keep him alive, that he may be 3 My tears have been my meat blessed upon earth; and deliver day and night, while they daily say not thou him into the will of his unto me, Where is now thy God? enemies. 4 Now when I think there3 The Lord comfort him when upon, I pour out my heart by he lieth sick upon his bed; make myself; for I went with the multhou all his bed in his sickness. titude, and brought them forth 4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto into the house of God; me; heal my soul, for I have 5 In the voice of praise and sinned against thee. thanksgiving, among such as keep 5 Mine enemies speak evil of holy-day. me; When shall he die, and his 6 Why art thou so full of heaname perish? viness, O my soul? and why art thou so disquieted within me? 7 Put thy trust in God; for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance. 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it. 8 My God, my soul is vexed 7 All mine enemies whisper within me; therefore will I retogether against me, even against member thee concerning the land me do they imagine this evil. of Jordan, and the little hill of 8 Let the sentence of guilti-Hermon. ness proceed against him, and 9 One deep calleth another, now that he lieth, let him rise up because of the noise of the waterpipes; all thy waves and storms no more. 9 Yea, even mine own familiar are gone over me. friend whom I trusted, who did 10 The Lord hath granted his also eat of my bread, hath laid loving-kindness in the day-time, great wait for me. and in the night-season did I sing 10 But be thou merciful unto of him, and made my prayer unme, O Lord; raise thou me up to the God of my life. again, and shall reward them. 11 I will say unto the God of 11 By this I know thon favour-my strength, Why hast thou forest me, that mine enemy doth gotten me? Why go I thus heanot triumph against me. vily, while the enemy oppress 12 And when I am in my eth me? health, thou upholdest me, and 12 My bones are smitten asunshall set me before thy face for der as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me ever. 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me, Where is now thy God? 13 Blessed be the Lord God of in the teeth; Israel, world without end. Amen. Psalm 42. Quemadmodum. IKE as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God. L 14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soul? and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God; for will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 43. Judica-me, Deus. 6 Through thee will we overGIVE sentence with me, O God, throw our enemies, and in thy and defend my cause against name will we tread them under the ungodly people; O deliver me tha rise up against us. from the deceitful and wicked 7 For I will not trust in my man; bow; it is not my sword that shall 2 For thou art the God of my help me. strength why hast thou put me 8 But it is thou that savest us from thee? and why go I so from our enemies, and puttest heavily, while the enemy oppress-them to confusion that hate us. eth me? 9 We make our boast of God all 3 O send out thy light and thy day long, and will praise thy truth, that they may lead me, and name for ever. bring me unto thy holy hill, and 10 But now thou art far off, and to thy dwelling. puttest us to confusion; and goest 4 And that I may go unto the not forth with our armies. altar of God, even unto the God 11 Thou makest us to turn our of my joy and gladness; and backs upon our enemies, so that upon the harp will I give thanks they which hate us spoil our goods. unto thee, O God, my God. 12 Thou lettest us be eaten up 5 Why art thou so heavy, Olike sheep, and hast scattered us my soul? and why art thou so dis- among the heathen. quieted within me? 13 Thou sellest thy people for 6 O put thy trust in God; for nought, and takest no money for I will yet give him thanks, which them. is the help of my countenance, and my God. The ninth Day. WE have heard with our ears, 14 Thou makest us to be re buked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us. 15 Thou makest us to be a by. word among the heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us. 16 My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me; 2 How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroy- 17 For the voice of the slan ed the nations and cast them out. derer and blasphemer, for the 3 For they gat not the land in enemy and avenger. possession through their own 18 And though all this be come sword, neither was it their own upon us, yet do we not forget arm that helped them; thee. nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant. 4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; because thou hadst a favour unto them. 5 Thou art my King, O God; send help unto Jacob. 19 Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way; 20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dra gons, and covered us with the for ever; th sceptre of thy kingshadow of death. dom is a right sceptre. 21 If we have forgotten the 8 Thou hast loved righteousname of our God, and holden up ness, and hated iniquity; whereour hands to any strange god, fore God, even thy God, hath shall not God search it out? for anointed thee with the oil of glad. he knoweth the very secrets of ness above thy fellows. the heart. 9. All thy garments smell of 22 For thy sake also are we kill-myrrh, aloes, and cassia,; out of ed all the day long, and are the ivory palaces, whereby they counted as sheep appointed to be have made thee glad. 10 Kings' daughters were among 23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thy honourable women; upon thy thou? awake, and be not absent right hand did stand the queen from us for ever. in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours. slain. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and trouble? 11 Hearken, O daughter, and consider; incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and 25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly thy father's house. cleaveth unto the ground. 