PSALM 43. Judica me, Deus.

GIVE sentence with me, O GOD, and defend my cause against the ungodly people; O

deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man;

2 For thou art the Gop of my strength: why hast thou put me from thee? and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me, and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling,

4 And that I may go unto the altar of GOD, even unto the GOD of my joy and gladness; and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O GOD, my GOD.

5 Why art thou so heavy, O my soul? and why art thou so disquieted within me?

60 put thy trust in GoD; for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

THE NINTH DAY.

MORNING PRAYER. PSALM 44. Deus, auribus. WE have heard with our ears, O GOD, our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old.

2 How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations, and cast

them out.

3 For they gat not the land in possession through their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them:

4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of

thy countenance; because thou hadst a favour unto them.

5 Thou art my King, O GOD; send help unto Jacob.

6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies, and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. bow; it is not my sword that

7 For I will not trust in my

shall help me.

8 But it is thou that savest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate us.

9 We make our boast of GOD all day long, and will praise thy name for ever.

10 But now thou art far off,

and puttest us to confusion; and goest not forth with our armies.

11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

12 Thou lettest us be eaten

up like sheep, and hast scattered us among the heathen.

13 Thou sellest thy people for naught, and takest no money for them.

14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us.

15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen, and that the people shake thei heads at us.

16 My confusion is daily be fore me, and the shame of my face hath covered me;

17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer, for the enemy and avenger.

18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not

nant.

19 Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way;

20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

21 If we have forgotten the name of our GOD, and holden up our hands to any strange god, shall not GoD search it out? for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.

23 Up, LORD, why sleepest thou? awake, and be not absent from us for ever.

6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the King's enemies.

7 Thy seat, Ŏ GOD, endureth for ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; wherefore GOD, even thy GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia; out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the ground.

26 Arise, and help us, and deliver us, for thy mercies' sake.

PSALM 45. Eructavit cor meum.

MY heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.

11 Hearken, O daughter, and consider; incline thine ear; forget all thine own people, and thy father's house.

12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty; for he is thy LORD GOD, and worship thou him.

13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; like

3 Thou art fairer than the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

people shall make their supplication before thee.

14 The King's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold.

17 Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.

18 I will remember thy name from one generation to another; therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.

PSALM 46. Deus noster refugium. GOD is our hope and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea.

3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.

4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God; the holy place of the tabernacle of the Most Highest.

5 GOD is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed; GoD shall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall

10 Be still then, and know that I am GoD: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the GoD of Jacob is our refuge.

EVENING PRAYER.

PSALM 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite. O CLAP your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto GoD with the voice of melody.

2 For the LORD is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth.

3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

4 He shall choose out an heritage for us, even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved.

5 GOD is gone up with a merry noise, and the LORD with the sound of the trump.

6 O sing praises, sing praises unto our GOD; O sing praises, sing praises unto our King.

7 For GoD is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

8 GOD reigneth over the heathen; GoD sitteth upon his holy seat.

9 The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham; for GOD, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth as it were with a shield.

PSALM 48. Magnus Dominus. GREAT is the LORD, and highly to be praised in the city of our GOD, even upon his holy hill.

2 The hill of Sion is a fair

place, and the joy of the whole earth; upon the north side lieth the city of the great King: GoD is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge.

3 For lo, the kings of the! earth are gathered, and gone by together.

4 They marvelled to see such things; they were astonished, and suddenly cast down.

5 Fear came there upon them; and sorrow, as upon a woman in her travail.

6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the east wind.

7 Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our GoD; GOD upholdeth the same for ever.

8 We wait for thy loving kindness, O GOD, in the midst of thy temple.

9 O GOD, according to thy name, so is thy praise unto the world's end; thy right hand is full of righteousness.

10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

11 Walk about Sion, and go round about her; and tell the towers thereof.

12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell them that come after.

13 For this GOD is our GOD for ever and ever: He shall be our guide unto death.

PSALM 49. Audite hæc, omnes.

O HEAR ye this, all ye people; ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world;

2 High and low, rich and poor, one with another.

3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall muse of understanding.

4 I will incline mine ear to the parable, and show my dark speech upon the harp.

5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness, and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth me round about?

6 There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

7 But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him:

8 For it cost more to redeem their souls; so that he must let that alone for ever;

9 Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave.

10 For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other.

11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever, and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

12 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them.

13 This is their foolishness, and their posterity praise their saying.

14 They lie in the hell like sheep; death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall

15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell; for he shall receive me.

16 Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased;

17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him.

18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man; and so long as thou dost well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee.

19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers, and shall never see light.

20 Man being in honour hath no understanding, but is compared unto the beasts that perish.

THE TENTH DAY.'

MORNING PRAYER. PSALM 50. Deus deorum, THE LORD, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, and called the world, from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof.

2 Out of Sion hath GOD appeared in perfect beauty. 3 Our GoD shall come, and shall not keep silence; there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him. 4 He shall call the heaven from above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for GoD is judge himself.

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; I myself will testify against thee, O Israel; for I am GoD, even thy God.

8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices, or of thy burnt-offerings; because they were not alway before me.

9 I will take no bullock out of thine house, nor he-goat out of thy folds;

10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills.

11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are in my sight.

12 If I be hungry, I will not tell thee; for the whole world is mine, and all that is therein.

13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bull's flesh, and drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most Highest,

15 And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me.

16 But unto the ungodly said GOD, Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth;

17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?

18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst unto him; and hast been partaker with the adulterers.