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12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye. 4 The king's power loveth righteous: and give thanks for judgement; thou hast prepared a remembrance of his holiness. equity: thou hast executed judgement and righteousness in Jacob.

EVENING PRAYER.
PSAL. 98. Cantate Domino.
Sing unto the Lord a new
fong: for he hath done

marvellous things.

25 With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he gotten himself the victory.

3 The Lord declared his falvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the fight of the heathen.

4 He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the zhoufe of Ifrael: and all the ends of the world have feen the falvation of our God..

w5 Shew yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands: fing, rejoice, and give thanks.

6 Praise the Lord upon the harp: fing to the harp with a pfalm of thanksgiving; 597 With trumpets alfo and thawms: O shew yourselves joy

ful before the Lord the King.

368 Let the fea make a noife, and all that therein is: the round world, and they that

dwell therein.

9 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord: for he is come to judge the earth. ro With righteousness small he judge the world: and the people with equity.

PSAL. 99. Dominus regnavit. Teople never foinpatient THE Lord is King, be the

he fitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet.

2 The Lord is great in Sion: and high above all people.

50 magnify the Lord our God and fall down before his

footstool, for he is holy.

6 Mofes and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among fuch as call upon his Name: these called upon the Lord, and

he heard them.

7 He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar: for they kept his testimonies, and the law that he gave them.

8 Thou heardest them, O Lord our God: thou forgavest them, O God, and punishedst their own inventions.

90 magnify the Lord our God, and worship him upon his holy hill: for the Lord our God is holy.

PSAL. 100. Jubilate

Deo.

Be joyful in the Lord, alt ye lands: ferve the Lord with gladness, and come before

his prefence with a fong.

is God, it is he that hath made us, and not we ourfelyes: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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30 go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name;

4 For the Lord is gracious, his truth endureth from generation mercy is everlasting and his to generation.

PSAL. 101. Mifericordiam et judicium.

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3 They shall give thanks unto thy Name: which is great, ing: in the way of godliness

wonderful, and holy.

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3 When wilt thou come unto me: I will walk in my house with a perfect heart.

4 I will take no wicked thing in hand; I hate the fins of unfaithfulness: there shall no fuch

cleave unto me.

5 A forward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked perfon.

6 Whoso privily fslandereth his neighbour: him will I destroy. 7 Whofo hath alfo a proud look, and high ftomach: I will not fuffer him.

8 Mine eyes look upon fuch as are faithful in the land: that they may dwell with me.

9 Whoso leadeth a godly life: he thall be my fervant.

10 There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house he that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my fight.

11. I thall foon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land: that I may root out all wicked doers from the city of the

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7 I have watched, and am even as it were a sparrow: that fitteth alone upon the housetop.

8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me, are sworn toge. ther against me.

9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread: and mingled my drink with weeping;

10 And that because of thine indignation, and wrath: for thou hast taken me up, and caft

me down.

11 My days are gone like a shadow: and I am withered like grafs.

12 But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever: and thy remembrance throughout all generations.

13. Thou shalt arife, and have mercy upon Sion: for it is time that thou have mercy upon her, yea, the time is come.

14 And why? thy servants think upon her ftones: and it pitieth them to fee her in the duft.

15 The heathen shall fear thy Name, O Lord: and all the kings of the earth thy majesty 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion: and when his glory

2 Hide not thy face from me shall appear; in the time of my trouble: in- 17 When he turneth him un cline thine ears unto me when to the prayer of the poor defti I call; O hear me, and that tute and despiseth not their de right foon.

brand.

4 My heart is smitten down

fire;

3 For my days are confumed 18 This shall be written for away like smoke: and my bones those that come after and the t are burnt up as it were a fire- people which shall be born, shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down o and withered like grafs fo that from his fanctuary: out of the heaven did the Lord behold the 20 That he might hear the w mournings of fuch as are in cap

I forget to eat my bread.
5 For the voice of my groan- earth;
ing: my bones will scarce cleave

to my flesh.

6 I am become like a pelican fivityningnd deliver the children in the wilderness; and like an appointed unto death; owl that is in the defert.

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21 That they may declare the 8 The Lord is full of comName of the Lord in Sion and this worship at Jerufalem;

22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdoms also to ferve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey shortened my days.

and

paffion and mercy: long-fuffer.
ing, and of great goodness.
9 He will not alway be chid-.
ing: neither keepeth he his
anger for ever.

10 He hath not dealt with us after our fins: nor rewarded us according to our wicked

24 But J faid, O my God, neffes. take me not away in the midst II For look how high the of mine age as for thy years, heaven is in comparison of the they endure throughout all ge-earth: fo great is his mercy

nerations.

25 Thou, Lord, in the beginning haft laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thine hands.

26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: : but thou art the fame, and thy years shall not fail.

28 The children of thy fervants shall continue and their feed shall stand fast in thy fight..

PSAL. 103. Benedic, anima mea. DRAISE the Lord, O my foul and all that is within

me, praife his holy Name.

