19 in the multitude of the for rows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have retrethed my foul. wilt thou have any thing to do with the ftool of wickednefs which imagineth mifchief as a law? 21 They gather them together againit the foul of the righteous: and condemn the innocent blood. 22 But the Lord is my refuge: and my God is the ftrength of my confidence. 23 He thall recompence them their wickedness, and deftroy them in their own malice: yea, the Lord our God thall deffroy them. MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 95. Venite, exultemus. Come, let us fing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the ftrength of our falvation. 2 Let us come before his prefence with thank iving and thew ourselves glad in him with pfalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are all the cor ners of the earth and the Arength of the hills is his also. 5 The fea is his, and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land, 6 O cone, let us worship and fall down and kneel be fore the Lord our Maker. 7 For he is the Lord our God; and we are the people of his paflure, and the theep of his hand. 8 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 wildernets; 9 When your fathers tempt ed me: proved me, and faw my works. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and faid: It is a people that do err in their hears, for they have not known my ways.. 31 Unto whom i tware in my wrath that they thou'd not enter into my reft." FSAL. 96. Cantate Domino. fong: fing unto the Lord, all the whole earth. 2 Sing unto the Lord, and praise his Name: be telling of his falvation from day to day. 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 worthip are before him power and honour are in his fanctuary. 7 Afcribe unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people: afcribe unto the Lord worthip and power. 8 Afcribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name : bring prefents and come into his courts. 90 worship the Lord in the beauty of holinefs: let the whole earth ftand in awe of him. To Tell it out among the heathen, that the Lord is King a and that it is he who hath made the round world fo faft that it cannot be moved; and how that he thall judge the people righteoufly. 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad let the fea make a no fe, and all that therein is. 12 Let the field be joyful and all that is in it: then thall al the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord; 13 For he come h, for be cometh to judge the earth and with righteoufnefs to judge the world, and the people with his truth. PSAL. 97. Dominus regnavit. r T HE Lord is King the earth may be glad thereof: yea, the multitude of the illes may be glad thereof, 2 Clouds and darknefs are round round about him: righteousness and judgement are the habitation of his feat. 3 There shall go a fire before him and burn up his enemies on every fide. 4 His lightning gave thine unto the world the earth faw it, and was afraid. 5 The hills melted like wax at the prefence of the Lord at the prefence of the Lord of the whole earth, 6 The heavens have declared his righteoufaefs and all the people have en his glory. 7 Confounded be all they that worship carved images, and that delight in vain gods: worship him all ye gods. 8 Sion heard of it and rejoiced and the dau hters of Judah were glad becaufe of thy Judgements, O Lord. 9 For thou, Lord, art higher than all that are in the earth: theu art exalted far above all gods. 10 O ye that love the Lord fee that ye hate the thing which is evil the Lord preferveth the fouls of his faints: he thall de liver them from the hand of the ungodly. 11 There is fprung up a light for the righteous and joyful gladnefs for fuch as are true hearted. 12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous and give thanks for a reinembrance of his holiness. EVENING PRAYER. PSAL. 98. Cantate Domino. SING unto the Lord a new fong for he hath done marvellous things. 2 With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he gotten himself the victory. 3 The Lord declared his falvation is righteoufnefs hath he openly thewed in the fight of the heathen. 4 He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the houfe of Ifrael: and all the ends of the world have feen the Lalvation of our God, 5 Shew yourfelves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands ting. rejoice, and give thanks. 6 Priife the Lord upon the harp fing to the harp with a pfalm of thanksgiving. 7 With trumpets alfo and fhawns: O fhew yourfelve joyful before the Lord the King. 8 Let the fea make a noife 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 together before the Lord: for he is come to judge the earth. 10 With righteoufnefs thall he judge the world and the people with equity. PSAL. 99. Dominus regnavit. HE Lord is King, be the peo ple ever fo impatient! he fitteth between the cherubims, be the earth ever fo unquiet. 2 The Lord is great in Sion: and high above all people. 