2 My tongue is the pen of a work; the virgins that be her ready writer. fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. 3 Thou art fairer than the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever. 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty, according to thy worship and renown. 16 With joy and gladness shall they be brought, and shall enter into the King's palace. 17 Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands. 18 I will remember thy name 5 Good luck have thou with from one generation to another; thine honour: ride on, because therefore shall the people give of the word of truth, of meekness thanks unto thee, world without and righteousness, and thy right end. hand shall teach thee terrible things. 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the King's enemies. 7 Thy seat, Ŏ God, endureth for ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia; out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 10 Kings'daughters were among thy honourable women; upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours. 11 Hearken, O daughter, and consider; incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. Psalm 46. Deus noster refugium. OD is our hope and strength, 2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea. 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. 4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God; the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most Highest. 5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be remov ed; God shall help her, and that right early. 6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. 80 come hither, and behold the works of the Lord, what de12 So shall the King have plea-struction he hath brought upon sure in thy beauty; for he is thy the earth. Lord God, and worship thou him. 9 He maketh wars to cease in 13 And the daughter of Tyre all the world; he breaketh the shall be there with a gift; like as bow, and knappeth the spear in the rich also among the people sunder, and burneth the chariots shall make their supplication be- in the fire. fore thee. 14 The King's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle 10 Be still then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted as mong the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. EVENING PRAYER. Lord of hosts, in the city of our Psalm 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite. God; God upholdeth the same CLAP your hands together, for ever. O all ye people: O sing unto God with the voice of melody. 2 For the Lord is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth. 3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. 8 We wait for thy loving-kind ness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. 9 O God, according to thy name, so is thy praise unto the world's end; thy right hand is full of righteousness. 10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, 4 He shall choose out an heri-and the daughter of Judah be tage for us, even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. 5 God is gone up with a merry noise, and the Lord with the sound of the trump. 60 sing praises, sing praises unto our God; O sing praises, sing praises unto our King. 7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. glad, because of thy judgments. 11 Walk about Sion, and go round about her; and tell the towers thereof. 12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell them that come after. 13 For this God is our God for ever and ever: He shall be our guide unto death. Psalm 49. Audite haec, omnes. 8 God reigneth over the hea-HEAR ye this, all ye people; then; God sitteth upon his holy seat. G 9 The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham; for God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth as it were with a shield. Psalm 48. Magnus Dominus. REAT is the Lord, and highly to be praised in the city of Our God, even upon his holy hill. 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth; upon the north side lieth the city of the great King: God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge. 3 For lo, the kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by toge ther. 4 They marvelled to see such things; they were astonished and suddenly cast down. 5 Fear came there upon them; and sorrow, as upon a woman in her travail. 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the cast wind. Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world: 2 High and low, rich and poor, one with another. 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall muse of understanding. 4 I will incline mine ear to the parable, and show my dark speech upon the harp. 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness, and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth me round about? 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 But no man may deliver bis brother, nor make agreement unto God for him: 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls; so that he must let that alone for ever; 9 Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave. 10 For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other. 11 And yet they think that above, and the earth, that he may their houses shall continue for judge his people. ever, and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names. 5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me with sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God is judge himself. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; I myself will testify against thee, O Israel; for I ain God, even thy God. 12 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them. 13 This is their foolishness, and their posterity praise their saying. 14 They lie in the hell like 8 I will not reprove thee besheep; death gnaweth upon them, cause of thy sacrifices, or for thy and the righteous shall have do- burnt-offerings; because they minion over them in the morning: were not alway before me. their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling. 15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell; for he shall receive me. 16 Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; 9 I will take no bullock out of thine house, nor he-goat out of thy folds; 10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains, and the wild 17 For he shall carry nothing beasts of the field are in my sight. away with him when he dieth, 12 If I be hungry, I will not neither shall his pomp follow him. tell thee; for the whole world is 18 For while he lived, he count-mine, and all that is therein. ed himself an happy man; and so 13 Thinkest thou that I would long as thou dost well unto thy-eat bull's flesh, and drink the self, men will speak good of thee. blood of goats? 19 He shall follow the genera tion of his fathers, and shall never see light. 20 Man being in honour hath no understanding, but is compared unto the beasts that perish. The tenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 50. Deus deorum. THE Lord, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, and called the world, from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof. 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most Highest, 15 And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me. 16 But unto the ungodly said God, Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth; 17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee? 18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst unto him; and 2 Out of Sion hath God ap-hast been partaker with the adulpeared in perfect beauty. 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him. 41e shall call the heaven from terers. 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness, and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit. 20 Thou sattest and spakest against thy brother; yea, and hast slandered thine own mother's son. 13 Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 21 These things hast thou done, thy help again, and stablish m and I held my tongue, and thou with thy free Spirit. thoughtest wickedly, that I am even such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done. 22 O consider this, ye that forget God, lest 1 pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you. 23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me; and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I show the salvation of God. Psalm 51. Miserere mei, Deus. HAVE mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness, and cleanse me from my sin; 3 For I acknowledge my faults, and my sin is ever before me. 14 Deliver me from blood-guil. tiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health; and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness. 15 Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall show thy praise. 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee; but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings. 17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise. 18 Obe favourable and gracious unto Sion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteous oblations; then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar 4 Against thee only have I sin-ness, with the burnt-offerings and ned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged. 5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me. 6 But lo, thou requirest truth in the inward parts, and shalt make Psalm 52. Quid gloriaris? WHY boastest thou thyself, do mischief? thou tyrant, that thou canst 2 Whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily. 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickme to understand wisdom secret-edness, and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp razor. ly. 4 Thou hast loved unrighteousness more than goodness, and to talk of lies more than righteous ness. 8 Thou shalt make me hear of 5 Thou hast loved to speak all joy and gladness, that the bones words that may do hurt, O thou which thou hast broken may re-false tongue. joice. 9 Turn thy face from my sins, and put out all my misdeeds. 10 Make me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thydwelling and root thee out of the land of the living. 7 The righteous also shall see this, and fear, and shall laugh him to scorn: 8 Lo, this is the man that took 12 O give me the comfort of not God for his strength; but trusted unto the multitude of his have not God before their eyes, riches, and strengthened himself seek after my soul. in his wickedness. 9 As for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God; my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever. 101 will always give thanks unto thee for that thou hast done; and I will hope in thy name, for thy saints like it well. EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 53. Dixit insipiens. THE foolish body hath said HE foolish body hath said in 4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: destroy thou them in thy truth. 6 An offering of a free heart will I give thee, and praise thy name, O Lord; because it is so comfortable. 7 For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble; and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. H Psalm 55. Exaudi, Deus. EAR my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my 2 Take heed unto me, and hear me, how I mourn in my prayer, and am vexed. 2 Corrupt are they, and become abominable in their wickedness; there is none that doeth good. 3 God looked down from hea-petition. ven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, and seek after God. 4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable; there is also none that doeth good, no not one. 5 Are they not without understanding that work wickedness, eating up my people as if they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. 3 The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me. 4 My heart is disquieted withi me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed 6 They were afraid, where no fear was; for God hath broken me. the bones of him that besieged 6 And I said, O that I had thee; thou hast put them to con-wings like a dove; for then fusion, because God hath despis-would I flee away, and be at ed them. rest. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off, and remain in the wilderness. I would make haste to escape. because of the stormy wind and tempest. 9 Destroy their tongues, O Lord, and divide them; for I have spied unrighteousness and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about within the walls thereof; mis chief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness is therein; de |