Psal. xl. Expectans expectavi. book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God I Lord and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling. 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay : and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth: even a thanksgiving unto our God. 4 Many shall see it, and fear: and shall put their trust in the Lord, 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord : and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies. 6 O Lord my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward: and yet there is no man that no man that ordereth them unto thee. 7 If I should declare them, and speak of them: they should be more than I am able to express. 8 Sacrifice, and meat-offering, thou wouldest not but mine ears hast thou opened. 9 Burnt-offerings, and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required: then said I, Lo, I come, 10 In the volume of the yea, thy law is within my heart. 11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest. 12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart: my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation. 13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth: from the great congregation. 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me, O Lord: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth alway preserve me. 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up : yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me : make haste, O Lord, to help me. 17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it : let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil. 18 Let them be desolate, and rewarded with shame that say : 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer : make no long tarrying, O my God. EVENING PRAYER. BLESSED is he that con sidereth the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. 2 The Lord preserve him, and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth : and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies. 3 The Lord comfort him, when he lieth sick upon his bed make thou all his bed in : his sickness. 4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me: When shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity and his heart conceiveth falsehood with 10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them. 11 By this I know thou favourest me that mine enemy doth not triumph against me. 12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me: and shalt set me before thy face for meat day and night daily say unto me, now thy God? : : while they Where is 4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving among such as keep holy-day. 6 Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul: and why art thou so disquieted within me? 7 Put thy trust in God for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance. 8 My God, my soul is vexed within me therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon. 9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the water-pipes: all thy waves and storms are gone over me. 10 The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. 11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth; 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me: Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God : for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. G Psal. xliii. Judica me, Deus. YIVE sentence with me, O UT God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people : O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength, why hast thou put me from thee: and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy dwelling. 4 And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness : and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my God. 5 Why art thou so heavy, O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 60 put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. MORNING PRAYER. Psal. xliv. Deus, auribus. E have heard with our ears, WE O God, our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old; 2 How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in how thou hast destroyed the nations, and cast them out. 3 For they gat not the land in possession through their own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them; 4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance : because thou hadst a favour unto them. 5 Thou art my King, O God: send help unto Jacob. : 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies and in thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 7 For I will not trust in my bow : it is not my sword that shall help me; and 8 But it is thou that savest us from our enemies puttest them to confusion that hate us. God all day long and will praise thy Name for ever. 10 But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion : and goest not forth with our armies. 11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies : so that they which hate us spoil our goods. 12 Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep and hast scattered us among the heathen. 13 Thou sellest thy people for nought and takest no money for them. 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us. 15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen: and that the people shake their heads at us. 16 My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face hath covered me; 17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer: for the enemy and avenger. 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee: nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant. 19 Our heart is not turned back neither our steps gone 9 We make our boast of out of thy way; 20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange god shall not God search it out? for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart. 22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long : and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain. 23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not absent from us for ever. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble? 25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground. 26 Arise, and help us and deliver us for thy mercy's sake. Psal. xlv. MY Eructavit cor meum. : upon thy thigh, O thou most Mighty: according to thy worship and renown. : 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour ride on, because of the word of truth, of meekness, and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee even in the midst among the King's enemies. 7 Thy seat, O God, endureth for ever the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity : wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 10 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers Y heart is inditing of a good matter I speak of the things which I have made unto the King. 2 My tongue is the pen of colours. a ready writer. 3 Thou art fairer than the children of men full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever. 11 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, incline thine ear : forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. 12 So shall the King have : 4 Gird thee with thy sword pleasure in thy beauty for he T |