3 I am troubled above measure: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy word.

4 Let the free-will offerings of my mouth please thee, O LORD; and teach me thy judgments.

5 My soul is alway in my hand; yet do I not forget thy law. 6 The ungodly have laid a snare for me; but yet I swerved not from thy commandments.

7 Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever; and why? they are the very joy of my heart.

8 I have applied my heart to fulfil thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

Iniquos odio habui.

HATE them that imagine evil things; but thy law do I love. 2 Thou art my defence and shield; and my trust is in thy word.

3 Away from me, ye wicked; I will keep the commandments of my God.

4 O stablish me according to thy word, that I may live; and let me not be disappointed of my hope!

5 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe; yea, my delight shall be ever in thy statutes.

6 Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes; for they imagine but deceit.

7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

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Feci judicium.

DEAL with the thing that is lawful and right; O give me not over unto mine oppressors!

2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good, that the proud do me no wrong.

3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health, and for the word of thy righteousness.

4 0 deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

5 I am thy servant; O grant me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

6 It is time for thee, LORD, to lay to thine hand; for they have destroyed thy law.

7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious

stones.

8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments; and all false ways I utterly abhor. Mirabilia.

THY testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them.

2 When thy word goeth forth, it giveth light and understanding unto the simple.

3 I opened my mouth, and drew in my breath; for my delight was in thy commandments.

40 look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

5 Order my steps in thy word; and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

6 O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men; and so shall I keep thy commandments.

7 Show the light of thy countenance upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.

8 Mine eyes gush out with water, because men keep not thy law.

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Justus es, Domine.

IGHTEOUS art thou, O LORD; and true is thy judgment. 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded arc exceeding righteous and true.

3 My zeal hath even consumed me; because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost, and thy servant loveth it.

5 I am small and of no reputation; yet do I not forget thy commandments.

6 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

7 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.

8 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant me understanding, and I shall live.

I

EVENING PRAYER.

Clamavi in toto corde meo.

CALL with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD; I will keep thy statutes.

2 Yea, even unto thee do I call; help me, thy testimonies.

and I shall keep

3 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee; for in thy word is my trust.

4 Mine eyes prevent the night watches; that I might be occupied in thy words.

5 Hear my voice, O LORD, according unto thy loving kindness; quicken me according as thou art wont.

6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me, and are far from thy law.

7 Be thou nigh at hand, O LORD; for all thy commandments are true.

8 As concerning thy testimonies, I have known long since, that thou hast grounded them for ever.

Vide humilitatem.

CONSIDER mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.

2 Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me; quicken me according to thy word.

3 Health is far from the ungodly; for they regard not thy statutes.

4 Great is thy mercy, O LORD; quicken me as thou art wont. 5 Many there are that trouble me, and perseeute me; yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies.

6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors; because they keep not thy law.

7 Consider, O LORD, how I love thy commandments; quicken me according to thy loving kindness.

8 Thy word is true from everlasting; all the judgments of thy righteousness endure for evermore.

Principes persecuti sunt.

PRINCES have persecuted me without a cause; but my standeth in awe of thy word.

2 I am as glad of thy word, as one that findeth great spoils. 3 As for lies, I hate and abhor them; but thy law do I love. 4 Seven times a-day do I praise thee; because of thy righteous judgments.

5 Great is the peace that they have who love thy law; and they are not offended at it.

6 LORD, I have looked for thy saving health, and done after thy commandments.

7 My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and loved them exceedingly.

8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies; for all my ways are before thee.

Appropinquet deprecatio.

LET my complaint come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to thy word.

2 Let my supplication come before thee; deliver me according to thy word.

3 My lips shall speak of thy praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

4 Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word; for all thy commandments are righteous.

5 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy commandments.

6 I have longed for thy saving health, O LORD; and in thy law is my delight.

70 let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and thy judgments shall help me.

8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY.

MORNING PRAYER.
Psalm 120. Ad Dominum.

WHEN I was in trouble, I called upon the LORD, and he

heard me.

2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue? even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals. 4 Wo is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar!

5 My soul hath long dwelt among them that are enemies unto peace.

6 I labour for peace; but when I speak unto them thereof, they make them ready to battle.

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Psalm 121. Levavi oculos meos.

WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh even from the LORD, who hath made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD himself is thy keeper; the LORD is thy defence upon thy right hand;

6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.

7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.

8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore.

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Psalm 122. Lætatus sum.

WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the LORD.

2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself. 4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD, to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

5 For there is the seat of judgment, even the seat of the house of David.

6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will wish thee prosperity.

9 Yea, because of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek to do thee good.

Psalm 123. Ad te levavi oculos meos.

UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the

heavens.

2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the LORD our GOD, until he have mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us; for we are utterly despised.

4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy, and with the despitefulness of the proud.

Psalm 124.

Nisi Quia Dominus.

the LORD himself had not been on our side, now may

Israel say, if the LORD himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;

2 They had swallowed us up quick; when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

3 Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul.

4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soul.

5 But praised be the LORD, who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

7 Our help standeth in the name of the LORD, who hath made heaven and earth.

Psalm 125. Qui Confidunt. THEY that put their trust in the LORD shall be even as the mount Sion, which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever.

2 The hills stand about Jerusalem; even so standeth the LORD round about his people, from this time forth for ever

more.

3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not unto the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness.

4 Do well, O LORD, unto those that are good and true of heart.

5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

WHEN

EVENING PRAYER.

Psalm 126. In convertendo.

HEN the LORD turned again the captivity of Sion, then were we like unto them that dream.

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with joy.

3 Then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

4 Yea, the LORD hath done great things for us already; whereof we rejoice.

5 Turn our captivity, O LORD, as the rivers in the south, 6 They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.

7 He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.

Psalm 127. Nisi Dominus.

EXCEPT the LORD build the house, their labour is but lost

that build it.

2 Except the LORD keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain.

3 It is but lost labor that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

4 Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb, are an heritage and gift that cometh of the LORD.