6 The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ifmaelites: the Moabites and Hagarenes. 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Affur alfo is joyned unto them: and have holpen the children of Lot. 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites: unto Sifera,and unto Jabin,at the brook of Kifon. 12 For the Lord God is a light and de fence: the Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing fhall he withhold from them that live a godly life. 13 O Lord God of hofts: bleffed is the man that putteth his trust in thee. Benedixifti Domine. PsAL. 85. thou art become gracious unto thy 16 Which perished at Endor: and became Lland: thou haft turned away the captivi 15 Perfecute them even fo with thy tempelt: and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Make their faces afhamed, O Lord: that they may feek thy name. 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more: let them be put to fhame and perish. 18 And they fhall know that thou (whofe name is Jehovah:) art onely the most highest over all the earth. Quàm dilecta. PSA L. 84. 2 My foul hath a defire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh rejoyce in the living God. 3 Yea, the fparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a neft, where fhe may lay her young: even thy altars, O Lord of hofts, my King and my God. 4 Bleffed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be alway praifing thee. Bleffed is the man whofe ftrength is in thee: in whose heart are thy wayes. 6 Which going through the vale of miferie, ufe it for a well: and the pools are filled with water. 7 They will go from ftrength to ftrength: and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. 8 O Lord God of hofts, heare my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. 9 Behold, O God, our defender: and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For one day in thy courts: is better then a thousand. r I had rather be a doore-keeper in the Houle of my God: then to dwell in the tents of ungodlinelle. die of Jacob. 2 Thou haft forgiven the offence of thy people; and covered all their finnes. 3 Thou haft taken away all thy difpleasure: and turned thy felf from thy wrathfull indi gnation. 4 Turnus then, O God our Saviour: and let thine anger cease from us. Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever: and wilt thou ftretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? 6 Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us: that thy people may rejoyce in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercie, O Lord: and grant us thy falvation. 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will fay concerning me: for he shall fpeak peace unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not again. 9 For his falvation is nigh them that fear him: that glorie may dwell in our land. 10 Mercie and truth are met together: righteoufneffe and peace have kiffed each other. II Truth fhall flourish out of the earth: and righteousnefle hath looked down from heaven. 12 Yea, the Lord fhall fhew loving kindneffe: and our land fhall give her increase. 13 Rightcoufneffe fhall go before him: and he fhall dire & his going in the way. Inclina Domine. P s A L. 86. B Owe down thine eare, O Lord, Morning and heare me: for I am poore prayer. and in miferie.. 2 Preferve thou my foul, for I am holy: my God fave thy fervant that putteth his truft in thee. 3 Be mercifull unto me,O Lord: for I will call daily upon thee. 4 Comfort the foul of thy fervant: for unto thee (O Lord) do I lift up my foul. 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious: and of great mercie unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give eare Lord unto my prayer: and pon der the voice of my humble defires. 7 In the time of my trouble I will call up on thee: for thou hearest me. 8 Among 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee (O Lord:) there is not one that can do as thou doeft. 9 All nations whom thou haft made, fhall come and worship thee, O Lord: and shall glorifie thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone. 11 Teach me thy way(O Lord) and I will walk in thy truth: O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy name. 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God,with all my heart and will praise thy name for evermore. : 13 For great is thy mercie toward me: and thou haft delivered my foul from the ne thermoft hell. 14 O God, the proud are rifen against me: and the congregations of naughtie men have fought after my foul, and have not set thee before their eyes. 15 But thou (O Lord God) art full of compaffion and mercie: long-fuffering, plenteous in goodneffe and truth. 16 O turn thee then unto me, and have mercie upon me: give thy ftrength unto thy fervant, and help the fonne of thine handmaid. 17 Shew fome good token upon me for good, that they which hate me,may fee it, and be ashamed: because thou Lord haft holpen me and comforted me. Fundamenta ejus. PSA L. 87. Er the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee: thou citie of God. 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon: with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philiftims alfo: and they of Tyre, with the Morians, lo, there was he born. 5 And of Sion it fhall be reported, that he was born in her: and the moft High shall sta blish her. 6 The Lord fhall rehearse it,when he writeth up the people: that he was born there. Free among the dead, like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave: which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou haft laid me in the lowest pit: in a place of darkneffe, and in the deep. 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me: and thou haft vexed me with all thy ftorms. 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me: and made me to be abhorred of them. 8 I am so fast in prison: that I cannot get forth. I 9 My fight faileth for very trouble: Lord, have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. 10 Doft thou fhew wonders among the dead: or fhall the dead rife up again and praise thee? II Shall thy loving kindneffe be fhewed in the grave: or thy faithfulnesse in deftruction? 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark: and thy righteoufneffe in the land where all things are forgotten? 