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HY testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them.

2 When thy word goeth forth, it giveth light and understand ing unto the simple.

3 I opened my mouth, and drew in my breath; for my

hast commanded, are exceeding righteous and true.

3 My zeal hath even consumed me; because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost, and thy servant loveth it.

5 I am small and of no reputation; yet do I not forget thy commandments.

6 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

7 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.

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

EVENING PRAYER.
Clamavi in toto corde meo.
Call with my whole heart;

delight was in thy command- I Caar vite, O Lord, I will

ments.

4 O look thou upon me, and be merciful upon me; as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

5 Order my steps in thy word; and so shall no wickedness have dominion over

me.

6 O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men; and so shall I keep thy command

ments.

7 Show the light of thy countenance upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.

8 Mine eyes gush out with water, because men keep not thy law.

Justus es, Domine.

keep thy statutes.

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

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

4 Mine eyes prevent the night watches; that I might be occupied in thy words.

5 Hear my voice, O Lord, according unto thy loving kind ness; quicken me according as thou art wont.

6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me, and are far from thy law.

7 Be thou nigh at hand, O Lord; for all thy command

ments are true.

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RIGHTEOUS art thou, yes, As concerning thy testimo

judgment.

that thou hast grounded them

2 The testimonies that thou for ever.

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Principes persecuti sunt. PRINCES RINCES have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

2 I am as glad of thy word, as one that findeth great spoils. 3 As for lies, I hate and abhor them; but thy law do I love.

timonies, and loved them exceedingly.

8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies; for all my ways are before thee.

Appropinquet deprecatio. L'before thee, Lord, give ET my complaint come

me understanding according to thy word.

before thee; deliver me accord2 Let my supplication come ing to thy word.

3 My lips shall speak of thy praise, when thou hast taught

me thy statutes.

of thy word; for all thy com4 Yea, my tongue shall sing mandments are righteous.

5 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy commandments.

6 I have longed for thy sav ing health, O Lord; and in thy law is my delight.

shall praise thee; and thy judg7 O let my soul live, and it ments shall help me.

8 I have gone astray like a

sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy

commandments.

The twenty-seventh Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm cxx. Ad Dominum.

4 Seven times a day do I WHEN I was in trouble, I

praise thee; because of thy righteous judgments.

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

6 Lord, I have looked for thy saving health, and done after thy commandments.

7 My soul hath kept thy tes

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 con

strained to dwell with Mesech, testify unto Israel, to give and to have my habitation thanks unto the name of the among the tents of Kedar. Lord.

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.

Psalm cxxi. Levavi oculos

meos.

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.

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

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 cxxiii. Ad te levavi oculos meos.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Is. UNTO thee lift I up mine

eyes, O thou that dwellest

rael shall neither slumber nor in the heavens. 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 ever

more.

Psalm cxxii. Lætatus sum.

I

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.

Psalm cxxiv. Nisi quia Dominus.

hinds, now may

Was glad when they said IF the Lord himself had not 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

Israel say; if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;

SO

2 They had swallowed us up quick; when they were wrathfully displeased at us. 3 Yea, the waters had drown

ed 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.

3 Then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.

4 Yea, the Lord hath done great things for us already; whereof we rejoice.

5 Turn our captivity, O Lord, as the rivers in the south.

6 They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.

7 He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.

Psalm cxxvii. Nisi Dominus.

Psalm cxxv. Qui confidunt.
THEY
HEY that put their trust in E

the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion, which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever.

2 The hills stand about Jerusalem; even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for ever

more.

3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put their hand unto wicked

ness.

4 Do well, O Lord, unto those that are good and true of heart.

5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm cxxvi. In convertendo.

'XCEPT the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost that build it.

2 Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

3 It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

4 Lo, children and the fruit of the womb, are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord.

5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Psalm cxxviii. Beati omnes.

LESSED are all they that

WHEN the Lord turned B fear the Lord, and walk in

the captivity of Sion, then were we like unto them that dream.

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with joy.

his ways.

2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.

3 Thy wife shall be as the

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4 But the righteous Lord hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.

5 Let them be confounded and turned backward, as many as have evil will at Sion.

6 Let them be even as the grass growing upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be plucked up;

7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bo-⚫

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2 O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint.

3 If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it?

4 For there is mercy with thee; therefore shalt thou be feared.

5 I look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him; in his word is my trust.

6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch.

7 O Israel, trust in the Lord; for with the Lord there is mer. cy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins. Psalm cxxxi. Domine, non est.

ORD, I am not high minded; I have no proud looks. 2 I do not exercise myself in great matters which are too high for me;

3 But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother: yea, my soul is even as a weaned child.

4 O Israel, trust in the Lord, from this time forth for ever more.

The twenty-eighth Day, MORNING PRAYER. Psalm cxxxii. Memento, Do

mine.

LORD, remember David,

and all his trouble.

2 How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed a vow unto the Almighty God of Jacob;

3 I will not come within the

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