12 So shall the King have plea 26 Arise, and help us, and de-sure in thy beauty; for he is thy liver us, for thy mercies' sake. Lord God, and worship thou Psalm 45. Eructavit cor meum. him. MY Y heart is inditing of a good 13 And the daughter of Tyre matter; I speak of the things shall be there with a gift; like as which I have made unto the the rich also among the people shall make their supplication be King. 2 My tongue is the pen of a fore thee. ready writer. 14 The King's daughter is all 3 Thou art fairer than the chil- glorious within; her clothing is dren of men; full of grace are thy of wrought gold. lips, because God hath blessed 15 She shall be brought unto thee for ever. the King in raiment of needle and renown. 4 Gird thee with thy sword work; the virgins that be her felupon thy thigh, O thou most lows shall bear her company, and mighty, according to thy worship shall be brought unto thee. 16 With joy and gladness shall 5 Good luck have thou with they be brought, and shall enter thine honour: ride on, because of into the King's palace. the word of truth, of meekness and 17 Instead of thy fathers thou righteousness, and thy right hand shalt have children, whom thou shall teach thee terrible things. mayest make princes in all lands. 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, 18 I will remember thy name and the people shall be subdued from one generation to another; unto thee, even in the midst therefore shall the people give among the King's enemies. thanks unto thee, world without 7 Thy seat, O God, endureth end. Psalm 46. Deus noster refugium. 3 He shall subdue the people GOD is our hope and strength, under us, and the nations under a very present help in trouble. our feet.. 2 Therefore will we not fear, 4 He shall choose out an herithough the earth be moved, and tage for us, even the worship of though the hills be carried into Jacob, whom he loved. the midst of the sea. 5 God is gone up with a merry 3 Though the waters thereof noise, and the Lord with the rage and swell, and though the sound of the trump. mountains shake at the tempest 6 O sing praises, sing praises of the same. unto our God; O sing praises, 4 The rivers of the flood thereof sing praises unto our King. shall make glad the city of God; 7 For God is the King of all the holy place of the tabernacle the earth: sing ye praises with of the most Highest. understanding. 5 God is in the midst of her, 8 God reigneth over the heatherefore shall she not be remov-then; God sitteth upon his holy ed; God shall help her, and that seat. right early. 9 The princes of the people 6 The heathen make much ado. are joined unto the people of the and the kingdoms are moved; but God of Abraham; for God, which God hath showed his voice, and is very high exalted, doth defend the earth shall melt away. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge. the earth as it were with a shield. Psalm 48. Magnus Dominus. GREAT is the Lord, and highly 8 O come hither, and behold to be praised in the city of the works of the Lord, what de-our God, even upon his holy hill. struction he hath brought upon 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, the earth. and the joy of the whole earth; 9 He maketh wars to cease in upon the north side lieth the city all the world; he breaketh the of the great King: God is well bow, and knappeth the spear in known in her palaces as a sure sunder, and burneth the chariots refuge. in the fire. 3 For lo, the kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by together. 4 They marvelled to see such things; they were astonished, and suddenly cast down. 5 Fear came there upon them; and sorrow, as upon a woman in her travail. 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the east wind. 7 Like as we have heard, so bave we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God; God upholdeth the same for ever 8 We wait for thy loving-kind-falso die and perish together, as ness, O God, in the midst of thy well as the ignorant and foolish, temple. and leave their riches for other. 9 O God, according to thy 11 And yet they think that their name, so is thy praise unto the houses shall continue for ever, world's end; thy right hand is and that their dwelling places full of righteousness. shall endure from one generation 10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, to another; and call the lands and the daughter of Judah be after their own names. glad, because of thy judgments. 12 Nevertheless, man will not 11 Walk about Sion, and go abide in honour, seeing he may round about her; and tell the be compared unto the beasts that towers thereof. perish; this is the way of them. 13 This is their foolishness, and their posterity praise their saying. 12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell them that come after. 13 For this God is our God for ever and ever: He shall be our guide unto death. Psalm 49. Audite hæc, omnes. Hear ye this, all ye people; ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world; 14 They lie in the hell like sheep; death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have dominion over 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 2 High and low, rich and poor, he shall receive me. one with another. 16 Be not thou afraid, though 3 My mouth shall speak of wis-one be made rich, or if the glory dom, and my heart shall muse of of his house be increased; understanding. 17 For he shall carry nothing 4 I will incline mine ear to away with him when he dieth, the parable, and show my dark neither shall his pomp follow speech upon the harp. him. 5 Wherefore should I fear in 18 For while he lived, he countthe days of wickedness, and when led himself an happy man; and so the wickedness of my heels com-long as thou doest well unto thypasseth me round about? self, men will speak good of thee. 6 There be some that put their 19 He shall follow the genera trust in their goods, and boast tion of his fathers, and shall never themselves in the multitude of see light. their riches; 20 Man being in honour hath 7 But no man may deliver his no understanding, but is compar brother, nor make agreement un-led unto the beast that perish. to God for him: 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls; so that he must let that alone for ever; The tenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. 9 Yea, though he live long, and THE Lord, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, 10 For he seeth that wise men and called the world, from the dee not the grave. |