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19 Our heart is not turned back, 9 All thy garments smell of myrrhi, neither our steps gone out of thy way; aloes, and cassia; out of the ivory 20 No, not when thou hast smitten palaces, whereby they have made us into the place of dragons, and cov-thee glad. ered us with the shadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the name thy honorable women; upon thy of our GOD, and holden up our hands right hand did stand the queen in a to any strange god, shall not GOD vesture of gold, wrought about with search it out? for he knoweth the divers colors. very secrets of the heart.

22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.

23 Up, LORD, why sleepest thou? awake, and be not absent from us for

ever.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and trouble? 25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly cleav. eth unto the ground.

26 Arise, and help us, and deliver us, for thy mercies' sake.

PSALM 45. Eructavit cor meum.

MY heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.

11 Hearken, O daughter, and con. sider; incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty; for he is thy LORD GOD, and worship thou him.

13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee.

14 The King's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold.

15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work: the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee.

2 My tongue is the pen of a ready 16 With joy and gladness shall writer. they be brought, and shall enter into 3 Thou art fairer than the child-the King's palace. ren of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee

for ever.

4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty, according to thy worship and renown.

5 Good luck have thou with thine honor: ride on, because of the word of truth, of meekness and righteousness, and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the King's enemies.

7 Thy seat, O GOD, endureth for ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; wherefore GOD, even thy GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

17 Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.

18 I will remember thy name from one generation to another; therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.

PSALM 46. Deus noster refugium.

GOD is our hope and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea.

3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.

4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of GOD; the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most Highest.

5 GOD is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed; GOD shall help her, and that right| early.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but GOD hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.

7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the GOD of Jacob is our refuge.

8 O come hither, and behold the works of the LORD, what destruction he hath brought upon the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world; he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire.

10 Be still then, and know that I am GOD: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the GOD of Jacob is our refuge.

EVENING PRAYER.

PSALM 48. Magnus Dominus. GREAT is the LORD, and highly to be praised in the city of our GOD, even upon his holy hill.

2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth; upon the north side lieth the city of the great King: GOD is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge.

3 For lo, the kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by together.

4 They marvelled to see such things; they were astonished, and suddenly cast down.

5 Fear came there upon them; and sorrow, as upon a woman in her travail.

6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the east wind.

7 Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our GOD; GOD upholdeth the same for ever.

8 We wait for thy loving kind. PSALM 47. Omnes Gentes, plaudite.ness, O GOD, in the midst of thy temple.

O CLAP your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto GOD with the voice of melody.

2 For the LORD is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all

the earth.

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5 GOD is gone up with a merry noise, and the LORD with the sound of the trump.

6 O sing praises, sing praises unto our GOD; O sing praises, sing praises unto our King.

7 For GOD is the King of all the earth sing ye praises with understanding.

8 GOD reigneth over the heathen; GOD sitteth upon his holy seat.

9 The princes of the people are

9 O GOD, according to thy name, so is thy praise unto the world's end; thy right hand is full of righteousness.

10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

11 Walk about Sion, and go round about her; and tell the towers thereof.

12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell them that come after.

13 For this GOD is our GOD for ever and ever: He shall be our guide unto death.

PSALM 49. Audite hæc, omnes.

O HEAR ye this, all ye people; ponder it with your ears, all that dwell in the world;

ye

2 High and low, rich and poor, one with another.

3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall muse of

joined unto the people of the GOD of understanding.

Abraham; for GOD, which is very 4 I will incline mine ear to the high exalted, doth defend the earth parable, and show my dark speech as it were with a shield.

Tupon the harp.

5 Wherefore should I fear in the understanding, but is compared unto days of wickedness, and when the the beasts that perish. wickedness of my heels compasseth me round about?

6 There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

7 But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto GOD for him:

8 For it cost more to redeem their souls; so that he must let that alone for ever;

9 Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave.

10 For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other.

11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever, and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own

names.

12 Nevertheless, will man not abide in honor, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them.

13 This is their foolishness, and their posterity praise their saying.

14 They lie in the hell like sheep; death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have dominion over them in the morning: their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling.

15 But GOD hath delivered my soul from the place of hell; for he shall receive me.

16 Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased;

THE TENTH'DAY.

MORNING PRAYER.

PSALM 50. Deus deorum. THE LORD, even the most mighty GOD, hath spoken, and called the world, from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof.

2 Out of Sion hath GOD appeared in perfect beauty.

3 Our GOD shall come, and shall not keep silence; there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.

4 He shall call the heaven from above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me with sacrifice.

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for GOD is judge himself.

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; I myself will testify against thee, O Israel; for I am God, even thy God.

