4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me : When shall he die, and his name : perish? 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity and his heart conceiveth falshood within himself, and when he cometh forth he telleth it. 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me even against me do they imagine this evil. 8 Let the sentence of guiltiness proceed against him : and now that he lieth, let him rise up no more. 9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted: who did also eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me. 10 But be Thou merciful unto me, O Lord raise Thou me up again, and I shall reward them. 11 By this I know Thou favourest me: that mine enemy doth not triumph against me. 12 And when I am in my health, Thou upholdest me and shalt set me before Thy face for ever. 13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: world without end. Amen. PSALM XLII. 8 My God, my soul is vexed within me therefore will I remember Thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon. 9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the waterpipes: all Thy waves and storms are gone over me. 10 The Lord hath granted His loving-kindness in the day-time and in the night-season did I sing of Him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. 11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast Thou forgotten me why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? : 12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth; 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me: Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soul: and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God: for I will yet thank Him, Which is the help of my countenance, and my God. PSALM XLIII. Judica me, Deus. IVE sentence with me, O God, LIKE as the hart desireth the G and defend my cause against water-brooks : so longeth my soal after Thee, O 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? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God? 4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving among such as keep holyday. 6 Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 7 Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give Him thanks for the help of His countenance. the ungodly people: O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man. 2 For Thou art the God of my strength, why hast Thou put me from Thee: and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 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. 4 And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness and upon the harp will I give thanks unto Thee, O God, my God. 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. DAY 9. Morning Prayer. PSALM XLIV. Deus, auribus. DAY 9. me and the shame of my face hath W God, our fathers have told us : E have heard with our ears, O covered me; what Thou hast done in their time of old; 2 How Thou hast driven out the heathen with Thy hand, and planted them in how Thou hast destroyed the nations, and cast them out. 3 For they gat not the land in possession through their own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them; 4 But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance because Thou hadst a favour unto them. 5 Thou art my King, O God: send help unto Jacob. 6 Through Thee will we overthrow our enemies and in Thy Name will we tread them under, that rise up against us. 7 For I will not trust in my bow: it is not my sword that shall help me; 8 But it is Thou that savest us from our enemies and puttest them to confusion that hate us. : 9 We make our boast of God all day long and will praise Thy Name for ever. 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 backs upon our enemies so that they which hate us spoil our goods. 12 Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep and hast scattered us among the heathen. 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 by-word among the heathen: and that the people shake their heads at us. 17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer: for the enemy and avenger. 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget Thee: nor behave ourselves frowardly in Thy covenant. 19 Our heart is not turned back : neither our steps gone out of Thy way; 20 No, not when Thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons: and covered us with the shadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange god shall not God search it out? for He knoweth the 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 mercy's sake. PSALM XLV. Eructavil cor meum. Y My heart is inditing of a good 3 Thou art fairer than the children 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 honour ride on, because of the 1 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. 9 All Thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made Thee glad. 10 Kings' daughters were among Thy honourable women: upon Thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours. 11 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, 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 needlework: the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto Thee. 16 With joy and gladness shall they be brought and shall enter into the King's palace. DAY 9. PSALM XLVII. Omnes gentes, plaudite. DAY 9. 3 He shall subdue the people unCLAP your hands together, all der us: and the nations under our 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. feet. 4 He shall choose out an heritage for us even the worship of Jacob, whom He loved. 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: Osing 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 joined unto the people of the God of Abraham for God, Which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a shield. PSALM XLVIII. 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-kindness, O God in the midst of Thy temple. 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 judgements. 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. ever and ever: He shall be our guide unto death. PSALM XLIX. Audite hæc, omnes. HEAR ye this, all ye people ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world; 2 High and low, rich and poor : one with another. 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom and my heart shall muse of understanding. 4 I will incline mine ear to the parable: and shew my dark speech upon the harp. 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness and when the 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, man will not abide in honour 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 domination 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. 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 heaven 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 burntofferings 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 a thousand hills. and pay thy vows unto the most Highest. 15 And call upon Me in the time of trouble: so will I hear thee, and 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 thou 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 satest, and spakest against thy brother: yea, and hast 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 honoureth Me: and to him that ordereth his conversation right will I shew the salvation of God. PSALM LI. Miserere mei, Deus. upon know all the fowls upon the Hafter Thy great goodness: 0. mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are in My sight. 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 balls' flesh and drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving : cording to the multitude of Thy mercies do away mine offences. 2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my faults : and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight: that |