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also that hate him flee before] 13 Though ye have lain among him.

2 Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away; and like as wax melteth at the fire, so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God.

the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver wings, and her feather like gold.

14 When the Almighty seal tered kings for their sake, then

Salmon.

3 But let the righteous be glad, were they as white as snow in and rejoice before God; let them also be merry and joyful.

15 As the hill of Basan, so 4 O sing unto God, and sing God's hill; even an high hill, a praises unto his name; and magni- the hill of Basan.

fy him that rideth upon the hea- 16 Why hop ye so, ye high vens as it were upon an horse; hills? this is God's hill, in the praise him in his name JAH, and which it pleaseth him to dwell; rejoice before him. yea, the Lord will abide in it for

5 He is a father of the father-ever. less, and defendeth the cause of 17 The chariots of God art the widows; even God in his twenty thousand, even thousand holy habitation. of Angels; and the Lord is amon 6 He is the God that maketh them as in the holy place d men to be of one mind in an Sinai.

house, and bringeth the prisoners 18 Thou art gone up on high out of captivity; but letteth the thou hast led captivity captive, runagates continue in scarceness. and received gifts for men; yea, 70 God, when thou wentest even for thine enemies, that the forth before the people; when Lord God might dwell among thou wentest through the wil-them.

derness,

19 Praised be the Lord daily, 8 The earth shook, and the even the God who helpeth us, and heavens dropped at the presence poureth his benefits upon us. of God; even as Sinai also was 20 He is our God, even the moved at the presence of God, God of whom cometh salvation: who is the God of Israel. God is the Lord, by whom we 9 Thou, O God, sentest a gra-escape death. cious rain upon thine inheritance, 21 God shall wound the head and refreshedst it when it was of his enemies, and the hairy weary. scalp of such a one as goeth o 10 Thy congregation shall still in his wickedness. dwell therein; for thou, O God, 22 The Lord hath said, I will hast of thy goodness prepared for bring my people again, as I did from Basan; mine own will 11 The Lord gave the word; bring again, as I did sometime great was the company of the from the deep of the sea. preachers. 23 That thy foot may be dip 12 Kings with their armies did ped in the blood of thine enemies flee, and were discomfited, and and that the tongue of thy dog they of the household divided the may be red through the same. spoil, 24 It is well seen, O God, how

the poor.

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EVENING PRAYER.

hou goest; how thou, my God

nd King, goest in the sanctuary.

Psalm 69. Salvum me fac.

25 The singers go before, the SAVE me, O God; for the waninstrels follow after, in the ters are 'come in even unto nidst are the damsels playing my soul.

vith the timbrels..

21 stick fast in the deep mire, 26 Give thanks, O Israel, unto where no ground is; I am come od the Lord, in the congrega-into deep waters, so that the ions, from the ground of the floods run over me.

eart.

3 I am weary of crying, my 27 There is little Benjamin throat is dry; my sight faileth me heir ruler, and the princes of for waiting so long upon my God. udah their council; the princes 4 They that hate me without of Zebulon, and the princes of a cause are more than the hairs Naphtali. of my head; they that are mine 28 Thy God hath sent forth enemies, and would destroy me trength for thee; stablish the guiltless, are mighty.

hing, O God, that thou hast 5 I Paid them the things that I rought in us, never took: God, thou knowest 29 For thy temple's sake at my simpleness, and my faults are erusalem; so shall kings bring not hid from thee.

resents unto thee.

6 Let not them that trust in

30 When the company of the thee, O Lord God of hosts, be bear-men, and multitude of the ashamed for my cause; let not highty, are scattered abroad a- those that seek thee be confounded hong the beasts of the people, so through me, O Lord God of Israel. hat they humbly bring pieces of ilver; and when he hath scattered the people that delight in war; 31 Then shall the princes come 8 I am become a stranger unto ut of Egypt; the Morians' land my brethren, even an alien unto hall soon stretch out her hands my mother's children.

nto God.

7 And why? for thy sake have I suffered reproof; shame hath covered my face.

9 For the zeal of thine house 32 Sing unto God, O ye king- hath even eaten me, and the reoms of the earth; O sing praises bukes of them that rebuked thee, nto the Lord, are fallen upon me.

33 Who sitteth in the heavens ver all, from the beginning: Lo, e doth send out his voice; yea, nd that a mighty voice.

34 Ascribe ye the power to iod over Israel; his worship and trength is in the clouds.

10 1 wept, and chastened myself with fasting, and that was turned to my reproof.

11 I put on sackcloth also, and they jested upon me.

12 They that sit in the gate speak against me, and the drunk35 O God, wonderful art thouards make songs upon me. n thy holy places: even the God of Israel, he will give strength and power unto his people. Blessd be God.

13 But, Lord, I make my prayer. unto thee in an acceptable time,

14 Hear me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, even

in the truth of thy salvation.] 28 Let them fall from one wick. 15 Take me out of the mire, edness to another, and not come that I sink not; O let me be deli-into thy righteousness. vered from them that hate me, 29 Let them be wiped out of and out of the deep waters. the book of the living, and not be 16 Let not the water-flood written among the righteous. drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me :

30 As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness, thy help, O God, shall lift me up.

17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy 31 I will praise the name loving-kindness is comfortable; God with a song, and magnify it turn thee unto me according to with thanksgiving. the multitude of thy mercies:

32 This also shall please the 18 And hide not thy face from Lord, better than a bullock that thy servant; for I am in trouble: hath horns and hoofs. O haste thee, and hear me.

