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4 For thou art the God that, hast no pleasure in wicked-| ness; neither shall any evil dwell with thee.

5 Such as be foolish, shall not stand in thy sight; for

EVENING PRAYER.

Psalm vi. Domine, ne in fu

rore.

LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation, nei

thou hatest all them that work ther chasten me in thy displeasure.

vanity.

6 Thou shalt destroy them] that speak lies: The Lord will abhor both the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

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

7 But as for me, I will come into thine house, even upon thou punish me? the multitude of thy mercy,

and in thy fear will I worship, 4 Turn thee, O Lord and deliver my soul; O save me, toward thy holy temple. for thy mercies' sake:

8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness, because of mine enemies; make thy way plain before my face.

5 For in death no man remembereth thee; and who will give thee thanks in the pit?

6 I am weary of my groan

9 For there is no faithfulness in his mouth; their in-ng every night wash I my bed, and water my couch with my tears.

ward parts are very wicked

ness.

10 Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

11 Destroy thou them, O God; let them perish through their own imaginations; cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness; for they have rebelled against thee.

12 And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoice: they shall ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them; they that love thy Name shall be joyful in thee:

13 For thou, Lord, wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous, and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him, as with a shield.

7 My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

8 Away from me, all ye that work vanity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

9 The Lord hath heard my petition; the Lord will receive my prayer.

10 All mine enemies shall be confounded, and sore vexed; they shall be turned back, and put to shame suddenly.

Psalm vii. Domine, Deus

meus.

LORD, my God, in thee have I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me;

2 Lest he devour my soul hath bent his bow, and made like a lion, and tear it in pieces, it ready. while there is none to help.

14 He hath prepared for

3 O Lord my God, if I have him the instruments of death; done any such thing; or if he ordaineth his arrows against there be any wickedness in the persecutors.

my hands ;

15 Behold, he travaileth 4 If I have rewarded evil with mischief; he hath conunto him that dealt friendly ceived sorrow, and brought with me; yea, I have deliver-forth ungodliness.

ed him that without any cause 16 He hath graven and digis mine enemy; ged up a pit, and is fallen him

5 Then let mine enemy per-self into the destruction that secute my soul, and take me ;he made for other. yea, let him tread my life 17 For his travail shall come down upon the earth, and layupon his own head, and his mine honour in the dust. wickedness shall fall on his

6 Stand up, O Lord, in thy own pate. wrath, and lift up thyself, be- 18 I will give thanks unto cause of the indignation of the Lord, according to his mine enemies; arise up for righteousness; and I will praise me in the judgment that thou the Name of the Lord most hast commanded: high.

7 And so shall the congre-Psalm viii. Domine, Dominus gation of the people come about

thee for their sakes therefore lift up thyself again.

noster.

8 The Lord shall judge the Lord, our Governor, how

excellent is thy Name people give sentence within all the world; thou that me, O Lord, according to my hast set thy glory above the righteousness, and according heavens !

to the innocency that is in me 2 Out of the mouth of very 9 O let the wickedness of babes and sucklings hast thou the ungodly come to an end; fordained strength, because of but guide thou the just. thine enemies, that thou might10 For the righteous God est still the enemy and the trieth the very hearts and avenger.

reins.

3 For I will consider thy 11 My help cometh of God, heavens, even the works of who preserveth them that are thy fingers; the moon and the true of heart. stars which thou hast ordained. 12 God is a righteous judge, 4 What is man, that thou strong, and patient; and God art mindful of him? and the is provoked every day. son of man, that thou visitest

13 If a man will not turn, him?

he will whet his sword; hel 5 Thou madest him lower

than the angels, to crown him with glory and worship.

7 But the Lord shall endure for ever; he hath also prepar

6 Thou makest him to ed his seat for judgment. have dominion of the works of 8 For he shall judge the thy hands and thou hast put world in righteousness, and all things in subjection under minister true judgment unto his feet; the people.

7 All sheep and oxen ; yea, 9 The Lord also will be a and the beasts of the field; defence for the oppressed, even 8 The fowls of the air, and a refuge in due time of trouble. the fishes of the sea; and 10 And they that know thy whatsoever walketh through Name, will put their trust in the paths of the seas. thee; for thou, Lord, hast ne

9 O Lord, our Governor,ver failed them that seek thee. how excellent is thy Name in 11 O praise the Lord which all the world! dwelleth in Sion; show the people of his doings :

The Second Day MORNING PRAYER.

Psalm ix. Confitebor tibi.

I

12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

13 Have mercy upon me, WILL give thanks unto O Lord; consider the trouble thee, O Lord, with my which I suffer of them that whole heart; I will speak of hate me, thou that liftest me all thy marvellous works. up from the gates of death;

2 I will be glad and rejoice 14 That I may show all thy in thee; yea, my songs will I praises within the ports of the make of thy Name, O thou daughter of Sion: I will reMost Highest. joice in thy salvation.

