him, and he shall direct his going strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid. in the way. The seventeenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 86. Inclina, Domine. BOW down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me; for I am poor, and in misery. 17 Show, some token upon me for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me. Psalm 87. Fundamenta ejus. HER foundations are upon the holy hills: the Lord loveth the 2 Preserve thou my soul; for I gates of Sion more than all the am holy my God, save thy ser-dwellings of Jacob. vant that putteth his trust in thee. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee, thou city of God. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord'; for I will call daily upon thee. 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou, Lord, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon, with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philistines also, and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo there was he born. 5 And of Sion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and 6 Give ear, Lord, unto my pray-the Most High shall stablish her. er, and ponder the voice of my 6 The Lord shall rehearse it, humble desires. when he writeth up the people, that 7 In the time of my trouble I will he was born there. call upon thee; for thou hearest me. 7 The singers also and trumpe8 Among the gods there is none ters shall he rehearse: All my like unto thee, O Lord; there is not fresh springs shall be in thee. one that can do as thou doest. Psalm 88. Domine, Deus. 9 All nations whom thou hast LORD, God of my salvation, made, shall come and worship thee, I have cried day and night be O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. fore thee: O let my prayer enter 10 For thou art great, and doest into thy presence; incline thine ear wondrous things: thou art God unto my calling; alone. 2 For my soul is full of trouble, 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and my life draweth nigh unto hell. and I will walk in thy truth: O knit 3 I am counted as one of them my heart unto thee, that I may fear that go down into the pit, and 1 thy name. have been even as a man that hath 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my no strength. God, with all my heart; and will 4 Free among the dead, like unto praise thy name for evermore. them that are wounded, and lie in 13 For great is thy mercy toward the grave, who are out of rememme; and thou hast delivered my brance, and are cut away from thy soul from the nethermost hell. hand. 14 O God, the proud are risen 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest against me; and the congregations pit, in a place of darkness, and in of naughty men have sought after the deep. my soul, and have not set thee be- 6 Thine indignation lieth hard fore their eyes. upon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms. 15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. 7 Thou hast put away mine ac quaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. 16 O turn thee then unto me, and 8 I am so fast in prison, that I have mercy upon me; give thy cannot get forth. 9 My sight faileth for very trou-17 And what is he among the ble; Lord, I have called daily upon gods, that shall be like unto the thee, I have stretched forth my Lord? hands unto thee. 8 God is very greatly to be feared 10 Dost thou show wonders in the counsel of the saints, and to among the dead? or shall the dead be had in reverence of all them that rise up again and praise thee? are round about him. 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be 9 O Lord God of hosts, who is showed in the grave? or thy faith-like unto thee? thy truth, most fulness in destruction? mighty Lord, is on every side. 12 Shall thy wondrous works be 10 Thou rulest the raging of the known in the dark? and thy righte- sea; thou stillest the waves thereof ousness in the land where all things when they arise. are forgotten? 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, 13 Unto thee have I cried, O and destroyed it; thou hast scatLord; and early shall my prayer tered thine enemies abroad with thy come before thee.* mighty arm. 14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me? 12 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, 15 I am in misery, and like unto and all that therein is. him that is at the point to die; even 13 Thou hast made the north and from my youth up, thy terrors have the south; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. I suffered with a troubled mind. 16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me, and the fear of thee hath undone me. 17 They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together on every side. 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight. EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 89. Misericordias Domini. MY song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord; with my mouth will I ever be showing thy truth, from one generation to another. 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever, thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens, 14 Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 15 Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat; mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 16 Blessed is the people, O Lord, that can rejoice in thee; they shall walk in the light of thy counte nance. 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy name; and in thy righteousness shall they make their boast. 18 For thou art the glory of their strength, and in thy loving-kindness thou shalt lift up our horns: 19 For the Lord is our defence; the Holy One of Israel is our King. 20 Thou spakest sometime in 3 I have made a covenant with visions unto thy saints, and saidst, my chosen; I have sworn unto I have laid help upon one that is David my servant. mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever, and set up thy throne from one generation to another. 21 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I 5 O Lord, the very heavens shall anointed him. praise thy wondrous works; and 22 My hand shall hold him fast, thy truth in the congregation of the and my arm shall strengthen him. saints. 23 The enemy shall not be able 6 For who is he among the to do him violence; the son of clouds, that shall be compared unto wickedness shall not hurt him. the Lord ? 24 I will smite down his foes b fore his face, and plague them that edge of his sword, and givest him hate him. not victory in the battle. 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods. 27 He shall call me, Thou art my Father, my God, and my strong salvation. 28 And I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 29 My mercy will I keep for him 43 Thou hast put out his glory, and cast his throne down to the ground. 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with dishonour. 45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself? for ever? and shall thy wrath burn like fire? 46 O remember how short my time is; wherefore hast thou made all men for nought? 47 What man is he that liveth, for evermore, and my covenant and shall not see death? and shall shall stand fast with him. he deliver his soul from the hand 30 His seed also will I make to of hell? endure for ever, and his throne as 48 Lord, where are thy old lov the days of heaven. ing-kindnesses, which thou swarest 31 But if his children forsake my unto David in thy truth? law, and walk not in my judgments; 49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke 32 If they break my statutes, and that thy servants have, and how I keep not my commandments; I do bear in my bosom the rebukes will visit their offences with the of many people; rod, and their sin with scourges. 