4 Behold, yea the Philistines also: and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo, there was he born. 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born in her : and the Most High shall stablish her. 6 The LORD shall rehearse it, when he writeth up the people: that he was born there. 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse: All my fresh springs shall be in thee. PSALM 88. Domine, Deus. LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy presence, incline thine ear unto my calling; 2 For my soul is full of trouble: and my life draweth nigh unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit: and I have been even as a man that hath no strength. 4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave: who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in a place of darkness, and in the deep. 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me : and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms. 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me: and made me to be abhorred of them. 8 I am so fast in prison: that I cannot get forth. 9 My sight faileth for very trouble : LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee. 10 Dost thou show wonders among the dead : or shall the dead rise up again, and praise thee? 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave: or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark: and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten? 13 Unto thee have I cried, O LORD: and early shall my prayer come before thee. 14 LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul: and hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die: even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. 16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me: and the fear of thee hath undone me. 17 They came round about me daily like water : and compassed me together on every side. 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me : and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight. MY Evening Prayer. PSALM 89. Misericordias Domini. Y song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the LORD: with my mouth will I ever be show ing thy truth from one generation to another. 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever : thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen : I have sworn unto David my servant: 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever: and set up thy throne from one generation to another. 5 O LORD, the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works: and thy truth in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who is he among the clouds : that shall be compared unto the LORD? 7 And what is he among the gods : that shall be like unto the LORD? 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints : and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him. 9 O LORD God of hosts, who is like unto thee : thy truth, most mighty LORD, is on every side. 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise. 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it : thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm. 12 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine : thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is. 13 Thou hast made the north and the south : Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy Name. 14 Thou hast a mighty arm : strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 15 Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 16 Blessed is the people, O LORD, that can rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy countenance. 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name : and in thy righteousness shall they make their boast. 18 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy loving-kindness thou shalt lift up our horns. 19 For the LORD is our defence: the Holy One of Israel is our King. 20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst : I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 21 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil have I anointed him. 22 My hand shall hold him fast: and my arm shall strengthen him. 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the son of wickedness shall not hurt him. 24 I will smite down his foes before his face : and plague them that hate him. 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him : and in my Name shall his horn be exalted. 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea : and his right hand in the floods. 27 He shall call me, Thou art my Father: my God, and my strong salvation. 28 And I will make him my firstborn : higher than the kings of the earth. 29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore : and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever : and his throne as the days of heaven. 31 But if his children forsake my law: and walk not in my judgments; 32 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments : I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges. 33 Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him: nor suffer my truth to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips : I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. 35 His seed shall endure for ever : and his seat is like as the sun before me. 36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon : and as the faithful witness in heaven. 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anointed: and art displeased at him. 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant : and cast his crown to the ground. 39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges : and broken down his strongholds. 40 All they that go by spoil him : and he is become a reproach to his neighbours. 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies: and made all his adversaries to rejoice. 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword : and givest him not victory in the battle. 43 Thou hast put out his glory: and cast his throne down to the ground. 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortened : and covered him with dishonour. 45 LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself, for ever: and shall thy wrath burn like fire? 46 O remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men for nought? 47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death: and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell? 48 Lord, where are thy old loving-kindnesses : which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? 49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy servants have: and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people; 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed : Praised be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. THE EIGHTEENTH DAY. Morning Prayer. PSALM 90. Domine, refugium. Lord, thou hast been generation to another. our refuge : from one 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction : again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. |