3 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the people : I will fing praifes unto thee among the nations.

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4 For thy mercy is greater than the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

Set up thyfelf, O God, above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth;

6 That thy beloved may be delivered : let thy right hand save them, and lear thou me.

7 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will rejoice therefore, and divide Sichem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

8 Gilead is mine, and Manatles is mine: Ephraim also is the strength of my head.

9 juda is my law-giver, Moab is my wash-pot over Edom will I cast out my fhoe; upon Philiftia will I triumph.

10 Who will lead me into the ftrong city: and who will bring me into Edom?

2 And they have spoken against me with falfe tongues : they compaffed me about also with words of hatred, and fought againit me without a cause.

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23 My knees are weak through fasting: my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.

24 I became alfo a reproach unto them they that looked upon me, shaked their heads.

25 Help me, O Lord my God: O fave me according to thy

mercy.

26 And they hall know how that this is thy hand: and that thou, Lord, haft done it.

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27 Though they curfe, yet blefs thou and let them be confounded that rife up againft me; but let thy fervant rejoice. 28 Let mine adveríaries be clothed with fhame : and let them cover themfelves with their own confufion as with a cloke. 29 As for me, I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth and praife him among the multitude.

30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor: to fave his foul from unrighteous judges.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm cx. Dixit Dominus.

HE LORD faid unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

2 The Lord fhall fend the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler even in the midst among thine

3 In the day of thy power fhall the people offer thee free-willofferings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.

4 The Lord fware, and will not repent: Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchifedech.

5 The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath.

6 He thall judge among the heathen; he shall fill the places with the dead bodies: and fmite in funder the heads over divers countries.

7 He thall drink of the brook in the way therefore shall he lift up his head. Pfalm cxi. Confitebor tibi.

contrary part but I give myself unto prayer.

4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good: and hatred for my good will.

5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan tand at his right hand.

6 When fer.tence is given upon him, let him be condemned : and let his prayer be turned into fin.

7 Let his days be few and let another take his office.

8 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

9 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread : let them feek it also out of defolate places.

10 Let the extortioner confume all that he hath and let the franger fpoil his labour.

11 Let there be no man to pity him : nor to have compaffion upon his fatherless children.

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12 Let his pofterity be deftroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out.

13 Let the wickednefs of his fathers be had in remembrance in the fight of the Lord and let not the fin of his mother be done away;

14 Let them alway be before the Lord: that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

15 And that, because his mind was not to do good: but perfecuted the poor helpless man, that he might flay him that was vexed at the heart.

16 His delight was in curfing, and it fhall happen unto him: he loved not bleffing, therefore fhall it be far from him.

17 He clothed himfeif with curfing like as with a raiment : and it fhall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him: and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal.

19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies : and to thofe that speak evil against my foul.

20 But deal thou with me, O Lord God, according unto thy Name: for fweet is thy mercy.

21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor and my heart is wounded within me.

22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth ; and am driven away as the grashopper.

cretly among the faithful, and in the congregation.

2 The works of the Lord are great: fought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

3 His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour and his righteoufnefs endureth for ever.

4 The merciful and gracious Lord hath fo done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance.

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5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him : he fhall ever be mindful of his covenant.

6 He hath fhewed his people the power of his works: that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

7 The works of his hands are verity and judgement: all his commandments are true.

8 They stand faft for ever and ever and are done in truth and equity.

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9 He fent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his covenant for ever; holy and reverend is his Name. 10 The fear of the Lord is the begining of wisdom a good understanding have all they that do thereafter; the praise of it endureth for ever.

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Pfalm cxii. Beatus vir.

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Leffed is the man that feareth the Lord: he hath great delight in his commandments.

2 His feed fhall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the faithful fhall be bleffed.

3 Riches and plenteoufnefs fhall be in his house and his righteoufness endureth for ever.

4 Unto the godly there arifeth up light in the darkness: he is merciful, loving, and righteous.

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5 A good man is merciful, and lendeth and will guide his words with difcretion.

10 The ungodly fhall fee it, and it fhall grieve him he fhall gnash with his teeth, and confume away; the defire of the ungodly fhall perish. Pfalm cxiii. Laudate, pueri.

PRAISE the Lord, ye fervants: O praise the Name of

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WHEN Ifrael came out of Egypt, and the houfe of Ja

cob from among the ftrange people,

2 Juda was his fanctuary: and Ifrael his dominion.

3 The fea faw that, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

4 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like young sheep.

5 What aileth thee, O thou fea, that thou fleddest : and thou Jordan, that thou waft driven back?

6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams: and ye little hills, like young fheep?