33 The humble shall consider 19 Draw nigh unto my soul, this, and be glad: seek ye after and save it; Ŏ deliver me, be-God, and your soul shall live. cause of mine enemies. 34 For the Lord heareth the 20 Thou hast known my re- poor, and despiseth not his pr proof, my shame, and my disho-soners.

nour: mine adversaries are all in 35 Let heaven and earth prais thy sight. him: the sea, and all that more

21 Thy rebuke hath broken my therein. heart; I am full of heaviness: I 36 For God will save Sion, and looked for some to have pity on build the cities of Juda, that me me, but there was no man, neither may dwell there, and have it i found I any to comfort me.

22 They gave me gall to eat ; and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.

23 Let their table be made af

possession.

37 The posterity also of his ser vants shall inherit it; and they th love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalm 70. Deus, in adjutorium

snare to take themselves withal; HASTE thee, O God, to de and let the things that should have

ver me; make haste to help

been for their wealth, be unto me, O Lord.

them an occasion of falling.

2 Let them be ashamed and

24 Let their eyes be blinded, confounded, that seek after my that they see not; and ever bow thou down their backs.

soul; let them be turned back ward and put to confusion, that wish me evil.

25 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful 3 Let them for their reward he displeasure take hold of them. soon brought to shame, that cry 26 Let their habitation be void, over me, There, there. and no man to dwell in theirtents. 4 But let all those that seek 27 For they persecute him thee be joyful and glad in the whom thou hast smitten; and they and let all such as delight in thy talk how they may vex them salvation, say alway, The Lord whom thou hast wounded. praised.

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5 As for me, I am poor and in 10 Go not far from me, O God; misery haste thee unto me, O my God, haste thee to help me. God. 11 Let them be confounded and 6 Thou art my helper, and my perish, that are against my soul; Redeemer: O Lord, make no let them be covered with shame long tarrying. and dishonour, that seek to de me evil.

The fourteenth Day.

MORNING PRAYER.

Psalm 71. In te, Domine, Speravi. IN thee, O Lord, have I put my

12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway, and will praise thee more and more.

13 My mouth shall daily speak trust; let me never be put to of thy righteousness and salva confusion, but rid me, and deliver tion; for I know no end thereof. me in thy righteousness; incline 14 I will go forth in the strength hathine ear unto me, and save me. of the Lord God, and will make des 2 Be thou my strong hold, mention of thy righteousness only. whereunto I may alway resort: 15 Thou, O God, hast taught thou hast promised to help me, me from my youth up until now; or thou art my house of defence, therefore will I tell of thy won and my castle. drous works.

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3 Deliver me, O my God, out 16 Forsake me not, O God, in of the hand of the ungodly, out mine old age, when I am greyof the hand of the unrighteous headed, until I have showed thy and cruel man: strength unto this generation,

4 For thou, O Lord God, art and thy power to all them that he thing that I long for: thou art are yet for to come

my hope, even from my youth. 17 Thy righteousness, O God, 5 Through thee have I been is very high, and great things are olden up ever since I was born: they that thou hast done: O God, hou art be that took me out of my who is like unto thee! nother's womb: my praise shall 18 O what great troubles and be always of thee. adversities hast thou showed me! and yet didst thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.

6 I am become as it were a onster unto many, but my sure rust is in thee.

70 let my mouth be filled with 19 thou hast brought me to y praise, that I may sing of thy great honour, and comforted me lory and honour all the day long. on every side:

8 Cast me not away in the time 20 Therefore will I praise thee, f age; forsake me not when my and thy faithfulness, O God, playtrength faileth me: ing upon an instrument of music: 9 For mine enemies speak unto thee will I sing upon the gainst me; and they that lay harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. theait for my soul take their coun- 21 My lips will be fain when I el together, saying, God hath sing unto thee; and so will my Orsaken him; persecute him, soul, whom thou hast delivered. nd take him; for there is none o deliver him 22 My tongue shall also talk of thy righteousness all the day

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3 The mountains also shall city like grass upon the earth. 17 His name shall endure for bring peace, and the little hills righteousness unto the people. name shall remain un 4 He shall keep the simple folk der the sun amongst the poste by their right, defend the children rities, which shall be blessed of the poor, and punish the wrong through him; and all the heathen doer. shall praise him.

5 They shall fear thee as long 18 Blessed be the Lord God as the sun and moon endureth, even the God of Israel, which from one generation to another. only doeth wondrous things;

6 He shall come down like the 19 And blessed be the name of rain into a fleece of wool, even as his Majesty for ever: and all the the drops that water the earth. earth shall be filled with his Ms.

7 In his time shall the righteous jesty. Amen, Amen.
flourish; yea, and abundance of
peace, so long as the moon en-
dareth.

EVENING PRAYER,
Psalm 73. Quam bonus Israel!
TRULY God is loving unto Is
8 His dominion shall be also rael; even unto such as are
from the one sea to the other, of a clean heart.
and from the flood unto the 2 Nevertheless, my feet were
world's end.
almost gone, my treadings hat
9 They that dwell in the wil-well nigh slipt.
derness shall kneel before him: 3 And why? I was
grieved at
his enemies shall lick the dust, the wicked: I do also see the
10 The kings of Tharsis and godly in such prosperity.
of the isles shall give presents; 4 For they are in no
the kings of Arabia and Saba death; but are lusty and strong.
shall bring gifts.
5 They come in no misfortune
11 All kings shall fall down be-like other folk; neither are they
fore him; all nations shall do him plagued like other men.
6 And this is the cause that
service.
12 For he shall deliver the they are so holden with pride, and
poor when he crieth; the needy overwhelmed with cruelty.
also, and him that hath no helper. 7 Their eyes swell with fatness

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