10 We see not our tokens ;thine own cause; remember how there is not one prophet more; the foolish man blasphemeth no, not one is there among us, thee daily. that understandeth any more. 24 Forget not the voice of 11 O God, how long shall the thine enemies: the presumption adversary do this dishonour of them that hate thee increaseth how long shall the enemy blas-fever more and more. pheme thy name? for ever? 12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand? why pluckest thou not thy right hand out of thy boson:, to consume the enemy? The fifteenth Day. UNTO thee, O God, do we 13 For God is my King of old; do we give thanks. the help that is done upon earth,| he Loeth it himself. 14 Thou didst divide the sea through thy power; thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 2 Thy name also is so nigh; and that do thy wondrous works declare. 3 When I receive the congregation, I shall judge according unto right. 15 Thou smotest the heads of 4 The earth is weak, and all Leviathan in pieces, and gavest the inhabitants thereof: I bean him to he meat for the people in up the wilderness. the pillars of it. 5 I said unto the fools, Deal not 16 Thou broughtest out foun-so madly; and to the ungodly, tains, and waters out of the hard Set not up your horn. rocks; thou driedst up mighty waters. 17 The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 6 Set not up your horn on high, and speak not with a stiff neck ther from the east, nor from the 7 For promotion cometh neiwest, nor yet from the south. 18 Thou hast set all the bor8 And why? God is the Judge; ders of the earth; thou hast made he putteth down one, and setteth summer and winter. up another. 19 Remember this, O Lord, 9 For in the hand of the Lord how the enemy hath rebuked.there is a cup, and the wine is and how the foolish people hath red; it is full mixt, and he pourblasphemed thy name. eth out of the same. drink them, and suck them out. 20 O deliver not the soul of thy 10 As for the dregs thereof, alt turtle-dove unto the multitude of the ungodly of the earth shall the enemies; and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever. 21 Look upon the covenant; for all the earth is full of darkuess and cruel habitations. 22 0 let not the simple go away ashamed; but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy name. 23 Arise, O God, maintain 11 But I will talk of the God of Jacob, and praise him for ever. 12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break, and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. Psalm 76. Notus in Judaa. IN Jury is God known; his name is great in Israel. 2 At Salem is his tabernacle, and his dwelling in Sion. 3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, the sword, and the battle. 5 I have considered the days of old, and the years that are past. 6 I call to remembrance my song, and in the night I commune with mine own beart, and search out my spirits. 7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever; and will he be no more 4 Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the robbers. 5 The proud are robbed; they have slept their sleep; and all the intreated? men whose hands were mighty, have found nothing. 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever; and is his promise come 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Ja- utterly to an end for evermore? cob, both the chariot and horse 9 Hath God forgotten to be are fallen. gracious; and will he shut up his 7 Thou, even thou art to be loving-kindness in displeasure? feared; and who may stand in 10 And I said, It is mine own thy sight, when thou art angry?infirmity; but I will remember 8 Thou didst cause thy judg- the years of the right hand of the ment to be heard from heaven; Most Highest. the earth trembled, and was still, 11 I will remember the works 9 When God arose to judg- of the Lord, and call to mind the men, and to help all the meek wonders of old time. upon earth. 10 The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise, and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain. 12 I will think also of all thy works, and my talking shall be of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O God, is holy: 11 Promise unto the Lord your who is so great a God as our God? God, and keep it, all ye that are 14 Thou art the God that doeth round about him; bring presents wonders, and hast declared thy unto him that ought to be feared. power among the people. 12 He shall refrain the spirit of 15 Thou hast mightily deliverprinces, and is wonderful among ed thy people, even the sons of the kings of the earth. Jacob and Joseph. Psalm 77. Voce mea ad Dominum. I Will cry unto God with my voice; even unto God will ery with my voice, and he shall hearken unto me. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and were afraid; the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out wa 2 In the time of my trouble Iter, the air thundered, and thine sought the Lord: my sore ran, arrows went abroad. and ceased not in the night-season; my soul refused comfort. 3 When I am in heaviness, will think upon God; when my heart is vexed, I will complain. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so feeble that I cannot speak. 23** 18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about: the lightnings Ishone upon the ground; the earth was moved and shook withal. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy foot-steps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses EVENING PRAYER. HEAR my law, O my people; 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will declare hard sentences of old, 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers, in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan. 14 He divided the sea, and let them go through; he made the waters to stand on an heap. 15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night through with a light of fire. 16 He clave the hard rocks in 3 Which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers the wilderness, and gave them have told us; drink thereof, as it had been out 4 That we should not hide of the great depth. them from the children of the 17 He brought waters out of generations to come; but to the stony rock, so that it gushed show the honour of the Lord, his out like the rivers. mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. 