the earth: O sing praises unto the his excellency is over Israel, and his Lord; strength is in the clouds. To him that rideth upon the hea- O God, thou art terrible out of ven of heavens, which were of old: thy holy places; the God of Israel Lo, he doth send out his voice, and is he that giveth strength and power that a mighty voice. unto his people: Blessed be God. Ascribe the strength unto God;} THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID. The first Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 1. Beatus vir, qui non abiit. der, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision. not walked in the counsel of 5 Then shall he speak unto them the ungodly, nor stood in the way in his wrath, and vex them in his of sinners, and hath not sat in the sore displeasure. seat of the scornful: 6 Yet have I set my King upon 2 But his delight is in the law of my holy hill of Sion. the Lord, and in his law will he7 I will preach the law, whereof exercise himself day and night. the Lord hath said unto me, Thou 3 And he shall be like a tree art my Son, this day have I begotplanted by the water-side, that will ten thee. bring forth his fruit in due season: 4 His leaf also shall not wither and look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper. 8 Desire of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession. 5 As for the ungodly, it is not so 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a with them, but they are like the rod of iron, and break them in chaff, which the wind scattereth pieces like a potter's vessel. away from the face of the earth. 10 Be wise now, therefore, O ye 6 Therefore the ungodly shall kings; be learned, ye that are aot be able to stand in the judg-judges of the earth. ment; neither the sinners in the II Serve the Lord in fear, and congregation of the righteous. rejoice unto him with reverence. 7 But the Lord knoweth the way, of the righteous; and the way of the ungodly shall perish. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way: if his wrath be kindled, yea but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Psalm 2. Quare fremuerunt gentes? WHY do the heathen so furious-Psalm 3, Domine, quid multiplily rage together? and why do cati? the people imagine a vain thing?ORD, how are they increased 2 The kings of the earth stand that trouble me? many are up, and the rulers take counsel to-they that rise against me. gether against the Lord, and against 2 Many one there be that say of his Anointed: my soul, There is no help for pina 3 Let us break their bonds asun-fin his God. 3 But thou, O Lord, art my de-God: for unto thee all make my fender; thou art my worship, and prayer. the lifter up of my head. 3 My voice shalt thou hear be4 I did call upon the Lord with times, O Lord; early in the mornmy voice, and he heard me out of ing will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. his holy hill. 4 For thou art the God that hast 5 I laid me down and slept, and rose up again, for the Lord sus-no pleasure in wickedness; neither tained me. shall any evil dwell with thee, 6 I will not be afraid for ten 5 Such as be foolish, shall not thousands of the people, that have stand in thy sight; for thou hatest set themselves against me round all them that work vanity. about. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that 7 Up, Lord, and help me, O my speak lies: the Lord will abhor God; for thou smitest all mine ene- both the blood-thirsty and deceitful mies upon the cheek bone: thou man. hast broken the teeth of, the un- 7 But as for me, I will come into godly. thine house, even upon the multi 8 Salvation belongeth unto the tude of thy mercy, and in thy fear Lord; and thy blessing is upon thy will I worship toward thy holy people. temple. HE Psalm 4. Cum invocarem, 8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy TEAR me, when I call, O God righteousness, because of mine eneof my righteousness: thou mies; make thy way plain before hast set me at liberty, when I was my face. in trouble; have mercy upon me, 9 For there is no faithfulness in and hearken unto my prayer. This mouth; their inward parts are 20 ye sons of men, how long very wickedness. will ye, blaspheme mine nonour, 10 Their throat is an open se and have such pleasure in vanity, pulchre; they flatter with their and seek after falsehood? tongue. 3 Know this also, that the Lord 11 Destroy thou them, O God, hath chosen to himself the man that let them perish through their own is godly when I call upon the imaginations; cast them out in the Lord he will hear me. multitude of their ungodliness; for 4 Stand in awe, and sin not; they have rebelled against thee. commune with your own heart, 12 And let all them that put and in your chamber, and be still. their trust in thee rejoice: they 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteous-shall ever be giving of thanks, be ness, and put your trust in the Lord. cause thou defendest them; they 6 There be many that say, Who that love thy name shall be joyful will show us any good? in thee: 7 Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 13 For thou, Lord, wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous, and 8 Thou hast put gladness in my with thy favourable kindness wil! heart, since the time that their corn, thou defend him, as with a shield. and wine, and oil increased. 