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How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God!

Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;

And thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life:

In thy light shall we see light.

Oh continue thy loving-kindness
unto them that know thee,
And thy righteousness to the
upright in heart.

Let not the foot of pride come against me,

And let not the hand of the wicked

remove me.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen:

They are cast down, and shall not be able to, rise.

Evening

Psa. 5. 1-8; 11, 12; 65. 5.

Give ear to my words, O Lord,
Consider my meditation.

Hearken unto the voice of my
cry, my King, and my God;
For unto thee will I pray.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord;

In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look

up.

Thou shalt destroy them that speak lies:

The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

But as for me, in the abundance. of thy mercy will I come into thy house:

In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;

Make thy way straight before my face.

Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice,

Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them:

Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

For thou wilt bless the righteous;

O Lord, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield. By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness,

O God of our salvation;

Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth,

And of them that are afar off upon the sea.

Twelfth Sunday
Morning
Psa. 19. 1-6; 8.

The heavens declare the glory of God;

For thou art not a God that hath And the firmament showeth his

pleasure in wickedness:

Neither shall evil dwell with thee.

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight:

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

handiwork.

Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge.

There is no speech nor language;
Their voice is not heard.

Their line is gone out through all the earth,

And their words to the end of the world.

In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,

And rejoiceth as a strong man to

run a race.

His going forth is from the end of the heavens,

And his circuit unto the ends of it;

And there is nothing hid from

the heat thereof.

O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth,

Who hast set thy glory above the heavens!

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

Because of thine enemies, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

And hast crowned him with glory and honor.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

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All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field,

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,

Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth.

Evening

Psa. II; 12.

In the Lord put I my trust:
How say ye to my soul,
Flee as a bird to your mountain;
For, lo, the wicked bend the
bow,

They make ready their arrow
upon the string,

That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart; If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

The Lord is in his holy temple; The Lord's throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

The Lord trieth the righteous;

But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares;

Fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest shall be the portion of their cup.

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness:

The upright shall behold his coun

tenance.

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth;

For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

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Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing;

I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips

I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God:

Incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Show thy marvelous loving-kind

ness,

O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee From those that rise up against them.

Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;

From men by thy hand, O Lord,

From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,

And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure:

They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Consider and hear me, O Lord my God:

Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;

Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy mercy; My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

I will sing unto the Lord, Because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness;

I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Evening

Psa. 10. 1-5; 12-18.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?

Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor;

Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,

And blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth.

The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God:

God is not in all his thoughts. His ways are always grievous; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:

As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thy hand:

Forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,

And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?

The poor committeth himself unto thee;

Thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Break thou the arm of the wicked: And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

The Lord is King forever and

ever:

The heathen are perished out of his land.

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble:

Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,

That man of the earth may no more oppress.

Fourteenth Sunday
Morning
Psa. 18. 1-19.

I love thee, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom
I will trust;

My shield, and the horn of my
salvation, my high tower.

I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised:

So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

The sorrows of death compassed me,

And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

The sorrows of hell compassed me; The snares of death came upon me. In my distress I called upon the Lord,

And cried unto my God:

He heard my voice out of his temple,

And my cry before him came into his ears.

Then the earth shook and trembled;

The foundations also of the mountains quaked

And were shaken, because he was wroth.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down;

And thick darkness was under his feet,

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;

Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about him,

Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

The Lord also thundered in the

heavens,

And the Most High uttered his voice,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;

And he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Then the channels of waters were seen,

He delivered me from my strong enemy,

And from them which hated me; for they were too strong for me. They came upon me in the day of my calamity;

But the Lord was my stay. He brought me forth also into a large place;

He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Evening

Psa. 14. 1-6; 23.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

They are corrupt, they have done abominable works;

There is none that doeth good.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men,

To see if there were any that did understand,

That did seek after God. They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;

There is none that doeth good, no,

not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And call not upon the Lord? There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the

And the foundations of the righteous. world were laid bare.

At thy rebuke, O Lord,

At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

He sent from on high, he took me;

He drew me out of many waters.

Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor,

Because the Lord is his refuge.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall

not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;

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