11 He falleth down and humbleth himself that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains. 12 He hath faid in his heart, Tufh, God hath forgotten : he hideth away his face, and he will never fee it.

13 Arife, O Lord God, and lift up thine hand: forget not the poor.

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14 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God doth fay in his heart, Tufh, thou, God, careft not for it. 15 Surely thou haft feen it: for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong.

16 That thou mayeit take the matter into thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; for thou art the helper of the friendless.

17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious: take away his ungodliness, and thou fhalt find none.

18 The Lord is King for ever and ever: and the heathen are perished out of the land.

19 Lord, thou halt heard the defire of the poor : thou prepareft their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto.

20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right: that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour: they do but flatter with their lips, and diffembie in their double heart. 3 The Lord fhall root out all deceitful lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

4 Which have faid, With our tongue will we prevail : we are they that ought to speak; who is lord over us?

5 Now for the comfortless troubles fake of the needy: and because of the deep fighing of the poor;

6 I will up, faith the Lord and will help every one from him that fwelleth against him, and will fet him at relt.

7 The words of the Lord are pure words: even as the filver which from the earth is tried, and purified feven times in the fire.

8 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord: thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever.

9 The ungodly walk on every fide: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

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Pfalm xiii. Ufque quo, Domine?

Ow long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever: how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

2 How long fhall I feek counsel in my foul, and be fo vexed in my heart: how long fhall mine enemies triumph over me? 3 Confider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I fleep not in death.

4 Left mine enemy fay, I have prevailed against him: for if I be caft down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

5 But my trust is in thy mercy and my heart is joyful in thy faivation.

6 I will fing of the Lord, becaufe he hath dealt fo lovingly with me: yea, I will praise the Name of the Lord moft Higheft.

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Pfalm xiv. Dixit infipiens.

HE fool hath faid in his heart: There is no God. 2 They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

3 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to fee if there were any that would underftand, and feek after God.

4 But they are all gone out of the way; they are altogether become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one. 5 Their throat is an open fepulchre; with their tongues have they deceived: the poison of afps is under their lips.

6 Their mouth is full of curfing and bitterness: their feet are fwift to thed blood.

7 Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

8 Have they no knowledge, that they are all fuch workers of mifchief eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the Lord?

9 There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

10 As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the

poor because he putteth his truft in the Lord.

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11 Who fhall give falvation unto Ifrael out of Sion? When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people: then thall Jacob rejoice, and Ifrael fhall be glad.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm xv. Domine, quis habitabit?

ORD, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle : or who shall reft upon thy holy hill?

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2 Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life eth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart:

3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to

his neighbour and hath not flandered his neighbour.

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4 He that fitteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that fear the Lord.

5 He that fweareth unto his neighbour, and difappointeth him not though it were to his own hindrance.

6 He that hath not given his money upon ufury: nor taken reward against the innocent.

7 Whofo doeth thefe things: fhall never fall

Pfalm xvi. Conferva me, Domine.

Preferve my foul, thou haft faid unto the Lord: Thou art ny

me, O God: for in thee have I put my trust.

But they that run after another god : fhall have great trouble. 5 Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer : neither make mention of their names within my lips.

6 The Lord himself is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou fhalt maintain my lot.

7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, 1 have a goodly heritage.

8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning: my reins alfo chaften me in the night-feafon.

9 I have fet God always before me for he is on my right hand, therefore I fhall not fall.

10 Wherefore my heart was glad, and my glory rejoiced: my flesh alfo fhall rest in hope.

11 For why? thou shalt not leave my foul in hell: neither fhalt thou fuffer thy Holy One to fee corruption.

12 Thou shalt fhew me the path of life; in thy presence is the fulness of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for

4 Because of mens works that are done against the words of thy lips: I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.

5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps Sip not.

6 I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me : incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words.

7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their truft in thee: from such as refift thy right band.

