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kingdoms of the earth: O fing praises unto the Lord,

33 Who fitteth in the heavens over all, from the beginning: lo, he doth send out his voice, yea, and that a mighty voice.

34 Afcribe ye the power to God over Ifrael: his worship and ftrength is in the clouds.

35 O God, wonderful art thou in thy holy places : even the God of Ifrael; he will give ftrength and power unto people; bleffed be God.

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EVENING PRAYER. PSAL. 69. Salvum me fac. SAVE me, O God : for the waters are come in even unto my foul.

2 Í stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground is I am come into deep waters, fo that the floods run over me.

3 I am weary of crying; my throat is dry my fight faileth me for waiting fo long upon my God.

4 They that hate me without a caufe, are more than the hairs of my head: they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltlefs, are mighty.

5 I paid them the things that I never took: God, thou knoweft my fimpleness, and my faults are not hid from thee.

6 Let not them that truft in thee, O Lord God of hofts, be afhamed for my caufe: let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O Lord End of Ifrael,

7 And why? for thy fake have I fuffered reproof: fhame hath covered my face.

I am become a ftranger unto my brethren: even an alien unto my mother's children.

9 For the zeal of thine houfe hath even eaten me: and the

rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me.

10 I wept and chaftened my felf with fafting and that was turned to my reproof.

11 I put on fackcloth alfo : and they jefted upon me.

12 They that fit in the gate fpeak against me : and the drunkards make fongs upon me. 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 falvation,

15 Take me out of the mire, that I fink not: O let me be de

livered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

16 Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep fwallow me up and let not the pit fhut her mouth upon me.

17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving-kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me, according to the multitude of thy mercies.

18 And hide not thy face from thy fervant, for I am in trouble: Ohafte thee, and hear me.

19 Draw nigh unto my foul, and fave it: O deliver me, because of mine enemies.

20 Thou hast known my reproof, my fhame, and my difhonour: mine adverfaries are all in thy fight.

21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart; I am full of heavinefs: I looked for fome to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither 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 a fnare to take themfelves withal : and let the things that fhould have been for their K 6 wealth,

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26 Let their habitation be void; and no man to dwell in their tents.

27 For they perfecute him whom thou haft mitten and they talk how they may vex them whom thou haft wounded. 28 Let them fall from one wickedness to another: and not come into thy righteousness.

29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living: and not be written among the righteous. 30 As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness: thy help, O God, fhall lift me up.

31 I will praife the Name of God with a fong: and magnify it with thanksgiving.

32 This alfo fhall please the Lord: better than a bullock

that hath horns and hoofs.

33 The humble hall confider this, and be glad: feek ye after God, and your foul fhall live.

34 For the Lord heareth the poor and defpifeth not his prifoners.

35 Let heaven and earth praife him the fea and all that

moveth therein.

36 For God will fave Sion, and build the cities of Judah: that men may dwell there, and have it in poffeffion.

37 The pofterity alfo of his fervants fhall inherit it: and they that love his Name fhall dwell therein.

PSAL, 70. Deus, in adjutorium. HASTE thee, O God, to deliver me make hafte

to help me, O Lord.

2 Let them be ashamed and 4

confounded that feek after my foul let them be turned backward, and put to confufion, that with me evil.

3 Let them for their reward be foon brought to shame: that cry over me, There, there.

4 But let all thofe that feek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let all fuch as delight in thy falvation, fay alway, The Lord be praised.

5 As for me, I am poor and in mifery: hafte thee unto me, O God.

6 Thou art my helper and my redeemer : O Lord, make no long tarrying.

MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 71. In te, Domine, fperavi. N thee, O Lord, have put

my truft, let me never be put to confufion but rid me, and deliver me in thy righteousness ; incline thine ear unto me, and

fave me.

2 Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway refort: thou haft promifed to help me, for thou art my houfe of defence, and my castle.

3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unright

eous and cruel man.

4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope, even from my youth.

5 Through thee have I been holden up ever fince I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praise fhall be always of thee.

6 I am become as it were a monster unto many but my fure truft is in thee. 7. O let my mouth be filled with thy praife that I may fing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

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8 Caft me not away in the time of age forfake me not when my strength faileth me.

9 For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my foul, take their counsel together, faying God hath forfaken him; perfecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

10 Go not far from me, O God my God, hafte thee to help me.

II Let them be confounded and perish that are againft my foul! let them be covered with

fhame and dishonour that feek to do me evil.

12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway: and will praife

thee more and more.

13 My mouth fhall daily fpeak of thy righteousness and falvation for I know no end thereof.

14 I will go forth in the ftrength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy right coufnefs only.

15 Thou, O God, haft taught me from my youth up until now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

16 Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am greyheaded until I have fhewed thy ftrength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

17 Thy righteoufnefs, O God, is very high and great things are they that thou haft done; O God, who is like unto thee?

18 O what great troubles and adverfities haft thou fhewed me! and yet didft thou turn and refresh me yea, and broughteft me from the deep of the earth again.

19 Thou haft brought me to great honour : and comforted me on every fide,

20 Therefore will I praise thee, and thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an inftrument of mufick unto thee will I fing upon the harp, O thou Holy One of Ifrael.

