205 teous cometh of the Lord, who is that is dumb, who doth not open also their strength in the time of his mouth. trouble. 14 I became even as a man that 41 And the Lord shall stand by heareth not, and in whose mouth them, and save them; he shall de-are no reproofs. liver them from the ungodly, and shall save them, because they put put my trust; thou shalt answer their trust in him. for me, O Lord, my God. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure; neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin: 15 For in thee, O Lord, have I 161 have required that they,even mine enemies, should not triumph over me; for when my foot slipt, they rejoiced greatly against me. 17 And I truly am set in the plague, and my heaviness is ever in my sight: 18 For I will confess my wickedness, and be sorry for my sin. 19 But mine enemies live, and are mighty; and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number. 20 They also that reward evil 4 For my wickednesses are gone for good are against me; because over my head, and are like a sore I follow the thing that good is. burthen, too heavy for me to bear. 5 My wounds stink, and are corrupt, through my foolishness. 6 I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long: 7 For my loins are filled with a sore disease, and there is no whole part in my body. 8 I am feeble and sore smitten; I have roared for the very disquietness of my heart. 9 Lord, thou knowest all my desire; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 21 Forsake me not, O Lord, my God; be not thou far from me. 22 Haste thee to help me, O Lord, God of my salvation. Psalm 39. Dixi, Custodiam. SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. 2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight. 3 I held my tongue, and spake nothing: I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me. 10 My heart panteth, my strength 4 My heart was hot within me: hath failed me, and the sight of and while I was thus musing the mine eyes is gone from me. fire kindled, and at the last I spake 11 My lovers and my neigh- with my tongue: bours did stand looking upon my 5 Lord, let me know my end, trouble, and my kinsmen stood and the number of my days, that afar off. may be certified how long I have 12 They also that sought after to live. my life, laid snares for me; and 6 Behold, thou hast made my they that went about to do me evil, days as it were a span long, and talked of wickedness, and imagined mine age is even as nothing in redeceit all the day long. spect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity: 13 As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not; and as one 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in 7 If I should declare them, and vain; he heapeth up riches, and speak of them, they should be more cannot tell who shall gather them. than I am able to express. 8 And now, Lord, what is my hope? truly my hope is even in thee. 9 Deliver me from all mine offences, and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. 10 I became dumb, and opened not my mouth; for it was thy doing. 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not, but mine ears hast thou opened. 9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required: then said I, Lo, I come. 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should 11 Take thy plague away from fulfil thy will, O my God: I am me: 1 am even consumed by the content to do it; yea, thy law is means of thy heavy hand. within my heart. 12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like I as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. 11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation: lo, will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest. 12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; my talk 13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and hath been of thy truth, and of thy with thine ears consider my call- salvation. ing; hold not thy peace at my tears: 13 I have not kept back thy lov14 For I am a stranger with ing mercy and truth from the great thee, and a sojourner, as all my congregation. fathers were. 14 Withdraw not thou thy mer 15 O spare me a little, that Icy from me, O Lord; let thy lovmay recover my strength, before ing kindness and thy truth alway I go hence, and be no more seen. preserve me. Psalm 40. Expectans expectavi. unto me, WAITED patiently for the I Lord, and he and heard my calling. 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay, and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even a thanksgiving unto our God. 4 Many shall see it, and fear, and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord, and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies. 60 Lord, my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done; like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. 15 For innumerable troubles are such hold upon me, that I am not come about me; my sins have taken able to look up; yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me; make haste, O Lord, to help me. 17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil. 18 Let them be desolate, and rewarded with shame, that say unto me, Fie upon thee, fie upon thee. 19 Let all those that seek thee, be joyful and glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation, say alway, The Lord be praised. 20 As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord careth for me. 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer; make no long tarrying, O my God. 2 My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God: When shall I come to appear before the presence of God? EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 41. Beatus qui intelligit. 3 My tears have been my meat LESSED is he that consider-day and night, while they daily say eth the poor and needy; the unto me, Where is now thy God? 'Lord shall deliver him in the time 4 Now when I think thereupon, of trouble. I pour out my heart by myself; for 2 The Lord preserve him, and I went with the multitude, and keep him alive,that he may be bless- brought them forth into the house ed upon earth; and deliver not thou of God; him into the will of his enemies. 5 In the voice of praise and 3 The Lord comfort him when thanksgiving, among such as keep he lieth sick upon his bed; make holy-day. thou all his bed in his sickness. 6 Why art thou so full of heavi4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto ness, O my soul? and why art me; heal my soul, for I have sin-thou so disquieted within me? ned against thee. 7 Put thy trust in God; for I 5 Mine enemies speak evil of will yet give him thanks for the me; When shall he die, and his help of his countenance. name perish? 8 My God, my soul is vexed 6 And if he come to see me, he within me; therefore will I respeaketh vanity, and his heart con- member thee concerning the land ceiveth falsehood within himself; of Jordan, and the little hill of and when he cometh forth, he tell- Hermon. eth it. 