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2. As for our harps, we hanged them up : upon the trees that are therein.

3. For they that led us away captive, required of us a song, and melody in our heaviness sing us one of the fongs of Sion.

4. How shall we fing the LORD'S song: in a strange land ?

5. If I forget thee, O Jerufalem : let my right hand forget her cunning.

6. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: yea, if I prefer not Jerufalem in my mirth.

7. Remember the children of Edom, O LORD, in the day of Jerufalem: how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.

8. O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery : yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

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By Mr. JOHN TRAVERS, Organist of his Majesty's Chapels-Royal, and of the Parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden.

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PSAL. LXI.

EAR my crying, O GoD:
give ear unto my prayer.
2. From the ends of the
earth will I call upon thee :

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

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PSAL. CXXIV.

F the LORD himself had not been on our fide, when men rose up a

gainst us ;

2. They had swallow'd us up quick: when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

3. Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our foul.

4. The deep waters of the proud: had gone even over our foul.

5. But praised be the LORD: who hath not giv'n us over for a prey unto their teeth.

6. Our foul is efcap'd ev'n as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered. Hallelujah.

The Collect for the Twenty-first Sunday after TRINITY.

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RANT, we beseech thee, merciful LORD, to thy faithful people, parden and peace, that they may be cleanfed from all their fins, and serve thee with a quiet mind, through JESUS CHRIST Our LORD. Amen. Amen.

The Collect for the fifteenth Sunday after

TRINITY.

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EEP, we beseech thee, O LORD, thy church with thy perpetual mercy: and because the frailty of man without thee can't but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.

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The Collect for the nineteenth Sunday after TRINITY.

GOD, forafmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; mercifully grant, that thy holy Spirit may in all things direct, and rule our hearts, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. Amen.

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PSAL. CXLIII.

EAR my prayer, O Lord, and confider my defire: hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness fake.

2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy fight shall no man living be justified.

7. Hear me, O LORD, and that foon, for my spirit waxeth faint: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

8. O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning, for in thee is my trust: shew thou me the way that I shou'd walk in, for I lift up my foul unto thee.

9. Deliver 9. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: for I flee unto thee to hide me. 10. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee, for thou art my God: let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness.

11. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's fake : and for thy righteousness sake bring my foul out of trouble.

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