Evening Prayer. PSALM 82. Deus stetit. God standeth in the congregation of princes : he a Judge among gods. 2 How long will ye give wrong judgment : and accept the persons of the ungodly? 3 Defend the poor and fatherless : see that such as are in need and necessity have right. 4 Deliver the outcast and poor: save them from the hand of the ungodly. 5 They will not be learned, nor understand, but walk on still in darkness : all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods : and ye are all the children of the Most Highest. 7 But ye shall die like men: and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, and judge thou the earth : for thou shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance. H PSALM 83. Deus, quis similis? OLD not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence: refrain not thyself, O God. 2 For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring : and they that hate thee have lift up their head. 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people: and taken counsel against thy secret ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent: and are confederate against thee : 6 The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites: the Moabites, and Hagarenes ; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Assur also is joined with them: and have holpen the children of Lot. 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites: unto Sisera, and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison ; 10 Who perished at Endor: and became as the dung of the earth. 11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb: yea, make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana; 12 Who say, Let us take to ourselves: the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel : and as the stubble before the wind; 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood: and as the flame that consumeth the mountains. 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest : and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Make their faces ashamed, O LORD : that they may seek thy Name. 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more : let them be put to shame, and perish. 18 And they shall know that thou, whose Name is JEHOVAH: art only the Most Highest over all the earth. PSALM 84. Quam dilecta! HOW amiable are thy dwellings: thou LORD of hosts! 2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young : even thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : they will be alway praising thee. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee : in whose heart are thy ways. 6 Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well: and the pools are filled with water. 7 They will go from strength to strength: and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. 9 Behold, O God our defender : and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For one day in thy courts : is better than a thousand. 11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God: than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. 12 For the LORD God is a light and defence : the LORD will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life. 13 O LORD God of hosts : blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee. PSALM 85. Benedixisti, Domine. LORD, thou art become gracious unto thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people : and covered all their sins. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure : and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation. 4 Turn us then, O God our Saviour : and let thine anger cease from us. 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever : and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? 6 Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us: that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Show us thy mercy, O LORD : and grant us thy salvation. 8 I will hearken what the LORD God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not again. 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together : righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth : and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall show loving-kindness : and our land shall give her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him : and he shall direct his going in the way. B THE SEVENTEENTH DAY. Morning Prayer. PSALM 86. Inclina, Domine. OW down thine ear, O LORD, and hear me : for 2 Preserve thou my soul, for I am holy : my God, save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I will call daily upon thee. 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou, Lord, art good and gracious : and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6. Give ear, LORD, unto my prayer: and ponder the voice of my humble desires. 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee : for thou hearest me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord: there is not one that can do as thou doest. 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee, O Lord : and shall glorify thy Name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things : thou art God alone. 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and I will walk in thy truth: O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy Name. 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and will praise thy Name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me : and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes. 15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compassion and mercy : long-suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. 16 O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid. 17 Show some token upon me for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed : because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. H ও PSALM 87. ER foundations are Fundamenta ejus. upon the holy hills : the LORD loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee : thou city of God. 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon : with them that know me. |