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me, even against me do they imagine this evil. 9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the waterpipes; all thy waves and storms are gone over me. 8 Let the sentence of guiltiness 10 The Lord hath granted his proceed against him, and now that loving kindness in the day-time, he lieth, let him rise up no more. and in the night-season did I sing 9 Yea, even mine own familiar of him, and made my prayer unto friend whom I trusted, who did the God of my life. also eat of my bread, hath laid 111 will say unto the God of great wait for me. my strength, Why hast thou for10 But be thou merciful unto gotten me? Why go I thus heavily, me, O Lord; raise thou me up while the enemy oppresseth me? again, and I shall reward them. 12 My bones are smitten asunder 11 By this I know thou favour-as with a sword, while mine eneest me, that mine enemy doth not mies that trouble me cast me in triumph against me. the teeth; 12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me, and shall set me before thy face for ever. 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me, Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, O 13 Blessed be the Lord God of my soul? and why art thou so disIsrael, world without end. Amen. quieted within me? Psalm 42. Quemadmodum. 15 O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, which is the water-brooks, so longeth my help of my countenance, and my LIKE as the hart desireth the soul after thee, O God. God. GIVE 7 For I will not trust in my bow; it is not my sword that shall help me. Psalm 43. Judica me, Deus. IVE sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people; O deliver me 8 But it is thou that savest us from the deceitful and wicked man; from our enemies, and puttest them 2 For thou art the God of my to confusion that hate us. strength: why hast thou put me 9 We make our boast of God from thee? and why go I so heavily, all day long, and will praise thy while the enemy oppresseth me? name for ever. 3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me, and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. 10 But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion; and goest not forth with our armies. 11 Thou makest us to turn our 4 And that I may go unto the backs upon our enemies, so that altar of God, even unto the God they which hate us spoil our goods. of my joy and gladness; and upon 12 Thou lettest us be eaten up the harp will I give thanks unto like sheep, and hast scattered us thee, O God, my God. among the heathen. 5 Why art thou so heavy, O my soul? and why art thou so disquieted within me? 60 put thy trust in God; for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. The ninth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 44. Deus, auribus. E have heard with our ears, 13 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and takest no money for them. 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us. 15 Thou makest us to be a byword among the heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us. 16 My confusion is daily before O God, our fathers have me, and the shame of my face told us what thou hast done in their hath covered me; time of old. 17 For the voice of the slander2 How thou hast driven out the er and blasphemer, for the enemy heathen with thy hand, and plant-and avenger. ed them in; how thou hast des- 18 And though all this be come troyed the nations, and cast them upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves frowardly in out. 3 For they gat not the land thy covenant. in possession through their own 19 Our heart is not turned back, sword, neither was it their own neither our steps gone out of thy arm that helped them; way; 4 But thy right hand, and thine 20 No, not when thou hast smitarm, and the light of thy counte- ten us into the place of dragons, nance; because thou hadst a fa- and covered us with the shadow vour unto them. of death. 5 Thou art my King, O God; 21 If we have forgotten the name send help unto Jacob. of our God, and holden up our 6 Through thee will we over-hands to any strange god, shall not throw our enemies, and in thy God search it out? for he knoweth name will we tread them under the very secrets of the heart. that rise up against us. 22 For thy sake also are we kill ed all the day long, and are counted a vesture of gold, wrought about as sheep appointed to be slain. with divers colours. 23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thou? 11 Hearken, O daughter, and awake, and be not absent from us consider; incline thine ear; forget for ever. also thine own people, and thy 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy father's house. face, and forgettest our misery and 12 So shall the King have pleatrouble? sure in thy beauty; for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him. 25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly cleaveth 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 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 matter; I speak of the things glorious within; her clothing is of which I have made unto the wrought gold. King. 15 She shall be brought unto 2 My tongue is the pen of a the King in raiment of needleready writer. work; the virgins that be her fel3 Thou art fairer than the chil-lows shall bear her company, and dren of men; full of grace are thy shall be brought unto thee. lips, because God hath blessed thee 16 With joy and gladness shall for ever. they be brought, and shall enter 4 Gird thee with thy sword up-into the King's palace. on thy thigh, O thou most mighty, 17 Instead of thy fathers thou according to thy worship and re-shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands. nown. 5 Good luck have thou with 18 I will remember thy name thine honour: ride on, because of from one generation to another; the word of truth, of meekness and therefore shall the people give righteousness, and thy right hand thanks unto thee, world without shall teach thee terrible things. end. 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, Psalm 46. Deus noster refugium. and the people shall be subdued GOD is our hope and strength, unto thee, even in the midst among the King's enemies. a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will we not fear, 7 Thy seat, O God, endureth though the earth be moved, and for ever; the sceptre of thy king- though the hills be carried into dom is a right sceptre. the midst of the sea. 8 Thou hast loved righteousness, 3 Though the waters thereof and hated iniquity; wherefore God, rage and swell, and though the even thy God, hath anointed thee mountains shake at the tempest of with the oil of gladness above thy the same. fellows. 4 The rivers of the flood thereof 9 All thy garments smell of shall make glad the city of God; myrrh, aloes, and cassia; out of the holy place of the tabernacle of the ivory palaces, whereby they the Most Highest. have made thee glad. 5 God is in the midst of her, 10 Kings'daughters were among therefore shall she not be removed; thy honourable women; upon thy God shall help her, and that right right hand did stand the queen in early. |