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Psalm lxi. Exaudi, Deus. shall ye be, and like a broken EAR my crying, O God, hedge.

4 Their device is only how give ear unto my prayer. 2 From the ends of the to put him out whom God will earth will I call upon thee, exalt; their delight is in lies; when my heart is in heaviness. they give good words with their 30 set me up upon the rock mouth, but curse with their that is higher than I; for thou hast been my hope, and a strong tower for me against the enemy.

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5 Nevertheless, my soul wait thou still upon God; for my hope is in him.

6 He truly is my strength, 4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever, and my trust and my salvation; he is my deshall be under the covering of fence, so that I shall not fall. 7 In God is my health and thy wings. 5 For thou, O Lord, hast my glory, the rock of my heard my desires, and hast might; and in God is my given an heritage unto those trust. that fear thy Name.

80 put your trust in him alway ye people; pour out your hearts before him; for

6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life, that his years may God is our hope. endure throughout all genera

tions.

9 As for the children of men,

7 He shall dwell before God they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful upon for ever; O prepare thy lov ing mercy and faithfulness. the weights; they are altothat they may preserve him.gether lighter than vanity it8 So will I always sing praise unto thy Name, that I may robbery; give not yourselves 10 O trust not in wrong and daily perform my vows.

The Twelfth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm lxii. Nonne Deo?

self.

unto vanity if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

11. God spake once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongethstinto

My soul truly waiteth still unto God; Μ upon God; for of him 12 And that thou, Lo:d, art cometh my salvation. merciful; for thou rewardest 2 He verily is my strength every man according to his and my salvation; he is my work: defence, so that I shall not greatly fall.

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3 How long will ve imagine mischief against every man ye shall be slain all the sort of you; yea, as a tottering wall

Psalm Ixiii

Deus, Deus

meus

GOD. thou art my God; early will I seek thee.

2 My soul thirsteth for thee

my flesh also longeth after 2 Hide me from the gatherthee, in a barren and dry landing together of the froward, where no water is. and from the insurrection of

3 Thus have I looked for wicked doers;

thee in holiness, that I might 3 Who have whet their behold thy power and glory; tongue like a sword, and shoot 4 For thy loving kindness out their arrows, even bitter is better than the life itself: words, my lips shall praise thee.

4 That they may privily 5 As long as I live will I shoot at him that is perfect : magnify thee in this manner, suddenly do they hit him, and and lift up my hands in thy fear not.

Name.

5 They encourage them

6 My soul shall be satisfied, selves in mischief, and comeven as it were with marrow mune among themselves, how and fatness, when my mouth they may lay snares; and say, praiseth thee with joyful lips. that no man shall see them.

7 Have I not remembered 6 They imagine wickedness thee in my bed, and thought and practise it; that they upon thee when I was wa-keep secret among themselves king? every man in the deep of his

8 Because thou hast been heart my helper; therefore under 7 But God shall suddenly the shadow of thy wings will shoot at them with a swift arI rejoice row, that they shall be wound

9 My soul hangeth upon ed. thee; thy right hand hath upholden me.

8 Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall; inso

10 These also that seek the much that whoso seeth them, hurt of my soul, they shall go shall laugh them to scorn. under the earth. 9 And all men that see it

11 Let them fall upon the shall say, This hath God done; edge of the sword, that they for they shall perceive that it may be a portion for foxes. is his work.

12 But the King shall rejoice 10 The righteous shall rein God; all they also tha joice in the Lord, and put his swear by him shall be com-trust in him; and all they that mended; for the mouth of are true of heart shall be glad. them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Psalm Ixiv. Exaudi, Deus.

EVENING PRAYER.

Psalm lxv. Te decet hym

nus.

EAR my voice, O God.THOU, O God, art praised

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in my

prayer; preserve

in Sion; and unto thee

my life from fear of the ene-shall the vow be performed in

my.

Jerusalem.

2 Thou that hearest the, with thy goodness; and thy prayer, unto thee shall all clouds drop fatness. flesh come. 13 They shall drop upon 3 My misdeeds prevail the dwellings of the wilderagainst me: O be thou mer-ness; and the little hills shall ciful unto our sins. rejoice on every side.

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4 Blessed is the man whom 14 The folds shall be full thou choosest, and receivest of sheep the vallies also unto thee: he shall dwell in shall stand so thick with corn, thy court, and shall be satis-that they shall laugh and sing. fied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

Psalm lxvi. Jubilate Deo.

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5 Thou shalt show us won- Be joyful in God, all ye derful things in thy righte- lands; sing praises unto ousness, O God of our salva-the honour of his Name; make tion: thou that art the hope his praise to be glorious.

of all the ends of the earth, 2 Say unto God, O how and of them that remain in wonderful art thou in thy the broad sea. works; through the greatness

6 Who in his strength set-of thy power shall thine ene teth fast the mountains, and mies be found liars unto thee. is girded about with power. 3 For all the world shall

7 Who stilleth the raging worship thee, sing of thee, of the sea, and the noise of and praise thy Name. his waves, and the madness

of the people.