50 Wherewith thine enemies 33 Nevertheless, my loving-kind-have blasphemed thee, and slan ness will I not utterly take from dered the footsteps of thine Anoint him, nor suffer my truth to fail. ed: Praised be the Lord for ever Amen, and Amen. 34 My covenant will I not break, more. nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. The eighteenth Day. Psalm 90. Domine, refugium. 35 His seed-shall endure for ever, and his seat is like as the sun be-ORD, thou hast been our refore me. fuge, from one generation to 36 He shall stand fast for ever-another. more as the moon, and as the faith- 2 Before the mountains were ful witness in heaven. brought forth, or ever the earth and 37, But thou hast abhorred and the world were made, thou art God forsaken thine Anointed, and art from everlasting, and world without "displeased at him. end.' 38 Thou hast broken the cove- 3 Thou turnest man to destrucnant of thy servant, and cast his tion; again thou sayest, Come crown to the ground. again, ye children of men. 39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his strong holds. 40 All they that go by spoil him, and he is become a reproach to his neighbours. 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice. 42 Thou hast taken away the 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night. 5 As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass. 6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up; but in the evening it Is cut down, dried up, and withered 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy any terror by night, nor for the ar wrathful indignation. row that flieth by day; 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds 6 For the pestilence that walkbefore thee, and our secret sins in eth in darkness, nor for the sickthe light of thy countenance. ness that destroyeth in the noon9 For when thou art angry, all day. our days are gone; we bring our 7 A thousand shall fall beside years to an end, as it were a tale thee, and ten thousand at thy right that is told. hand; but it shall not come nigh 10 The days of our age are three-thee. score years and ten; and though 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou men be so strong that they come to behold, and see the reward of the fourscore years, yet is their strength ungodly. then but labour and sorrow; so 9 For thou, Lord, art my hope; soon passeth it away, and we are thou hast set thine house of de gone. fence very high. 11 But who regardeth the power 10 There shall no evil happen of thy wrath? for even thereafter unto thee, neither shall any plague as a man feareth, so is thy dis- come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels 12 So teach us to number our charge over thee, to keep thee in days, that we may apply our hearts all thy ways. pleasure. unto wisdom. 12 They shall bear thee in their 13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at hands, that thou hurt not thy foot the last, and be gracious unto thy against a stone. servants. 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion 14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and adder; the young lion and the and that soon: so shall we rejoice dragon shalt thou tread under thy and be glad all the days of our life. feet. 15 Comfort us again now after 14 Because he hath set his love the time that thou hast plagued us; upon me, therefore will I deliver and for the years wherein we have him; I will set him up, because he suffered adversity. hath known my name. 16 Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory. 17 And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the work of our hands upon us; O prosper thou our handy work. Psalm 91. Qui habitat. WHOSO dwelleth under the de 15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him; yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation." Psalm 92. Bonum est confiteri. IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing fence of the Most High, shall praises unto thy name, O Most abide under the shadow of the Highest; Almighty. my God, in him will I trust. 2 To tell of thy loving-kindness 2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou early in the morning, and of thy art my hope and my strong hold, truth in the night-season; 3 Upon an instrument of ten 3 For he shall deliver thee from strings, and upon the lute; upon the snare of the hunter, and from a loud instrument, and upon the the noisome pestilence. harp: 4 He shall defend thee under his 4 For thou, Lord, hast made me wings, and thou shalt be safe under glad through thy works; and I wil bfeathers; his faithfulness and rejoice in giving praise for the ope truth shall be thy shield and buckler. rations of thy hands. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works; thy thoughts are very very sure: holiness becometh thine house for ever. deep. 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this, and a fool doth not understand it. 7 When the ungodly are green LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth, thou God, as the grass, and when all the to whom vengeance belongeth, workers of wickedness do flourish, show thyself. then shall they be destroyed for 2 Arise, thou Judge of the world, ever; but thou, Lord, art the Most and reward the proud after their Highest for evermore. deserving. 8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, 3 Lord, how long shall the unlo, thine enemies shall perish; and godly, how long shall the ungodly all the workers of wickedness shall triumph? be destroyed. 4 How long shall all wicked 9 But mine horn shall be exalted doers speak so disdainfully, and ike the horn of an unicorn; for I make such proud boasting? 5 They smite down thy people, Am anointed with fresh oil. 10 Mine eye also shall see his O Lord, and trouble thine heriJust of mine eremies, and mine ear tage. shall hear his desire of the wicked 6 They murder the widow and that arise up against me. the stranger, and put the fatherless 11 The righteous shall flourish to death. like a palm-tree, and shall spread 7 And yet they say, Tush, the abroad like a cedar in Libanus. Lord shall not see, neither shall the 12 Such as are planted in the God of Jacob regard it. house of the Lord, shall flourish 8 Take heed, ye unwise among in the courts of the house of our the people: Oye fools, when will ye understand God. 13 They also shall bring forth 9. He that planted the ear, shall more fruit in their age, and shall he not hear? or he that made the be fat and well liking; eye, shall he not see? 10 Or he that nurtureth the hea14 That they may show how true the Lord my strength is, and then, it is he that teacheth man that there is no unrighteousness knowledge; shall not he punish? in him. 11 The Lord knoweth thoughts of man, that they are but vain. EVENING PRAYER. the 12 Blessed is the man whom Psalm 93. Dominus regnavit. THE Lord is King, and hath put thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachon glorious apparel; the Lord est him in thy law; hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength. 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity, until 2 He hath made the round world the pit be digged up for the un so sure, that it cannot be moved. godly. 4 14 For the Lord will not fail his people; neither will he forsake his inheritance; 4 The floods are risen, O Lord, 15 Until righteousness turn again the floods have lift up their voice, unto judgment: all such as are the floods lift up their waves. true in heart shall follow it. 5 The waves of the sea are 16 Who will rise up with me mighty, and rage horribly; but yet against the wicked? or who will the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is take my part against the evilmightier. doers? 6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, are 17 If the Lord had not helped |