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sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: O deliver us, and be merciful unto our sins, for thy name's sake.

6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

8 Thou hast brought a vine 10 Wherefore do the hea-out of Egypt; thou hast cast out then say, Where is now their the heathen, and planted it. God?

11 O let the vengeance of thy servants' blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen, in our sight."

9 Thou madest room for it; and when it had taken root, it filled the land.

10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the 12 O let the sorrowful sigh-boughs thereof were like the ing of the prisoners come be-goodly cedar trees.

fore thee; according to the 11 She stretched out her greatness of thy power, preserve branches unto the sea, and her thou those that are appointed boughs unto the river.

to die.

13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee, reward thou them, O Lord, seven-fold into their bosom.

12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they that go by pluck off her grapes?

it.

13 The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, and the 14 So we that are thy peo-wild beasts of the field devour ple, and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever, and will alway be showing forth thy praise from generation to generation.

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14 Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine,

15 And the place of the vine yard that thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.

16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down; and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy counte

2 Before Ephraim, Benja-nance. min, and Manasses, stir up thy strength, and come and help

us.

17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine

3 Turn us again, O God; show the light of thy counte-own self. nance, and we shall be whole.

4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth?

5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink.

18 And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy

name.

19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts; show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

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the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent, and are confederate against thee;

6 The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; the Monbites, and Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre.

8 Assur also is joined with them, and have holpen the children of Lot.

9 But do thou to them as unto the Midianites; umo Sisera, and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison;

10 Who perished at Endor, and became as the dung of the earth.

11 Make them and their prinees like Oreb and Zeb; yea, make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana;

12 Who say, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind.

14 Like as the fire that burn-, eth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains.

15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

16 Make their faces ashamed, O Lord, that they may seek

thy name.

2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.

3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young, even thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will be alway praising thee.

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are thy ways.

6 Who, going through the vale of misery, use it for a well; and the pools are filled with water.

7 They will go from strength to strength, and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion.

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob:

9 Behold, O God, our defender, and look upon the face of thine Anointed.

10 For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand.

11 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness.

12 For the Lord God is a light and defence; the Lord will give grace and worship; and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life.

17 Let them be confounded 13 O Lord God of hosts, and vexed ever more and blessed is the man that putteth more; let them be put to shame, his trust in thee. and perish.

18 And they shall know that Psal. 85. Benedixisti, Domine. thou, whose name is Jehovah,ORD, thou art become graart only the Most Highest over

all the earth.

Psalm 84. Quam dilecta!

HOW amiable are

thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

Thou hast forgiven the

Odwellings, thou Lord of fence of the people, and of

hosts!

vered all their sins.

3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure, and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation.

4 Turn us then, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger cease from us.

5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever? and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?

6 Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee?"

servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5 For thou, Lord, art good and gracious, and of great merey unto all them that call upon thee.

6 Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer, and ponder the voice of my bumble desires.

7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee; for thou hearest me."

8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; 7 Show us thy mercy, O there is not one that can do as Lord, and grant us thy salva-thou doest.

tion.

9 All nations whom thou

8 I will hearken what the hast made, shall come and Lord God will say concerning worship thee, O Lord; and me; for he shall speak peace shall glorify thy name. unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not again. 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. 12 Yea, the Lord shall show loving kindness, and our land shall give her increase.

13 Righteousness shall go before him, and he shall direct his going in the way.

The seventeenth Day. MORNING PRAYER. Psalm 86. Inclina, Domine. OW down thine ear,

10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things! thou art God alone.

11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walk in thy truth: O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy name.

12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and will praise thy name for evermore.

13 For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell.

14 O God, the proud are risen against me; and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes.

15 But thou, O Lord God, Oart full of compassion and mer

B Lord, and hear me; for I cy, long-suffering, plenteous in

am poor, and in misery.

2 Preserve thou my soul; for I am holy: my God, save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee.

goodness and truth.

16 O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handOmaid.

3 Be merciful unto me, Lord; for I will call daily upon thee.

4 Comfort the soul of thy

17 Show some token upon me for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be

ashamed, because thou, Lord,. 6 Thine indignation lieth hast holpen me, and comforted hard upon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms. Psalm 87. Fundamenta ejus. acquaintance far from me, and 7 Thou hast put away mine ER foundations are upon made me to be abhorred of

me.

Hthe foulings the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee, thou city of God.

3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon, with them that know me.

4 Behold ye the Philistines also, and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo there was he born.

5 And of Sion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and the Most High shall stab

lish her.

6 The Lord shall rehearse it, when he writeth up the people, that he was born there.

7 The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse: All my fresh springs shall be in thee.

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Psalm 88. Domine, Deus. LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy presence: incline thine ear unto my calling

2 For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell.

3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit, and I have been even as a man that hath no strength.

4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave, who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness, and in the deep.

them.

8 I am so fast in prison, that I cannot get forth.

9 My sight faileth for very trouble; Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.

10 Dost thou show wonders among the dead? or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee?

11 Shall thy loving kindness be showed in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?

13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and early shall my prayer come before thee.

14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me, and the fear of thee hath undone me.

17 They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together on every side.

18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

EVENING PRAYER.

Ps. 89. Misericordias Domini.

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