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EVENING PRAYER. Clamavi in toto corde meo.

6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors; because

CALL with my whole they keep not thy law. heart; hear me, O Lord, I 7 Consider, O Lord, how I will keep thy statutes. love thy commandments; O 2 Yea, even unto thee do I quicken me according to thy call; help me, and I shall keep loving-kindness.

thy testimonies.

8 Thy word is true from 3 Early in the morning do I everlasting; all the judgments cry unto thee; for in thy word of thy righteousness endure for is my trust.

4 Mine eyes prevent the night watches; that I might be occupied in thy words.

evermore.

Principes persecuti sunt.

RINCES have persecuted me without a cause; but

5 Hear my voice, O Lord, PR

according unto thy loving-my heart standeth in awe of kindness; quicken me accord-thy word.

ing as thou art wont.

2 I am as glad of thy word,

6 They draw nigh that of as one that findeth great spoils. malice persecute me, and are

far from thy law.

ments are true.

3 As for lies, I hate and abhor them; but thy law do I

7 Be thou nigh at hand, Olove. Lord; for all thy command- 4 Seven times a day do I praise thee; because of thy 8 As concerning thy testi-righteous judgments. monies, I have known long 5 Great is the peace that since, that thou hast grounded they have who love thy law; them for ever. and they are not offended at it.

Vide humilitatem.

6 Lord, I have looked for thy saving health, and done

CONSIDER mine ad-after thy commandments. versity, and deliver me, 7 My soul hath kept thy for I do not forget thy law. testimonies, and loved them 2 Avenge thou my cause, exceedingly.

and deliver me; quicken me 8 I have kept thy commandaccording to thy word.

ments and testimonies; for all

3 Health is far from the un-my ways are before thee. godly; for they regard not thy

statutes.

4 Great is thy mercy, O Lord; quicken me as thou art

wont.

Appropinquet deprecatio.

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ET my complaint come before thee, O Lord; give me understanding according

5 Many there are that trou-to thy word.

ble me, and persecute me; yet 2 Let my supplication come do I not swerve from thy testi-before thee; deliver me acmonies.

cording to thy word.

3 My lips shall speak of Psalm cxxi. Levavi oculos thy praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

4 Yea, my tongue shall sing

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meos.

WILL lift up mine eyes

unto the hills, from whence

of thy word; for all thy com-cometh my help. mandments are righteous.

2 My help cometh even

5 Let thine hand help me ; from the Lord, who hath made for I have chosen thy com-heaven and earth.

mandments.

3 He will not suffer thy foot, 6 I have longed for thy sa-to be moved; and he that ving health, O Lord; and in keepeth thee will not sleep. thy law is my delight. 4 Behold, he that keepeth 70 let my soul live, and it Israel shall neither slumber shall praise thee; and thy nor sleep. judgments shall help me.

8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

The Twenty-seventh Day.

MORNING PRAYER. Psalm cxx. Ad Dominum. HEN I was in trouble,

upon

5 The Lord himself is thy keeper; the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;

6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preser

I called upon the Lord, thy going out and thy coming and he heard me. in, from this time forth for

2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, evermore. from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Psalm cxxii. Lætatus sum.

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3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue ? even mighty and the house of the Lord. sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into

2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O Jerusalem.

4 Woe is me, that I am con- 3 Jerusalem is built as a strained to dwell with Mesech, city that is at unity in itself. and to have my habitation 4 For thither the tribes go among the tents of Kedar. up, even the tribes of the

5 My soul hath long dwelt Lord, to testify unto Israel, to among them that are enemies give thanks unto the Name of unto peace. the Lord.

6 I labour for peace; but 5 For there is the seat of when I speak unto them there-judgment, even the seat of the of, they make them ready to house of David. 6 O pray for the peace of H'h

battle.

Jerusalem; they shall prosper 4 The deep waters of the

that love thee.

proud had gone even over our

7 Peace be within thy walls, sou!. and plenteousness within thy palaces.

5 But praised be the Lord, who hath not given us over

8 For my brethren and com-for a prey unto their teeth. panions' sakes, I will wish thee 6 Our soul is escaped even prosperity.

as a bird out of the snare of

9 Yea, because of the house the fowler; the snare is broof the Lord our God, I will ken, and we are delivered. seek to do thee good.

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7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord, who hath made heaven and earth.

Psalm cxxv. Qui confidunt.

eyes, O thou that dwel-T

lest in the heavens.

THEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even

2 Behold, even as the eyes as the mount Sion, which may of servants look unto the hand not be removed, but standeth of their masters, and as the fast for ever.

eyes of a maiden unto the 2 The hills stand about Jehand of her mistress, even so rusalem; even so standeth the our eyes wait upon the Lord Lord round about his people, our God, until he have mercy from this time forth for everupon us.

more.

