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in thy displeasure, and are

Psalm xci. Qui habitat.

afraid at thy wrathful indig-W HOSO dwelleth under

pation.

the defence of the Most

8 Thou hast set our mis-High, shall abide under the deeds before thee, and our se-shadow of the Almighty. cret sins in the light of thy 2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my 9 For when thou art angry, strong hold, my God, in him all our days are gone; we will I trust.

countenance.

bring our years to an end, as it 3 For he shall deliver thee were a tale that is told. from the snare of the hunter, 10 The days of our age are and from the noisome pestithreescore years and ten; and lence.

though men be so strong that 4 He shall defend thee unthey come to fourscore years, der his wings, and thou shalt yet is their strength then but be safe under his feathers; labour and sorrow; so soon his faithfulness and truth shall passeth it away, and we are be thy shield and buckler.

gone.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid 11 But who regardeth the for any terror by night, nor power of thy wrath? for even for the arrow that flieth by thereafter as a man feareth, day;

so is thy displeasure.

6 For the pestilence that 12 So teach us to number walketh in darkness, nor for our days, that we may apply the sickness that destroyeth our hearts unto wisdom. in the noon-day.

13 Turn thee again, O 7 A thousand shall fall be Lord, at the last, and be gra-side thee, and ten thousand at cious unto thy servants. thy right hand; but it shall thy not come nigh thee.

14 O satisfy us with

mercy, and that soon: so shall 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt

we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

thou behold, and see the re ward of the ungodly.

15 Comfort us again now 9 For thou, Lord, art my after the time that thou hast hope; thou hast set thine plagued us; and for the years house of defence very high. wherein we have suffered ad

versity.

10 There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall 16 Show thy servants thy any plague come nigh thy work, and their children thy dwelling.

glory.

11 For he shall give his an17 And the glorious Majesty gels charge over thee, to keep of the Lord our God be upon thee in all thy ways. us: prosper thou the work of 12 They shall bear thee in our hands upon us; O prosper their hands, that thou hurt not thou our handy work. thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt go upon the do flourish, then shall they be lion and adder; the young destroyed for ever; but thou, lion and the dragon shalt thou Lord, art the Most Highest tread under thy feet. for evermore.

14 Because he hath set his 8 For lo, thine enemies, O love upon me, therefore will Lord, lo, thine enemies shall I deliver him; I will set him perish, and all the workers of up, because he hath known wickedness shall be destroyed. my Name. 9 But my horn shall be

15 He shall call upon me, exalted like the horn of an and I will hear him; yea, unicorn; for I am anointed I am with him in trouble; I with fresh oil.

will deliver him, and bring 10 Mine eye also shall see him to honour. his lust of mine enemies, and 15 With long life will I sa- mine ear shall hear his desire tify him, and show him my of the wicked that arise up against me.

salvation.

Psalm xcii.

Bonum est con

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11 The righteous shall flou rish like a palm-tree, and shall spread abroad like a ce

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thanks unto the Lord, and 12 Such as are planted in to sing praises unto thy Name the house of the Lord, shall O Most Highest; flourish in the courts of the 2 To tell of thy loving-kind-house of our God. ness early in the morning, and 13 They also shall bring of thy truth in the night sea-forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well li

son;

3 Upon an instrument of king;

ten strings, and upon the lute ; 14 That they may show upon a loud instrument, and how true the Lord my strength upon the harp: is, and that there is no unrigh cousness in him.

4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy works; EVENING PRAYER. and I will rejoice in giving

praise for the operations of Psalm xciii. Dominus reg.

thy hands.

5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works; thy thoughts are very deep.

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parel; the Lord hath put on

6 An unwise man doth not bis apparel, and girded himwell consider this, and a fool self with strength.

doth not understand it.

2 He hath made the round 7 When the ungodly are world so sure, that it cannot green as the grass, and when be moved.

all the workers of wickedness 3 Ever since the world be

punish?

gan, hath thy seat been pre-heathen, it is he that teacheth pared; thou art from everlast-man knowledge; shall not he ing. 4 The floods are risen, O 11 The Lord knoweth the Lord, the floods have lift up thoughts of man, that they are their voice, the floods lift up but vain.

their waves,

12 Blessed is the man whom 5 The waves of the sea are thou chastenest, O Lord, and mighty, and rage horribly; teachest him in thy law; but yet the Lord, who dwel- 13 That thou mayest give leth on high, is mightier. him patience in time of adver6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, sity, until the pit be digged up are very sure: holiness be- for the ungodly. cometh thine house for ever. 14 For the Lord will not fail his people; neither will

Psalm xciv.

Deus ultionum.|

LORD God,to whom ven

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he forsake his inheritance;

15 Until righteousness turn

geance belongeth, thou again unto judgment: all such God, to whom vengeance be-as are true in heart shall folJongeth, show thyself.

low it.