21 My lips will be fain when I fing unto thee and fo will my foul whom thou haft delivered.

22 My tongue alfo fhall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto fhame, that feek to do me evil.

PSAL. 72. Deus, judicium. Gments, O God and thy IVE the king thy judge

righteousness unto the king's fon.

2 Then fhall he judge thy people according unto right: and defend the poor.

3 The mountains alfo fhall bring peace and the little hills righteoufnefs unto the people.

4 He thall keep the fimple folk by their right: defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrong-doer.

5 They fhall fear thee as long as the fun and moon endureth from one generation to another.

6 He fhall come down like. the rain into a fleece of wool: even as the drops that water the earth.

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7 In his time shall the righteous flourish yea, and abundance of peace, fo long as the moon endureth.

8 His dominion fhall be alfo from the one fea to the other :

and from the flood unto the world's end.

9 They that dwell in the wildernefs fhall kneel before him: his enemies hall lick the duft.

TO The kings of Tharfis and of the ifles fhall give prefents: the kings of Arabia and Saba fhall bring gifts.

11 All kings fhall fall down before hi all nations fhall do him fervice.

12 For he fhall deliver the poor when he crieth the needy alfo, and him that hath no helper.

13 He shall be favourable to the fimple and needy and shall preferve the fouls of the poor. 14 He fhall deliver their fouls from falfhood and wrong and dear fhall their blood be in his fight,

15 He fhall live, and unto him mhall be given of the gold of Arabia: prayer fhall be made ever unto him; and daily shall he be praised.

16 There fhall be an heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills his fruit fhall fhake like Libanus, and fhall be green in the city like grafs upon the earth.

17 His Name fhall endure for ever; his Name fhall remain under the fun among the pofterities: which fhall be bleffed through him and all the heathen fall praife him.

18 Bleffed be the Lord God, even the God of Ifrael: which only doeth wondrous things;

19 And bleffed be the Name of his Majefty for ever: and all the earth fhall be filled with his Majesty. Amen, Amen.`

EVENING PRAYER. PSAL. 73. Quam bonus Ifrael! RULY God is loving unto

are of a clean heart.

2 Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone my treadings had well-nigh flipped.

3 And why? I was grieved at the wicked : I do alfo fee the ungodly in fuch profperity.

4 For they are in no peril of death: but are lufty and strong.

5 They come in no misfortune like other folk: neither are they plagued like other men,

6 And this is the caufe that they are fo holden with pride: and overwhelmed with cruelty.

7 Their eyes fwell with fatnefs and they do even what they luft.

8 They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blafphemy: their talking is against the moft High.

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9 For they ftretch forth their mouth unto the heaven and their tongue goeth through the world.

10 Therefore fall the people unto them and thereout fuck they no small advantage.

11 Tufh, fay they, how should God perceive it: is there knowledge in the most High?

12 Lo, thefe are the ungodly, thefe profper in the world, and thefe have riches in poffeffion : and I faid, Then have I cleanfed my heart in vain, and washed mine hands in innocency.

13 All the day long have I been punished and chaftened every morning.

14 Yea, and I had almost faid even as they but lo, then I fhould have condemned the generation of thy children.

15 Then thought I to underftand this but it was too hard for me;

16 Until I went into the fanctyary of God: then understood I the end of these men;

17 Namely, how thou doft fet them in flippery places and cafteft them down, and destroy

eft them.

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21 So foolish was I, and ignorant: even as it were a beast before thee.

22 Nevertheless, I am alway by thee for thou haft holden me by my right hand.

23 Thou halt guide me with thy counsel and after that receive me with glory.

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24 Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I defire in comparifon of thee..

25 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the ftrength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

26 For lo, they that forfake thee fhall perish thou haft deftroyed all them that commit fornication against thee.

27 But it is good for me to hold me faft by God, to put my truft in the Lord God: and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

PSAL. 74. Ut quid, Deus? God, wherefore art thou abfent from us fo long: why is thy wrath fo hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

2 O think upon thy congregation whom thou haft purchafed, and redeemed of old.

3 Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion, wherein thou haft dwelt. 4 Lift up thy feet, that thou mayeft utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy fanctuary.

5 Thine adverfaries roar in the midft of thy congregations: and fet up their banners for tokens.

6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees : was known to bring it to an excellent work.

7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof : with axes and hammers.

8 They have fet fire upon thy holy places and have defiled the dwelling-place of thy Name, even unto the ground.

9 Yea, they faid in their hearts, Let us make havock of them altogether: thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land.

10 We fee not our tokens ; there is not one prophet more : no, not one is there among us that understandeth any more.

II O God, how long fhall the adverfary do this difhonour : how long fhall the enemy blafpheme thy Name, for ever?

12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckelt thou not thy right hand out of thy bofom to confume the enemy?

13 For God is my King of old: the help that is done upon earth, he doeth it himself.

14 Thou didst divide the fea through thy power: thou brakeft the heads of the dragons in the waters.

15 Thou fmoteft the heads of Leviathan in pieces: and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wilderness.

16 Thou broughtest out fountains, and waters out of the hard rocks thou driedft up mighty waters.

17 The day is thine, and the night is thine thou haft prepared the light and the fun.

18 Thou haft fet all the bor

ders of the earth thou haft made fummer and winter.

19 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy hath rebuked: and how the foolish people hath blafphemed thy Name.

20 O deliver not the foul of thy turtle-dove unto the multitude of the enemies and for

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