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them abroad among the people, and put them down, O Lord our defence.

12 For the fin of their mouth, and for the words of their lips, they fhall be taken in their pride and why? their preaching is of curfing and lies.

13 Confume them in thy wrath, confume them, that they may perish and know that it is God that ruleth in Jacob, and unto the ends of the world.

14 And in the evening they will return grin like a dog, and will go about the city.

15 They will run here and there for meat and grudge if they be not fatisfied.

16 As for me, I will fing of thy power, and will praife thy mercy betimes in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my

trouble.

17 Unto thee, O my Strength, will I fing: for thou, O God, art my refuge, and my merciful God.

PSAL. 60. Deus, repulifi nos. God, thou haft caft us out and scattered us abroad thou haft alfo been displeased; O turn thee unto us again.

2 Thou haft moved the land and divided it: heal the fores thereof; for it shaketh.

3 Thou haft fhewed thy people heavy things: thou haft giv en us a drink of deadly wine.

4 Thou haft given a token for fuch as fear thee; that they may triumph becaufe of the truth.

Therefore were thy beloved delivered help me with thy right hand, and hear me.

6 God hath fpoken in his holinefs, I will rejoice and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth.

the strength of my head: Judah is my law giver;"

8 Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I caft out my fhoe: Philiftia, be thou glad of me.

9 Who will lead me into the ftrong city who will bring me into Edom?

10 Haft not thou caft us out, O God: wilt not thou, O God, go out with our hofts?,

11 O be thou our help in trouble for vain is the help of man.

12 Through God will we de great acts: for it is he that shall tread down our enemies.

PSAL. 61. Exaudi, Deus. EAR my crying, O God: give ear unto my prayer. 2 From the ends of the earth

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will I call upon thee: when my heart is in heaviness.

that is higher than I: for thou 3 O fet me up upon the rock haft been my hope, and a strong tower for me against the enemy.

I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever and my trust fhall be under the covering of thy wings.

5 For thou, O Lord, haft heard my defires and haft given an heritage unto those that fear thy Name.

6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life: that his years may endure throughout all generations.

7 He fhall dwell before God for ever: O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may preferve him.

8 So will I always fing_praise unto thy Name that I may daily perform my vows.

MORNING PRAYER.
PSAL. 62. Nonne Deo?
Y foul truly waiteth ftill

Yosted is mine, and Ma- Mupon God: For of him

naffes is mine: Ephraim alfo is cometh my falvation,

2 He verily is my ftrength and my falvation: he is my de- fence, fo that I shall not greatly fall.

3 How long will ye imagine mifchief against every man : ye fhall be flain all the fort of you; yea, as a tottering wall fhall ye be, and like a broken hedge.

4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in lies; they give good words with their mouth, but curfe with their heart.

5 Nevertheless, my foul, wait thou ftill upon God: for my hope is in him.

6 He truly is my ftrength and my falvation: he is my defence, fo that I fhall not fall.

7 In God is my health and my glory: the rock of my might, and in God is my truft.

80 put your truft in him alway, ye people: pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope.

9 As for the children of men, they are but vanity: the children of men are deceitful upon the weights, they are altoge ther lighter than vanity itself.

10 O trust not in wrong and robbery; give not yourselves unto vanity if riches increase, fet not your heart upon them.

11 God fpake once, and twice I have alfo heard the fame: that power belongeth unto God;

12 And that thou, Lord, art merciful for thou rewardest

every man according to his work.

PSAL. 63. Deus, Deus meus.

O art mye.

God, thou art my God

2 My foul thirfteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee: in a barren and dry land, where

no water is.

3 Thus have I looked for

thee in holiness that I might behold thy power and glory. 4 For thy loving-kindness is better than the life itself: my lips fhall praife thee.

5 As long as I live will I magnify thee on this manner and lift up my hands in thy Name.

My foul fhall be fatisfied even as it were with marrow and fatnefs: when my mouth praifeth thee with joyful lips. 7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking?

8 Because thou hast been my helper therefore under the fhadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

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9 My foul hangeth upon thee: thy right hand hath upholden

me.

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6 They imagine wickedness, and practise it that they keep fecret among themfelves, every man in the deep of his heart.

7 But God fhall fuddenly fnoot at them with a swift arrow : that they fhall be wounded.

8 Yea, their own.tongues fhall make them fall: infomuch that whofo feeth them, fhall laugh them to fcorn.

9 And all men that fee it, fhall fay, This hath God done" for they hall perceive that it is his work.

10 The righteous fhall rejoice in the Lord, and put his truft in him and all they that are true of heart shall be glad.

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2 Thou that heareft the prayer: unto thee fhall all flesh come.

3 My mifdeeds prevail against me: O be thou merciful unto our fins.

4 Bleffed is the man whom thou chooseft, and receiveft unto thee: he fhall dwell in thy court, and fhall be fatisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

5 Thou shalt fhew us wonderful things in thy righteouf nefs, O God of our falvation : thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad fea.

6 Who in his ftrength fetteth faft the mountains and is girded about with power.

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7 Who ftilleth the raging of the fea and the noife of his waves, and the madness of the people.

