144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant me understanding, and I shall live.

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Evening Prayer.

Clamavi in toto corde тео.

CALL with my whole heart : hear me, O LORD,
I will keep thy statutes.

146 Yea, even unto thee do I call : help me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.

147 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee : for in thy word is my trust.

148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches : that I might be occupied in thy words.

149 Hear my voice, O LORD, according unto thy loving-kindness: quicken me, according as thou art

wont.

150 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me : and are far from thy law.

151 Be thou nigh at hand, O LORD: for all thy commandments are true.

152 As concerning thy testimonies, I have known long since: that thou hast grounded them for ever.

Vide humilitatem.

CONSIDER mine adversity, and deliver me : for I do not forget thy law.

154 Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me : quicken me according to thy word.

155 Health is far from the ungodly: for they regard not thy statutes.

156 Great is thy mercy, O LORD : quicken me, as thou art wont.

157 Many there are that trouble me, and persecute me: yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies.

158 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors : because they keep not thy law.

159 Consider, O LORD, how I love thy commandments: O quicken me, according to thy lovingkindness.

160 Thy word is true from everlasting: all the judgments of thy righteousness endure for ever

more.

Principes persecuti sunt.

PRINCES have persecuted me without a cause:

my heart standeth in awe of thy word. 162 I am as glad of thy word: as one that findeth great spoils.

163 As for lies, I hate and abhor them: but thy law do I love.

164 Seven times a day do I praise thee: because of thy righteous judgments.

165 Great is the peace that they have who love thy law: and they are not offended at it.

166 LORD, I have looked for thy saving health : and done after thy commandments.

167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies : and loved them exceedingly.

168 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

Appropinquet deprecatio.

L ET my complaint come before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word. 170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver

me according to thy word.

171 My lips shall speak of thy praise : when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

172 Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteous.

173 Let thine hand help me : for I have chosen thy commandments.

174 I have longed for thy saving health, O LORD : and in thy law is my delight.

175 O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee : and thy judgments shall help me.

176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost : O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

WHEN

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM 120. Ad Dominum.

HEN I was in trouble, I called upon the LORD : and he heard me.

2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips : and from a deceitful tongue.

3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue : even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech: and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar!

5 My soul hath long dwelt among them: that are enemies unto peace.

6 I labour for peace; but when I speak unto them thereof: they make them ready to battle.

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PSALM 121. Levavi oculos.

WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills : from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh even from the LORD: who hath made heaven and earth.

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3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel : shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD himself is thy keeper: the LORD is thy defence upon thy right hand;

6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the moon by night.

7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil : yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.

8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in: from this time forth for evermore.

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PSALM 122. Lætatus sum.

WAS glad when they said unto me: We will go into the house of the LORD.

2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates : O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is built as a city: that is at unity in itself.

4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD: to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the LORD.

5 For there is the seat of judgment: even the seat of the house of David.

6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls: and plenteousness within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions' sakes : I will wish thee prosperity.

9 Yea, because of the house of the LORD our God : I will seek to do thee good.

PSALM 123. Ad te levavi oculos meos.

UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes: O thou that

2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress : even so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he have mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are utterly despised.

4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy: and with the despitefulness of the proud.

IF

PSALM 124. Nisi quia Dominus.

F the LORD himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say: if the LORD himself had not been

on our side, when men rose up against us;

2 They had swallowed us up quick

were so wrathfully displeased at us.

when they

3 Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our soul.

4 The deep waters of the proud : had gone even over our soul.

5 But praised be the LORD: who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler : the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

7 Our help standeth in the Name of the LORD : who hath made heaven and earth.

PSALM 125. Qui confidunt.

THEY that put their trust in the LORD shall be

even as the mount Sion : which may not be re