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long; for they are confounded dear shall their blood be in his and brought unto shame, that sight. seek to do me evil.

15 He shall live, and unto him Psalm 72. Deus, judicium. shall be given of the gold of Arabia; GIVE the king thy judgments. prayer shall be made ever unto O God, and thy righteous- him, and daily shall he be praised. ness unto the king's son. 16 There shall be au heap of 2 Then shall he judge thy peo-corn in the earth, high upon the ple according unto right, and de-hills; his fruit shall shake like Lifend the poor. banus, and shall be green in the

3 The mountains also shall city like grass upon the earth. bring peace, and, the little hills 17 His name shall endure for righteousness unto the people. ever; his name shall remain un4 He shall keep the simple folk der the sun amongst the posteby their right, defend the children rities, which shall be blessed of the poor, and punish the wrong through him; and all the heathen doer. shall praise him.

5 They shall fear thee as long! 18 Blessed be the Lord God, as the sun and moon endureth, even the God of Israel, which from one generation to another. only doeth wondrous things;

6 He shall come down like the 19 And blessed be the name of rain into a fleece of wool, even as his Majesty for ever: and all the the drops that water the earth. earth shall be filled with his Ma

7 In his time shall the righteous jesty. Amen, Amen. flourish; yea, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth.

EVENING PRAYER.
Psalm 73. Quam bonus Israel!

TRULY God is loving unto Is-
rael; even unto such as are

8 His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other, of a clean heart.

and from the flood unto the 2 Nevertheless, my feet were world's end. almost gone, my treadings had

9. They that dwell in the wil- well nigh slipt. derness shall kneel before him; 3 And why? I was grieved at his enemies shall lick the dust. the wicked: I do also see the un10 The kings of Tharsis and godly in such prosperity. of the isles shall give presents; 4 For they are in no peril of the kings of Arabia and saba death; but are lusty and strong. shall bring gifts. 5 They come in no misfortune 11 All kings shall fall down oe-like other folk; neither are they fore him; all nations shall do him plagued like other men. service. 6 And this is the cause that 12 For he shall deliver the they are so holden with pride, and poor when he crieth; the needy overwhelmed with cruelty. also, and him that hath no helper.

13 He shall be favourable to the simple and needy, and shall preserve the souls of the poor.

14 He shall deliver their souls from falsehood and wrong; and

7 Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust.

& They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy; their talking is against the Most High 9 For they stretch forth their

mouth unto the heaven, and their 34 Whom have I in heaven tongue goeth through the world. but thee? and there is none upon 10 Therefore fall the people earth that I desire in comparison unto them, and thereout suck of thee.

they no small advantage.

35 My flesh and my heart fail11 Tush, say they, how should eth; but God is the strength of God perceive it? is there know-my heart, and my portion forever. ledge in the Most High? 36 For lo, they that forsake 12 Lo, these are the ungodly: thee shall perish; thou hast dethese prosper in the world; and stroyed all them that commit forthese have riches in possession:nication against thee.

and I said, Then have I cleansed 37 But it is good for me to hold my heart in vain, and washed me fast by God, to put my trust mine hands in innocency. in the Lord God, and to speak of

13 All the day long have I been all thy works in the gates of the punished, and chastened every daughter of Sion. morning.

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14 Yea, and I had almost said even as they; but lo, then I should

Psalm 74. Ut quid, Deus? God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long? why is

have condemned the generation thy wrath so hot against the sheep

of thy children.

15 Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me,

of thy pasture?

2 O think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased, 16 Until I went into the sanc-and redeemed of old.

tuary of God: then understood I 3 Think upon the tribe of thine the end of these men ; inheritance, and mount Sion,

17 Namely, how thou dost set wherein thou hast dwelt. them in slippery places,and castest 4 Lift up thy feet, that thou them down and destroyest them. mayest utterly destroy every ene18 O how suddenly do they my, which hath done evil in thy consume, perish, and come to a sanctuary.

fearful end!

5 Thine adversaries roar in the 19 Yea, even like as a dream midst of thy congregations, and when one awaketh; so shalt thou set up their banners for tokens. make their image to vanish out of 6 He that hewed timber afore the city. out of the thick trees, was known 20 Thus my heart was grieved, to bring it to an excellent work; and it went even through my 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers.

reins.

21 So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

8 They have set fire upon thy holy places, and have defiled the 22 Nevertheless, I am alway dwelling-place of thy name, even by thee; for thou hast holden me unto the ground. by my right hand.

9 Yea, they said in their hearts, 33 Thou shalt guide me with Let us make havock of them altothy counsel, and after that receive gether: Thus have they burnt up me with glory. all the houses of God in the land

10 We see not our tokens thine own cause; remember how there is not one prophet more; the foolish man blasphemeth no, not one is there among us, thee daily. that understandeth any more.

24 Forget not the voice of 11 O God, how long shall the thine enemies: the presumption adversary do this dishonour? of them that hate thee increaseth how long shall the enemy blas-ever more and more.

pheme thy name? for ever?

12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand? why pluckest thou not thy right hand out of thy bosom, to consume the enemy?

13 For God is my King of old the help that is done upon earth, he doeth it himself.

14 Thou didst divide the sea through thy power; thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the

waters.

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3 When I receive the congre gation, I shall judge according unto right.

15 Thou smotest the heads of 4 The earth is weak, and all Leviathan in pieces, and gavest the inhabitants thereof: I bear him to be meat for the people in up the pillars of it.

the wilderness.