18 Yet for all this, they sinned more against him, and provoked 5 He made a covenant with the Most Highest in the wilderJacob, and gave Israel a law, ness. which he commanded our fore- 19 They tempted God in their fathers to teach their children. hearts, and required meat for 9 That their posterity might their lust. know it, and the children which were yet unborn; 20 They spake against God also, saying, Shall God prepare a 7 To the intent that when they table in the wilderness? came up, they might show their children the same; 21 He smote the stony rock indeed, that the water gushed out. 8 That they might put their and the streams flowed withal; trust in God; and not to forget but can he give bread also, or the works of God, but to keep provide flesh for his people? his commandments; 22 When the Lord heard this, 9 And not to be as their fore- he was wroth; so the fire was fathers, a faithless and stubborn kindled in Jacob, and there came generation; a generation that set up heavy displeasure against not their heart aright, and whose Israel; spirit cleaveth not steadfastly 23 Because they believed not unto God; in God, and put not their trust in 10 Like as the children of his help. Ephraim; who being harnessed, 24 So he commanded the clouds and carrying bows, turned them-Jabove, and opened the doors of selves back in the day of battle. heaven. 11 They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law; 12 But forgat what he had done, and the wonderful works that he bad showed for them. 25 He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat, and gave them food from heaven. 26 So man did eat angel's food; for he sent them meat enough. 27 He caused the east wind to blow under heaven; and through were but flesh, and that they were his power he brought in the even a wind that passeth away, south-west wind. and cometh not again. 41 Many a time did they pro 28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust, and feathered voke him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert. fowls like as the sand of the sea. 29 He let it fall among their tents, even round about their habitation: 42 They turned back, and tempted God; and moved the Holy One in Israel. 30 So they did eat and were 43 They thought not of his well filled; for he gave them their hand, and of the day when he own desire: they were not disap-delivered them from the hand of pointed of their lust. the enemy. 31 But while the meat was yet in their mouths, the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them; yea, and smote down the chosen men that were in Israel. 32 But for all this, they sinned yet more, and believed not his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. 34 When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God. 35 And they remembered that God was their strength, and that the high God was their Redeemer. 44 How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan. 45 He turned their waters into blood, so that they might not drink of the rivers. 46 He sent lice among them, and devoured them up, and frogs to destroy them. 47 He gave their fruit unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the grasshopper. 48 He destroyed their vines with hail-stones, and their mulberry trees with the frost. 49 He smote their cattle also with hail-stones, and their flocks with hot thunder-bolts. 50 He cast upon them the fu36 Nevertheless, they did but riousness of his wrath, anger, flatter him with their mouth, and displeasure, and trouble; and dissembled with him in their sent evil angels among them. tongue. 51 He made a way to his in37 For their heart was not dignation, and spared not their whole with him, neither continu-soul from death; but gave their ed they steadfast in his cove-life over to the pestilence; 52 And smote all the first-born 38 But he was so merciful, that in Egypt, the most principal and he forgave their misdeeds, and mightiest in the dwellings of destroyed them not. Ham. nant. 39 Yea, many a time turned he 53 But as for his own people, his wrath away, and would not he led them forth like sheep, and suffer his whole displeasure to carried them in the wilderness orise : like a flock. 40 For he considered that they 54 He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, and dah, even the hill of Sion, which overwhelmed their enemies with he loved. the sea. 70 And there he built his tem55 And brought them within ple on high, and laid the foundathe borders of his sanctuary, even tion of it like the ground which to his mountain, which he pur-[he hath made continually. chased with his right hand. 71 He chose David also his 56 He cast out the heathen also servant, and took him away from before them, caused their land to the sheep-folds : be divided among them for an 72 As he was following the heritage, and made the tribes of ewes great with young ones, he Israel to dwell in their tents. took him, that he might feed 57 So they tempted and dis-Jacob his people, and Israel his pleased the most high God, and inheritance. kept not his testimonies; 73 So he fed them with a faith58 But turned their backs, and ful and true heart, and ruled them fell away like their forefathers; prudently with all his power. starting aside like a broken bow. 59 For they grieved him with their hill-altars, and provoked him to displeasure with their images. 60 When God heard this, he The sixteenth Day. was wroth, and took sore dis-holy temple have they defiled. pleasure at Israel and made Jerusalem an heap oi 61 So that he forsook the ta- stones. bernacle in Silo, even the tent 2 The dead bodies of thy ser that he had pitched among men. vants have they given to be meat 62 He delivered their power unto the fowls of the air, and the into captivity, and their beauty flesh of thy saints unto the beasts into the enemies' hand. of the land. 63 He gave his people over 3 Their blood have they shed also unto the sword, and was like water on every side of Jeruwroth with his inheritance. salem, and there was no man to bury them. 64 The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given to marriage. 4 We are become an open shame to our enemies, a very 65 Their priests were slain scorn and derision unto them that with the sword, and there were are round about us. no widows to make lamentation. 5 Lord, how long wilt thou be 66 So the Lord awaked as one angry? shall thy jealousy burn out of sleep, and like a giant re-like fire for ever? freshed with wine. 6 Pour out thine indignation 67 He smote his enemies in upon the heathen that have not the hinder parts, and put them to known thee; and upon the kinga perpetual shame. doms that have not called upon thy name: 68 He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; 69 But chose the tribe of Ju 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place. 8 O remember not our old |