shalt thou stablish in the heavens. 17 Their delight shall be daily in 3 I have made a covenant with thy name; and in thy righteousmy chosen; I have sworn unto ness shall they make their boast. David my servant. 18 For thou art the glory of their 4 Thy seed will I stablish for strength, and in thy loving-kindever, and set up thy throne from ness thou shall lift up our horns: one generation to another. 19 For the Lord is our de5 O Lord, the very heavens fence; the Holy One of Israel is shall praise thy wondrous works; our King. and thy truth in the congregation of the saints. 20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, 6 For who is he among the I have laid help upon one that clouds, that shall be compared is mighty, I have exalted one unto the Lord? chosen out of the people. 21 I have found David my sergods, that shall be like unto the vant; with my holy oil have I Lord? Janointed him. 7 And what is he among the 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him. 9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee? thy truth, most mighty Lord, is on every side. 22 My hand shall hold him fast, and my arm shall strengthen him. 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence; the son of wickedness shall not hurt him. 24 I will smite down his foes before his face, and plague them 10 Thou rulest the raging of that hate him. the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise. 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it; thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm. 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods. 12 The heavens are thine, the 27 He shall call me, Thou art earth also is thine; thou hast laid my Father, my God, and my the foundation of the round world, strong salvation. and all that therein is. 28 And I will make him my 13 Thou hast made the north first-born, higher than the kings and the south; Tabor and Her- of the earth. mon shall rejoice in thy name. 29 My mercy will I keep for 14 Thou hast a mighty arm;him for evermore, and my covestrong is thy hand, and high is nant shall stand fast with him. thy right hand. 30 His seed also will I make to 15 Righteousness and equity are endure for ever, and his throne the habitation of thy seat; mercy as the days of heaven. and truth shall go before thy face. 31 But if his children forsake 16 Blessed is the people, O my law, and walk not in my judgLord, that can rejoice in thee; ments; they shall walk in the light of thy countenance. 32 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; I will visit their offences with the and shall not see death? and shall rod, and their sin with scourges. The deliver his soul from the hand 33 Nevertheless, my loving-of hell? kindness will I not utterly take 48 Lord, where are thy old lov from him, nor suffer my truth to ing-kindnesses, which thou swar fail. est unto David in thy truth? 34 My covenant will I not break, 49 Remember, Lord, the renor alter the thing that is gone buke that thy servants have, and out of my lips: I have sworn once how I do bear in my bosom the by my holiness, That I will not rebukes of many people; 50 Wherewith thine enemies 35 His seed shall endure for have blasphemed thee, and slanever, and his seat is like as the dered the footsteps of thine sun before me. Anointed: Praised be the Lord 36 He shall stand fast for ever- for evermore. Amen and Amen. more as the moon, and as the faithful witness in heaven. fail David. 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine Anointed, and art displeased at him. 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant, and cast his crown to the ground. The eighteenth Day. LORD, thou hast been our re- another. 2 Before the mountains were 39 Thou hast overthrown all brought forth, or ever the earth his hedges, and broken down his and the world were made, thou strong holds. art God from everlasting, and world without end. 40 All they that go by spoil him, and he is become a reproach to his neighbours. 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice. 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword, and givest him not victory in the battle. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night. 5 As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and 43 Thou hast put out his glory, fade away suddenly like the and cast his throne down to the grass. ground. 6 In the morning it is green, 44 The days of his youth hast and groweth up; but in the eventhou shortened, and covered him ing it is cut down, dried up, and with dishonour. 45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself? for ever? and shall thy wrath burn like fire? 46 O remember how short my time is; wherefore hast thou made all men for nought? 47 What man is he that liveth, withered. 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For when thou art angry, af our days are gone; we bring our|ness and truth shall be thy shield years to an end, as it were a tale and buckler. that is told. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for 10 The days of our age are any terror by night, nor for the threescore years and ten; and arrow that flieth by day; though men be so strong that they 6 For the pestilence that walkcome to fourscore years, yet is eth in darkness, nor for the sicktheir strength then but labour and ness that destroyeth in the noonsorrow; so soon passeth it away, day. and we are gone. 7 A thousand shall fall beside 11 But who regardeth the thee, and ten thousand at thy power of thy wrath? for even right hand; but it shall not come thereafter as a man feareth, so is nigh thee. thy displeasure. 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt 12 So teach us to number our thou behold, and see the reward days, that we may apply our of the ungodly. hearts unto wisdom. 9 For thou, Lord, art my hope; 13. Turn thee again, O Lord, thou hast set thine house of deat the last, and be gracious unto fence very high. thy servants. 10 There shall no evil happen 14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, Junto thee, neither shall any plague and that soon: so shall we rejoice come nigh thy dwelling. and be glad all the days of our life. 11 For he shall give his angels 15 Comfort us again now after charge over thee, to keep thee in the time that thou hast plagued all thy ways. us; and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity. 16 Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory. 12 They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion 17 And the glorious Majesty of and adder; the young lion and the the Lord our God be upon us: dragon shalt thou tread under thy prosper thou the work of our feet. hands upon us; O prosper thou our handy work. Psalm 91. Qui habitat. WH HOSO dwelleth under the defence of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of I the Almighty. 