fervant with my holy oil have I anointed him.

22 My hand fhall hold him fast: and my arm fhall ftrengthen him. 23 The enemy thall not be able to do him violence: the fon of wickedness fhall not hurt him. 24 I will fmite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him.

25 My truth alfo and my mercy thall 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 floods.

27 He fhall call me, Thou art my Father my God, and my ftrong falvation.

28 And I will make him my first-born: higher than the kings of the earth.

29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore: and my covenant fhall ftand faft with him.

30 His feed alfo will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days 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 fin with fcourges.

33 Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not 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 holiness, That I will not fail David.

35 His feed fhall endure for ever and his feat is like as the

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forfaken thine Anointed and art difpleafed 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 reproach to his neighbours.

41 Thou haft fet up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adverfaries to rejoice.

42 Thou haft taken away the edge of his fword and giveft him not victory in the battle.

43 Thou haft put out his glory and caft his throne down to the ground.

44 The days of his youth haft thou fhortened and covered him with difhonour.

.45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyfelf, for ever: and fhall thy wrath burn like fire?

46 O remember how short my time is wherefore haft thou made all men for nought?

47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death: and shall he deliver his foul from the hand of hell?

48 Lord, where are thy old loving-kindneffes which thou fwarest unto David in thy truth?

49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy fervants have: and how I do bear in my bofom the rebukes of many people;

50 Wherewith thine enemies have blafphemed thee, and flandered the footsteps of thine Anointed: praised be the Lord for evermore, Amen, and Amen.

MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 90. Domine, refugium. ORD, thou hast been our

tion to another.

2 Before the mountains were brought

brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.

3 Thou turneft man to deftruction again thou fayeft, Come again, ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy fight are but as yesterday feeing that is paft as a watch in the night.

5 As foon as thou scattereft them, they are even as a fleep: and fade away fuddenly like the E grafs.

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 wrathful indignation.

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8 Thou haft fet our mifdeeds before thee and our fecret fins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

10 The days of our age are threefcore years and ten; and though men be fo ftrong that they come to fourfcore years: yet is their ftrength then but labour and forrow; fo foon paffeth it away, and we are gone.

II But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth, fo is thy difpleasure.

12 So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the laft and be gracious unto thy fervants.

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14 O fatisfy us with thy mercy, and that foon: fo fhall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

15 Comfort us again, now after the time that thou haft plagued

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and for the years wherein we have fuffered adverfity. 16 Shew thy fervants thy work: and their children thy glory.

17 And the glorious Majefty of the Lord our God be upon us profper thou the work of our hands upon us, O profper thou our handy-work.

PSAL. 91. Qui habitat. W the defence of the most THOSO dwelleth under

High fhall 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 truft.

3 For he fhall deliver thee from the fnare of the hunter: and from the noisome peftilence.

He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be fafe under his feathers: his faithfulness and truth fhall be thy fhield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 For the peftilence that walketh in darkness: nor for the fickness that destroyeth in the noon-day.

7 A thousand fhall fall befide thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand but it fhall not come nigh thee.

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8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold: and fee the reward of the ungodly.

9 For thou, Lord, art my hope thou haft fet thine houfe of defence very high.

10 There fall no evil happen unto thee: neither hall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

II For he fhall give his angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They fhall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. L2 13 Thow

13 Thou shalt go upon the Hon and adder: the young lion and the dragon fhalt thou tread under thy feet.

14 Because he hath fet his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him I will fet him up, because he hath known my Name.

15 He fhall call upon me, and I will hear him: yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

16 With long life will I fatisfy him and fhew him my falvation.

PSAL. 92. Bonum eft conferi. IT is a good thing to give

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thanks unto the Lord to fing praifes unto thy Name, O moft Higheft;

2 To tell of thy loving-kindnefs early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-feafon; 3 Upon an inftrument of ten ftrings, and upon the lute: upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp.

4 For thou, Lord, haft made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoice in giving praife for the operation of thy hands.

5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works thy thoughts are very deep;

6 An unwife man doth not well confider this and a fool doth not understand it.

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7 When the ungedly are green as the grafs, and when all the workers of wickedness do flou. rish: then shall they be deftroyed for ever; but thou, Lord, art the most highest for evermore.