7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord : at the prefence of the God of Jacob;

8 Who turned the hard rock into a standing water: and the flint ftone into a springing well.

Pfalın cxv. Non nobis, Domine.

Ngive the praife for thy loving mercy, and for thy truth's

OT unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name

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8 They that make them are like unto them and fo are all fuch as put their truft in them.

9 But thou, house of Ifrael, truft thou in the Lord : he is their fuccour and defence.

10 Ye house of Aaron, put your truft in the Lord : he is their helper and defender.

Ye that fear the Lord, put your truft in the Lord: he is their helper and defender.

12 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and he fhall blefs us: even he shall bless the houfe of Ifrael, he shall bless the house of Aaron.

13 He fhall blefs them that fear the Lord: both small and great.

14 The Lord fhall increase you more and more: you and your children.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm cxvi. Dilexi, quoniam.

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Am well pleafed that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer.

2 That he hath inclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

3 The fnares of death compailed me round about : and the pains of hell gat hold upon me.

4 I fhall find trouble and heavinefs, and I will call upon the Name of the Lord : O Lord, I befeech thee, deliver my foul." Gracious is the Lord, and righteous: yea, our God is mer

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6 The Lord preferveth the fimple: I was in mifery, and he helped me.

7 Turn again then unto thy rest, O my foul: for the Lord hath rewarded thee.

8 And why? thou haft delivered my foul from death : mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

9 I will walk before the Lord : in the land of the living. 10 I believed, and therefore will I fpeak; but I was fore troubled I faid in my hafte, All men are liars.

11 What reward fhall I give unto the Lord : for all the benefits that he hath done unto me?

12 I will receive the cup of falvation: and call upon the Name of the Lord.

13 I will pay my vows now in the prefence of all his people : right dear in the fight of the Lord is the death of his faints.

14 Behold, O Lord, how that I am thy fervant: I am thy fervant, and the fon of thine handmaid; thou haft broken my bonds in funder.

15 I will offer to thee the facrifice of thanksgiving : and will call upon the Name of the Lord.

16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the fight of all his people in the courts of the Lord's houfe, even in the midit of thee, O Jerufalem. Praife the Lord.

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Pfalm. cxvii. Laudate Dominum.

Praise the Lord, all ye heathen: praife him, all ye nations. 2 For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise the Lord.

Pfalm cxviii. Confitemini Domino.

Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: because his mercy endureth for ever.

2 Let Ifrael now confefs that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever.

3 Let the house of Aaron now confefs that his mercy endureth for ever.

4 Yea, let them now that fear the I.ord confefs that his mercy endureth for ever.

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5 I called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large.

6 The Lord is on my fide: I will not fear what man doeth

unto me.

7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me : therefore fhall I fee my defire upon mine enemies.

8 It is better to trust in the Lord: than to put any confidence in man.

9 It is better to trust in the Lord: than to put any confidence in princes.

To All nations compaffed me round about: but in the Name of the Lord will I deftroy them.

11 They kept me in on every fide, they kept me in, I fay, on every fide: but in the Name of the Lord will I deftroy them.

12 They came about me like bees, and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns for in the name of the Lord I will deftroy them.

13 Thou haft thruft fore at me, that I might fall but the Lord was my help.

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14 The Lord is my strength and my fong and is become my falvation.

15 The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass.

16 The right hand of the Lord hath the pre-eminence : the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pafs. 17 I shall not die, but live: and declare the works of the Lord. F 3 18 The

21 I will thank thee, for thou haft heard me and ait become my falvation.

22 The fame ftone which the builders refufed is become the head-tone in the corner.

23 This is the Lord's doing: and it is marvellous in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it.

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25 Help me now, O Lord: O Lord, fend us now profperity. 26 Bleffed be he that cometh in the Name of the Lord we have withed you good luck, ye that are of the house of the Lord.

27 God is the Lord, who hath fhewed us light: bind the facrifice with cords, yea, even unto the horns of the altar.

28 Thou art my God, and I will thank thee: thou art my God, and I will praise thee.

29 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever

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EVENING PRAYER.

Pfalm cxix. Beati immaculati.

Leffed are thofe that are undefiled in the way; and walk in the law of the Lord.

2 Bleffed are they that keep his teftimonies and feek him with their whole heart.

3 For they who do no wickednefs: walk in his ways.

4 Thou hait charged: that we shall diligently keep thy commandments.

5 O that my ways were made fo direct: that I might keep thy ftatutes!

6 So thall I not be confounded: while I have respect unto all thy commandments.

7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart: when I fhall have learned the judgements of thy righteousness.

