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12 I have not hid thy righte ousness within my heart; my

15 O spare me a little, that I talk hath been of thy truth, and may recover my strength, before of thy salvation. I go hence, and be no more of seen.

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Psalm 40. Expectans expectavi.
Waited patiently for the Lord,

13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth from the great congregation.

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 brought me also out 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 such hold upon me, 3 And he bath put a new song that I am not able to look up; in my mouth, even a thanksgiv-yea, they are more in number ing unto our God. than the hairs of my head, and

4 Many shall see it, and fear, my heart hath failed me. and and shall put their trust in the

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16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me; make haste,

5 Blessed is the man that hath O Lord, to help me. Squeet his hope in the Lord, and

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17 Let them 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 God, great are them be driven backward, and the wondrous works which thou put to rebuke, that wish me hast done; like as be also thy evil.

thoughts, which are to us-ward;| 18 Let them be desolate, and Imaand yet there is no man that or-rewarded with shame, that say dereth them unto thee. unto me, Fie upon thee. fie upon

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7 If I should declare them, and thee. peak of them, they should be more than I am able to express. 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering hou wouldest not, but mine ears ast thou opened.

19 Let all those that seek thee, be joyful and glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation, say alway, The Lord be praised.

20 As for me, I am poor and

9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice needy; but the Lord careth for or sin hast thou not required: me. hen 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 me, that I should O my God. ulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart.

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EVENING PRAYER.
Psalm 41. Beatus qui intelligit.

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LESSED is he that consider11 have declared thy righte eth the poor and needy; the usness in the great congregation: Lord shall deliver him in the time o, I will not refrain my lips, Olof trouble.

Lord, and that thou knowest. 2 The Lord preserve him, and

keep him alive, that he may be 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 he lieth sick upon his bed; make myself; for I went with the mul thou all his bed in his sickness. titude, and brought them forth 4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto into the house of God; me; 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 he die, and his 6 Why art thou so full of hea name perish? viness, O 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 falsehood 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 re together 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. ness 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 storms

no more.

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, hath laid loving-kindness in the 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 By this I know thou favour-my strength, Why hast thou for est me, that mine enemy doth gotten me? Why go I thus bea not 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 asunshall set me before thy face for der as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me

ever.

13 Blessed be the Lord God of in the teeth; Israel, world without end. Amen.

13 Namely, while they say dai ly unto me, Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, O water-brooks, so longeth my my soul? and why art thou so disquieted within me?

Psalm 42. Quemadmodum. TIKE as the hart desireth the

soul after thee, O God.

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 shall I come to appear be- help of my countenance, and my fore the presence of God?

God.

Psalm 43. Judica me, 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. from the deceitful and wicked

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7 For I will not trust in my bow; it is not my sword that shall 2 For thou art the God of my help me. detrength: why hast thou put me 8 But it is thou that savest us from thee? and why go I so from our enemies, and puttest deavily, while the enemy oppress-them to confusion that hate us. th me?

9 We make our boast of God all 30 send out thy light and thy day long, and will praise thy ruth, that they may lead me, and name for ever.

taring me unto thy holy hill, and 10 But now thou art far off, and thy dwelling. puttest us to confusion; and goest 4 And that I may go unto the not forth with our armies. tar of God, even unto the God 11 Thou makest us to turn our my joy and gladness; and backs upon our enemies, so that pon the harp will I give thanks they which hate us spoil our goods. neinto thee, God, my God. 12 Thou lettest us be eaten up 5 Why art thou so heavy, Olike sheep, and hast scattered us y soul? and why art thou so dis- among the heathen. ieted within me?

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MORNING PRAYER.
Psalm 44. Deus, auribus.

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14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us.

15 Thou makest us to be a byword among the heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us. 12 How thou hast driven out the me, and the shame of my face 16 My confusion is daily before athen with thy hand, and plant-bath covered me; them in; how thou hast destroy- 17 For the voice of the slanthe nations and cast them out. derer and blasphemer, for the For they gat not the land in enemy and avenger. session through their own

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18 And though all this be come

prd, neither was it their own upon us, yet do we not forget ile that helped them; thee, nor behave ourselves fro

But thy right hand, and thine wardly in thy covenant.

