent: 7 Whoso doeth these things shall never fall. Psalm 16. Conserva me, Domine. equal. 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find PRESERVE me, O God; for no wickedness in me; for I am in thee have I put my trust. utterly purposed that my mouth 20 my soul, thou hast said unto shall not offend. the Lord, Thou art my God; my 4 Because of men's works that goods are nothing unto thee. are done against the words of thy 3 All my delight is upon the lips, I have kept me from the saints that are in the earth, and ways of the destroyer. upon such as excel in virtue. 50 hold thou up my goings in 4 But they that run after ano-thy paths, that my footsteps slip ther God shall have great trouble. not. 5 Their drink-offerings of blood 6 I have called upon thee, O will I not offer, neither make men-God, for thou shalt hear me : intion of their names within my lips. cline thine ear to me, and hearken 6 The Lord himself is the por- unto my words. tion of mine inheritance,and of my 7 Show thy marvellous loving cup, thou shalt maintain my lot. kindness, thou that art the Sa7 The lot is fallen unto me in aviour of them which put their fair ground; yea, I have a goodly trust in thee, from such as resist heritage. thy right hand. 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning; my reins also chasten me in the night season. 9 I have set God always before me; for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall not fall. 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 9 From the ungodly, that trouble me; mine enemies compass me round about, to take away my 10 Wherefore my heart was soul. glad, and my glory rejoiced; my flesh also shall rest in hope. 11 For why? thou shalt not leave my soul in hell; neither shalt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. 10 They are enclosed in their own fat, and their mouth speak eth proud things. 11 They lie waiting in our way on every side, turning their eyes down to the ground. 12 Thou shalt show me the path 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of life in thy presence is the ful- of his prey, and as it were a lion's Dess of joy, and at thy right hand whelp lurking in secret places |