4 O come hither, and behold the works of God, how 8 They also that dwell in wonderful he is in his doing the uttermost parts of the toward the children of men. earth shall be afraid at thy 5 He turned the sea into tokens, thou that makest the dry land, so that they went out-goings of the morning through the water on foot; and evening to praise thee. there did we rejoice thereof. 9 Thou visitest the earth, 6 He ruleth with his power and blessest it; thou makest for ever; his eyes behold the it very plenteous. people and such as will not 10 The river of God is believe. shall not be able to exfull of water: thou preparest alt themselves.

their corn, for so thou pro- 7 O praise our God, ye videst for the earth, people, and make the voice of

11 Inou waterest he r. fur-his praise to be heard ; rows; thou sendest rain into 8 Who holdeth our soul in the little vallies thereof; thou life, and suffereth not our feet makest it sof with the drops to slip.

of rain, and blessest the in- 9 For thou, O God, hast crease of it. proved us; thou also hast tried 12 Thou crownest the year us, like as silver is tried.

10 Thou broughtest us into 4 O let the nations rejoice the snare, and laidst trouble and be glad; for thou shalt upon our loins. judge the folk righteously, and

11 Thou sufferedst men to govern the nations upon earth. ride over our heads; we went 5 Let the people praise thee, through fire and water, and O God; let all the people thou broughtest us out into a praise thee.

wealthy place.

6 Then shall the earth bring 12 I will go into thine house forth her increase; and God, with burnt-offerings, and will even our own God, shall give pay thee my vows, which Ius his blessing.

promised with my lips, and 7 God shall bless us ; and spake with my mouth, when all the ends of the world shall I was in trouble. fear him.

13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks and goats.

The Thirteenth Day. MORNING PRAYER.

14 O come hither and hear- Psalm lxviii. Exurgat Deus. ken, all ye that fear God, and

I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.

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ET God arise, and let his

enemies be scattered; let

them also that hate him flee

15 I called unto him with before him.

my mouth, and gave him 2 Like as the smoke vanish

praises with my tongue.

eth, so shalt thou drive them away; and like as wax melt

16 If I incline unto wickedness with mine heart, the Lord eth at the fire, so let the unwill not hear me,

godly perish at the presence

17 But God hath heard me, of God. and considered the voice of 3 But let the righteous be glad, and rejoice before God; 18 Praised be God, who hath let them also be merry and not cast out my prayer, nor joyful.

my prayer.

turned his mercy from me.

4 O sing unto God, and sing Psalm Ixvii. Deus misereatur. praises unto his Name; magify him that rideth upon the OD be merciful unto us, heavens, as it were upon an and bless us, and show horse; praise him in his Name us the light of his countenance, JAH, and rejoice before him. and be merciful unto us; 5 He is a father of the fa

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2 That thy way may be therless, and defendeth the known upon earth, thy saving cause of the widows; even God health among all nations. in his holy habitation.

3 Let the people praise thee,| 6 He is the God that maO God; yea, let all the peo-keth men to be of one mind in ple praise thee. lan house, and bringeth the

prisoners out of captivity; but twenty thousand, even thouletteth the runagates continusands of Angels; and the Lord in scarceness. is among them as in the holy

7 O God, when thou went-place of Sinai. est forth before the peope; 18 Thou art gone up on when thou wentest through high, thou hast led captivity the wilderness, captive, and received gifts for

8 The earth shook, and the men; yea, even for thine eneheavens dropped at the pre-mies, that the Lord God might sence of God; even as Sinai dwell among them.

also was moved at the pre- 19 Praised be the Lord daisence of God, who is the Godly, even the God who helpeth of Israel. us, and poureth his benefits

9 Thou, O God, sentest alupon us. gracious rain upon thine inhe- 20 He is our God, even the ritance. and refreshedst it God of whom cometh salvawhen it was weary. tion: God is the Lord, by

10 Thy congregation shall whom we escape death. dwell therein; for thou, O 21 God shall wound the God, hast of thy goodness pre-head of his enemies, and the pared for the poor. hairy scalp of such a one as 11 The Lord gave the word goeth on still in his wickedgreat was the company of the ness. preachers.

22 The Lord hath said, I 12 Kings with their armies will bring my people again, as did flee, and were discomfited, I did from Basan; mine own and they of the household di-will I bring again, as I did vided the spoil. sometime from the deep of

13 Though ye have lain the sea. among the pots, yet shall ye 23 That thy foot may be be as the wings of a dove that dipped in the blood of thine is covered with silver wings enemies, and that the tongue and her feathers like gold. of thy dogs may be red through 14 When the Almighty the same.

scattered kings for their sake, 24 It is well seen, O God, then were they as white as how thou goest; how thou, snow in Salmon. my God and King, goest in

hill, as the hill of Basan.

15 As the hill of Basan, so the sanctuary. is God's hill; even an high 25 The singers go before, the minstrels follow after; in 16 Why hop ye so, ye high the midst are the danisels hills? this is God's hill, in the playing with the timbrels. which it pleaseth him to dwell; 26 Give thanks, O Israel, yea, the Lord will abide in it unto God the Lord, in the confor ever. gregations, from the ground 17 The chariots of God are of the heart,

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