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Defecit anima mea. 2 Thou,through thy commandY soul hath longed for thy ments, hast made me wiser than salvation, and I have a good mine enemies; for they are ever hope because of thy word. with me.

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2 Mine eyes long sore for thy word; saying, O when wilt thou comfort me?

3 I have more understanding than my teachers; for thy testimonies are my study.

4 I am wiser than the aged; be

3 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget cause I keep thy commandments. thy statutes. 5 I have refrained my feet from 4 How many are the days of thy every evil way, that I may keep servant? when wilt thou be aven-thy word. ged of them that persecute me?

6 I have not shrunk from thy

5 The proud have digged pits for judgments; for thou teachest me. me, which are not after thy law.

6 All thy commandments are true: they persecute me falsely; O be thou my help.

7 O how sweet are thy words unto my throat; yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!

8 Through thy commandments 7 They had almost made an end I get understanding: therefore I of me upon earth; but I forsook hate all evil ways. not thy commandments.

8 O quicken me after thy loving kindness; and so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

Domine. LORD, thy word endureth for ever in heaven.

2 Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another; thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.

3 They continue this day according to thine ordinance; for all things serve thee.

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4 If my delight had not been in thy law, I should have perished in my trouble.

5 I will never forget thy commandments; for with them thou hast quickened me.

The twenty-sixth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Lucerna pedibus meis. word is a lantern unto feet, and a light unto my paths. 2 I have sworn, and am steadfastly purposed, to keep thy righteous judgments.

3 I am troubled above measure: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy word.

4 Let the free-will offerings of my mouth please thee, O Lord; and teach me thy judgments.

5 My soul is alway in my hand; yet do I not forget thy law.

6. The ungodly have laid a snare for me; but yet I swerved not from thy commandments.

7 Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever; and why? they are the very joy of my

6 I am thine: O save me, for 1 have sought thy commandments. 7 The ungodly laid wait for me, to destroy me; but I will consider heart. thy testimonies.

8 I have applied my heart to 8 I see that all things come to fulfil thy statutes alway, even unto an end; but thy commandment is the end. exceeding broad.

Quomodo dilexi!

LORD, what love have I unto

thy law! all the day long is my study in it.

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Iniquos odio habui.

HATE them that imagine evil things; but thy law do I love. 2 Thou art my defence and shield; and my trust is in thy word.

3 Away from me, ye wicked; I 4 O look thou upon me, and be will keep the commandments of merciful unto me, as thou usest to my God. do unto those that love thy name.

40 stablish me according to thy word, that I may live; and let me not be disappointed of my hope.

5 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe; yea, my delight shall be ever in thy statutes.

6 Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes; for they imagine but deceit.

5 Order my steps in thy word; and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

6 O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men; and so shall I keep thy commandments.

7 Show the light of thy countenance upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.

7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross; there-ter, fore I love thy testimonies.

8 Mine eyes gush out with wabecause men keep not thy law. Justus es, Domine. IGHTEOUS art thou, O

8 My flesh trembleth for fear of R Lord; and true is thy judg

thee; and I am afraid of thy judg

ments.

Feci judicium.

ment.

2 The testimonies that thou hast

IDEAL with the thing that is commanded are exceeding righ

lawful and right; O give me teous and true.

not over unto mine oppressors.

3 My zeal hath even consumed

2 Make thou thy servant to de-me; because mine enemies have light in that which is good, that the forgotten thy words. 4 Thy word is tried to the ut

proud do me no wrong.

3 Mine eyes are wasted away termost, and thy servant loveth it. with looking for thy health, and 5 I am small and of no reputafor the word of thy righteousness. tion; yet do I not forget thy com4 O deal with thy servant ac-mandments. cording unto thy loving mercy, and 6 Thy righteousness is an everteach me thy statutes. lasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

5 I am thy servant; O grant me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

6 It is time for thee, Lord, to lay to thine hand; for they have destroyed thy law.

7 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.

8 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant

7 For I love thy commandments me understanding, and I shall live. above gold and precious stones.

8 Therefore hold I straight all

thy commandments; and all false

vays I utterly abhor.

Mirabilia.

THY testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them.

2 When thy word goeth forth, it giveth light and understanding unto the simple.

3 I opened my mouth, and drew in my breath; for my delight was in thy commandments.

EVENING PRAYER. Clamavi in toto corde meo. Cear me, O Lord, I will keep CALL with my whole heart;

thy statutes.

2 Yea, even unto thee do I call; help me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.

3 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee; for in thy word is my

trust.

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

5 Hear my voice, O Lord, ac-| 6 Lord, I have looked for thy cording unto thy loving kindness; saving health, and done after thy quicken me according as thou art commandments.

wont.

7 My soul hath kept thy testi6 They draw nigh that of malice monies, and loved them exceedpersecute me, and are far from thy ingly.

law.

