25 My truth also and my mer- 42 Thou hast taken away the cy shall be with him; and in my edge of his sword, and givest him name shall his horn be exalted. not victory in the battle.

26 I will set his dominion also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.

43 Thou hast put out his glory, and cast his throne down to the ground.

27 He shall call me, Thou art 44 The days of his youth hast my Father, my God, and my thou shortened, and covered him strong salvation. with dishonour.

28 And I will make him my 45 Lord, how long wilt thou first-born, higher than the kings hide thyself? for ever? and shall of the earth. thy wrath burn like fire?

29 My mercy will I keep for 46 O remember how short my him for evermore, and my cove-time is; wherefore hast thou made nant shall stand fast with him. all men for nought?

30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

31 But if his children forsake my law,and walk not in my judgments; 48 Lord, where are thy old 32 If they break my statutes, loving kindnesses, which thou and keep not my commandments; swarest unto David in thy truth? I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges. 33 Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my truth to fail.

49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy servants have, and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people;

50 Wherewith thine enemies 34 My covenant will I not break, have blasphemed thee, and slannor alter the thing that is gone out dered the footsteps of thine Anof my lips: I have sworn once by my ointed: Praised be the Lord for holiness, that I will not fail David. evermore.

35 His seed, shall endure for ever, and his seat is like as the sun before me.

36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon, and as the

faithful witness in heaven.

Amen and Amen.

The eighteenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 90. Domine, refugium. LORD, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation

37 But thou hast abhorred and to another.

forsaken thine Anointed, and art] 2 Before the mountains were displeased at him. brought forth, or ever the earth 38 Thou hast broken the cove-and the world were made, thou art nant of thy servant, and cast his God from everlasting, and world crown to the ground. without end.

39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his strong holds.

40 All they that go by spoil him, and he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night. 41 Thou hast set up the right 5 As soon as thou scatterest hand of his enemies, and made all them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.

his adversaries to rejoice.

6 In the morning it is green, and 3 For he shall deliver thee from groweth up; but in the evening it the snare of the hunter, and from is cut down, dried up, and withered. the noisome pestilence.

7 For we consume away in thy 4 He shall defend thee under his displeasure, and are afraid at thy wings, and thou shalt be safe under wrathful indignation. his feathers; his faithfulness and

8 Thou hast set our misdeeds truth shall be thy shield and buckbefore thee, and our secret sins in ler. the light of thy countenance.

9 For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness 10 The days of our age are that destroyeth in the noon-day. threescore years and ten; and 7 A thousand shall fall beside though men be so strong that they thee, and ten thousand at thy right come to fourscore years, yet is hand; but it shall not come nigh their strength then but labour and thee.

sorrow; so soon passeth it away, 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt and we are gone. thou behold, and see the reward of

11 But who regardeth the pow-the ungodly. er of thy wrath for even there- 9 For thou, Lord, art my hope; after as a man feareth, so is thy thou hast set thine house of dedispleasure. fence very high. 12 So teach us to number our 10 There shall no evil happen days, that we may apply our unto thee, neither shall any plague hearts unto wisdom. come nigh thy dwelling.

13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last, and be gracious unto thy servants.

14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us; and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

16 Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver 17 And the glorious Majesty of him; I will set him up, because the Lord our God be upon us: he hath known my name. prosper thou the work of our 15 He shall call upon me, and hands upon us; O prosper thou I will hear him; yea, I am with our handy work. him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

Psalm 91. Qui habitat. HOSO dwelleth under the defence of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my strong hold, my God, in him will I trust.

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. Psalm 92. Bonum est confiteri.

T is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most Highest; 2 To tell of thy loving kindness

early in the morning, and of thy truth in the night-season;

3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute; upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp:

2 He hath made the round world so sure, that it cannot be moved.

3 Ever since the world began, hath thy seat been prepared; thou art from everlasting.

4 The floods are risen, O Lord, 4 For thou, Lord, hast made me the floods have lift up their voice, glad through thy works; and I will the floods lift up their waves. rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.

5 The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; but yet the 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy Lord, who dwelleth on high, is works; thy thoughts are very mightier. deep.

6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, are

6 An unwise man doth not well very sure: holiness becometh thine consider this, and a fool doth not house for ever. understand it.

7 When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish, then to

Psalm 94. Deus ultionum. LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth, thou God, whom vengeance belongeth,

shall they be destroyed for ever; show thyself.

but thou, Lord, art the Most High- 2 Arise, thou Judge of the world, and reward the proud after their deserving.

est for evermore.

8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, lo, thine enemies shall perish; and 3 Lord, how long shall the unall the workers of wickedness shall godly, how long shall the ungodly be destroyed. triumph?

9 But mine horn shall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn; for I am anointed with fresh oil.

10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that arise up against me.

11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.

4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully, and make such proud boasting?

5 They smite down thy people, O Lord, and trouble thine heritage.

6 They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.

7 And yet they say, Tush, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

8 Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will

12 Such as are planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. 13 They also shall bring forth ye understand? more fruit in their age, and shall 9 He that planted the ear, shall be fat and well liking; he not hear? or he that made the

14 That they may show how eye, shall he not see? true the Lord my strength is, and that there is no unrighteousness in him.

