seph for a testimony: when | but their time should have he came out of the land of endured for ever. Egypt, and had heard a strange language. 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots. 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and I delivered 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee. EVENING PRAYER. thee : and heard thee what GOD standeth in the con time as the storm fell upon thee. 8 I proved thee also: at the waters of strife. 9 Hear, O my people, and I will assure thee, O Israel: if thou wilt hearken unto me, 10 There shall no strange god be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any other god. 11 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it. 12 But my people would not hear my voice: and Israel would not obey me. 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lusts: and let them follow their own imaginations. 14 O that my people would have hearkened unto me: for if Israel had walked in my ways, 15 I should soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries. 16 The haters of the Lord should have been found liars: gregation of princes: he is a Judge among gods. 2 How long will ye give wrong judgement and accept the persons of the ungodly? 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: see that such as are in need and necessity have right. 4 Deliver the out-cast and poor save them from the hand of the ungodly. 5 They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods: and ye are all the children of the most Highest. 7 But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, and judge thou the earth for thou shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance. HO God, keep not still PSALM 83. Deus, quis similis? TOLD not thy tongue, HOLD silence refrain not thyself, ourselves: the houses of God 13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the wind; 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood and as the flame that consumeth the mountains. 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm. that they be no more a people and that the name of 16 Make their faces ashamIsrael may be no more in re-ed, O Lord: that they may membrance. seek thy Name. 5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee; 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more let them be put to shame, and perish. 18 And they shall know that thou, whose Name is Je 6 The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismaelites the Moabites, and Ha-hovah art only the most garens; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Highest over all the earth. PSALM 84. Quam dilecta! How amiable are thy Amalek: the Philistines, with dwellings thou Lord them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Assur also is joined with them and have holpen the children of Lot. 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites unto Sisera, and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison; 10 Who perished at Endor and became as the dung of the earth. 11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb: yea, make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana; 1.2 Who say, Let us take to of hosts! 2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young: even thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alway praising thee. 5 Blessed is the man whose | thy displeasure strength is in thee in whose heart are thy ways. 6 Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well and the pools are filled with water. 7 They will go from strength to strength and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. 8 O Lord God of hosts, and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation. 4 Turn us then, O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us. 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? 6 Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us that hear my prayer: hearken, Othy people may rejoice in God of Jacob. thee? 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not again. 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. 12 Yea, the Lord shall shew loving-kindness and our land shall give her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him and he shall direct his going in the way. I am poor, and in misery. 2 Preserve thou my soul, for I am holy my God, save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord for I will call daily upon thee. 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou, Lord, art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer and ponder the voice of my humble desires. 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou hearest me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord: there is not one that can do as thou doest. 9 All nations whom thou and hast made shall come and worship thee, O Lord shall glorify thy Name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things thou art God alone. 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walk in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy Name. 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes. 15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. 16 O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid. 17 Shew some token upon me for good, that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me. PSALM 87. Fundamenta ejus. HER foundations are upon the holy hills: the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee: thou city of God. 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon : with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philistines also: and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo, there was he born. 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born in her: and the most High shall stablish her. 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was born there. 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee. PSALM 88. Domine Deus. 8 I am so fast in prison: that I cannot get forth. 9 My sight faileth for very trouble: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee. 10 Dost thou shew wonders among the dead: or shall the dead rise up again, and praise thee? 11 Shall thy loving-kindbe shewed in the grave: or thy faithfulness in destruction? Lord God of my salva-ness tion, I have cried day and night before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy presence, incline thine ear unto my calling. 2 For my soul is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit and I have been even as a man that hath no strength. 4 Free among the dead, like unto them that wounded, and lie in the grave who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. are 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darkness, and in the deep. 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms. 7 Thou hast put away 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark: and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten? 13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee. 14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul and hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. 16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me and the fear of thee hath undone me. 17 They came round about me daily like water and compassed me together on every side. |