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Defecit anima mea.

2 Thou, through thy command

Y 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.

2 Mine eyes long sore for thy 3 I have more understanding word; saying, O when wilt thou than my teachers; for thy testimocomfort me? nies are my study.

3 For I am become like a bottle 4 I am wiser than the aged; bein 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?

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

6 I have not shrunk from thy judgments; for thou teachest me. 70 how sweet are thy words unto my throat; yea, sweeter than

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

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.

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The twenty-sixth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Lucerna pedibus meis.

HY word is a lantern unto my

Internum, Dominendureth T feet, and a light unto my paths.

LORD, thy

for ever in heaven.

2 I have sworn, and am stead

2 Thy truth also remaineth from fastly purposed, to keep thy rightone generation to another; thou eous judgments.

hast laid the foundation of the 3 I am troubled above measure: earth, and it abideth. quicken me, O Lord, according to thy word.

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

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

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.

5 I will never forget thy com- 6 The ungodly have laid a snare mandments; for with them thou for me; but yet I swerved not hast quickened me. from thy commandments.

6 I am thine: O save me, for I 7 Thy testimonies have I claimhave sought thy commandments. ed as mine heritage for ever; and 7 The ungodly laid wait for me, why? they are the very joy of my 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!

ORD, what love have I unto

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Iniquos odio habui.

HATE them that imagine evil things; but thy law do I love.

thy law! all the day long is 2 Thou art my defence and shield; and my trust is in thy word.

my study in it.

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

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

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

5 Hold thou me up, and I shall 6 O deliver me from the wrongbe safe; yea, my delight shall be ful dealings of men; and so shall I ever in thy statutes. keep thy commandments.

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

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.

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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 Lord; and true is thy judg

thee; and I am afraid of thy judg

ments.

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Feci judicium.

ment.

2 The testimonies that thou hast

DEAL with the thing that is commanded are exceeding rightlawful and right; O give me eous 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.

proud do me no wrong.

4 Thy word is tried to the utter

3 Mine eyes are wasted away most, 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 5 I am thy servant; O grant me is the truth. understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

7 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my de6 It is time for thee, Lord, to light in thy commandments. lay to thine hand; for they have 8 The righteousness of thy tesdestroyed thy law. timonies is everlasting: O grant

7 For I love thy commandments me understanding, and I shall live.

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

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

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

3 I opened my mouth, and drew 4 Mine eyes prevent the night in my breath; for my delight was watches; that I might be occupied in thy commandments in 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.

8 As concerning thy testimonies, I have known long since, that thou hast grounded them for ever.

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Appropinquet deprecatio. ET my complaint come before thee, O Lord; give me understanding according to thy word. 2 Let my supplication come before thee; deliver me according

Vide humilitatem. CONSIDER mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not to thy word. 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.

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

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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.

7 O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and thy judgments shall help me.

7 Consider, O Lord, how I love 8 I have gone astray like a thy commandments; O quicken sheep that is lost; O seek thy serme according to thy loving kind-vant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

ness.

8 Thy word is true from everlasting; all the judgments of thy righteousness endure for ever

more.

Principes persecuti sunt.

The twenty-seventh Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 120. Ad Dominum. WHEN I was in trouble, I

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PRINCE'S have persecuted me he he called upon the Lord, and without a cause; my heart

standeth in awe of thy word.
2 I am as glad of thy word, as
one that findeth great spoils.

3 As for lies, I hate and abhor them; but thy law do I love.

heard me.

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 4 Seven times a-day do I praise tongue? even mighty and sharp thee; because of thy righteous arrows, with hot burning coals. judgments. 4 Woe is me, that I am con5 Great is the peace that they strained to dwell with Mesech, have who love thy law; and they and to have my habitation among are not offended at it. the tents of Kedar.

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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.

Psalm 121. Levavi oculos meos. WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

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UNTO

meos.

INTO thee lift I up mine eyes,
O thou that dwellest in the

heavens.

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 be even so our eyes wait upon the moved; and he that keepeth thee Lord our God, until he have merwill 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.

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. IF the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say; if the Lord himself had not been 8 The Lord shall preserve thy on our side, when men rose up going out and thy coming in, from against us; this time forth for evermore.

Psalm 122. Lætatus sum. WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

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2 They had swallowed us up quick; when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

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

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

4 The deep waters of the proud 3 Jerusalem is built as a city had gone even over our soul. 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.

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; 5 For there is the seat of judg-the snare is broken, and we are dement, even the seat of the house of livered. David.

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

7 Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces.

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

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Psalm 125. Qui confidunt. HEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be 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 that are good and true of heart.

Psalm 128. Beati omnes.

5 As for such as turn back BLESSED are all they that

unto their own wickedness, the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

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fear the Lord, and walk in

ways.

2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.

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

house.

EVENING PRAYER. Psalm 126. In convertendo. WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion, then 4 Thy children like the olive were we like unto them that branches, round about thy table.

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dream.

5 Lo, thus shall the man be

2 Then was our mouth filled with blessed that feareth the Lord. 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 7 Yea, that thou shalt see thy great things for us already; where- children's children, and peace upof we rejoice. on Israel.

5 Turn our captivity, O Lord, as the rivers in the south.

Psalm 129. Sæpe expugnaverunt.
ANY time have they fought

6 They that sow in tears, shall Magainst me from my youth

reap in joy.

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. XCEPT the Lord 'build the house, their labour is but lost that build it.

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me.

3 The plowers plowed upon my back, and made long furrows;

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

vain.

5 Let them be confounded and turned backward, as many as have

3 It is but lost labour that ye evil will at Sion.

haste to rise up early, and so late 6 Let them be even as the take rest, and eat the bread of grass growing upon the housecarefulness; for so he giveth his tops, which withereth afore it be beloved sleep. 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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