3 While mine enemies are 15 The heathen are sunk driven back, they shall fall and down in the pit that they perish at thy presence: made; in the same net which

4 For thou hast maintained they hid privily is their foot my right and my cause; thou taken.

art set in the throne that judg- 16 The Lord is known to est right. execute judgment; the un5 Thou hast rebuked the godly is trapped in the work heathen, and destroyed the of his own hands.

ungodly; thou hast put out 17 The wicked shall be their name for ever and ever. turned into hell, and all the 6 thou enemy, destruc-people that forget God. tions are come to a perpetual 18 For the poor shall not end; even as the cities which alway be forgotten; the pathou hast destroyed, their me-ient abiding of the meek shall morial is perished with them not perish forever.

19 Up, Lord, and let not cretly; even as a lion lurketh man have the upper hand; let he in his den, that he may the heathen be judged in thy ravish the poor.

sight.

10 He doth ravish the poor,

20 Put them in fear, O Lord, when he getteth him into that the heathen may know his net.

themselves to be but men.

Psalm x.

WHY

Ut quid, Domine?

11 He falleth down and humbleth himself, that the congregation of the poor may

HY standest thou so far fall into the hands of his capoff, O Lord, and hidest tains. thy face in the needful time of trouble?

12 He hath said in his heart, Tush, God hath forgotten; he hideth away his face, and he will never see it.

2 The ungodly, for his own lust, doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the crafty 13 Arise, O Lord God, and wiliness that they have ima-lift up thine hand; forget not gined.

the poor.

3 For the ungodly hath made 14 Wherefore should the boast of his own heart's desire, wicked blaspheme God, while and speaketh good of the co-he doth say in his heart, Tush, vetous, whom God abhorreth thou God carest not for it?

4 The ungodly is so proud. 15 Surely thou hast seen it; that he careth not for God for thou beholdest ungodliness neither is God in all his and wrong.

thoughts.

16 That thou mayest take 5 His ways are alway griev-the matter into thy hand: the ous; thy judgments are far poor committeth himself unto above out of his sight, and thee; for thou art the helper. therefore defieth he all his of the friendless. enemies.

17 Break thou the power of

6 For he hath said in his the ungodly and malicious; heart, Tush, I shall never be take away his ungodliness, and cast down, there shall no harm thou shalt find none.

happen unto me.

18 The Lord is King for

7 His mouth is full of curs-ever and ever, and the heaing, deceit, and fraud; under then are perished out of the his tongue is ungodliness and land. vanity.

19 Lord, thou hast heard 8 He sitteth lurking in the the desire of the poor; thou thievish corners of the streets, preparest their heart, and and privily in his lurking dens thine ear hearkeneth thereto. doth he murder the innocent ;| 20 To help the fatherless, his eyes are set against the and poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no poor. 9 For he lieth waiting se-more exalted against them.

Psalm xi. In domino confido. Jall deceitful lips,and the tongue [N the Lord put I my trust; that speaketh proud things: how say ye then to my soul, 4 Which have said, With

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that she should flee as a bird our tongue will we prevail; unto the hill? we are they that ought to

2 For lo, the ungodly bend speak: who is Lord over us? their bow, and make ready 5 Now, for the comfortless their arrows within the quiver, troubles sake of the needy, that they may privily shoot at and because of the deep sighthem which are true of heart ling of the poor,

3 For the foundations will 6 I will up, saith the Lord, be cast down; and what hath and will help every one from the righteous done? him that swelleth against him, and will set him at rest.

4 The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's seat is in heaven.

7 The words of the Lord are pure words, even as the

5 His eyes consider the silver which from the earth is poor, and his eye-lids try the tried, and purified seven times children of men. in the fire.

6 The Lord alloweth the 8 Thou shalt keep them, a righteous; but the ungodly, Lord; thou shalt preserve him and him that delighteth in from this generation for ever. wickedness, doth his soul ab- 9 The ungodly walk on hor.. every side: when they are 7 Upon the ungodly he shall exalted, the children of men rain snares,fire and brimstone, are put to rebuke.

storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: the countenance will behold, the thing that is just.

EVENING PRAYER.

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Psalm xiii. Usque quo, Domine?

JOW long wilt thou forget

me, O Lord; for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

2 How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart? How long

for the faithful are minished over me?

from among the children of 3 Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God, lighten mine 2 They talk of vanity every eyes, that I sleep not in death;

men.

one with his neighbour; they 4 Lest mine enemy say, I do but flatter with their lips, have prevailed against him: and dissemble in their double for if I be cast down, they heart. that trouble me will rejoice

3 The Lord shall root out at it,

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