The ferial Psalter; being the daily psalms adapted to antient ecclesiastical tones, by T.F. Ravenshaw and W.S. Rockstro

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Thomas Fitz-Arthur T. Ravenshaw
1869
 

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Page 182 - LORD, and consider my desire; hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness' sake. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant ; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul ; he hath smitten my life down to the ground ; he hath laid me in the darkness, as the men that have been long dead.
Page 177 - O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 127 - I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Page 104 - Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; tha,t glory may dwell in our land.
Page 97 - O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem an heap of stones. ( 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air, and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land.
Page xii - To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness ; 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
Page 38 - My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Page 110 - My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 112 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 13 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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