He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house : He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land;

To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the City of the LORD.

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The Declining Life and the Abiding LORD

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me;

In the day when I call answer me speedily.

For my days consume away like smoke,

And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;

For I forget to eat my bread:

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave

to my flesh.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness;

I am become as an owl of the waste places.

I watch, and am become

Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

Mine enemies reproach me all the day;

They that are mad against me do curse by me.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink

with weeping,

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:

For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

My days are like a shadow that declineth;
And I am withered like grass.

But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever;
And thy memorial unto all generations.
Thou shalt arise,

And have mercy upon Zion:

For it is time to have pity upon her,

Yea, the set time is come.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
And have pity upon her dust.

So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD,
And all the kings of the earth thy glory:

For the LORD hath built up Zion,

He hath appeared in his glory.

He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute,

And hath not despised their prayer.

This shall be written for the generation to come:

And a people which shall be created shall praise the

LORD.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

To hear the sighing of the prisoner ;

To loose those that are appointed to death;

That men may declare the name of the LORD in Zion,

And his praise in Jerusalem ;

When the peoples are gathered together,

And the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

He weakened my strength in the way;

He shortened my days.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:

Thy years are throughout all generations.

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth;
And the heavens are the work of thy hands.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure:

Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment;

As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be

changed:

But thou art the same,

And thy years shall have no end.

The children of thy servants shall continue,

And their seed shall be established before thee.

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Bless the LORD, O my Soul

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Hymn of the World Within

Bless the LORD, O my soul;

And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul,

And forget not all his benefits:

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;

Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies :

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

The LORD executeth righteous acts,

And judgements for all that are oppressed.
He made known his ways unto Moses,
His doings unto the children of Israel.
The LORD is full of compassion and gracious,
Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
He will not always chide;

Neither will he keep his anger for ever.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins,
Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.

For as the heaven is high above the earth,

So great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west,

So far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children,

So the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

For he knoweth our frame;

He remembereth that we are dust.

As for man, his days are as grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;

And the place thereof shall know it no more.

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,

And his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant,

And to those that remember his precepts to do them.

The LORD hath established his throne in the heavens ;
And his kingdom ruleth over all.

Bless the LORD, ye angels of his,
Ye mighty in strength;