3 Have mercy upon us, O 3 For the rod of the ungodLord, have mercy upon us ;ly cometh not into the lot of for we are utterly despised. the righteous; lest the righ

4 Our soul is filled with the teous put their hand unto scornful reproof of the weal-wickedness.

thy, and with the despiteful- 4 Do well, O Lord, unto ness of the proud. those that are good and true of heart.

Psalm cxxiv. Nisi quia Do

minus.

5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness,

IF the Lord himself had not the Lord shall lead them forth been on our side, now may with the evil doers; but peace Israel say; if the Lord himself shall be upon Israel.

had not been on our side, when

men rose up against us;

EVENING PRAYER.

2 They had swallowed us Psalm cxxvi. In convertendo.

up quick; when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

WH

HEN the Lord turned again the captivity of

3 Yea, the waters had Sion, then were we like unto drowned us, and the stream them that dream.

had gone over our soul.

2 Then was our mouth filled

with laughter, and our tongue with joy.

2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: O well is

3 Then said they among the thee, and happy shalt thou be. heathen, the Lord hath done 3 Thy wife shall be as the great things for them. fruitful vine upon the walls of

4 Yea, the Lord hath done thine house. great things for us already; whereof we rejoice.

4 Thy children like the olive branches, round about thy Oftable.

5 Turn our, captivity, Lord, as the rivers in the south. 5 Lo, thus shall the man be 6 They that sow in tears, blessed that feareth the Lord. shall reap in joy. 6 The Lord from out of

7 He that now goeth on his Sion shall so bless thee, that way weeping, and beareth thou shalt see Jerusalem in forth good seed, shall doubtless prosperity all thy life long; come again with joy, and bring 7 Yea, that thou shalt see his sheaves with him. thy children's children, and

Psalm cxxvii. Nisi Dominus. peace upon Israel.

EXCE

'XCEPT the Lord build Psalm cxxix. Sæpe expugthe house, their labour is

but lost that build it.

naverunt.

ANY a time have they

2 Except the Lord keep the M fought against me from

eity, the watchman waketh but in vain.

3 It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

4 Lo, children and the fruit of the womb, are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord.

5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Psalm cxxviii. Beati omnes.

BLESSE

my youth up, may Israel now say;

2 Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth vailed against me. up; but they have not pre

3 The plowers plowed upon my back, and made long furrows;

4 But the righteous Lord hath hewn the snares of the Jungodly in pieces.

5 Let them be confounded and turned backward, as many as have evil will at Sion.

6 Let them be even as the grass growing upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be plucked up;

7 Whereof the mower filLESSED are all they that leth not his hand, neither he fear the Lord, and walk that bindeth up the sheaves in his w This bosom.

8 So that they who go by The Twenty-eighth Day. say not so much as, The Lord

prosper you, we wish you good

MORNING PRAYER.

luck in the name of the Lord. Psalm cxxxii. Memento, Do

Psalm cxxx. De profundis.

mine.

UT of the deep have LORD, remember Davids Ovalle

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and all his trouble.

called unto thee, O Lord; 2 How he sware unto the Lord, hear my voice. Lord, and vowed a vow unto

2 O let thine ears consider the Almighty God of Jacob; well the voice of my complaint. 3 I will not come within the

3 If thou, Lord, wilt be ex-tabernacle of mine house, nor treme to mark what is done climb up into my bed; amiss, O Lord, who may abide 4 I will not suffer mine eyes it ? to sleep, nor mine eye-lids to 4. For there is mercy with slumber; neither the temples thee; therefore shalt thou be of my head to take any rest; feared. 5 Until I find out a place for 5 I look for the Lord; my the temple of the Lord; an soul doth wait for him; in his habitation for the mighty God word is my trust. of Jacob.

6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord 6 Lo, we heard the same before the morning watch, Iat Ephrata, and found it in the say, before the morning watch. wood.

7 O Israel, trust in the Lord; 7 We will go into his taberfor with the Lord there isnacle, and fall low on our mercy, and with him is plen-knees before his footstool.

teous redemption.

8 Arise, O Lord, into thy 8 And he shall redeem Israel resting-place; thou, and the from all his sins. ark of thy strength.

Psalm cxxxi.

non est.

Domine,

LORD, I am not high mind

9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints sing with joyfulness. 10 For thy servant David's

ed; I have no proud looks. sake, turn not away the pre2 I do not exercise myself sence of thine Anointed.

in great matters which are too

high for me;

11 The Lord hath made a faithful oath unto David, and he shall not shrink from it;

3 But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child 12 Of the fruit of thy body that is weaned from his mo-shall I set upon thy seat.

ther yea, my soul is even as

a weaned child.

13 If thy children will keep my covenant, and my testimo4 O Israel, trust in the nies that I shall learn them; Lord, from this time forth for their children also shall sit

evermore.

upon thy seat for evermore.

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