sins, but have mercy upon us, and four enemies laugh us to scorn. that soon; for we are come to 7 Turn us again, thou God of great misery. hosts; show the light of thy coun 9 Help us, O God of our salva- tenance, and we shall be whole. tion, for the glory of thy name : 8 Thou hast brought a vine out O deliver us, and be merciful un-of Egypt; thou hast cast out the to our sins, for thy name's sake. heathen, and planted it. 10 Wherefore do the heathen say, Where is now their God? 9 Thou madest room for it ; and when it had taken root, it filled the land. 11 O let the vengeance of thy servants' blood that is shed, be 10 The hills were covered with openly showed upon the heathen, the shadow of it, and the boughs in our sight. thereof were like the goodly ce12 0 let the sorrowful sighing dar trees. of the prisoners come before 11 She stretched out her thee; according to the greatness branches unto the sea, and her of thy power, preserve thou those boughs unto the river. that are appointed to die. 12 Why hast thou then broken 13 And for the blasphemy down her hedge, that all they wherewith our neighbours have that go by pluck off her grapes? blasphemed thee, reward thou 13 The wild boar out of the them, O Lord, seven-fold into wood doth root it up, and the their bosom. wild beasts of the field devour it. 14 So we that are thy people, 14 Turn thee again, thou God and sheep of thy pasture, shall of hosts, look down from heaven, give thee thanks for ever, and will behold and visit this vine, alway be showing forth thy praise from generation to generation. Psalm 80. Qui regis Israel. HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep; show thyself also, thou that sittest upon the Cherubim : 2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses, stir up thy strength, and come and help us. 3 Turn us again, O God; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth? 15 Aud the place of the vineyard that thy right hand bath planted, and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself. 16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down; and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self. 18 And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name. 19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be Psalm 81. Erultate Deo. 5 Thou feedest them with the whole. bread of tears, and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink. SING we merrily unto God, our 6 Thou hast made us a very strength; make a cheerful strife unto our neighbours, and noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take the psalm, bring hither but their time should have enthe tabret, the merry harp, with dured for ever. the lute. 17 He should have fed them 3 Blow up the trumpet in the also with the finest wheat flour; new moon, even in the time ap-and with honey out of the stony pointed, and upon our solemn rock should I have satisfied thee. feast day. 4 For this was made a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt, and had heard a strange language. 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden, and his hands were delivered from making the pots. 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and I delivered thee, and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee. 8 I proved thee also at the waters of strife. EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 82. Deus stetit. GOD standeth in the congregation of princes; he is a Judge among gods. 2 How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? 3 Defend the poor and father less; see that such as are in need and necessity have right. 4 Deliver the out-cast and poor; save them from the hand of the Jungodly. 5 They will not be learned, nor understand, but walk on still in darkness: all the foundations of 9 Hear, O my people; and I will assure thee, O Israel, if thou the earth are out of course. wilt hearken unto me. 6 I have said, Ye are gods, and 10 There shall no strange god ye are the children of the Most be in thee, neither shalt thou worHighest; ship any other god. 7 But ye shall die like men, 11 I am the Lord thy God, who and fall like one of the princes. brought thee out of the land of 8 Arise, O God, and judge thou Egypt: open thy mouth wide, the earth; for thou shalt take all and I shall fill it. 12 But my people would not hear my voice; and Israel would not obey_me: heathen to thine inheritance. Psalm 83. Deus, quis similis ? HOLD not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence: refrain 2 For lo, thine enemies make 13 So I gave them up unto not thyself, O God; their own hearts' lusts, and let them follow their own imagina-a murmuring; and they that hate thee have lift up their head. tions. 14 O that my people would have hearkened unto me; for if Israel had walked in my ways, 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people, and taken counsel against thy secret ones. 15 I should soon have put down 4 They have said, Come, and their enemies, and turned my let us root them out, that they be hand against their adversaries. no more a people, and that the 16 The haters of the Lord name of Israel may be no mere should have been found liars; in remembrance. 5 For they have cast their heads of the Lord; my heart and my ogether with one consent, and flesh rejoice in the living God. are confederate against thee; 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found 6 The tabernacle of the Edom-her an house, and the swallow a ites, and the Ishmaelites; the nest, where she may lay her Moabites, and Hagarenes; young; even thy altars, O Lord 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and of hosts, my King and my God. Amalek; the Philistines, with 4 Blessed are they that dwell them that dwell at Tyre. in thy house; they will be alway with praising thee. 8 Assur also is joined them, and have holpen the children of Lot. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are thy ways. 9 But do thou to them as unto the Midianites; unto Sisera, and 6 Who, going through the vale unto Jabin at the brook of Kison; of misery, use it for a well; and 10 Who perished at Endor, and the pools are filled with water. became as the dung of the earth. 7 They will go from strength 11 Make them and their prin- to strength, and unto the God of ces like Oreb and Zeb; yea, make gods appeareth every one of thein all their princes like as Zeba and in Sion. Salmana; 8 O Lord God of hosts, hear 12 Who say, Let us take to my prayer; hearken, O God of ourselves the houses of God in Jacob: possessio 1. 