30 When thou lettest thy breath oath that he sware unto Isaac; go forth, they shall be made; and 10 And appointed the same thou shalt renew the face of the unto Jacob, for a law, and to earth. Israel foran everlasting testament, 31 The glorious majesty of the Lord shall endure for ever; the Lord shall rejoice in his works. 11 Saying, Unto thee will 1 give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance. 32 The earth shall tremble at 12 When they were yet but a the look of him; if he do but few of them, and they strangers touch the hills, they shall smoke. in the land; 33 I will sing unto the Lord as 13 What time as they went long as I live; I will praise my from one nation to another, from God while I have my being; one kingdom to another people; 34 And so shall my words please 14 He suffered no man to do him: my joy shall be in the Lord. them wrong, but reproved even 35 As for sinners, they shall be kings for their sakes: consumed out of the earth, and! the ungodly shall come to an end Praise thou the Lord, O my soul, praise the Lord. The twenty-first Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 105. Confitemini Domino. 15 Touch not mine Anointed, and do my prophets no harm, 16 Moreover, he called for a dearth upon the land, and destroy. ed all the provision of bread. 17 But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold to be a bond-servant, Give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name; tell the 18 Whose feet they hurt in the people what things he hath done. stocks; the iron entered into his 20 let your songs be of him, soul; and praise him; and let your talk- 19 Until the time came that ing be of all his wondrous works. This cause was known: the word 3 Rejoice in his holy name; of the Lord tried him. let the heart of them rejoice, that] 20 The king sent, and deliver. seek the Lord. ed him; the prince of the people 4 Seek the Lord and his let him go free. strength; seek his face evermore. 21 He made him lord also of 5 Remember the marvellous his house, and ruler of all his subworks that he hath done; his stance; wonders, and the judgments of 22 That he might inform his his mouth; princes after his will, and teach 60 ye seed of Abraham, his his senators wisdom. servant; ye children of Jacob 23 Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob was a stranger in the his chosen. 7 He is the Lord our God; his land of Ham. judgments are in all the world. 24 And he increased his peo3 He hath been alway mindful ple exceedingly, and made them of his covenant and promise, that stronger than their enemies'; he made to a thousand generations. 25 Whose heart turned so, 9 Even the covenant that he that they hated his people, and made with Abraham; and the dealt untruly with his servants. 26 Then sent he Moses his ser-his holy promise; and Abraham vant, and Aaron whom he had his servant. chosen ; 42 And he brought forth his 27 And these showed his to-people with joy, and his chosen kens among them, and wonders with gladness; in the land of Ham. 43 And gave them the lands of 28 He sent darkness, and it was the heathen: and they took the dark; and they were not obe-labours of the people in dient unto his word. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs; yea, even in their king's chambers. 31 He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies, and lice in all their quarters. sion; posses 44 That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 106. Confitemini Domino. Give thanks unto the Lord; for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Who can express the noble acts of the Lord, or show forth 32 He gave them hail-stones for rain; and flames of fire in all his praise? their land. 3 Blessed are they that alway 33 He smote their vines also keep judgment, and do righte and fig-trees; and destroyed the ousness. trees that were in their coasts. 4 Remember me. O Lord, ac 34 He spake the word, and the cording to the favour that thou grasshoppers came, and caterpil-bearest unto thy people; O visit lars innumerable, and did eat up me with thy salvation, all the grass in their land, and de- 5 That I may see the felicity voured the fruit of their ground. [of thy chosen, and rejoice in the 35 He smote all the first-born gladness of thy people, and give in their land; even the chief of thanks with thine inheritance all their strength. 6 We have sinned with our 36 He brought them forth also fathers; we have done amiss, with silver and gold; there was and dealt wickedly. not one feeble person among their tribes. 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept 37 Egypt was glad at their de-they thy great goodness in reparting; for they were afraid of membrance; but were disobedi ent at the sea, even at the Red Sea. them. 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering; and fire to give light in the night season. 39 At their desire he brought quails; and he filled them with the bread of heaven. 8 Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known. 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he 40 He opened the rock of stone, led them through the deep, as and the waters flowed out, so that through a wilderness. the rivers ran in the dry places. 10 And he saved them from 41 For why? he remembered the adversaries' hand and delr vered them from the hand of the 26 Then lift he up his hand enemy. against them, to overthrow them 11 As for those that troubled in the wilderness; them, the waters overwhelmed them; there was not one of them left. 27 To cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. 12 Then believed they his 28 They joined themselves unwords, and sang praise unto him. to Baal-peor, and ate the offerings 13 But within a while they for- of the dead. gat his works, and would not 29 Thus they provoked him to abide his counsel. anger with their own inventions; 14 But lust came upon them and the plague was great among in the wilderness, and they tempt-them. ed God in the desert. 30 Then stood up Phinees, and the plague 15 And he gave them their de- prayed; and so sire, and sent leanness withal in-ceased. to their soul. 31 And that was counted unto 16 They angered Moses also him for righteousness, among all in their tents, and Aaron the posterities for evermore. saint of the Lord. 32 They angered him also at 17 So the earth opened, and the waters of strife, so that he swallowed up Dathan, and cover-punished Moses for their sakes; ed the congregation of Abiram. 