M. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

P. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

THE SECOND SELECTION

GOOD FRIDAY. Isaiah 53

Minister. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

People. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:

M. He hath no form nor comeliness;

P. And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

M. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with

grief:

P. And we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

M. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows;

P. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

M. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: P. The chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. M. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; P. And the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

M. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth :

P. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

M. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation?

P. For he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

M. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death;
P. Because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

M. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:

P. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

M. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

P. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Minister. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

People. Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

M. Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

P. The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

M. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

P. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

M. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

P. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

M. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

P. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

M. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

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P. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

M. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

P. And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

son.

M. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's

P. He shall judge thy peopie with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

M. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

P. He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

M. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

P. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

M. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

P. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

M. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. P. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

M. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba :

P. Prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised. M. There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; P. The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

sun:

M. His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the

P. And men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

Minister. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

People. Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and

ever.

M. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. P. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

M. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

P. And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

M. The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great

mercy.

P. The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

M. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
P. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power.

M. To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

P. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

M. The LORD upholdeth all that fall,

P. And raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

M. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due

season.

P. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
M. The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

P. The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

M. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

P. The LORD preserveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy.

M. My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD:

P. And let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

M. By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation;

P. Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

M. Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power: P. Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

M. They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens:
P. Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

M. Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water:

P. Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

M. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof:

P. Thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. M. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. P. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness and the little hills rejoice on every side.

M. The pastures are clothed with flocks;

P. The valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

THE FIFTH SELECTION

THE CLOSING YEAR. Psalm 90

Minister. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

People. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

M. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

P. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

M. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

P. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

M. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

P. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy

countenance.

M. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

P. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

M. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

P. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. M. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. P. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

M. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. P. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

THE SIXTH SELECTION

Psalms 84, 24

Minister. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

People. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:

M. My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

P. Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.