9 Behold, O God, our defender, 13 O my God, make them like and look upon the face of thine unto a wheel, and as the stubble Anointed. before the wind. 14 Like as the fire that burneth is up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains. 10 For one day in thy courts better than a thousand. 11 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, 15 Persecute them even so than to dwell in the tents of unwith thy tempest, and make them godliness. afraid with thy storm. 12 For the Lord God is a light 16 Make their faces ashamed, and defence; the Lord will give O Lord, that they may seek thy grace and worship; and no good thing shall he withhold from them name. 17 Let them be confounded and that live a godly life. vexed ever more and more; let] 13 O Lord God of hosts, blessthem be put to shame, and perish. ed is the man that putteth his 18 And they shall know that trust in thee. thou, whose name is Jehovah, Psalm 85. Benedixisti, Domine. art only the Most Highest over LORD, thou art become graall the earth. Psalm 84. Quam dilecta! How amiable are thy dwellings, thou Lord of Hosts! 2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts cious unto thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people, and covered all their sins. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure, and turned thyself 5 For thou, Lord, art good and from thy wrathful indignation. gracious, and of great mercy unto 4 Turn us then, O God our all them that call upon thee. Saviour, and let thine anger cease 6 Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer, and ponder the voice of my humble desires. from us. 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever? and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one genera-I tion 'to another? 6 Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 In the time of my trouble will call upon thee; for thou bearest me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; there is not one that can do as thou doest. Show us thy mercy, O Lord, 9 All nations whom thou hast and grant us thy salvation. made, shall come and worship 8 I will hearken what the Lord thee, O Lord; and shall glorify God will say concerning me; for thy name. he shall speak peace unto his 10 For thou art great, and people, and to his saints, that they doest wondrous things: thou art turn not again. God alone. 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walk in thy truth: 0 knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy name. 10 Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace 12 I will thank thee, O Lord have kissed each other. my God, with all my heart; and 11 Truth shall flourish out of will praise thy name for everthe earth, and righteousness hath more. looked down from heaven. 13 For great is thy mercy to12 Yea, the Lord shall show ward me; and thou hast delivered loving-kindness, and our land shall my soul from the nethermost hell. give her increase. 14 O God, the proud are risen 13 Righteousness shall go be-against me; and the congregafore him, and he shall direct his tions of naughty men have sought going in the way. The seventeenth Day. BOW down thine ear, O Lord, after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes. 15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compassion and mercy, long-suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. 16 O turn thee then unto me, 2 Preserve thou my soul; for and have mercy upon me; give I am holy: my God, save thy ser- thy strength unto thy servant, and vant that putteth his trust in thee. help the son of thine hand-maid. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord; 17 Show some token upon me for I will call daily upon thee. for good; that they who hate me 4 Comfort the soul of thy ser-may see it, and be ashamed, bevant; for unto thee, O Lord, do cause thou, Lord, hast holpen I lift up my soul. me, and comforted me. Psalm 87. Fundamenta ejus. HER foundations are upon the holy hills: the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. made me to be abhorred of them. 7 I am so fast in prison, that I cannot get forth. 9 My sight faileth for very trouble; Lord, I have called daily 10 Dost thou show wonders among the dead? or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee? 2 Very excellent things are upon thee, I have stretched forth spoken of thee, thou city of God. my hands unto thee. 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon, with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philistines also, and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo there was he born. 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wondrous works 5 And of Sion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and the Most High shall stablish be known in the dark? and thy her. righteousness in the land where 6 The Lord shall rehearse it, all things are forgotten? when he writeth up the people, that he was born there. 7 The singers also and trum-come before thee. peters shall he rehearse: All my fresh springs shall be in thee. 13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and early shall my prayer Psalm 88. Domine, Deus. 14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am in misery, and like Lord, God of my salvation, unto him that is at the point to I have cried day and night be-die; even from my youth up, thy fore thee: O let my prayer enter terrors have I suffered with into thy presence; incline thine troubled mind. ear unto my cailing; 16 Thy wrathful displeasure 2 For my soul is full of trouble, goeth over me, and the fear of and my life draweth nigh unto bell. thee hath undone me. 3 I am counted as one of them 17 They came round about me that go down into the pit, and I daily like water, and compassed have been even as a man that hath me together on every side. no strength. 18 My lovers and friends hast 4 Free among the dead, like thou put away from me, and hid unto them that are wounded, and mine acquaintance out of my lie in the grave, who are out of sight. remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou hast laid me in the EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 89. Misericordias Domini. lowest pit, in a place of darkness, MY song shall be alway of the and in the deep. loving-kindness of the Lord; 6 Thine indignation lieth hard with my mouth will I ever be upon me, and thou hast vexed showing thy truth from one geneme with all thy storms. ration to another. 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and be 2 For I have said, Mercy shall set up for ever, thy truth |