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EVENING PRAYER. 2 My foul is athirft for God PSAL. 41. Beatus qui intelligit.yea, even for the living God Leffed is he that contidereth when fhall I come to appear

Blefted is before the prefence of God?

Lord fhall deliver him in the time of trouble.

2 The Lord preferve him and keep him alive that he may be bleffed upon earth and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies.

3 The Lord comfort him when he lieth fick upon his bed: make thou all his bed in his fickness.

4 I faid, Lord, be merciful unto me heal my foul, for I have finned against thee."

5 Mine enemies fpeak evil of me: When shall he die, and his name perish?

6 And if he come to fee me, he fpeaketh vanity and his heart conceiveth falfhood within himfelf; and when he com.th forth, he telleth it.

7 All mine enemies whisper together against me: even against me do they imagine this evil;

8 Let the fentence of guiltinefs proceed againft him and now that he lieth, let him rife up

no more.

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9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trufted : who did alfo eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me.

10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord: raife thou me up again, and I fhall reward them. 11 By this I know thou favoureft me that mine enemy doth not triumph against me.

12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me and fhalt fet me before thy face for ever.

13 Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael: world without end. Amen.

PSAL. 42. Quemadmodum.
IKE as the hart defireth the

water-brooks: fo longeth

my foul after thee, O God,

3 My tears have been my meat day and night: while they daily fay unto me, Where is now thy God?

4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myfelf for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving among fuch as keep holy-day.

6 Why art thou fo full of heavinefs, O my foul: and why art thou fo disquieted within

me ?

7 Put thy truft in God: for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance.

8 My God, my foul 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 noife of the wa ter-pipes all thy waves and ftorms are gone over me.

10 The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime and in the night-feafon did I fing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life."

11 I will fay unto the God of my ftrength, Why hast thou forgotten me why go I thus heavily while the enemy oppreffeth me?

12 My bones are fmitten afunder as with a fword: while mine enemies that trouble ne caft me in the teeth;

13 Namely, while they fay daily unto me: Where is now thy God?

14 Why art thou fo vexed, O my foul: and why art thou fo difquieted 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.

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PSAL. 43. Judica me, Deus. IVE fentence with me, O 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 ftrength, why haft thou put me from thee: and why go Ì fo heavily while the enemy oppreffeth me?

3 O fend 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 foul and why art thou fo difquieted within me?

6 O put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance and my God.

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5 Thou art my King, O God: end 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 truft in my bow it is not my fword that fhall help me ;

8 But it is thou that faveft us from our enemies and putteft them to confufion that hate us.

9 We make our boaft of God all day long : and will praise thy Name for ever.

IO But now thou art far off, and putteft us to confufion: and goeft not forth with our armies.

II Thou makeft us to turn our backs upon our enemies : fo that they which hate us spoil our goods.

12 Thou letteft us be eaten up like sheep and haft fcattered us among the heathen.

13 Thou felleft thy people for nought and takeft no money for them.

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14 Thou makeft us to be rebuked of our neighbours: to be laughed to fcorn, and had in derifion of them that are round about us.

15 Thou makeft us to be a by-word among the heathen : and that the people fhake their heads at us.

16 My confufion is daily before me and the fhame of my face hath covered me;

17 For the voice of the flanderer and blafphemer: 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 out of thy way;

20 No, not when thou haft fmitten us into the place of dragons:

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nefs, and hot. 1 iniquity: where fore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladnefs above thy fellows.

9 All thy garments fmell of myrrh, aloes, and caffia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did ftand the queen in a vellure of gold, wrought about with divers colours.

11 Hearken, O daughter, and confider, incline thine ear: forget alfo thine own people, and thy father's house.

12 So fhall the King have pleasure in thy beauty: for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him.

13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: like as the rich also among the peo,

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thall make their fupplication

before thee.

14 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

15 She fhall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins that be her fellows fhall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee.

16 With joy and gladness fhall they be brought : and shall enter into the king's palace.

17 Instead of thy fathers thou fhalt have children: whom thou mayeft make princes in all lands.

18 I will remember thy Name from one generation to another: therefore fhall the people give thanks unto thee, world with. out end.

PSAL. 46. Deus nofter refugium. our hope and GOD is ftrength: a very prefent help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved :

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and though the hills be carried into the midst of the fea;

3 Though the waters thereof rage and fwell: and though the mountains shake at the tempeft of the fame.

4 The rivers of the flood thereof fhall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Higheft. 5 God is in the midst of her,

therefore fhall the not be removed: God fhall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved but God hath fhewed his voice, and the earth fhall melt away.

7 The Lord of hofts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. 80 come hither and behold the works of the Lord what deftruction he hath brought upon the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in funder, and burneth the chariots in the fire.

10 Be ftill then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.

II The Lord of hofts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.

EVENING PRAYER.

PSAL. 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite. Clap your hands together, all ye people: O fing unto God with the voice of melody. 2 For the Lord is high, and to be feared he is the great King upon all the earth.

3 He fhall fubdue the people under us: and the nations under our feet.

4 He fhall choofe out an heritage for us: even the worship of Jacob whom he loved,

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9 The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham for God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth as it were with a fhield.

PSAL. 48. Magnus Dominus.

REAT is the Lord, and

Ghighly to be praised in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.

2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth: upon the north-fide lieth the city of the great King; God is well known in her palaces as a fure refuge.

3 For lo, the kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by together.

4 They marvelled to fee fuch things they were aftonifhed, and fuddenly caft down.

5 Fear came there upon them, and forrow as upon a woman in her travail.

6 Thou shalt break the ships of the fea: through the eaft-wind.

7 Like as we have heard, fo have we feen in the city of the Lord of hofts; in the city of our God God upholdeth the fame for ever.

8 We wait for thy lovingkindness, O God in the midft of thy temple.

9 O God, according to thy Name, fo is thy praife unto the world's end: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

TO Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be glad because of thy judge

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12 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour : feeing h may be compared unto the beafts that perish; this is the way of them.

13 This is their foolishness.. and their pofterity praise the faying.

14 They lie in the hell lik fheep, death gnaweth upor them, and the righteous fhal have domination over them it the morning their beauty fhai confume in the fepulchre ov of their dwelling.

15 But God hath delivered my he hall receive me. foul from the place of hell: for

16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich or if the

glory of his houfe be increased;

17 For he fhall carry nothing away with him, when he dieth: neither fhall his pomp follow

him.

18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man: and fo long as thou doeft well unto thyfelf, men will speak good of thee.

19 He fhall follow the gene. ration of his fathers: and shall never fee light.

20 Man being in honour hath no understanding: but is compared unto the beafts that perish.

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3 Our. God fhall come, and fhall not keep filence : there fhall go before him a confuming fire, and a mighty tempeft all be firred up round about him.

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