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15 For in thee, O Løbe put my trust; thou shal me, O Lord, my God 116 I have required tat mine enemies, should ma for when my over me; they rejoiced greatly a 17 And I truly am plague, and my heaviness my sight:

18 For I will confess ness, and be sorry for w 19 But mine enemies are mighty; and they that wrongfully are many int 20 They also that rem good are against me; follow the thing that gos 21 Forsake me not, 0 L God; be not thou far from

10 I became dumb, and opened to do it; yea, thy law is within my not my mouth; for it was thy doing, heart,

11 Take thy plague away from 11 I have declared thy righteousme: I am even consumed by the ness in the great congregation; lo, means of thy heavy hand. I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, 12 When thon with rebukes dost and that thou knowest. chasten man for sin, thou makest 12 I have not hid thy righteoushis beauty to consume away, likeness within my heart; my talk hath as it were a moth fretting a gar- been of thy truth, and of thy salvament, every man therefore is but tior.

vanity.

13 I have not kept back thy 13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and loving mercy and truth from the with thine ears consider my call- great congregation. ing; hold not thy peace at my tears: 14 Withdraw not thou thy mer14 For I am a stranger with thee, cy from me, O Lord; let thy lovingand a sojourner, as all my fathers kindness and thy truth alway pre

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15 O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen.

Psalm 40. Expectans expectavi.

22 Haste thee to help WAITED patiently for the my head, and my heart hath, failed

Lord, and he inclined unto me,

God of my salvation.

me.

Psalm 39. Diri, Cat and heard my calling.

16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure 2 He brought me also out of the to deliver me; make haste, O Lord, horrible pit, out of the mire and to help me. clay, and set my feet upon the rock,

2 I will keep my mouts and ordered my goings.

with a bridle, while the in my sight..

17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.

3 I held my tongue, nothing: I kept silence, a

4 Many shall see it, and fear,] 18 Let them be desolate, and re

from good words; but and shall put their trust in the Lord.warded with shame, that say unto

3. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even a thanksgiving unto our God.

5 Blessed is the man that hath me, Fie upon thee, fie upon thee.
19 Let all those that seek thee,
ed not unto the proud, and to such he joyful and glad in thee; and let
such as love thy salvation, say

6 O Lord, my God, great are the alway, The Lord be praised.
20 As for me, I am poor and

with my tongue:

the number of my days, done; like as be also thy thoughts,jneedy; but the Lord careth for me. be certified how long which are to us-ward; and yet there 21 Thou art my helper and re5 Lord, let me know wondrous works which thou hast 6 Behold, thou hast is no man that ordereth them unto deemer; make no long tarrying, O

my God

and grief to me.

4 My heart was hot set his hope in the Lord, and turn

and while I was thus

serve me...

15 For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up; yea, they are more in number than the hairs of

fire kindled, and at the list as go about with lies.

days as it were a span ke thee. mine age is even as nothing

7 If I should declare them, and

spect of thee; and verile speak of them, they should be moret

than I am able to express.

living is altogether vanity 7 For man walketh

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 41. Beatus qui intelligit. 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering BLESSED is he that considereth the and needy; the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.

shadow, and disquieteth thou wouldest not, but mine ears vain; he heapetn up 1.ast thou opened.

9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required: then

cannot tell who shall gate 8 And now,

Lord

hope? truly my hope is er said I, Lo, I come.

fences, and make me dit is written of me, that I should fulfil thou him into the will of his ene

2 The Lord preserve him, and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth; and deliver not

9 Deliver me from all

thy will, O my God: I am content mies.

the foolish.

10 In the volume of the book it

3 The Lord comfort him when ness, O my soul? and why art thou he lieth sick upon his bed; make so disquieted within me? thou all his bed in his sickness. 7 Put thy trust in God; for I wi“ 4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto yet give him thanks for the help of me; heal my soul, for I have sin-his countenance. ned against thee.

8 My God, my soul is vexed 5 Mine enemies speak evil of within me; therefore will I reme. When shall he die, and his member thee concerning the land name perish?" of Jordan, and the little hill of

6 And if he come to see me, he Hermon. speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it.

9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the waterpipes; all thy waves and storms are gone over me.

10 The Lord hath granted his

7 All mine enemies whisper together against me, even against me loving-kindness in the day time, do they imagine this evil. and in the night-season did I sing 8 Let the sentence of guiltiness of him, and made my prayer unto proceed against him, and now that the God of my life. he lieth, let him rise up no more. 11 I will say unto the God of my

9 Yea, even mine own familiar strength, Why hast thou forgotten friend whom I trusted, who did also me? Why go I thus heavily, while eat of my bread, hath laid great the enemy oppresseth me?" wait for me.

