ye saints of his; and give thanks of superstitious vanities, and my unto him, for a remembrance of trust hath been in the Lord.

his holiness.

5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life; heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be removed; thou, Lord, of thy goodness, hadst made my hill so strong.

7 Thou didst turn thy face from me, and I was troubled.

8 Then cried I unto thee, O Lord; and gat me to my Lord right humbly.

9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? 10 Shall the dust give thanks unto thee? or shall it declare thy truth?

11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; Lord, be thou my helper.

12 Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness:

13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing: 0 my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. Psalm 31. In te, Domine, speravi.

thee, O Lord, have I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion; deliver me in thy righteousness.

2 Bow down thine ear to me; make haste to deliver me.

3 And be thou my strong rock, and house of defence, that thou mayest save me;

4 For thou art my strong rock, and my castle; be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy name's sake.

5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; for thou art my strength.

6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit; for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth.

I have hated them that hold

8 I will be glad, and rejoice in thy mercy; for thou hast considered my trouble, and hast known my soul in adversities.

9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy, but hast set my feet in a large room.

10 Have mercy upon me, Lord, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness; yea, my soul and my body.

11 For my life is waxen old with heaviness, and my years with mourning.

12 My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours; and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me; and they that did see me without, conveyed themselves from me.

14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel.

15 For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me,and take their counsel to take away my life.

16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord; I have said, Thou art my God.

17 My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

18 Show thy servant the light of thy countenance, and save me for thy mercies' sake.

19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee; let the ungodly be put to confusion, and be put to silence in the grave.

20 Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

21 O how plentiful is thy good

ness, which thou hast laid up for in; thou shalt preserve me from them that fear thee, and that thou trouble; thou shalt compass me hast prepared for them that put about with songs of deliverance. their trust in thee, even before the sons of men.

9 I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will guide thee with mine eye.

22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men: thou shalt 10 Be ye not like to horse and keep them secretly in thy taber-mule, which have no understandnacle from the strife of tongues. ing; whose mouths must be held 23 Thanks be to the Lord; for with bit and bridle, lest they fall he hath showed me marvellous upon thee. great kindness in a strong city. 24 And when I made haste, I said, I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes.

25 Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when cried unto thee.

26 O love the Lord, all ye his aints; for the Lord preserveth

11 Great plagues remain for the ungodly; but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord, mercy embraceth him on every side.

12 Be glad, O ye righteous, and rejoice in the Lord; and be joy. ful, all ye that are true of heart. Psalm 33. Exultate, justi.

them that are faithful, and plen-REJOICE in the Lord, O ye

teously rewardeth the proud doer. 27 Be strong, and he shall establish your heart, all ye that put your trust in the Lord.

righteous; for it becometh well the just to be thankful.

2 Praise the Lord with harp; sing praises unto him with the lute, and instrument of ten strings.

3 Sing unto the Lord a new song; sing praises lustily unto un-him with a good courage

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 32. Beati, quorum. BLE LESSED is he whose righteousness is forgiven, and whose sin is covered.

2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

3 For whilst I held my tongue,

4 For the word of the Lord is true, and all his works are faithful. 5 He loveth righteousness and judgment; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

6 By the word of the Lord were

my bones consumed away the heavens made, and all the through my daily complaining.

hosts of them by the breath of his mouth.

4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night, and my mois- 7 He gathereth the waters of ture is like the drought in sum-the sea together, as it were upon an heap; and layeth up the deep,` as in a treasure-house.

mer.

5 I will acknowledge my sin unto thee; and mine unrighteousness have I not hid.

6 I said, I will confess my sins unto the Lord; and so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin.

7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be found; but in the great water floods they shall not come nigh him.

S Thou art a place to hide me

Let all the earth fear the Lord: stand in awe of him, all ye that dwell in the world;

9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.

11 The counsel of the Lord

shall endure for ever, and the 5 They had an eye unto him, thoughts of his heart from gene- and were lightened; and their ration to generation. faces were not ashamed.

12 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Jehovah; and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him, to be his inheritance.

13 The Lord looked down from heaven, and beheld all the children of men; from the habitation of his dwelling, he considereth all them that dwell on the earth.

14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them, and understandeth all their works.

15 There is no king that can be saved by the multitude of an host; neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.

46 A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man; neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength.

17 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, and upon them that put their trust in his mercy;

18 To deliver their soul from death, and to feed them in the time of dearth.

19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord; for he is our help and our shield.

20 For our heart shall rejoice in him; because we have hoped in his holy name.

21 Let thy merciful kindness, O Lord, be upon us, like as we do - put our trust in thee.

Psalm 34. Benedicam Domino. I WILL alway give thanks unto the Lord; his praise shall ever be in my mouth.

2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

3 O praise the Lord with me, and let us magnify his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me; yea, he delivered me out of all my fear. S

6 Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him; yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles.

7 The Angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

80 taste, and see, how gracious the Lord is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

9 O fear the Lord, ye that are his Saints; for they that fear him lack nothing.

10 The lions do lack,and suffer hunger; but they who seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good.

11 Come, ye children, and hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days?

13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

14 Eschew evil, and do good; seek peace, and ensue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers.

16 The countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.

17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth them, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

that are of a contrite heart, and 18 The Lord is nigh unto them will save such as be of an humble spirit.

19 Great are the troubles of the righteous; but the Lord deliver · eth him out of all.

20 He keepeth all his bones, so that not one of them is broken.

21 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

22 The Lord delivereth the Isouls of his servants; and all ting

PLEAD thou my cause, O Lord, ther; I went heavily, as one that

ed with rebuke and dishonour, | work wickedness; they are cast that boast themselves against me. down, and shall not be able to 27 Let them be glad and rejoice, stand. that favour my righteous dealing; yea, let them say alway, Blessed be the Lord, who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 28 And as for my tongue, it shall be talking of thy righteousness, and of thy praise, all the day long. Psalm 36. Dixit injustus.

heart showeth me the

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 37. Noli æmulari. he ungodly; neither be thou RET not thyself because of envious against the evil doers.

2 For they shall soon be out down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.

3 Put thou thy trust in the Lord,

Mwickedness of the ungodly, and be doing good: dwell in the

that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thou in the Lord, and he shall give thee thy heart's de

2 For he flattereth himself in his own sight, until his abomina-sire. ble sin be found out.

3 The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit: he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

4 He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

5 Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy trust in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

6 He shall make thy righteous ness as clear as the light, and thy just dealing as the noon-day.

7 Hold thee still in the Lord, and abide patiently upon him but grieve not thyself at him whose 5 Thy mercy, O Lord, reacheth way doth prosper, against the unto the heavens, and thy faith-man that doeth after evil counsels fulness unto the clouds. 8 Leave off from wrath, and let 6 Thy righteousness standeth go displeasure: fret not thyselt, like the strong mountains: thy else shalt thou be moved to do judgments are like the great deep.

7 Thou, Lord, shalt save both man and beast: how excellent is thy mercy, O God: and the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

8 They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house; and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures, as out of the

river.

9 For with thee is the well of life; and in thy light shall we see light.

10 O continue forth thy loving kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness unto them that are true of heart.

110 let not the foot of pride come against me; and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down. 12 There are they fallen, all that

evil.

9 Wicked doers shall be rooted out; and they that patiently abide the Lord, those shall inherit the land.

10 Yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone: thou shalt look after his place, and he shall be away.

11 But the meek-spirited shall possess the earth, and shall be refreshed in the multitude of peace.

12 The ungodly seeketh counsel against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

13 The Lord shall laugh him to scorn; for he hath seen that his day is coming.

14 The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as are of a right conversation.