9 I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest; for it is thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safety. Psalm 5. Verba mea auribus. PONDER my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. 2 O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my King, and my EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 6. Domine, ne in furore. LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation, neither chasten me in thy displeasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak: O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul also is sore troubled: but, Lord, how long wilt thou pun-ness, and according to the inno ish me? cency that is in me. 4 Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul; O save me, for thy mercies' sake: 9 O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide, thou the just. 5 For in death no man remem- 10 For the righteous God trieth bereth thee; and who will give thee the very hearts and reins. thanks in the pit. 11 My help cometh of God, who 6 I am weary of my groaning: preserveth them that are true of every night wash I my bed, and heart. water my couch with my tears. 12 God is a righteous judge, 7 My beauty is gone for very strong, and patient; and God is trouble, and worn away because of provoked every day. all mine enemies, 13 If a man will not turn, he 8 Away from me, all ye that will whet his sword; he hath bent work vanity; for the Lord hath his bow, and made it ready. heard the voice of my weeping. 14 He hath prepared for him 9 The Lord hath heard my pe- the instruments of death; he or tition; the Lord will receive my daineth his arrows against the per prayer. secutors. 10 All mine enemies shall be 15 Behold, he travaileth with confounded, and sore vexed; they mischief; he hath conceived sor shall be turned back, and put to row, and brought forth ungodlishame suddenly. ness. Psalm 7. Domine, Deus meus. 16 He hath graven and digged LORD, my God, in thee have I up a pit, and is fallen himself into put my trust; save me from the destruction that he made for all them that persecute me, and de-other. liver me; 17 For his travail shall come upon Lest he devour my soul like a his own head, and his wickedness lion, and tear it in pieces, while shall fall on his own pate. there is none to help. 18 I will give thanks unto the 30 Lord my God, if I have done Lord, according to his righteousany such thing; or if there be any ness; and I will praise the name wickedness in my hands'; of the Lord most high. 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me; LORD, our Governor, how exyea, I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy; Psalm 8. Domine, Dominus noster. cellent is thy name in all the world; thou that hast set thy glo 5 Then let mine enemy perse-ry above the heavens! cute my soul, and take me; yea, 2 Out of the mouth of very babes let him tread my life down upon and sucklings hast thou ordained the earth, and lay mine honour in strength, because of thine enemies, the dust. that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 6 Stand up, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift up thyself, because of the indignation of mine enemies; arise for me in the judgment that thou hast commanded: up 3 For I will consider thy heavens, even the works of thy fingers; the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained. 7 And so shall the congregation 4 What is man, that thou art of the people come about thee: mindful of him? and the son of for their sakes therefore lift up thy- man, that thou visitest him? self again. 5 Thou madest him lower than 8 The Lord shall judge the peo-the angels, to crown him with glory ple give sentence with me, O and worship. Lord, according to my righteous- & Thou makest him to have do minion of the works of thy hands:tion for blood, he remembereth and thou hast put all things in sub- them, and forgetteth not the com jection under his feet; plaint of the poor. 7 All sheep and oxen; yea, and the beasts of the field: 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble which 8 The fowls of the air, and the I suffer of them that hate me, thou fishes of the sea; and whatsoever that liftest me up from the gates of walketh through the paths of the death; seas. 14 That I may show all thy 9 O Lord, our Governor, how praises within the ports of the excellent is thy name in all the daughter of Sion: I will reîoice in world! thy salvation. I The second Day. Psalm 9. Confitebor tibi. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken. 16 The Lord is known to exe WILL give thanks unto thee, cute judgment; the ungodly is O Lord, with my whole heart; trapped in the work of his own I will speak of all thy marvellous hands.. works. 