8 I will keep thy ceremonies: O forfake me not utterly. In quo corriget?

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ruling himfelf after thy word.

2 With my whole heart have I fought thee: O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments.

3 Thy words have I hid within my heart: that I should not fin against thee.

4 Bleffed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy ftatutes.

5 With my lips have I been telling of all the judgements of thy mouth.

6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy teftimonies : as in all manner of riches.

7 I will talk of thy commandments: and have respect unto thy ways.

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8 My delight fhall be in thy ftatutes and I will not forget thy word.

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Retribue fervo tuo.

Do well unto thy fervant that I may live and keep thy word.

2 Open thou mine eyes: that I may fee the wonderous things of thy law.

3 I am a stranger upon earth: O hide not thy commandments from me.

4 My foul breaketh out for the very fervent defire that it hath alway unto thy judgements.

5 Thou haft rebuked the proud and curfed are they that do err from thy commandments.

6 O turn from me shame and rebuke: for I have kept thy teftimonies.

7 Princes alfo did fit and speak aganft me but thy fervant is occupied in thy ftatutes.

4 For thy teltimonies are my delight: and my counfellors.

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Adtafit pavimento.

Y foul cleaveth to the duit: O quicken thou me according to tiry word.

2 I have acknowledged my ways, and thou heardest me: O teach me thy itatutes.

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Make me to understand the way of thy commandments: and fo fhall I talk of thy wonderous works.

4 My foul melteth away for very heavinefs: comfort thou me according unto thy word.

5 Take from me the way of lying: and caufe thou me to make much of thy law.

6 I have chofen the way of truth: and thy judgements have I laid before me.

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7 I have stuck unto thy teftimonies: O Lord, confound me not. 8 I will run the way of thy commandments: when thou hait my heart at liberty.

Et veniat fuper me.

LET thy loving mercy come aifo unto me, O Lord: even thy

falvation, according unto thy word.

2 So fhall I make anfwer unto my blafphemers: for my trust is in thy word.

3 O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of my mouth: for my hope is in thy judgements.

4 So fhall I alway keep thy law: yea, for ever and ever.

5 And I will walk at liberty: for I feck thy commandments. 6 I will fpeak of thy teftimonies alfo, even before kings and will not be ashamed.

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7. And my delight fhall be in thy commandinents: which I have loved.

8 My hands alfo will I lift up unto thy commandments, which

I have loved and my ftudy fhall be in thy ftatutes.

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Memor efto fervi tui.

Think upon thy fervant, as concerning thy word: wherein thou haft caused me to put my trust.

2 The fame is my comfort in my trouble for thy word hath quickened me.

3 The proud have had me exceedingly in derifion : yet have I not shrinked from thy law.

4 For I remembered thine everlasting judgements, O Lord: and received comfort.

5 I am horribly afraid : for the ungodly that forfake thy law. 6 Thy Atatutes have been my fongs: in the house of my pilgrimage.

7 I have thought upon thy Name, O Lord, in the night-feafon and have kept thy law.

HOU art my portion, O Lord : I have promised to keep thy law.

2 I made my humble petition in thy prefence with my whole heart: O be merciful unto me according to thy word.

3 I called mine own ways to remembrance and turned my feet unto thy teftimonies.

4 I made hafte, and prolonged not the time: to keep thy commandments.

5 The congregations of the ungodly have robbed me : but I have not forgotten thy law.

6 At midnight I will rife to give thanks unto thee: because of thy righteous judgements.

7 I am a companion of all them that fear thee: and keep thy commandments.

8 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: O teach me thy ftatutes. Bonitatem

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EVENING PRAYER.

Manus tuæ fecerunt me.

HY hands have made me and fashioned me: O give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

2 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me : because I have put my truft in thy word.

3 I know, O Lord, that thy judgements are right: and that thou, of very faithfulness, haft caufed me to be troubled.

4 O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort: according to thy word unto thy fervant.

5 Olet thy loving mercies come unto me, that I may live : for thy law is my delight.

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6 Let the proud be confounded, for they go wickedly about to deftroy me but I will be occupied in thy commandments. 7 Let fuch as fear thee, and have known thy teftimonies: be turned unto me.

8 O let my heart be found in thy ftatutes: that I be not afhamed.

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5 I have refrained my feet from every evil way : that I may keep thy word.

6I have not fhrunk from thy judgements: for thou teach

eft me.

7 O how sweet are thy words unto my throat : yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!

8 Through thy commandments I get understanding: therefore I hate all evil ways.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Lucerna pedibus meis.

HY word is a lantern unto my feet and a light unto my paths.

