2. That I should know | how to speak A word in season to the weary:

3. He wakeneth | morning by morning,

He wakeneth mine | ear to hear as the learned. 4. The Lord JEHOVIH hath | opened mine ear,

And I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

5. I gave my back to the smiters,

And my cheeks to | them that plucked off the hair; 'I hid not my | face from shame and spitting.

SELECTION 303.

1. For the Lord JEHOVIH will help me;

Therefore shall I not be confounded:

2. Therefore have I set my face like a flint, And I know that I shall not be ashamed.

3. He is near that doth | justify me;

[Is. 1. 7.]

Who will contend with me? | let us stand together: 4. Who is mine adversary?

Let him come near to me.

5. Behold! the Lord JE HOVIH will help me; Who is he that shall condemn me?

6. Lo! they all shall wax | old as a garment; The moth shall eat them up.

SELECTION 304.

[Is. lix. 12.]

1. For our transgressions are | multiplied before Thee,
And our sins testify against us!

2. For our transgressions are with us;
And as for our iniquities, we know them.

3. In transgressing and lying against JEHOVAH,
And departing away from our GOD;

4. Speaking oppression | and revolt,

[hood.

Conceiving and uttering from the | heart words of false

5. And judgment is | turned away backward,

And justice | standeth afar off:

6. For truth is fallen | in the street,

And equity cannot enter.

7. Yea, truth doth fail;

And he that departeth from evil | maketh himself a prey.

1. JEHOVAH is good,

A strong hold in the | day of trouble;

And he knoweth | them that trust in him. 2. But with an over running flood,

He will make an utter end of the | place thereof;
And darkness | shall pursue his enemies.
3. What do ye imagine algainst JEHOVAH?
He will make an utter end:

Affliction shall not rise up the second time.
4. For while they be folden together as thorns,
And while they are | drunken as drunkards,
They shall be devoured as | stubble fully dry.

SELECTION 306.

1. Hear ye this, O | house of Jacob!

Who are called by the name of Israel,

[Is. xlviii.]

And are come forth | out of the waters of Judah; 2. Who swear by the name of JEHOVAH,

And make mention of the | GOD of Israel,

But not in truth, nor in righteousness.

3. For they call themselves of the holy city, And stay themselves upon the | GOD of Israel; JEHOVAH of hosts is his name.

4. I have declared the former things | from the beginning; And they went out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, | and they came to pass.

5. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ' Then had thy peace been as a river,

And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

6. Thy seed also had | been as the sand,

And the offspring of thy bowels like the | gravel thereof; His name should not have been cut | off nor destroyed from before me.

SELECTION 307.

[Is. lvii. 17.]

1. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, And smote him, I hid me, | and was wroth,

And he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

2. I have seen his | ways, and will heal him;

I will lead him also, and restore comforts
Unto him and to his mourners.

3. I create the fruit of the lips;

Peace! peace! to him that is far off, and to
Saith JEHOVAH; and I will heal him.

4. But the wicked are like the | troubled sea,
When it cannot rest,

Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

[is near,

him that

"There is no peace, | saith my GoD, to the wicked.

SELECTION 308.

1. The Spirit of the Lord JEHOVIH | is upon me; Because JEHOVAH | hath anointed me

[Is. lxi.]

To preach good | tidings unto the meek; 2. He hath sent me to bind up the | brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives,

And the opening of the prison to the bound; 3. To proclaim the acceptable | year of JEHOVAH, And the day of vengeance of our God;

To comfort all that mourn;

4. To appoint unto them that | mourn in Zion; To give unto them | beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

5. The garment of praise for the | spirit of heaviness; That they might be called trees of righteousness, The planting of JEHOVAH, that he might be glorified.

1. Remember, O JEHOVAH! What is | come upon us: Consider, and be hold our reproach.

2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

3. We are orphans and fatherless,

Our mothers are as widows.

4. We have drunken our | water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

5. Our necks are under | persecution: We labor, and have no rest.

6. We have given the hand | to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be | satisfied with bread.

7. Our fathers have | sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

8. Servants have | ruled over us:

There is none that doth deliver | out of their hand.

SELECTION 310.

1. Behold! JEHOVAH'S | hand is not shortened,

That it cannot save;

2. Neither his ear heavy,

That it cannot hear:

3. But your injiquities have separated

Between you and your GoD,

4. And your sins have hid his | face from you,

That he will not hear.

[Is. lix.]

DOUBLE.

5. For

your hands are de filed with blood, And your fingers | with iniquity;

6. Your lips have spoken lies,

Your tongue hath | muttered perverseness. 7. None calleth for justice,

Nor any pleadeth for truth:

8. They trust in vanity, and speak lies;

They conceive mischief, and bring | forth iniquity.

SELECTION 311.

1. They hatch | cockatrice' eggs,

And weave the spider's web:

2. He that eateth of their

eggs dieth,

[Is. lix. 5.]

And that which is crushed breaketh out | into a viper. 3. Their webs shall not become garments,

Neither shall they cover themselves | with their works?

4. Their works are works of iniquity,

And the act of violence is | in their hands.

5. Their feet | run to evil,

And they make haste to shed | innocent blood:

6. Their thoughts are | thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are | in their paths.

7. The way of peace they know not;

And there is no judgment | in their goings: 8. They have made them | crooked paths: Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. 20 *