4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: seeing that is past as a watch in the night. 5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass. 6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up : but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure : and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee : and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath : for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure. 12 O teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Turn thee again, O LORD, at the last : and be gracious unto thy servants. 14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon : so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us: and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity. 16 Show thy servants thy work: and their children thy glory. 17 And the glorious majesty of the LORD our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of our hands upon us; O prosper thou our handy-work. W PSALM 91. Qui habitat. HOSO dwelleth under the defence of the Most Almighty. 2 I will say unto the LORD, Thou art my hope, and my stronghold: my God, in him will I trust. 3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter: and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers : his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night : nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness : nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold: and see the reward of the ungodly. 9 For thou, LORD, art my hope: thou hast set thine house of defence very high. 10 There shall no evil happen unto thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee : to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder : the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him up, because he hath known my Name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him : yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. 16 With long life will I satisfy him: and show him my salvation. I Tis PSALM 92. Bonum est confiteri. a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD : and to sing praises unto thy Name, O Most Highest; 2 To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning: and of thy truth in the night season; 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute : upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp. 4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands. 5 O LORD, how glorious are thy works: thy thoughts are very deep. 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this : and a fool doth not understand it. 7 When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish : then shall they be destroyed for ever; but thou, LORD, art the most Highest for evermore. 8 For lo, thine enemies, O LORD, lo, thine enemies shall perish : and all the workers of wickedness shall be destroyed. 9 But my horn shall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh oil. 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies: and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that arise up against me. 11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree: and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus. 12 Such as are planted in the house of the LORD : shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age: and shall be fat and well-liking; 14 That they may show how true the LORD my strength is : and that there is no unrighteousness in him. TH Evening Prayer. PSALM 93. Dominus regnavit. HE LORD is King, and hath put on glorious apparel : the LORD hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength. 2 He hath made the round world so sure : that it cannot be moved. 3 Ever since the world began, hath thy seat been prepared: thou art from everlasting. 4 The floods are risen, O LORD, the floods have lift up their voice: the floods lift up their waves. 5 The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly: but yet the LORD, who dwelleth on high, is mightier. 6 Thy testimonies, O LORD, are very sure: holiness becometh thine house for ever. PSALM 94. Deus ultionum. Ο LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth : thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself. 2 Arise, thou Judge of the world : and reward the proud after their deserving. 3 LORD, how long shall the ungodly: how long shall the ungodly triumph? 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully : and make such proud boasting? 5 They smite down thy people, O LORD : and trouble thine heritage. 6 They murder the widow and the stranger : and put the fatherless to death. 7 And yet they say, Tush, the LORD shall not see : neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. 8 Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand? 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear : or he that made the eye, shall he not see? 10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen: it is he that teacheth man knowledge; shall not he punish? 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man : that they are but vain. 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD: and teachest him in thy law; 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity: until the pit be digged up for the ungodly. 14 For the LORD will not fail his people: neither will he forsake his inheritance. 15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgment : all such as are true in heart shall follow it. 16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked: or who will take my part against the evil doers? 17 If the LORD had not helped me : it had not failed, but my soul had been put to silence. 18 But when I said, My foot hath slipt: thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. 19 In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have refreshed my soul. 20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness: which imagineth mischief as a law? 21 They gather them together against the soul of the righteous: and condemn the innocent blood. 22 But the LORD is my refuge : and my God is the strength of my confidence. 23 He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice : yea, the LORD our God shall destroy them. |