8 They alfo that dwell in the uttermoit parts of the earth

shall be afraid at thy tokens: thou that makeft the out-goings of the morning and evening to praise thee.

9 Thou vifiteft the earth, and bleffeft it: thou makeft it very plenteous.

10 The river of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, for fo thou provideft for -the earth.

II Thou watereft her furrows, thou fendeft rain into the little valleys thereof thou makest it foft with the drops of rain, and bleffeft the increase of it.

12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness and thy clouds drop fatnefs.

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13 They hall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness : and the little hills fhall rejoice on every fide.

14 The folds fhall be full of sheep: the valleys alfo fhall ftand fo thick with corn, that they fhall laugh and fing.

PSAL. 66. Jubilate Deo.

Be joyful in God, all ye lands fing praises unto the honour of his Name, make his praise to be glorious.

2 Say unto God, O how wonderful art thou in thy works: through the greatnefs of thy power fhall thine enemies be found liars unto thee.

3 For all the world shall wor fhip thee fing of thee, and praife thy Name.

O come hither, and behold the works of God how wonderful he is in his doing toward the children of men!

5 He turned the fea into dry land: fo that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof.

6 He ruleth with his power for ever; his eyes behold the people and fuch as will not believe, fhall not be able to exalt themselves.

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97 O praise our God, ye people: and make the voice of his praife to be heard;

8 Who holdeth our foul in life: and fuffereth not our feet to flip. 9 For thou, O God, haft proved us thou alfo haft tried us

like as filver is tried.

10 Thou broughteft us into the fnare and laideft trouble upon our loins.

Thou fufferedft men to ride over our heads: we went through fire and water, and thou broughteft us out into a wealthy place.

12 I will go into thine house with burnt-offerings and will pay thee my vows, which I promifed with my lips, and fpake with my mouth when I was in trouble.

13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-facrifices, with the incenfe of rams: I will offer bullocks and goats.

14 O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my foul.

15 I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue.

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16 If I incline unto wickednefs with mine heart: the Lord

will not hear me,

17 But God hath heard me : and confidered the voice of my prayer.

18 Praised be God, who hath not caft out my prayer : nor turned his mercy from me.

PSAL. 67. Deus mifereatur.

D be merciful unto us,

G and bless fundmew us

the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us.

2 That thy way may be known upon earth thy faving health among all nations.

3 Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praife thee.

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MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 68. Exurgat Deus. LET God arife, and let his enemies be scattered: let them alfo that hate him flee before him.

2 Like as the fmoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the fire, fo let the ungodly perifh at the prefence of God.

3 But let the righteous be glad, and rejoice before God: let them alfo be merry and joyful.

4 O fing unto God, and fing praifes unto his Name: magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon an horfe; praife him in his Name JAH, and rejoice before him.

5 He is a Father of the fatherlefs, and defendeth the cause of the widows: even God in his holy habitation.

6 He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house, and bringeth the prifoners out of captivity: but letteth the runagates continue in fcarcenefs.

70 God, when thou wenteft forth before the people: when thou wenteft through the wilderness;

8 The earth fhook, and the heavens dropped at the prefence of God: even as Sinai alfo was K 5 moved

moved at the prefence of God, who is the God of Ifrael.

9 Thou, O God, fenteft a gracious rain upon thine inheritance and refreshedft it when it was weary.

10 Thy congregation fhall dwell therein: for thou, O God, haft of thy goodness prepared for the poor.

11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of the preachers.

12 Kings with their armies' did flee and were discomfited: and they of the houthold divided the spoil.

13 Though ye have lien a mong the pots, yet fhall ye be as the wings of a dove : that is covered with filver wings, and her feathers like gold.

14 When the Almighty fcattered kings for their fake: then were they as white as fnow in Salmon.

15 As the hill of Bafan, fo is God's hill: even an high hill, as the hill of Bafan.

16 Why hop ye fo, ye high hills? this is God's hill, in the which it pleafeth him to dwell: yea, the Lord will abide in it for

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God is the Lord, by whom we escape death.

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21 God fhall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy fcalp of fuch a one as goeth on ftill in his wickedness.

22 The Lord hath faid, I will bring my people again, as I did from Bafan: mine own will I bring again, as I did fometime from the deep of the fea;

23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies: and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the fame.

24 It is well feen, O God, how thou goeft: how thou, my God and King, goest in the fanctuary.

25 The fingers go before, the minstrels follow after: in the midft are the damfels playing with the timbrels.

26 Give thanks, O Ifrael, un. to God the Lord in the congregations: from the ground of the heart.

27 There is little Benjamin their ruler, and the princes of Judah their council: the princes of Zabulon, and the princes of Nephthali.

28 Thy God hath fent forth ftrength for thee: ftablish the thing, O God, that thou haft wrought in us,

29 For thy temple's fake at Jerufalem: fo shall kings bring prefents unto thee.

30 When the company of the fpear-men, and multitude of the mighty are fcattered abroad among the beafts of the people, fo that they humbly bring pieces of filver and when he hath fcattered the people that delight in war;

31 Then fhall the princes come out of Egypt: the Morians land fhail foon ftretch out her hands unto God.

32 Sing unto God, O ye king

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