2 I have sworn, and am ftedfaßtly purposed: to keep thy righteous judgements.

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I am troubled above meafure quicken me, O Lord, according to thy word.

4 Let the free-will offerings of my mouth please thee, O Lord: and teach me thy judgements.

5 My foul is alway in my hand yet do I not forget thy law. 6 The ungodly have laid a fnare for me: but yet I iwerved not from thy commandments.

7 Thy teftimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever: and why? they are the joy of my heart.

8 I have applied my heart to fulfil thy ftatutes alway: even unto the end.

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Iniquos odio babui.

Hate them that imagine evil things: but thy law do I love. 2 Thou art my defence and shield: and my truft is in thy word.

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3 Away from me, ye wicked: I will keep the commandments my God.

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4 O stablish me according to thy word, that I may live and let me not be difappointed of my hope.

5 Hold thou me up, and I fhall be safe : yea, my delight shall be ever in thy ftatutes.

6 Thou haft troden down all them that depart from thy ftatutes: for they imagine but deceit.

7 Thou puttelt away all the ungodly of the earth like drofs : therefore I love thy testimonies.

8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee: and I am afraid of thy judgements.

O be thou my help.

7 They had almoft made an end of me upon earth: but I forfook not thy commandments.

8 O quicken me after thy loving kindness: and fo fhall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

In æternum, Domine.

Lord, thy word; endureth for ever in heaven.

2 Thy truth alfo remaineth from one generation to another thou haft laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.

3 They continue this day according to thine ordinance : for all things ferve thee.

4 If my delight had not been in thy law: I fhould have perifhed in my trouble.

5 I will never forget thy commandments: for with them thou halt quickened me."

6 I am thine; O fave me : for I have fought thy command

Feci judicium.

Deal with the thing that is lawful and right: O give me not over unto mine oppreffors.

2 Make thou thy fervant to delight in that which is good : that the proud do me no wrong.

3 Mine eyes are wafted away with looking for thy health: and for the word of thy righteoufnefs.

4 O deal with thy fervant according unto thy loving mercy : and teach me thy ftatutes.

I am thy fervant; O grant me understanding : that I may know thy teftimonies.

6 It is time for thee, Lord, to lay to thine hand : for they have destroyed thy law.

7 For I love thy commandments: above gold and precious ftone.

8 Therefore hold Iftraight all thy commandments : and all falfe ways I utterly abhor.

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6 I have longed for thy faving health, O Lord and in thy law is my delight.

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7 O let my foul live, and it fhall praise thee and thy judge ments shall help me.

8 I have gone attray like a sheep that is loft: O feek thy fervant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm cxx. Ad Dominum.

HEN I was in trouble, I called upon the Lord : and he heard me.

2 Deliver my foul, O Lord, from lying lips : and from a deceitful tongue.

3 What reward fhall be given or done unto thee, thou falfe tongue: even mighty and fharp arrows, with hot burning coals. 4 Woe is me, that I am conftrained to dwell with Mefech: and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar!

5 My foul hath long dwelt among them: that are enemies unto peace,

6 I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof : they make them ready to battle.

Pfalm cxxi. Levavi oculos meos. Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills my help.

2 My help cometh even from the Lord ven and earth.

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3 He will not fuffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee will not fleep.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Ifrael: fhall neither flumber nor fleep.

5 The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;

6 So that the fun fhall not burn thee by day neither the moon by night.

7 The Lord fhall preferve thee from all evil : yea, it is even he that fhall keep thy foul.

8 The Lord fhall preferve thy going out and thy coming in: from this time forth for evermore. Pfalm cxxii. Lætatus fum.

Was glad when they faid unto me: We will go into the house

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2 Our feet fhall ftand in thy gates: O Jerufalem.

3 Jerufalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself.

4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord: to testify unto Ifrael, to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord. 5 For there is the feat of judgement : even the feat of the house

of David.

6 O pray for the peace of Jerufalem they fhall profper that

love thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls and plenteoufnefs within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions fakes : I will with thee profperity.

9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God: I will feek to do thee good.

Pfalm cxxiii. Ad te levavi oculos meos.
NTO thee lift I up mine eyes: O thou that dwellest in the

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2 Behold, even as the eyes of fervants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress even fo our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us : for we are utterly defpifed.

4 Our foul is filled with the fcornful reproof of the wealthy : and with the defpitefulness of the proud.

Palm cxxiv. Nifi quia Dominus.

F the Lord himself had not been on our fide, now may Ifrael

I fay : if the Lord himself had not been on our fide, when men rofe up against us;

2 They had fwallowed us up quick when they were fo wrathfully difpleated at us.

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

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