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19 Our heart is not turned back,

ce; because thou hadst a fa- neither our steps gone out of thy meir unto them.

Thou art my King, O God; d help unto Jacob.

way;

20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dra

gons, and covered us with the for ever; the sceptre of thy king dom is a right sceptre. shadow of death.

21 If we have forgotten the 8 Thou hast loved righteous name of our God, and holden up ness, and hated iniquity; where our hands to any strange god, fore God, even thy God, hath shall not God search it out? for anointed thee with the oil of glad he knoweth the very secrets of ness above thy fellows.

9 All thy garments smell of the heart. 22 Forthy sake also are we kill-myrrh, aloes, and cassia; outd ed all the day long, and are the ivory palaces, whereby they counted as sheep appointed to be have made thee glad. 10 Kings' daughters were among slain. 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, wrought 24 Wherefore bidest thou thy about with divers colours. face, and forgettest our misery and trouble?

25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the ground.

26 Arise, and help us, and deliver us, for thy mercies' sake.

Psalm 45. Eructavit cor meum.

MY heart is inditing of a good

11 Hearken, O daughter, an consider; incline thine ear; for get also thine own people, u thy father's house.

12 So shall the King have ple sure in thy beauty; for he is th Lord God, and worship the him.

13 And the daughter of T matter; I speak of the things shall be there with a gift; like which I have made unto the the rich also among the peop shall make their supplication b

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14 The King's daughter is 3 Thou art fairer than the chil- glorious within; her clothing dren of men; full of grace are thy of wrought gold. lips, because God hath blessed

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and renown.

15 She shall be brought un the King in raiment of neede 4 Gird thee with thy sword work; the virgins that be here upon thy thigh, O thou most lows shall bear her company, mighty, according to thy worship shall be brought unto thee. 16 With joy and gladness sh 5 Good luck have thou with they be brought, and shall en thine honour: ride on, because of into the King's palace. the word of truth, of meekness and 17 Instead of thy fathers the righteousness, and thy right hand shalt have children, whom the shall teach thee terrible things. mayest make princes in all la

6 Thy arrows are very sharp, 18 I will remember thy na and the people shall be subdued from one generation to anoth unto thee, even in the midst therefore shall the people among the King's enemies. thanks unto thee, world with 7 Thy seat, O God, endureth end.

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Psalm 40. Deus noster refugium.

3 He shall subdue the people GOD is our hope and strength, under us, and the nations under a very present help in trouble. our feet.

Therefore will we not fear, 4 He shall choose out an herihough the earth be moved, and tage for us, even the worship of hough the hills be carried into Jacob, whom he loved.

the midst of the sea.

5 God is gone up with a merry 3 Though the waters thereof noise, and the Lord with the rage and swell, and though the sound of the trump.

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nountains shake at the tempest 6 O sing praises, sing praises unto our God; O sing praises, 4 The rivers of the flood thereof sing praises unto our King. hall make glad the city of God; 7 For God is the King of all he holy place of the tabernacle the earth: sing ye praises with fthe most Highest. understanding.

5 God is in the midst of her, 8 God reigneth over the heaerefore shall she not be remov-then; God sitteth upon his holy God shall help her, and that seat. ght early.

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Psalm 48. Magnus Dominus.

GREAT is the Lord, and highly

to be praised in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill. 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth; 9 He maketh wars to cease in upon the north side lieth the city the world; he breaketh the of the great King: God is well ow, and knappeth the spear in known in her palaces as a sure nder, and burneth the chariots

the fire.

10 Be still then, and know that im God: I will be exalted among heathen, and I will be exalted

the earth.

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EVENING PRAYER. Paalm 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite. Clap your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto God ith the voice of melody.

2 For the Lord is high, and to feared; he is the great King Son all the earth.

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