Evening Prayer. PSALM 6. Domine, ne in furore. LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation : neither chasten me in thy displeasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak : O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul also is sore troubled: but, LORD, how long wilt thou punish me? 4 Turn thee, O LORD, and deliver my soul : save me, for thy mercy's sake. 5 For in death no man remembereth thee : and who will give thee thanks in the pit? 6 I am weary of my groaning, every night wash I my bed: and water my couch with my tears. 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble: and worn away because of all mine enemies. 8 Away from me, all ye that work vanity: for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. 9 The LORD hath heard my petition: the LORD will receive my prayer. 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded, and sore vexed: they shall be turned back, and put to shame suddenly. PSALM 7. Domine, Deus meus. LORD my God, in thee have I put my trust : save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me; 2 Lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces: while there is none to help. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing : or if there be any wickedness in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me: yea, I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy; 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take me: yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. 6 Stand up, O LORD, in thy wrath, and lift up thyself, because of the indignation of mine enemies : arise up for me in the judgment that thou hast commanded. 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their sakes therefore lift up thyself again. 8 The LORD Shall judge the people; give sentence with me, O LORD : according to my righteousness, and according to the innocency that is in me. 9 O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end: but guide thou the just. 10 For the righteous God: trieth the very hearts and reins. 11 My help cometh of God: who preserveth them that are true of heart. 12 God is a righteous Judge, strong, and patient : and God is provoked every day. 13 If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword : he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death: he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 15 Behold, he travaileth with mischief : he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness. 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit : and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other. 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head : and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate. 18 I will give thanks unto the LORD, according to his righteousness : and I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High. PSALM 8. Domine, Dominus noster. LORD our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world : thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies: that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 For I will consider thy heavens, even the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained. 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him: and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 Thou madest him lower than the angels : to crown him with glory and worship. 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands: and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet : 7 All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Governor : how excellent is thy Name in all the world! I THE SECOND DAY. Morning Prayer. PSALM 9. Confitebor tibi. WILL give thanks unto thee, O LORD, with my whole heart: I will speak of all thy marvellous works. } 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee : yea, my songs will I make of thy Name, O thou Most Highest. 3 While mine enemies are driven back: they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause : thou art set in the throne that judgest right. 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly: thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever : he hath also prepared his seat for judgment. 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness : and minister true judgment unto the people. 9 The LORD also will be a defence for the oppressed: even a refuge in due time of trouble. 10 And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek thee. 11 O praise the LORD which dwelleth in Sion : show the people of his doings. 12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor. 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me : thou that liftest me up from the gates of death; 14 That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion : I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken. 16 The LORD is known to execute judgment: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell: and all the people that forget God. 18 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten : the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever. 19 Up, LORD, and let not man have the upper hand: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 20 Put them in fear, O LORD : that the heathen may know themselves to be but men. W PSALM 10. Ut quid, Domine? HY standest thou so far off, O LORD: and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble? 2 The ungodly, for his own lust, doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined. 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire: and speaketh good of the covetous, whom GOD abhorreth. 4 The ungodly is so proud, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are alway grievous: thy judgments are far above out of his sight, and therefore defieth he all his enemies. 6 For he hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall never be cast down: there shall no harm happen unto me. 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and fraud : under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity. 8 He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets: and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor. 9 For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den: that he may ravish the poor. 10 He doth ravish the poor: when he getteth him into his net. |