3 They thall give thanks unte thy Name: which is great, wonderful, and holy. 4. The King's power loveth judgement, thou haft prepared equity: thou haft executed judgement and righteousness in Jacob. 5 O magnify the Lord our God and fall down before his footftool, for he is holy. 6 Mofes and Aaron among kis priefts, and Samuel among fuch as call upon his Name: thefe called upon the Lord, and he heard them. 7 He fake unto them out of the cloudy pillar for they kept his teftimonies, and the law that he gave them. 8 Thou heardeft them, O Lord our God: thou forgaveft them, O God, and punishedft their own inventions. 90 magnify the Lord our God, and worthip him upon his holy hill: for the Lord our God is holy. PSA L. 100. Jubilate Deo. ye lands: ferve the Lord joyful in the Lord, all with gladnefs, and come before his preience with a fong. 2 Be ye fure that he Lord he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves: we are his people, and the sheep of his pafture. 30 go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his cours with praise be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name. 4 For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlafting and his truth endureth from generation to generation. PSAL. 101. Mifericordiam. Y fong fhall be of mercy and judgement unto thee, O Lord, will I fing. 2 O let me have underftanding in the way of godlinefs! 3 When wilt thou come unto me: I will walk in my houfe with a perfect heart. 4I will take no wicked thing in hand; I hate the fins of unfaithfulness: there fhall no fuch cleave unto me. 5 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked perfon. 6 Whofo privily flandereth his neighbour: him will I deftroy. 7 Whofo hath alfo a proud look, and high ftomach: I will not fuffer him. 8 Mine eyes look upon fuch as are faithful in the land: that they may dwell with me. 9. Whofo leadeth a godly life: he thall be my fervant. 10 There thali no deceitful perfon dwell in my houfe: he that telleth lies thall not tarry in my fight. 11 I thall foon deftroy all the ungodly that are in the land: that I may root out all wicked doers from the city of the Lord. MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 102. Domine, exaudi. H and let my crying come TEAR my prayer, O Lord: unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble: incline thine ears unto me when I call; O hear me, and that right foon. 3 For my days are confumed away like fmoke and my bones smoke: are burnt up as it were a firebrand. 4 My heart is fmitten down, and withered like grafs: fo that I forget to eat my bread. 5 For the voice of my groaning: my bones will fcarce cleave to my flesh. 6 I am become like a pelican in the wilderacts and like an owl that is in the defert. 7 I have watched, and am even as it were a fparrow: that fitteth alone upon the houfetop. 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long: and they that are mad upon me, are sworn together againft me. 9 For I have eaten afhes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping; TO And that because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hat taken me up, and caft me down. 11 My days are gone like a fhadow and I am withered like grafs. 12 But thou, O Lord, fhalt endure for ever: and thy remembrance throughout all generations. mercy upon Sfon: for it is time 13 Thou shalt arife, and have that thou have mercy upon her, yea, the time is come. 14 And why? thy fervants think upon her ftones: and it pitieth them to fee her in the duft. Name, O Lord and all the 15 The heathen thall fear thy kings of the earth thy Majefty; 16 When the Lord fhall build thall appear; up Sion and when his glory 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poor defli ure: and defpifeth not their defire. 18 This fhall be written for thofe that come after: and the people which thall be born fhall praife the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his fanctuary: out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth; 20 That he might hear the mournings of fuch as are in captivity: and deliver the children appointed unto death; 21 That K ncrations. 25 Thou, Lord, in the begin ning, haft laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They thall perish, but thou fhalt endure: they all thall wax old as doth a garment; 27 And as a vefture thalt thou change them, and they thall be changed: but thou art the fame, and thy years thall not fail. 28 The children of thy ferv. ants thall continue and their feed thall ftand fart in thy fight. PSAL. 103. Benedic, anima mea PRAISE the Lord, O my foul: and all that is within me, praife his holy Name. 2 Praise the Lord, O my foul: and forget not all his benefits; 3 Who forgiveth all thy fin: and healeth all thine infirmities; 4 Who faveth thy life from Refruction: and crowneth thee with mercy ard lovingkindness; 5 Who fatisfieth thy mouth th good things: making thee young and lufty as an eagle. o The Lord executeth righteoufnefs and judgement: for al! them that are oppreffed with wrong. 