Up, Lord, and help me, my God; for th God; for thou fmiteft all mine enemies upon the cheek-bone: thou haft broken the teeth of the ungodly, 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord; and thy bleffing is upon thy people. a Pfalm iv. HEA Cum invocarem. EAR me, when I call, O God of my righteoufnefs: thou haft fet me at liberty, when I was in trouble; have mercy upon me, and hearken unto my prayer. 2 O ye fons of men, how long will ye blafpheme mine honour, and have fuch pleafure in vanity, and feek after falfhood? 3 Know this alfo that the Lord hath chofen to himself the man that is godly: when I call upon the Lord he will hear me. 4 Stand in awe, and fin not; commune with your own heart, and in your chamber, and be ftill. 5 Offer the facrifice of righteoufnefs, and put your truft in the Lord, 6 There be many that fay.. Who will show us any good? 7 Lord, Lord, lift thou up the worship toward thy holy temlight of thy countenance up- ple. 62 O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I make my prayer. 3 My voice halt thou hear betimes, O Lord; early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. 4 For thou art the God that haft no pleasure in wickedness; neither fhall any evil dwell with thee. 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy fight; for thou hateftall them that work vanity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them 8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteoufnefs, because of mine enemies; make thy way plain before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulnefs in his mouth; their inward parts are very wickedness. 10 Their throat is an open fepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. 11 Destroy thou them, O God; let them perifh through their own imaginations; caft them out in the multitude of their ungodlinefs; for they have rebelled against thee. 12 And let all them that put their truft in thee rejoice: they fhall ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendeft them; they that love thy Name shall be joyful in thee: 13 For thou, Lord, wilt give thy bleffing unto the righteous, and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him, as with a thield. EVENING PRAYER. Pfalm vi. Domine, ne in furore. that fpeak lies: the Lord will Lord, rebuke me not in abhor both the blood-thirsty and deceitful man. 7 But as for me, I will come into thine houfe, even upon the multitude of thy mercy, and in thy fear will I thine indignation, neither chaften me in thy difpleasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak: O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed. 3 My foul alfo is fore trou- if there be any wickednes bled: but, Lord, how long my hands ; wilt thou punish me? 4 If I have rewarded ev unto him that dealt friendly with me; yea, I have delivered him that without any caufhe is mine enemy 4 Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my foul; O fave me, for thy mercies fake : 5 For in death no man remembereth thee; and who 5 Then let mine enemy will give thee thanks in the perfecute my foul, and tak pit ? me; yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the duft. 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed, and water my couch with my tears. 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies. 8 Away from me, all ye that work vanity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. 9 The Lord hath heard my petition; the Lord will receive my prayer. 10 All mine enemies fhall be confounded, and fore vexed; they shall be turned back, and put to shame suddenly. 6 Stand up, O Lord, int thy wrath, and lift up thyfelf, becaufe of the indignation of mine enemies ; arife up for me in the judgment that thou haft commanded:20 7 And so fhall the congregation of the people come about thee for their fakes therefore lift up thyfelf again. 8 The Lord fhall judge the people give sentence with me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to the innocency that is in me. 9 O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins. 11 My help cometh of God, who preferveth them that are true of heart. A 12 God is a righteous Judge, ftrong, and patient'; and God is provoked every day.. 13 If a man will not turn, he will what his word he the ftars which thou haft theth bent his bow, and made ordained. i dit readyeve evo 11 14 He hath prepared for him the inftruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the perfecutors. ... 5 Behold, he travaileth ith mifchief; he hath conceived, forrow, and brought nforth ungodliness. 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit, and is fallen himafelf into the deftruction that he made for other. 17 For his travail fhall come upon his own head, and his wickedness fhall fall on is own pate. 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord, according to his righteoufnefs; and I will praife the Name of the Lord moft high.95 Plain vi vill, Domine, Dominus nofter. bsi Thou madeft him lower 5 than the angels, to crown him with glory and worship. 6 Thou makeft him to have dominion of the works of thy hands: and thou haft put all things in fubjection under his feet; 7 All sheep and oxen; yea, and the beafts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the fear; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the feasi 9 O Lord, our Governor, how excellent as thy Name in all the world!1 Will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will speak of all thy marvellous works. 2. I will be glad and rejoice in thee; yea, my fongs will I make of thy Name, O thou Most Highest. 3 While mine enemies are driven back, they shall fall and perish at thy prefence: 4 For thou haft maintained hate me, thou that liftett me my right, and my caufe; up from the gates of death; thou art fet in the throne that judgeft right. 5 Thou haft rebuked the heathen, and deftroyed the ungodly; thou haft put out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, deftructions are come to a perpetual end; even as the cities which thou haft destroyed, their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the Lord fhall endure for ever; he hath alfo prepared his feat for judg ment. 8 For he fhall judge the world in righteousness, and minifter true judgment unto the people. 9 The Lord alfo will be a defence for the oppreffed, even a refuge in due time of trouble. 10 And they that know thy Name will put their truft in thee; for thou, Lord, haft never failed them that feek thee. 11 O praise the Lord which 14 That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion: I will rejoice in thy falvation. 15 The heathen are funk down in the pit that they made; in the fame net which they hid privily is their foot taken. 16 The Lord is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. 17 The wicked fhall be turned into hell, and all the people that forget God. 18 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten; the patient abiding of the meek fhall not perish for ever. 19 Up, Lord, and let not man have the upper hand; let the heathen be judged in thy fight. 20 Put them in fear, O Lord, that the heathen may know themfelves to be but men. dwelleth in Sion; fhow the Pfalm x. Ut quid, Domine? people ople of his doing maketh WHY flandeft thou fo 12 For when he inquifition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; confider the trouble which I fuffer of them that far off, O Lord, and hideft thy face in the needful time of trouble? 2 The ungodly, for his own luft, doth perfecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafty wilinefs that they have imagined. |