13 unto thee have I cried,O Lord: and early fhall my prayer come before thee. 14 Lord,why abhorreft thou my foul: and hideft thou thy face from me? 15 I am in miferie, and like unto him that is at the point to die: (even from my youth up) thy terrours have I fuffered with a trou bled minde. 7 The fingers alfo and trumpeters fhall hellu rehearse: all my fresh springs fhall be in thee: Domine Deus. PSAL. 88. 2 For I have faid, Mercie fhall be fet up for ever: thy truth fhalt thou ftablish in the heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen: Oday and night before thee: O let my I have fworn unto David my fervant. prayer enter into thy prefence, encline thine care unto my calling. 2 For my foul is full of trouble: and my life draweth nigh unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit: and I have been even as a man that hath no ftrength. 4 Thy feed will I stablish for ever: & let up thy throne from one generation to another. 5 O Lord, the very heavens fhall praise 6 For who is he among the clouds: that 7 And what is he among the gods: that shall be like unto the Lord? 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsel of the faints: and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. 9 O Lord God of hofts, who is like unto thee: thy truth (most mightie Lord) is on every fide. 10 Thou ruleft the raging of the sea: thou ftilleft the waves thereof when they arife. II Thou haft fubdued Egypt,and destroyedit: thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mightie arm. 12 The heavens are thine, the earth alfo is thine: thou haft laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is.” 13 Thou haft made the north & the south: Tabor and Hermon fhall rejoyce in thy name. 14 Thou hafta mightie arm: ftrong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 15 Righteoufneffe and equitie is the habitation of thy feat: mercie and truth fhall go before thy face. 16 Bleffed is the people (O Lord) that can rejoyce in thee: they fhall walk in the light of thy countenance. 17 Their delight fhall be daily in thy name: and in thy righteoufneffe fhall they make their boaft. 18 For thou art the glorie of their ftrength: and in thy loving kindnesse thou shalt lift up our horns. 19 For the Lord is our defence: the holy one of Ifrael is our King. 20 Thou fpakeft fometimes in vifions unto thy faints, and faideft: I have laid help upon one that is mightie, I have exalted one chofen out of the people. 21 I have found David my fervant: with my holy oyl have I anointed him. 22 My hand fhall hold him faft: and my arm fhall ftrengthen him. 23 The enemie shall not be able to do him violence: the fonne of wickedneffe fhall not hurt him. 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him. 25 My truth alfo and my mercie shall be with him and in my name fhall his horn be exalted. 26 I will fet his dominion alfo in the fea: and his right hand in the flouds. 27 He fhall call me, Thou art my Father: my God, and my strong falvation. 28 And I will make him my Higher then the kings of the earth. first-born: 29 My mercie will I keep for him for evermore: & my covenant shall stand faft with him 30 His feed alfo will I make to endure for ever: and his throne as the dayes of heaven. 31 But if his children forfake my law: and walk not in my judgements. 32 If they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments: I will vifit their offences with the rod, and their finne with fcourges. 33 Nevertheleffe, my loving kindneffe will Inot utterly take from him: nor fuffer my truth to fail, 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: I have fworn once by my holineffe, that I will not fail David, 35 His feed fhall endure for ever: and his feat is like as the funne before me. 36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon: and as the faithfull witneffe in heaven. 37 But thou haft abhorred and forfaken thine anointed: and art displeased at him. 38 Thou haft broken the covenant of thy fervant: and caft his crown to the ground. 39 Thou haft overthrown all his hedges: and broken down his ftrong holds. 40 All they that go by fpoil him: and he is become a rebuke to his neighbours. 41 Thou haft fet up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adverfaries to rejoyce. 42 Thou haft taken away the edge of his fword: and giveft him not victorie in the battell. 43 Thou haft put out his glorie: and caft his throne down to the ground. 44 The dayes of his youth haft thou shortened: and covered him with dishonour, 45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thy felf, for ever: and hill thy wrath burn like fire? 46 Oh remember how fhort my time is: wherefore haft thou made all men for nought? 47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not fee death and fhall he deliver his foul from the hand of hell? 48 Lord, where are thy old loving kindnefles: which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? 49 Remember (Lord) the rebuke that thy fervants have: and how I do bear in my bofome the rebukes of many people. 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blafphemed thee, and flandered the footsteps of thine anointed: praised be the Lord for ever more. Amen, Amen. Domine, refugium. PSAL. 90. L Ord, thou haft been our re-Morning fuge: from one generation to prayer. another. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlafting, and world without end. 3 Thou Thou turneft man to deftruction: again tHou fayeft, Come again ye children of men, 4 For a thousand yeares in thy fight, are but as yesterday: feeing that is pa as a watch in the night. 5 As foon as thou scattereft them, they are even as a fleep: and fade away suddenly like the graffe. 6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. 7 For we confume away in thy difpleasure: and are afraid at thy wrathfull indignation. 8 Thou haft fet our misdeeds before thee: and our fecret finnes in the fight of thy coun tenance. 9 For when thou art angrie, all our dayes are gone: we bring our yeares to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The dayes of our age are threefcore yeares and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourefcore yeares: yet is their ftrength then but labour and forrow, fo foon paffeth it away, and we are gone. 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as a man feareth,fo is thy displeasure. 