2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my strong hold, my God, in him will I trust. 3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him up, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and will hear him; yea, I am with him in trouble, I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. Psalm 92. Bonum est confiteri. IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing 4 He shall defend thee under praises unto thy name, O Most his wings, and thou shalt be safe Highest; under his feathers; his faithful-2 To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning, and of thy Lord hath put on his apparel, and truth in the night season; girded himself with strength. 2 He hath made the round world 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute; upon also sure, that it cannot be moved. loud instrument, and upon the harp: 3 Ever since the world began, hath thy seat been prepared; thou 4 For thou, Lord, hast made art from everlasting. me glad through thy works; and 4 The floods are risen, O Lord, I will rejoice in giving praise for the floods have lift up their voice, the operations of thy hands. the floods lift up their waves. 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy 5 The waves of the sea are works; thy thoughts are very deep. mighty, and rage horribly; but 6 An unwise man doth not yet the Lord, who dwelleth on well consider this, and a fool high, is mightier. doth not understand it. 6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, 7 When the ungodly are green are very sure: holiness becometh as the grass, and when all the thine house for ever. workers of wickedness do flourish, then shall they be destroyed for ever; but thou, Lord, art the Most Highest for evermore. Psalm 94. Deus ultionum. Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth,thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thy 8 Forlo, thine enemies, O Lord, self. lo, thine enemies shall perish ;| 2 Arise, thou Judge of the and all the workers of wickedness world, and reward the proud after shall be destroyed. their deserving. 9 But mine horn shall be exalt3 Lord, how long shall the uned like the horn of an unicorn; godly, how long shall the ungodly for I am anointed with fresh oil. triumph? 10 Mine eye also shall see his 4 How long shall all wicked Fust of mine enemies, and mine doers speak so disdainfully, and ear shall hear his desire of the make such proud boasting? wicked that arise up against me. 11 The righteous shall flourish O like a palm-tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus. 5 They smite down thy people, Lord, and trouble thine heritage. 6 They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death. 12 Such as are planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in 7 And yet they say, Tush, the the courts of the house of our God. Lord shall not see, neither shall 13 They also shall bring forth the God of Jacob regard it. more fruit in their age, and shall 3 Take heed, ye unwise among be fat and well liking; the people: Oye fools, when will ye understand? 14 That they may show how true the Lord my strength is, and that there is no unrighteousness in him. EVENING PRAYER. 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that made the eye, shall he not see? 10 Or he that nurtureth the THE Lord is King, and hath heathen, it is he that teacheth man put on glorious apparel; the knowledge; shall not he punish? 24* DAY 19. 11 The Lord knoweth the in the strength of our salvation. thoughts of man, that they are but 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and 12 Blessed is the man whom show ourselves glad in him with thou chasteneth, O Lord, and psalms. teachest him in thy law; vain. 3 For the Lord is a great God; 13 That thou mayest give him and a great King above all gods. patience in time of adversity, until 4 In his hand are all the corthe pit be digged up for the un-ners of the earth; and the godly. strength of the hills is his also. 14 For the Lord will not fail 5 The sea is his, and he made his people; neither will he forsake it; and his hands prepared the his inheritance; dry land. 15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgment: ali such as are true in heart shall follow it. 6 O come, let us worship, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker: 16 Who will rise up with me 7 For he is the Lord our God; against the wicked? or who will and we are the people of his take my part against the evil-pasture, and the sheep of his doers? hend.. 17 If the Lord had not helped 8 To-day if ye will hear his me, it had not failed, but my soul voice, harden not your hearts as had been put to silence. in the provocation, and as in the 18 But when I said, My foot day of temptation in the wilder hath slipped; thy mercy, O Lord, ness; held me up. 9 When your fathers tempt19 In the multitude of the sor-ed me, proved me, and saw my rows that I had in my heart, thy works. comforts have refreshed my soul. 10 Forty years long was I 20 Wilt thou have any thing to grieved with this generation, and do with the stool of wickedness, said, It is a people that do err in which imagineth mischief as a their hearts, for they have not known my ways: law? 21 They gather them together 11 Unto whom I sware in my against the soul of the righteous, wrath, that they should not enter and condemn the innocent blood. into my rest. 22 But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the strength of my confidence. Psalm 96. Cantate Domino. Sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord, 23 He shall recompense them all the whole earth. their wickedness, and destroy 2 Sing unto the Lord, and them in their own malice; yea, praise his name; be telling of his the Lord our God shall destroy salvation from day to day. them. Psalm 95. Venite, exultemus. 3 Declare his honour unto the heathen, and his wonders unto all people. 4 For the Lord is great, and Come, let us sing unto the cannot worthily be praised; he is |