8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, lo, thine enemies fhall perifh and all the workers of wickednefs fhall be destroyed.

9 But mine horn fhall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh oil.

10 Mine eye also shall fee his luft of mine enemies and mine. ear fhall hear his defire of the wicked that arife up against me.

11 The righteous fhall flourifh like a palm-tree: and thall fpread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.

12 Such as be planted in the houfe 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 ftrength is : and that there is no unright

eoufnefs in him..

EVENING PRAYER, PSAL. 93. Dominus regnavit, T HE Lord is King, and hath the Lord hath put on his apput on glorious apparel: parel, and girded himself with ftrength.

2 He hath made the round world fo fure: that it cannot be

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hath thy feat been prepared: 3 Ever fince the world began, thou art from everlasting.

4 The foods are rifen, O Lord, the floods have lift up their voice: the floods lift up their waves.

5. The waves of the fea are mighty and rage horribly : but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.

6 Thy teftimonies, O Lord, are very fure: holiness becometh thine houfe fer ever.

PSAL. 94. Deus ultionum. Lord God, to whom vene geance belongeth: thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, fhew thyself.

2 Arife, thou judge of the world and reward the proud after their deferving. 3 Lord,

3 Lord, how long fhall the ungodly how long fhall the ungodly triumph?

4 How long hall all wicked doers fpeak fo difdainfully and make fuch proud boasting? 5 They fmite down thy people, O Lord and trouble thine heritage.

6 They murder the widow and the ftranger: and put the fatherless to death.

7 And yet they fay, Tufh, the Lord fhall not fee: neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

8 Take heed, ye unwife a mong the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

9 He that planted the ear, fhall he not hear or he that made the eye, shall he not fee?

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jo. Or he that nurtureth the heathen it is he that teacheth man knowledge, fhall not he punith?

TI The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vain.

12 Bleffed is the man whem thouschafteneft, O Lord teacheft him in thy law.

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13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adverfity until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.

14 For the Lord will not fail his people: neither will he forfake his inheritance.

15 Until righteoufnefs turn again unto judgement: all fuch as are 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 filence.

18 But when I faid, my foot hath flipped thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of the forrows that I had in my heart s thy comforts have refreshed my foul.

20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the ftool of wickedness which imagineth mifchief as a law?

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21 They gather them together againft 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 fhall recompenfe them their wickednefs, and destroy them in their own malice : yea, the Lord our God fhall destroy them.

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PSAL. 95. Venite exultemus.

Come, let us fing unto the Lord'; let us heartily re joice in the ftrength of our falvation.

2 Let us come before his prefence with thanksgiving and fhew our felves 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 corners of the earth and the ftrength of the hills is his alfo.

5 The fea is his, and he made it and his hands prepared the dry 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 pafture, and the fheep 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 wilderness; 9 When

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9 When your fathers tempted 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 hearts, for they have not known my ways; II Unto whom I fware in my wrath that they should not enter into my reft.

PSAL. 96. Cantate Domino. Sing unto the Lord a new fong: fing unto the Lord, all the whole earth.

2 Sing unto the Lord, and praife his Name: be telling of his falvation from day to day.

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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 worship are before him: power and honour are in his fanctuary.

7 Afcribe unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people: a fcibe unto the Lord worship and power.

8 Afcribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name: bring prefents, and come into his courts.

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth land in awe of him.

10 Tell it out among the heathen, that the Lord is King: and that it is he who hath made the round world fo faft that it cannot be moved; and how that he fhall judge the people righteously,

II Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad: let the fea make a noife, and all that therein is.

12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then thall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord;

13 For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with his truth."

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PSAL. 97. Dominus regnavit. HE Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof; yea, the multitude of the ifles may be glad thereof.

2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgement are the habitation of his feat.

3 There fhall go a fire before him: and burn up his enemies on every fide.

4 His lightnings 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 righteousness and all the people have feen 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 daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgements, O Lord.

9 For thou, Lord, art higher than all that are in the earth: thou 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 shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly.

II There is fprung up a light for the righteous: and joyful gladnefs for fuch as are truehearted. 1 12 Rejoice