10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord; raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them.

12 My bones are smitten asun der as with a sword, while minė enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth;

11 By this I know thou favourest me, that mine enemy doth not triumph against me.,

12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me, and shall set me before thy face for ever.

13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel world without end. Amen.

13 Namely, while they say daily unto me, Where is now thy God?

14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soul? and why art thou so disqui eted within me?

15 O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 42. Quemadmodum. L' IKE as the heart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God,

2 My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God: When shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God? me?

4 Now when I think thereupon, 30 send out thy light and thy I pour out my heart by myself; for truth, that they may lead me, and I went with the multitude, and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to brought them forth into the house thy dwelling.

Psalm 43. Judica me, Deus. IVE sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people; O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man;

2 For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou put me from thee? and why go I so neavily, while the enemy oppresseth

of God;

4 And that I may go unto the 5 In the voice of praise and altar of God, even unto the God of thanksgiving, among such as keep my joy and gladness; and upon holy-day. the harp will I give thanks unte 6 Why art thou so full of heavi-thee, O God, my God.

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15 Thou makest us to be a byword among the heathen, and that the people shake their heads jat us.

them in; how thou hast destroyed 19 Our heart is not turned back,
the nations, and cast them out.
neither our steps gone out of thy

3 For they gat not the land in way;
possession through their own 20 No, not when thou hast smit-
sword, neither was it their own arm ten us into the place of dragons,
that helped them;
and covered us with the shadow of
4 But thy right hand, and thine death.
arm, and the light of thy counte-
nance, because thou hadst a favour name of our God, and holden up
unto them.
our hands to any strange god,

21 If we have forgotten the

5 Thou art my King, O God; shall not God search it out? for he send help unto Jacob. knoweth the very secrets of the

16 Through thee will we over-heart.

throw our enemies, and in thy 22 For thy sake also are we
name will we tread them under that killed all the day long, and are
rise up against us.
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7 For I will not trust in my bow; slain,

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16 My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me;

17 For the voice of the slanderer

The ninth Day.

MORNING PRAYER..
Psalm 44. Deus, auribus.

WE have heard with our ears, and blasphemer, for the enemy and

us avenger.

God, our fathers
what thou hast done in their time
of old.

18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, 2 How thou hast driven out the nor behave ourselves frowardly in heathen with thy hand, and planted thy covenant.

me.

8 But it is thou that savest us for ever.

awake, and be not absent from us

ple; 0 from our enemies, and puttest them

to confusion that hate us.

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9 We make our boast of God trouble?
all day long, and will praise, thy
name for ever.

why gold enemy

10 But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion; and goest not forth with our armies.

11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

12 Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and hast scattered us among the heathen.

13 Thou sellest thy people for 3 Thou art fairer than the chilnought, and takest no money for dren of men; full of grace are thy them. lips, because God hath blessed thee

14 Thou makest us to be re-for ever.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and

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

25 Arise, and help us, and de liver us, for thy mercies' sake, Psalm 45. Eructavit cor meum.

Y heart is inditing of a good

matter; I speak of the things which I have made unto the King. 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

4 Gird thee with thy sword upon from one generation to another; thy thigh, O thou most mighty, therefore shall the people give according to thy worship and re-thanks unto thee, world without lend.

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5 Good luck have thou with thine Psalm 46. Deus noster refugium. honour ride on, because of the OD is our hope and strength, a word of truth, of meckness and very present help in trouble. righteousness, and thy right hand 2 Therefore will we not fear, shall teach thee terrible things. though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea.

6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the King's enemies. ... 7 Thy seat, O God, endureth for ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the moun tains shake at the tempest of the same.

4. The rivers of the flood thereof

8 Thou hast loved righteousness, shall make glad the city of God; and hated iniquity; wherefore God, the holy place of the tabernacle of even thy God, hath anointed thee the Most Highest.

with the oil of gladness above thy 5 God is in the midst of her,
fellows.
therefore shall she not be removed;
9 All thy garments smell of God shall help her, and that right
myrrh, aloes, and cassia; out of early..
the ivory palaces, whereby they
have made thee glad.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.