33 Because they provoked his 18 And the fire was kindled in spirit, so that he spake unadvisedtheir company; the flame burntly with his lips. up the ungodly. 34 Neither destroyed they the 19 They made a calf in Horeb, heathen, as the Lord commanded and worshipped the molten image. them: 20 Thus they turned their glo- 35 But were mingled among ry into the similitude of a calf the heathen, and learned their that eateth hay. works. 21 And they forgat God their 36 Insomuch that they wor Saviour, who had done so great shipped their idols, which turned things in Egypt; to their own decay; yea, they of22 Wondrous works in the land fered their sons and their daughof Ham; and fearful things by ters unto devils; the Red Sea. 37 And shed innocent blood, 23 So he said he would have de-even the blood of their sons and of stroyed them, had not Moses his their daughters, whom they offerchosen stood before him in the gap, ed unto the idols of Canaan; and to turn away his wrathful indigna- the land was defiled with blood. tion, lest he should destroy them. 38 Thus were they stained with 24 Yea, they thought scorn of their own works, and went a whorthat pleasant land, and gave no ing with their own inventions. credence unto his word; 39 Therefore was the wrath of 25 But murmured in their the Lord kindled against his peotents, and hearkened not unto the ple, insomuch that he abhorred voice of the Lord. his own inheritance. 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them were lords over them. 41 Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection. 6 Hungry and thirsty, thetr soul fainted in them. 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. 7 He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to 42 Many a time did he deliver the city where they dwelt. them; but they rebelled against 80 that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. 43 Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint. 9 For he satisfeth the empty soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness: 44 He thought upon his cove- 10 Such as sit in darkness and nant, and pitied them, according in the shadow of death, being fast unto the multitude of his mer-bound in misery and iron; cies; yea, he made all those that 11 Because they rebelled against led them away captive to pity the words of the Lord, and lightly them. regarded the counsel of the Most Highest. 45 Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen; that we may give thanks unto thy holy name. and make our boast of thy praise. 12 He also brought down their heart through heaviness; they fell down, and there was none to help them. 46 Blessed be the Lord God of 13 So when they cried unto Israel, from everlasting, and world the Lord in their trouble, he de without end; and let all the peo-livered them out of their distress. ple say, Amen. The twenty-second Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 107. Confitemini Domino. 14 For he brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death, and break their bonds in sunder. 15 O that men would thereGive thanks unto the Lord; fore praise the Lord for his goodfor he is gracious, and his ness; and declare the wonders mercy endureth for ever. that he doeth for the children of 2 Let them give thanks, whom men! the Lord hath redeemed, and 16 For he hath broken the delivered from the hand of the gates of brass, and smitten the enemy; bars of iron in sunder. 3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west; from the north, and from the south. 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence, and because of their wickedness. 18 Their soul abhorred all man4 They went astray in the wil-ner of meat, and they were even derness out of the way, and found hard at death's door. no city to dwell in. 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, he de- 33 Who turneth the floods into livered them out of their distress. a wilderness, and drieth up the 20 He sent his word, and healed water-springs. them; and they were saved from 34 A fruitful land maketh he their destruction. barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness; 35 Again he maketh the wil and declare the wonders that he derness a standing water, and doeth for the children of men! 22 That they would offer unto water-springs of a dry ground. 36 And there he setteth the him the sacrifice of thanksgiving, hungry, that they may build them and tell out his works with glad-a city to dwell in; ness! 37 That they may sow their 23 They that go down to the land, and plant vineyards, to yield sea in ships, and occupy their them fruits of increase. 38 He blesseth them, so that 24 These men see the works of they multiply exceedingly; and the Lord, and his wonders in the suffereth not their cattle to dedeep. business in great waters; 25 For at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof. crease. 39 And again, when they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or 40 Though he suffer them to 26 They are carried up to the trouble; heaven, and down again to the deep; their soul melteth away be evil-entreated through tyrants, because of the trouble. and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness; 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress. 41 Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery, and maketh him house holds like a flock of sheep. 42 The righteous will consider this, and rejoice; and the mouth 29 For he maketh the storm of all wickedness shall be stopto cease, so that the waves there-ped. of are still. 43 Whoso is wise, will ponder 30 Then are they glad, because these things; and they shall unthey are at rest; and so he bring-derstand the loving-kindness of eth them unto the haven where the Lord. they would be. 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! 32 That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders! EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 108. Paratum cor meum. ' God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing, and give praise with the best member that I have. I 2 Awake, thou lute and harp; |