8 I have kept thy command7 Be thou nigh at hand, O Lord; ments and testimonies; for all my for all thy commandments are ways are before thee.

true.

Appropinquet deprecatio. 8 As concerning thy testimonies,ET my complaint come before I have known long since, that thou thee, O Lord; give me underhast grounded them for ever. standing according to thy word. 2 Let my supplication come be

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Vide humilitatem. CONSIDER mine adversi-fore thee; deliver me according ty, and deliver me, for I do to thy word. not forget thy law.

3 My lips shall speak of thy

2 Avenge thou my cause, and praise, when thou hast taught me deliver me; quicken me according thy statutes.

to thy word.

4 Yea, my tongue shall sing of

3 Health is far from the ungodly; thy word; for all thy commandfor they regard not thy statutes. ments are righteous.

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

5 Many there are that trouble me, and persecute me; yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies. 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors; because they keep not thy law.

7 Consider, O Lord, how I love thy commandments; O quicken me according to thy loving kind

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5 Let thine hand help me; for have chosen thy commandments. 6 I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord; and in thy law is my delight.

70 let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and thy 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 120. Ad Dominum. WHEN I was in trouble, I called upon the Lord, and he heard me.

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

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

4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar.

5 My soul hath long dwelt among 9 Yea, because of the house of them that are enemies unto peace. the Lord our God, I will seek to 6 I labour for peace; but when do thee good.

I speak unto them thereof, they Psalm 123. Ad te levavi oculos make them ready to battle.

meos.

Psalm 121. Levavi oculos meos. UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, WILL lift up mine eyes unto

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the hills, from whence cometh heavens. my help.

thou that dwellest in the

2 Behold, even as the eyes of

2 My help cometh even from servants look unto the hand of their the Lord, who hath made heaven masters, and as the eyes of a maidand earth. en unto the hand of her mistress, 3 He will not suffer thy foot to even so our eyes wait upon the be moved; and he that keepeth Lord our God, until he have merthee will not sleep. cy upon us.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

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 preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore.

Psalm 122. Lætatus sum.

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us; for we are utterly despised.

4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy, and with the despitefulness of the proud.

Psalm 124. Nisi quia Dominus.
F the Lord himself had not been

on our side, now may Israel say; if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;

2 They had swallowed us up quick; when they were so wrath

IWAS glad when they said unto fully displeased at us.

me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

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

3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself.

4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord, to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

3 Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul.

4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soul.

5 But praised be the Lord, who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken, and we are de

5 For there is the seat of judgment, even the seat of the house of livered. David.

60 pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love thee.

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

the Lord

Psalm 125. Qui confidunt. 7 Peace be within thy walls, and THEY that put their trust in plenteousness within thy palaces. even as the 8 For my brethren and com-mount Sion, which may not be repanions' sakes, I will wish thee moved, but standeth fast for ever. prosperity. 2 The hills stand about Jerusa

lem; even so standeth the Lord 5 Like as the arrows in the round about his people, from this hand of the giant, even so are the time forth for evermore. young children.

3 For the rod of the ungodly 6 Happy is the man that hath cometh not unto the lot of the his quiver full of them; they shall righteous; lest the righteous put not be ashamed when they speak their hand unto wickedness. with their enemies in the gate.

4 Do well, O Lord, unto those Psalm 128. Beati omnes. that are good and true of heart.

at are for such as turn back Breas the Lord, and walk in

unto their own wickedness, the Lord shall lead them forth with

his ways.

the evil doers; but peace shall be of thine hands: O well is thee, 2 For thou shalt eat the labour. upon Israel.

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 126. In convertendo. W WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion, then were we like unto them that dream.

and happy shalt thou be.

3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thine house.

branches, round about thy table.. 4 Thy children like the olive 2 Then was our mouth filled with blessed that feareth the Lord. 5 Lo, thus shall the man be laughter, and our tongue with joy. 6 The Lord from out of Sion 3 Then said they among the shall so bless thee, that thou shalt heathen, the Lord hath done great see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy things for them. life long;

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

children's children, and peace up7 Yea, that thou shalt see thy on Israel.

5 Turn our captivity, O Lord, Psalm 129. Sæpe expugnaverunt.

as the rivers in the south.

6 They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.

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ANY a time have they fought against me from my youth 7 He that now goeth on his up, may Israel now say; way weeping, and beareth forth 2 Yea, many a time have they good seed, shall doubtless come vexed me from my youth up; but again with joy, and bring his they have not prevailed against sheaves with him.

Psalm 127. Nisi Dominus.

me.

3 The plowers plowed upon my

EXCEPT the Lord build the back, and made long furrows;

house, their labour is but lost that build it.

2 Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen 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 But the righteous Lord hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.

5 Let them be confounded and turned back ward, 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;

4 Lo, children and the fruit of 7 Whereof the mower filleth the womb, are an heritage and not his hand, neither he that bindgift that cometh of the Lord. eth up the sheaves his bosom

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