Vide humilitatem. CONSIDER mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law. 2 Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me; quicken me according to thy word. 3 Health is far from the ungodly; for they regard not thy statutes. 4 Great is thy mercy, O LORD; quicken me, as thou art wont. 5 Many there are that trouble me, and persecute me; yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies. 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors; because they keep not thy law. 7 Consider, O LORD, how I love thy commandments; O quicken me, according to thy loving-kindness. 8 Thy word is true from everlasting; all the judgments of thy righteousness endure for evermore. Principes persecuti sunt. PRINCES 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 1 love. 4 Seven times a day do 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 testimonies, and loved them exceedingly. 8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies; for all my ways are before thee. Appropinquet deprecatio. LET my complaint come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to thy word. 2 Let my supplication come before thee; deliver me according to thy word. 3 My lips shall speak of thy praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes. 4 Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word; for all thy commandments are righteous. 5 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy commandments. 6 I have longed for thy saving health, O LORD; and in thy law is my delight. 70 let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and thy judgments 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. 588 THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY. Morning Prayer. Psalm cxx. Ad Dominum. WHEN I was in trouble, I 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 constrained to dwell with Mesech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar! 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. I 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. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD himself is thy keeper; the LORD is thy defence upon thy right hand; 3 D 589 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 evermore. Psalm cxxii. Lætatus sum. I WAS glad when they said 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 testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the LORD. 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. UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O Thou that dwellest in the heavens. 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. the LORD himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say; if the LORD himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; 2 They had swallowed us up quick; when they were so wrathfully displeased at us. 3 Yea, the waters had drowned 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. Psalm cxxv. Qui confidunt. THEY that put their trust in the LORD shall be even as the Mount Sion, which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. |