Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.

There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy counte

nance upon us.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

GIVE

PSALM V.

IVE ear to my words, O Lord; consider my meditation.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God for unto thee will I pray.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness; make thy way straight before my face.

Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

II.

PSALM VII.

O

LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust : save me and deliver me.

Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

O

PSALM VIII.

LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the

heavens.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the

seas.

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

SECOND SELECTION.

I.

PSALM IX.

I

WILL praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

The Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion :

declare among the people his doings. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: That I may shew forth all thy praise: in the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in thy salvation.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

WHY

PSALM X.

HY standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. The poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

PSALM XI.

IN the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven his eyes behold the children of men. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

II.

PSALM XII.

HELP, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the

faithful fail from among the children of men. For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord.

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them for ever.