Praise the Lord, Omy foul: and forget not all his benefits; 3 Who forgiveth all thy fin: and healeth all thine infirmities;

4 Who faveth thy life from destruction: and crowneth thee with mercy and loving-kindnefs

5 Who fatisfieth thy mouth -with good things: making thee young and lufty as an eagle.

6 The Lord executeth rightcousness and judgement: for all them that are oppressed with wrong!

7 He shewed his ways unto
his works unto the

Moses
children of Ifrael,

alfo toward them that fear him.

12 Look how wide alfo the east is from the west: fo far hath he fet our fins from us.

13 Yea, like as a father piti-eth his own children: even fo is the Lord merciful unto them.

that fear him.

14 For he knoweth whereof we are made he remembereth that we are but duft.

15 The days of man are but as grafs: for he flourisheth as a. flower of the field.

16 For as foon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more.

17 But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousness upon children's children.;

18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandments to do them.

19 The Lord hath prepared his feat in heaven: and his kingdom ruleth over all.

20 O praise the Lord, ye angels of his, ye that excel in strength: ye that fulfil his commandment, and hearken unto the voice of his words.

21 O praise the Lord, all ye his hofts: ye servants of his that do his pleasure.

22 O fpeak good of the Lord,, all ye works of his, in all places

of his dominion: praise thou the
Lord, O my foul.

EVENING PRAYER.

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PSAL. 104. Benedic, anima mea. RAISE the Lord, O my O Lord my God, thou art become exceeding glorious; thou art clothed with majesty and honour.

2 Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a garment: and spreadeft out the heavens like a curtain.

3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: and maketh the clouds his chariot; and walketh upon the wings of the wind.

4w He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fire.

5 He laid the foundations of the earth that it never should move at any time.

6 Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment : the waters stand in the hills.

7 At thy rebuke they flee: at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid.

8 They go up as high as the hills, and down to the vallies beneath even unto the place which thou hast appointed for

them.

9 Thou haft set them their bounds which they shall not pass: neither turn again to cover the earth.

10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers: which run among

the hills.

11 All beasts of the field drink thereof and the wild affes quench their thirft.

12 Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their habitation: and fing among the branches.

13 He watereth the hills from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.

14 He bringeth forth grafs for the cattle and green herb for the fervice of men;

man:

15 That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of and oil to make him a cheer. ful countenance, and bread to strengthen man's heart.

16 The trees of the Lord also are full of fap even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted;

17 Wherein the birds make their nests and the fir-trees are a dwelling for the ftork.

18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats: and fo are the ftony rocks for the conies.

19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons: and the fun knoweth his going down.

20 Thou makest darkness that it may be night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do move.

21 The lions roaring after their prey: do seek their meat from God.

22 The fun arifeth, and they get them away together: and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goeth forth to hit work, and to his labour: until the evening.

24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works: in wisdom haft thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches;

25 So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable, both fmall and great beafts.

26 There go the ships, and there is that Leviathan: whom thou hast made to take his paftime therein.

27 These wait all upon thee: that thou mayeft give them meat in due season. 28 When thou givest it them, they gather it; and when thou

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29 When thou hidest thy face,
they are troubled when thou
takest away their breath, they
die, and are turned again to
their dust.

30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth, they shall be dmade: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

31 The glorious majesty of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord Mall rejoice in his works.

32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him: if he do but touch the hills, they shall smoke. 33 I will fing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will praise my God while I have my being.

34 And so shall my words please him: my joy shall be in the Lord.

35 As for finners, they shall be confumed out of the earth, and the ungodly shall come to an end: praise thou the Lord, O my foul, praise the Lord.

MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 105. Confitemini Domino. 0 Give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his Name: tell the people what things he hath done.

2 O let your fongs be of him, and praise him and let your talking be of all his wondrous works.

3 Rejoice in his holy Name: let the heart of them rejoice that feek the Lord.

4 Seek the Lord and his strength: feek his face ever

more.

5 Remember the marvellous works that he hath done: his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth;

6 O ye feed of Abraham his fervant: ye children of Jacob his chofen.

7 He is the Lord our God: his judgements are in all the world. 8 He hath been alway mindful of his covenant and promife: that he made to a thousand generations;

9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham: and the oath that he sware unto Ifaac;

10And appointed the fame unto Jacob for a law and to Ifrael for an everlasting teftamentos 11 Saying, unto thee will n give the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance.

12 When there were yet but a few of them and they strangers in the land;

13 What time as they went from one nation to another: from one kingdom to another people;

14 He fuffered no man to do them wrong: but reproved even kings for their sakes;

15 Touch not mine Anointed: and do my prophets no harm. 16 Moreover, he called for a dearth upon the land: and destroyed all the provifion of bread.

17 But he had fent a man before them even Jofeph, who was fold to be a bond-fervant;

18 Whose feet they hurt in the stocks: the iron entered into his foul;

19 Until the time came that his cause was known: the word of the Lord tried him.

20 The king fent and delivered him the prince of the people let him go free.

21 He made him lord alfo of his house and ruler of all his substance;

22 That he might inform his princes after his will : and teach his senators wisdom.

23 Ifrael also came into Egypt: and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham.

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