10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen, it is he that teacheth man knowledge; shall not he punish? EVENING PRAYER. 11 The Lord knoweth the Psalm 93. Dominus regnavit. thoughts of man, that they are THE HE Lord is King, and hath but vain.

put on glorious apparel; the 12 Blessed is the man whom Lord hath put on his apparel, and thou chastenest, O Lord, and girded himself with strength. teachest him in thy law;

godly.

13 That thou mayest give him 6 O come, let us worship, and patience in time of adversity, until fall down, and kneel before the the pit be digged up for the un-Lord our Maker: 7 For he is the Lord our God; 14 For the Lord will not fail his and we are the people of his paspeople; neither will he forsake his ture, and the sheep of his hand. inheritance; 8 To-day if ye will hear his 15 Until righteousness turn voice, harden not your hearts as again unto judgment: all such as in the provocation, and as in the are true in heart shall follow it. day of temptation in the wilder16 Who will rise up with me ness;

against the wicked? or who will 9 When your fathers tempted take my part against the evil-doers? me, proved me, and saw my works. 17 If the Lord had not helped 10 Forty years long was I grievme, it had not failed, but my soul ed with this generation, and said, had been put to silence. It is a people that do err in their 18 But when I said, My foot hearts, for they have not known hath slipped; thy mercy, O Lord, my ways:

held me up.

11 Unto whom I sware in my 19 In the multitude of the sor-wrath, that they should not enter rows that I had in my heart, thy into my rest. comforts have refreshed my soul.

20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness,

Psalm 96. Cantate Domino. SING unto the Lord a new song; sing unto the Lord,

which imagineth mischief as a law? all the whole earth.

21 They gather them together 2 Sing unto the Lord, and praise against the soul of the righteous, his name; be telling of his salvaand condemn the innocent blood. tion from day to day. 22 But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the strength of my confidence.

23 He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice; yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.

The nineteenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 95. Venite, exultemus. COME, let us sing unto the Lord; let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.

3 Declare his honour unto the heathen, and his wonders unto all people.

4 For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised; he is more to be feared than all gods.

5 As for all the gods of the heathen, they are but idols; but it is the Lord that made the heavens.

6 Glory and worship are before him; power and honour are in his sanctuary.

7 Ascribe unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, ascribe un2 Let us come before his pres-to the Lord worship and power. ence with thanksgiving; and show 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the ourselves glad in him with psalms. honour due unto his name; bring

3 For the Lord is a great God; presents, and come into his courts, and a great King above all gods. 9 O worship the Lord in the 4 In his hand are all the corners beauty of holiness; let the whole of the earth; and the strength of earth stand in awe of him. the hills is his also.

10 Tell it out among the hea5 The sea is his, and he made it; then, that the Lord is King; and and his hands prepared the dry land. that it is he who hath made the

round world so fast that it cannot for the righteous, and joyful gladbe moved; and how that he shall ness for such as are true-hearted. judge the people righteously. 12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and righteous, and give thanks for a let the earth be glad; let the sea remembrance of his holiness. make a noise, and all that therein is. EVENING PRAYER. 12 Let the field be joyful, and all Psalm 98. Cantate Domino. that is in it; then shall all the treesSING unto the Lord a new of the wood rejoice before the Lord.

song; for he hath done mar

13 For he cometh, for he com-vellous things. eth to judge the earth; and with 2 With his own right hand, righteousness to judge the world, and with his holy arm, hath he and the people with his truth. gotten himself the victory.

Psalm 97. Dominus regnavit.

THE

3 The Lord declared his salHE Lord is King, the earth vation; his righteousness hath he may be glad thereof; yea, openly showed in the sight of the the multitude of the isles may be heathen. glad thereof.

4 He hath remembered his mer2 Clouds and darkness are cy and truth toward the house of round about him; righteousness Israel, and all the ends of the world and judgment are the habitation have seen the salvation of our God. of his seat. 5 Show yourselves joyful unto 3 There shall go a fire before the Lord, all ye lands; sing, rehim, and burn up his enemies on joice, and give thanks. every side. 6 Praise the Lord upon the 4 His lightnings gave shine harp; sing to the harp with a unto the world; the earth saw it, psalm of thanksgiving. and was afraid.

5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord; at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

6 The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory.

7 With trumpets also and shawms, O show yourselves joyful before the Lord the King.

8 Let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is; the round world, and they that dwell therein.

9 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful 7 Confounded be all they that together before the Lord; for be worship carved images, and that is come to judge the earth. delight in vain gods: worship him, all ye gods.

10 With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people

Psalm 99. Dominus regnavit.·

8 Sion heard of it, and rejoiced; with equity. and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, OTHE Lord is King, be the peoLord. ple never so impatient; he

9 For thou, Lord, art higher sitteth between the Cherubim, be than all that are in the earth; thou the earth never so unquiet. art exalted far above all gods. 2 The Lord is great in Sion,

10 O ye that love the Lord, see and high above all people. that ye hate the thing which is 3 They shall give thanks unto evil: the Lord preserveth the souls thy name, which is great, wonof his saints; he shall deliver them derful, and holy.

from the hand of the ungodly.

4 The King's power loveth

11 There is sprung up a light judgment; thou hast prepared