8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt-offerings; because they were not alway before me.

9 I will take no bullock out of thine house, nor he-goat out of thy folds;

10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills.

11 I know all the fowls upon the 17 For he shall carry nothing mountains, and the wild beasts of the away with him when he dieth, nei-field are in my sight. ther shall his pomp follow him.

18 For while he lived, he counted himself a happy man; and so long as thou dost well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee.

12 If I be hungry, I will not tell thee; for the whole world is mine, and all that is therein.

13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bull's flesh, and drink the blood of

19 He shall follow the generation goats? of his fathers, and shall never see 14 Offer unto GOD thanksgiving, light. and pay thy vows unto the Most

20 Man being in honor hath no Highest,

15 And call upon me in the time sop, and I shall be clean; thou shalt of trouble; so will I hear thee, and wash me, and I shall be whiter than thou shalt praise me.

16 But unto the ungodly said GOD, Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth;

17 Whereas thon hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?

18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst unto him; and hast been partaker with the adulterers.

19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness, and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit.

20 Thou sattest and spakest against thy brother; yea, and fast slandered

thine own mother's son.

21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou thoughtest wickedly, that I am even such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done.

22 O consider this, ye that forget GOD, lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.

23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoreth me; and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I show the salvation of GOD. PSALM 51. Miserere mei, Deus. HAVE mercy upon me, O GOD, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences.

snow.

8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 Turn thy face from my sins, and put out all my misdeeds.

10 Make me a clean heart, O GOD, and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.

12 O give me the comfort of thy help again, and stablish me with thy free Spirit.

13 Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O GOD, thou that art the GoD of my health; and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness.

15 Thou shalt open my lips, O LORD, and my mouth shall show thy praise.

16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee; but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

17 The sacrifice of GOD, is a trite heart, O GOD, shalt thou not troubled spirit: a broken and con. despise.

18 O be favorable and gracious unto Sion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

2 Wash me thoroughly from my 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with wickedness, and cleanse me from the sacrifice of righteousness, with my sin; the burnt-offerings and oblations; then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar.

and

3 For I acknowledge my faults, my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged.

5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

6 But lo, thou requirest truth in the 'nward parts, and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly.

PSALM 52. Quid gloriaris? WHY boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant, that thou canst do mischief? 2 Whereas the goodness of GOD endureth yet daily.

3 Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp razor.

4 Thou hast loved unrighteousness more than goodness, and to talk of 7 Thou shalt purge me with hys-lies more than righteousness.

5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt, O thou false tongue.

6 Therefore shall GOD destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, a root thee out of the land of the living. 7 The righteous also shall see this, and fear, and shall laugh him to

scorn:

8 Lo, this is the man that took not GOD for his strength; but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wicked

ness.

9 As for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of GOD; my trust is in the tender mercy of GoD I for ever and ever.

10 I will always give thanks unto thee for that thou hast done; and I will hope in thy nante, for thy saints like it well.

EVENING PRAYER.

PSALM 53. Dixit insipiens. THE foolish body hath said in his heart, There is no GOD.

2 Corrupt are they, and become abominable in their wickedness; there is none that doeth good.

PSALM 54. Deus, in nomine. SAVE me, O GOD, for thy name's sake, and avenge me in thy strength. 2 Hear my prayer, O GOD, and hearken unto the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not GOD before their eyes, seek after my soul.

4 Behold, GOD is my helper; the LORD is with them that uphold my soul.

5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies destroy thou them in thy truth.

6 An offering of a free heart will give thee, and praise thy name, O LORD; because it is so comfortable.

7 For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble; and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.

PSALM 55. Exaudi, Deus.

HEAR my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition.

2 Take heed unto me, and hear me, how I mourn in my prayer, and am vexed.

3 The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast; for they 3 GOD looked down from heaven are minded to do me some mischief, upon the children of men, to see if so maliciously are they set against there were any that would understand, and seek after GOD.

4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable; there is also none that doeth good, no not one.

.5 Are they not without understanding that work wickedness, eating up my people as if they would eat bread? they have not called upon GOD.

6 They were afraid, where no fear was; for GOD hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee; thou hast put them to confusion, because GOD hath despised them.

7 O that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion! O that the

me.

4 My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me.

5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and a horrible dread hath overwhelmed me.

6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would 1 flee away, and be at rest.

7 Lo, then would I get me away far off and remain in the wilderness.

8 I would make haste to escape, because of the stormy wind and tempest.

9 Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I have spied LORD would deliver his people out unrighteousness and strife in the of captivity!

8 Then should Jacob rejoice, and Israel should be right glad.

city.

10 Day and night they go about within the walls thereof; mischief

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