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10 King's daughters were among thy honourable women; upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a 7 The Lord of hosts is with us; vesture of gold, wrought about with the God of Jacob is our refuge. divers colours. 80 come hither, and behold the 11 Hearken, O daughter, and works of the Lord, what destruction consider; incline thine ear; forget he hath brought upon the earth, also thine own people, and thy 9 He maketh wars to cease in all father's house. the world; he breaketh the bow, and 12 So shall the King have plea- knappeth the spear in sunder, and sure in thy beauty; for he is thy burneth the chariots in the fire. Lord God, and worship thou him. 10 Be still them, and know that I

13 And the daughter of Tyream Cod: I will be exalted among shall be there with a gift; like as the heathen, and I will be exalted the rich also among the people shall in the earth.

make their supplication before thee. 11 The Lord of hosts is with us;
14 The King's daughter is all the God of Jacob is our refuge.
glorious within; her clothing is of
EVENING PRAYER.
wrought gold,"
Psalm 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite.
CLAP your hands together, all
ye people: O sing unto God
with the voice of melody.

15 She shall be brought unto the
King in raiment of needle work;
the virgins that be her fellows shall
bear her company, and shall be, 2 For the Lord is high, and to
brought unto thee.
be feared; he is the great King
16 With joy and gladness shall upon all the earth.
they be brought, and shall enter 3 He shall subdue the people
into the King's palace.
under us, and the nations under our

17 Instead of thy fathers thou feet.

shalt have children, whom thou 4 He shall choose out an heri mayest make princes in all lands. tage for us, even the worship of 18 I will remember thy name Jacob, whom he loved.

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5 God is gone up with a merry ever and ever: He shall be our noise, and the Lord with the sound guide unto death. of the trump.

60 sing praises, sing praises unto our God; O sing praises, sing praises unto our King.

7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

upon the north side lieth the city of 7 But no man may deliver his
the great King: God is well known brother, nor make agreement unto
in her palaces as a sure refuge.
God for him:

3 For lo, the kings of the earth 8 For it cost more to redeem are gathered, and gone by together, their souls; so that he must let 4 They marvelled to see such that alone for ever':

7 The Lord of things; they were astonished and 9 Yea, though he live long, and

suddenly cast down.

see not the grave.

5 Fear came there upon them; 10 For he seeth that, wise men

d works of the Lord, and sorrow, as upon a woman in also die and perish together, as well

2 High and low, rich and poor, one with another.

3 My mouth shall speak of wis8 God reigneth over the heathen; dom, and my heart shall muse of God sitteth upon his holy seat.

understanding.

9 The princes of the people are 4 I will incline mine ear to the joined unto the people of the God parable, and show my dark speech of Abraham; for God, which is upon the harp.

very high exalted, doth defend the 5 Wherefore should I fear in the earth as it were with a shield. days of wickedness, and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth

Psalm 43. Magnus Dominus.

the hath brought upon her travail.

9 He maketh worst

s the heathen, and I wil I in the earth.

the world; he breakes the sea through the east wind.

knappeth the spear in y burneth the chariots is t 10 Be stili then, acdi

to be praised in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.

& There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, themselves in the multitude of their

the God of Jacob is c

EVENING PRATE

eam Cod: I will be ex upholdeth the same for ever..

as the ignorant and foolish, and 6 Thou shalt break the ships of leave their riches for others. 11 And vet they think that their

12 Nevertheless man will not abide in honour, secing he may be 90 God, according to thy name, compared unto the beasts that peso is thy praise unto the world's rish; this is the way of them.

Psalm 47. Omnes gent end; thy right hand is full of righte- 13 This is their foolishness, and

be feared; he is the g Il upon all the earth.

3 He shall subke 1 under us, and the nations

feet.

11 The Lord of hosts temple.

Psalm 49. Audite, hæc, omnes. HEAR ye this, all ye people; ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world:

7 Like as we have heard, so bave houses shall continue for ever, and we seen in the city of the Lor of that their dwelling places shall enhosts, in the city of our God; God dure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their

/tage for us, even the v whom he loved

8 We wait for thy loving-kind-own names. ness, O God, in the midst of thy

CLAP Your hardousness. ye people: with the voice of melodi

10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be glad,

2 For the Lord is because of thy judgments.

11 Walk about Sion, and go round about her; and tell the towers thereof.

12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell 13 For this God is our God for

4 He shall choose them that come after.

their posterity praise their saving.

14 They lie in the hell like sheep; death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have dominion of them in the morning: their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling.

15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell; for he shall receive me.

16 Be not thou afraid, though one

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