17 The wicked shall be turned 2 I will be glad and rejoice in into hell, and all the people that thee; yea, my songs will I make forget God. of thy name, O thou Most Highest. 18 For the poor shall not alway 3 While mine enemies are driven be forgotten; the patient abiding back, they shall fall and perish at of the meek shall not perish for thy presence: ever. 4 For thou hast maintained my 19 Up, Lord, and let not man have right and my cause; thou art set the upper hand; let the heathen be in the throne that judgest right. judged in thy sight. 5 Thou hast rebuked the hea-1 20 Put them in fear, O Lord, that then, and destroyed the ungodly; the heathen may know themselves thou hast put out their name for to be but men: ever and ever. Psalm 10. Ut quid, Domine? 60 thou enemy, destructions WHY standest thou so far off, are come to a perpetual end; even O Lord, and hidest thy face as the cities which thou hast de- in the needful time of trouble? stroyed, their memorial is perished 2 The ungodly, for his own lust, with them. doth persecute the poor: let them 7 But the Lord shall endure for be taken in the crafty wiliness that ever he hath also prepared his they have imagined. 3 For the ungodly hath made 8 For he shall judge the world boast of his own heart's desire, in righteousness, and minister true and speaketh good of the covetous, judgment unto the people. whom God abhorreth. seat for judgment. 9 The Lord also will be a defence 4 The ungodly is so proud, that for the oppressed, even a refuge in he careth not for God, neither is due time of trouble. God in all his thoughts. 10 And they that know thy name 5 His ways are alway grievous: will put their trust in thee; for thy judgments are far above out of thou, Lord, hast never failed them his sight, and therefore defieth he that seek thee. all his enemies. 11 O praise the Lord which 6 For he hath said in his heart dwelleth in Son; show the people Tush, I shall never be cast down of his doings: there shall, no harm happen unt 12 For when he maketh inquisi-Img. 7 His mouth is full of cursing, de- within the quiver, that they may reit, and fraud; under his tongue privily shoot at them which are is ungodliness and vanity. true of heart. 8 He sitteth lurking in the thiev 3 For the foundations will be ish corners of the streets, and pri-cast down; and what hath the righvily in his lurking dens doth he teous done?\ murder the innocent; his eyes are 4 The Lord is in his holy temple; set against the poor. 9 For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ravish the poor. the Lord's seat is in heaven. 5 lis eyes consider the poor, and his eye-lids try the children of men. 10 He doth ravish the poor, when 6 The Lord alloweth the righte he getteth him into his net. ous; but the ungodly, and him 11 He falleth down and hum- that delighteth in wickedness, doth bleth himself, that the congregation his soul abhor.. of the poor may fall into the hands 7 Upon the ungodly he shall rain of his captains. snares, fire and brimstone, storin 12 He hath said in his heart, and tempest: this shall be their Tush, God hath forgotten; he portion to drink., hideth away his face, and he will 8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just. never see it. 13 Arise, O Lord God, and lift up thine hand; forget not the poor, 14 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God, while he doth say in his heart, Tush, thou God carest not for it? EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 12. Salvum me fac. ELP me, Lord, for there is not one godly man left; for the 15 Surely thou hast seen it; faithful are minished from among for thou beholdest ungodliness and the children of men. 2 They talk of vanity every one 16 That thou mayest take the with his neighbour; they do but matter into thy hand; the poor flatter with their lips, and dissemcommitteth himself unto thee; for ble in their double heart. thou art the helper of the friendless. wrong, 3 The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; take away 4 Which have said, With our his ungodliness, and thou shalt tongue will we prevail; we are they find none. that ought to speak: who is Lord 18 The Lord is King for ever and over us? ever, and the heathen are perished 5 Now, for the comfortless trou. out of the land, bles' sake of the reedy, and be19 Lord, thou hast heard the de- cause of the deep sighing of the sire of the poor; thou preparest poor, their heart, and thine ear hearken- 6 I will up, saith the Lord, and th thereto. will help every one from him that 20 To help the fatherless and swelleth against him, and will set poor unto their right, that the man him at rest. of the earth be no more exalted 7 The words of the Lord are against them. pure words, even as the silver which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire. Psalm 11. In Domino confido. IN the Lord put I my trust; how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill? 2 For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows 8 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever. 9 The ungodly walk on every |