12 O teach us to number our dayes: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome, 13 Turn thee again (O Lord) at the laft: and be gracious unto thy fervants. betisse us 14 fatisfic us with thy mercy, and that foon: fo fhill we rejoyce and be glad all the dayes of our life. 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou haft plagued us: and for the yeares wherein we have fuffered adverfitie. 16 Shew thy fervants thy work: and their children thy glory. 17 And the glorious majeftie of the Lord our God be upon us: profper thou the work of our hands upon us, O profper thou our handy work. Qui habitat. PSA L. 91. 6 For the peftilence that walketh in darkneffe: nor for the fickneffe that deftroyeth in the noon day. 7 A thousand shall fall befide thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Yea, with thine eyes fhalt thou behold: and fee the reward of the ungodly. 9 For thou Lord art my hope: thou haft fet thine house of defence very high. 10 There shall no evil happen unto thee: neither fhall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. II For he shall give his angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy wayes. 12 They fhall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon fhalt thou tread under thy feet. 14 Because he hath fet his love upon me, therefore fhall I deliver him: I shall fet him up, because he hath known my name. 15 He fhall call upon me, and I will heare him yea, I am with him in trouble, I will deliver him, and bring him to honour." 16 With long life will I fatisfic him: and shew him my falvation. Bonum eft confiteri. PSAL, 92. Lord and to fing praifes unto thy name, O moft Highest. 2 To tell of thy loving kindneffe early in the morning: and of thy truth in the night season. 3 Upon an inftrument of ten ftrings, and upon the lute: upon a loud inftrument, and upon the harp. 4 For thou Lord haft made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands. 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works: and thy thoughts are very deep. 6 An unwife man doth not well confider Hofo dwelleth under the defence of this: and a fool doth not understand it. W the mot High: thall abide under the fhadow of the Almighty. 2 I will fay unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my ftrong hold: my God, in him will I trust. 3 For he fhall deliver thee from the fnare of the hunter: and from the noisome pefti lence. 4 He fhall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be fafe under his feathers: his faithfulneffe and truth fhall be thy fhield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terrour by night: nor for the arrow that flicth by day. 7 When the ungodly are green as the graffe, and when all the workers of wickedneffe do flourish: then fhall they be deftroyed for ever, but thou Lord art the most highest for ever more. 8 For lo, thine enemies (O Lord) lo thine enemies fhill perish: and all the workers of wickedneffe fhall be destroyed. 9 But mine horn fhall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh oyl. 10 Mine eye also fhall fee his luft of mine enemies: and mine eare fhall heare his defire of the wicked that rife up against me. 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II The righteous fhall flourish like a palmtree: and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus. 12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord: fhall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. 13 They alfo fhall bring forth more fruit in their age and fhall be fat and well liking. 14 That they may fhew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrigh. teousneffe in him. longeth, fhew thy felf. 2 Arife thou judge of the world: and reward the proud after their deferving. 3 Lord, how long fhall the ungodly: how long fhall the ungodly triumph? 4 How long fhall all wicked doers speak fo difdainfully and make fuch proud boafting? 5 They (mite down thy people, O Lord: and trouble thine heritage. 6 They murder the widow and the stranthe fatherleffe to death. ger: and put 7 And yet they fay,Tufh, the Lord fhall not fee: neither fhall the God of Jacob regard it. 8 Take heed ye unwife among the people: Oye fools, when will ye underftand?" 9 He that planted the eare, fhall he not heare or he that made the eye, fhall he not fee? 10 O he that nurtureth the heathen: it is he that teacheth man knowledge, fhall not he punish? in The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man: that they are but vain. 12 Bleffed is the man whom thou chafteneft (O Lord :) and teacheft him in thy law. 13 That thou mayeft give him patience in time of adverfitie: untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly. 14 For the Lord will not fail his people: neither will he forfake his inheritance. 15 Untill righteoufnefle turn again unto judgement: all fuch as be true in heart, fhall follow it. 16 Who will rife up with me against the wicked: or who will take my part against the evil doers? 17 If the Lord had not helped me: it had not failed but my foul had been put to fi lence. 18 But when I said,My foot hath flipped: thy mercy (O Lord) held me up. 19 In the multitude of the forrows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have refreshed my foul. 20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the ftool of wickedneffe: which imagineth mischief as a law? 21 They gather them together against the foul of the righteous: and condemn the innocent bloud. 22 But the Lord is my refuge; and my God is the ftrength of my confidence. 23 He hall recompense them their wickedneffe,and deftroy them in their own malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them. Venite, exultemus. PSAL. 95. O Come, let us fing unto Morning 2 Let us come before his prefence with thanksgiving and fhew our felves glad in him with pfalmes. 3 For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the ftrength of the hills is his also. 5 The fea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the drie land. 6 O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our maker. 7 For he is (the Lord) our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands. 8 Today if ye will heare his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation,and as in the day of temptation in the wilderneffe. 9 When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and faw my works. 10 Fourtie yeares long was I grieved with this generation, and faid: It is a people that do erré in their hearts, for they have not known my wayes. 11 Unto |