5 I said unto the fools, Deal not 16 Thou broughtest out foun- so madly; and to the ungodly, tains, and waters out of the hard Set not up your horn. rocks; tho driedst up mighty

waters.

17 The day is thine, night is thine; thou hast ed the light and the sun.

6 Set not up your horn on high, and speak not with a stiff neck; and the prepar-ther from the east, nor from the 7 For promotion cometh neiwest, nor yet from the south.

18 Thou hast set all the bor- 8 And why? God is the Judge; ders of the earth; thou hast made he putteth down one, and setteth summer and winter. up another.

19 Remember this, O Lord, 9 For in the hand of the Lord now the enemy hath rebuked; there is a cup, and the wine is and how the foolish people hath red; it is full mixt, and he pour blasphemed thy name. eth out of the same.

drink them, and suck them out.

20 O deliver not the soul of thy 10 As for the dregs thereof, all turtle-dove unto the multitude of the ungodly of the earth shall the enemies; and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever. 21 Look upon the covenant; for all the earth is full of darkness and cruel habitations.

22 O let not the simple go away ashamed; but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy name.

23 Arise, O God, maintain

11 But I will talk of the God of Jacob, and praise him for ever.

12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break, and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Psalm 76. Notus in Judea.

N Jury is God known; his name is great in Iзrael.

2 At Salem is his tabernacle,| and his dwelling in Sion.

3 There brake be the arrows

5 I have considered the days of old, and the years that are past. 6 I call to remembrance my

of the bow, the shield, the sword, song, and in the night I commune and the battle. with mine own heart, and search out my spirits.

7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever; and will he be no more

4 Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the robbers. 5 The proud are robbed; they have slept their sleep; and all the intreated? men whose hands were mighty, Jave found nothing.

6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are fallen.

8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever; and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious; and will he shut up his 7 Thou, even theu art to be loving-kindness in displeasure? feared; and who may stand in 10 And I said, It is mine own thy sight, when thou art angry?infirmity; but I will remember

8 Thou didst cause thy judg- the years of the right hand of the ment to be heard from heaven; Most Highest.

the earth trembled, and was still, 11 I will remember the works 9 When God arose to judg-of the Lord, and call to mind the ment, and to help all the meek wonders of old time. 12 I will think also of all thy 10 The fierceness of man shall works, and my talking shall be of turn to thy praise, and the fierce-thy doings.

upon earth.

ness of them shalt thou refrain. 13 Thy way, O God, is holy: 11 Promise unto the Lord your who is so great a God as our God? God, and keep it, all ye that are 14 Thou art the God that doeth round about him; bring presents wonders, and hast declared thy unto him that ought to be feared. power among the people.

12 He shall refrain the spirit of 15 Thou hast mightily deliver princes, and is wonderful amonged thy people, even the sons of the kings of the earth. Jacob and Joseph.

I

Psalm 77. Vece meu ad Dominum. 16 The waters saw thee, O Will Will cry unto God with my God, the waters saw thee, and voice; even unto God will were afraid; the depths also were cry with my voice and he shall troubled. hearken unto me.

17 The clouds poured out wa

2 In the time of my trouble Iter, the air thundered, and thine sought the Lord: my sore ran, arrows went abroad. and ceased not in the night-sea- 18 The voice of thy thunder was son; my soul refused comfort. heard round about: the lightnings 3 When I am in heaviness, Ishone upon the ground; the earth will think upon God; when my was moved and shook withal. heart is vexed. I will complain. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and 4. Thou holdest mine eyes wak-thy paths in the great waters, and ing: l ́am so feeble that I cannot thy foot-steps are not known. speak. 20 Thou leddest thy people

like sheep, by the hand of Moses

and Aaron.

EVENING PRAYER.
Psalm 78. Attendite, popule.

HEAR my law, O my people;
incline your ears unto the
words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will declare hard sentences of old,

3 Which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us;

13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers, in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan.

14 He divided the sea, and let them go through; he made the waters to stand on an heap.

15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night through with a light of fire.

16 He clave the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out

4 That we should not hide of the great depth. them from the children of the

17 He brought waters out of generations to come, but to the stony rock, so that it gushed show the honour of the Lord, his out like the rivers. mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

18 Yet for all this, they sinned more against him, and provoked 5 He made a covenant with the Most Highest in the wilderJacob, and gave Israel a law, ness. which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children.

9 That their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn;

7 To the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

19 They tempted fiod in their hearts, and required meat for their lust.

20 They spake against God also, saying, Shall God prepare table in the wilderness?

21 He smote the stony rock in deed, that the water gushed out, 8 That they might put their and the streams flowed withal, trust in God; and not to forget but can he give bread also, or the works of God, but to keep provide flesh for his people? his commandments;

22 When the Lord heard this,

9 And not to be as their fore-he was wroth; so the fire was fathers, a faithless and stubborn kindled in Jacob, and there came generation; a generation that set up heavy displeasure against not their heart aright, and whose Israel;

spirit cleaveth not steadfastly 23 Because they believed not in God, and put not their trust in

unto God;

10 Like as the children of his help. Ephraim; who being harnessed, 24 So he commanded the clouds and carrying bows, turned them-above, and opened the doors of selves back in the day of battle. heaven."

11 They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law;

12 But forgat what he had done,

25 He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat, and gave them food from heaven.

26 So man did eat angel's food

and the wonderful works that be for he sent them meat enough.

bed showed for them.

27 He caused the east wind to

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