2 Arise, thou Judge of the world, and reward the proud me after their deserving.

3 Lord, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the Angodly triumph?

4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully, and make such proud boasting?

16 Who will rise up with

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 slipped; thy mercy, Lord, held me up.

5 They smite down thy peo-O ple, O Lord, and trouble thine heritage.

19 In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart,

6 They murder the widow thy comforts have refreshed and the stranger, and put the my soul. fatherless to death.

20 Wilt thou have any thing

7 And yet they say, Tush, to do with the stool of wickedthe Lord shall not see, neither ness, which imagineth misshall the God of Jacob regard chief as a law?

it.

21 They gather them toge8 Take heed, ye unwise ther against the soul of the among the people: O ye fools, righteous, and condemn the when will ye understand? innocent blood.

9 He that planted the ear, 22 But the Lord is my reshall he not hear? or he that fuge, and my God is the made the eye, shall he not see? strength of my confidence. nurtureth the 23 He shall recompense

10 O

them their wickedness, and 11 Unto whom I sware in destroy them in their own my wrath, that they should malice; yea, the Lord our not enter into my rest.

God shall destroy them.

The Nineteenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm xcv. Venite exultemus,

Psalm xcvi. Cantate Domino.

Sing unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the

Lord, all the whole earth.

2 Sing unto the Lord, and COME, let us sing un-praise his Name; betelling of tothe Lord, let us hear his salvation from day to day. tily rejoice in the strength of 3 Declare his honour unto our salvation. the heathen, and his wonders

2 Let us come before his unto all people.

presence with thanksgiving; 4 For the Lord is great, and and show ourselves glad in cannot worthily be praised; him with psalms. he is more to be feared than

3 For the Lord is a great all gods. God; and a great King above 5 As for all the gods of the all gods. heathen, they are but idols; 4 In his hand are all the but it is the Lord that made corners of the earth; and the the heavens,

strength of the hills is his also. 6 Glory and worship are 5 The sea is his, and he before him; power and homade it; and his hands pre-nour are in his sanctuary. pared the dry land.

7 Ascribe unto the Lord,

6 O come, let us worship, O ye kindreds of the people, and fall down, and kneel be-ascribe unto the Lord worship fore the Lord our Maker: and power.

7 For he is the Lord our] 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the God; and we are the people honour due unto his Name; of his pasture, and the sheep bring presents, and come inte of his hand. his courts.

8 To-day if ye will hear his 9 O worship the Lord in voice, harden not your hearts the beauty of holiness; let the as in the provocation, and as whole earth stand in awe of in the day of temptation in him.

the wilderness; 10 Tell it out among the 9 When your fathers tempt-heathen, that the Lord is ed me, proved me, and saw King; and that it is he who my works. hath made the round world so 10 Forty years long was I fast that it cannot be moved; grieved with this generation, and how that he shall judge and said, It is a people that do the people righteously. err in their hearts, for they 11 Let the heavens rejoice, have not known my ways: and let the earth be glad; let

the sea make a noise, and all that therein is.

10 O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the,thing

12 Let the field be joyful, which is evil: the Lord preand all that is in it; then shaveth the souls of his saints; all the trees of the wood re-jhe shall deliver them from the joice before the Lord. hand of the ungodly.

13 For he cometh, for he il There is sprung up a cometh to judge the earth;light for the righteous, and and with righteousness to judge joyful gladness for such as are the world, and the people with true-hearted.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye

his truth. Psalm xcvii. Dominus reg-righteous, and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness.

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2 Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteous

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new song; for he hath

ness and judgment are the ha-done marvellous things. bitation of his seat.

2 With his own right hand, 3 There shall go a fire be- and with his holy arm, hath fore him, and burn up his ene- he gotten himself the victory. mies on every side. 3 The Lord declared, his 4 His lightnings gave shine salvation; his righteousness unto the world; the earth saw hath he openly showed in the it, and was afraid. sight of the heathen.

5 The hills melted like wax 4 He hath remembered his at the presence of the Lord; mercy and truth toward the at the presence of the Lord of house of Israel, and all the the whole earth. lends of the world have seen

6 The heavens have decla- the salvation of our God. red his righteousness, and all the 5 Show yourselves joyful people have seen his glory. Junto the Lord, all ye lands;

7 Confounded be all they sing, rejoice, and give thanks. that worship carved images, 6 Praise the Lord upon the and that delight in vain gods:harp; sing to the harp with worship him, all ye gods. a psalm of thanksgiving.

8 Sion heard of it, and re- 7 With trumpets also and joiced; and the daughters of shawns, O show yourselves Judah were glad, because of joyful before the Lord the thy judgments, O Lord. King.

9 For thou, Lord, art higher 8 Let the sea make a noise, than all that are in the earth; and all that therein is; the thou art exalted far above all round world, and they that dwell therein.

gods.

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