CHANT 7. SELECTION 20. [Ps. cxix. 9.] 1. Wherewith shall a young man | cleanse his way? By taking heed according to thy word. 2. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 3. Thy word have I | hid in mine heart, 4. Blessed art thou, | O JEHOVAH : 6. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, 7. I will meditate | in thy precepts, And have respect unto thy ways. 8. I will delight myself | in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. 1. My soul cleaveth | to the dust : Revive thou me according to thy word. 2. I have declared my ways, and | thou hast heard me: O teach thou me thy statutes. 3. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So shall I talk of thy wondrous works. 4. My soul melteth for grief: Strengthen thou me according to thy word. DOUBLE. 5. Remove from me the | way of lying: SELECTION 22. 1. Remember the word to thy servant, 2. This is my comfort in | my affliction: 3. The proud have | greatly derided me: Yet have I not declin-ed from thy law. [Ps. cxix. 49.] 4. I remembered thy judgments of old, | O JEHOVAH ; And have comforted myself. 5. Horror hath taken | hold upon me, Because of the wicked | that forsake thy law. 6. Thy statutes have | been my songs, In the house of my pilgrimage. 7. I have remembered thy name, O JEHOVAH, by night, And I will keep thy law. 8. This did I have, Because I kept thy precepts. 1. O JEHOVAH, rebuke me not | in thy wrath: And my groaning | is not hid from thee. 4. My heart panteth, my strength doth fail me: i Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 6. For I will de clare mine iniquity; 7. Forsake me not, | O JEHOVAH : 1. O JEHOVAH, the GoD of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2. Let my prayer | come before thee: Incline thine ear unto my cry: 3. For my soul is full of evils : And my life draweth near to hell. 4. I am counted with them that go down | into the pit : I am as a man that hath no strength; DOUBLE. 5. Laid low among the dead, 8. Thy wrath lieth | hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. 1. As the hart panteth for the | brooks of water, So panteth my soul for thee, O GOD. 2. My soul thirsteth for GOD, for the | living God: When shall I come and appear before God? 3. My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, | Where is thy God? 4. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me : 5. For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, 7. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? GOD. CHANT 9. SELECTION 26. [Ps. xliv. 18.] 1. In God we boast | all the day, And praise thy name forever. 2. Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way. 3. If we had forgotten the name of our GOD, Or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 4. Would not GOD | search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 5. Yea, for thy sake are we killed | all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 6. Awake, why | sleepest thou, Lord? Arise, cast not off forever. 7. Wherefore hidest | thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 8. Arise a help for us, And redeem us | for thy mercies' sake. 1. O JEHOVAH, I have called upon thee | all the day, I have stretched | out my hands to thee. 2. Wilt thou show wonders | to the dead? Shall the deceased arise and praise thee? 3. Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction? 4. Shall thy wonders be | known in darkness? And thy righteousness | in the land of forgetfulness? |