7 ile fhewed his ways unto heaven is in comparison of the earth: fo great is his mercy alfo toward them that fear him. 12 Look how wide alfo the eaft is from the wett: fo far hath he fet our fins from us. 13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even fo is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. 14 For he knoweth whereof we are made: he remembereth that we are but duft. 15 The days of man are but as grafs: for he flourisheth as a flower of the field. 16 For as foon as the wind go. eth over it, it is gone: and the place thereof thall know it no more. 17 But the merciful goodnefs of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousness upon children's children; 18 Even upon fuch as keep his covenant: and think upon his commandments to do them. 19 The Lord hath prepared his feat in heaven: and his kingdom ruleth over all. 20 O praise the Lord, ye angels of his, ye that excel in frength: ye that fulfil his commandment, and hearken unto the voice of his words. 21 O praise the Lord, all ye his hofts: ye fervants of his that do his pleasure. 22 O fpeak good of the Lord, all ye works of his, in all places of his dominion : praise thou the Lord, O my foul. EVENING PRAYER. PSAL. 104, Benedic, anima mra. PRAISE the Lord, O my foul: Lord my God, thou art Mofes his works unto the chil- become exceeding glorious, thou art clothed with majeny dren of Ifrael. and honour. 8 The Lord is full of compaffion and mercy: longfuffering, and of great goodness. 9 He will not alway be chiding: neither keepeth he his anger for ever. to He hath not dealt with us after our fins: nor rewarded us Lecording to cur wickednelles. 4 For look how high the 2 Thou deckeft thyfelf with light as it were with a garment: and fpreadeft out the heavens like a curtain. 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: and ma eth the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind. 4 He maketh his angels fpirits: and his minifters a flaming fire. 5 He laid the foundations of the earth: that it never fhould move at any time. 6 Thou coveredt it with the deep like as with a garment: the waters ftard in the hills. 7. At thy rebuke they fiee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid. 8 They go up as high as the hills, and down to the valleys beneath even unto the place which thou haft appointed for them. 9 Thou haft fet them their bounds, which they shall not país: neither turn again to cover the earth. 10 He fendeth the fprings into the rivers which run among the hills. 11 All beafts of the field drink thereof and the wild affes quench their thirt 12 Befide them thall the fowls of the air have their habitation: and fing among the branches. 13 He watereth the hills from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works. 14 He bringeth forth grafs for the cattle and green herb for the fervice of men, 15 That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oil to make him a cheerful countenance, and bread to frengthen man's heart. 16 The trees of the Lord alfo are full of fap: even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted; 17 Wherein the birds make their nets and the fir trees are a dwelling for the tork. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and fo are the flony rocks for the conies. 19 He appointed the moon for certain feafons and the fun knoweth his going down. 20 Thou makeit darkness that it may be night: wherein all the beafts of the forett do move. 21 The lions roaring after their prey do feek their meat from God. 22 The fun arifeth, and they get them away together: and lay them down in their dens. 23 Ma. goeth forth to his work, and to his labour; until the evening. 24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works in wisdom haft thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is the great and wide fea alfo: wherein are things creeping innumerable, both imali and great beafts. 26 There go the fhips, and there is that Leviathan: whom thou haft made to take his paf time therein. 27 These wait all upon thee: that thou mayeit gave them meat in due fcafon. 28 When thou giveft it them, they gather it and when thou openeit thy hand, they are filled with good. 29 When thou hideft thy face, they are troubled when thou takeft away their breath, they die, and are turned again to their duft. 30 When thou letreft thy breath go forth, they shall be made and thou that renew the face of the earth, 31 The glorious Majefty of the Lord fhall endure for ever: the Lord thall rejoice in his works. 32 The earth fhai! tremble at the look of him if he do but touch the bills, they fhall fmoke. 33 will fing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will praife my God while I have my being. 34 And fo fhall my words pleafe him my joy shall be in the Lord. 35 As for finners, they fhall be confumed out of the earth, and the ungodly thall come to an end: praife thou the Lord, O my foul, praife the Lord. MORNING PRAYER. PS AL. 105. Confitemini Domino. and call upon bis Name i GIVE thanks unto the Lord, tell the people what things he hath done. 2 O let your fongs be of him, and praife him: and, let your K2 talking |