8 Keep me as the apple of an eye: hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

9 From the ungodly that trouble me : mine enemies compass me round about to take away my foul.

10 They are inclosed in their own fat and their mouth speaketh proud things.

They lie waiting in our way on every fide: turning their eyes down to the ground.

12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in fecret places.

13 Up, Lord, disappoint him, and cast him down : deliver my foul from the ungodly, which is a fword of thine.

14 From the men of thy hand, O Lord, from the men, I fay, and from the evil world: which have their portion in this life, whofe bellies thou filleft with thy hid treasure.

15 They have children at their defire and leave the rest of their fubftance for their babes.

16 But as for me, I will behold thy prefence in righteoufnefs and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satis fied with it.

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EVENING PRAYER.
Pfalm xviii. Diligam te, Domine.

Will love thee, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my ftony rock, and my defence: my Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will trust; 'my buckler, the horn alfo of my falvation, and my refuge.

2 I will call upon the Lord which is worthy to be praised : so fhall I be fafe from mine enemies.

3 The forrows of death compaffed me: and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid.

The pains of hell came about me: the fnares of death overtock me.

In trouble I will call upon the Lord: and complain unto my my God.

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6 So fhall he hear my voice out of his holy temple: and my complaint fhall come before him; it fhall enter even into his

ears.

7 The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations also of the hills fhook, and were removed, because he was wroth. 8 There went a fmoke out in his prefence: and a confuming fire out of his mouth, fo that coals were kindled at it.

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9 He bowed the heavens alfo, and came down and it was dark under his feet.

10 He rode upon the Cherubins, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind.

11 He made dark nefs his fecret place: his pavilion round about him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover him.

12. At the brightnets of his prefence his clouds removed : hailftones, and coals of fire.

13 The Lord alfo thundered out of heaven, and the Highest gave his thunder: hail-ftones, and coals of fire.

14 He fent out his arrows, and scattered them he caft forth lightnings, and deftroyed them.

15 The fprings of waters were feen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O Lord at the blafting of the breath of thy difpleasure.

16 He shall send down from on high to fetch me : and shall

19 He brought me forth alfo into a place of liberty: he brought me forth, even because he had a favour unto me.

20 The Lord fhall reward me after my righteous dealing: according to the cleanness of my hands fhall he recompenfe me. 21 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not forlaken my God, as the wicked doth.

22 For I have an eye unto all his laws and will not caft out his commandments from me.

23 I was alio uncorrupt before him : and efchewed mine own wickedness.

24 Therefore fhall the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing and according unto the cleannels of my hands in his eye-fight.

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25 With the holy thou fhalt be holy and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect.

26 With the clean thou fhait be clean: and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardness.

27 For thou shalt fave the people that are in adverfity: and falt bring down the high looks of the proud.

28 Thou alfo fhalt light my candle : the Lord my God shall make my darkness to be light.

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29 For in thee I fhall discomfit an host of men and with the help of my God I fhall leap over the wall.

30 The way of God is an undefiled way : the word of the Lord alfo is tried in the fire; he is the defender of all them that put their trust in him.

31 For who is God, but the Lord: or who hath any strength, except our God?

32 It is God that girdeth me with strength of war: and maketh my way perfect.

33 He maketh my feet like harts feet and fetteth me up on high.

34 He teacheth mine hands to fight : and mine arms shall break even a bow of steel.

35 Thou haft given me the defence of thy falvation: thy right hand also shall hold me up, and thy loving correction shall make me great.

36 Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go: that my footsteps thall not flide.

37 I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them : neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them.

38 I will smite them, that they shall not be able to stand: but fall under my feet.

39 Thou haft girded me with strength unto the battle: thou fhalt throw down mine enemies under me.

40 Thou haft made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me and I fhall deftroy them that hate me.

41 They fhall cry, but there fhall be none to help them: yea, even unto the Lord fhall they cry, but he fhall not hear them. 42 I will beat them as fmall as the duft before the wind: I will caft them out as the clay in the streets.

43 Thou shalt deliver me from the ftrivings of the people : and thou fhalt make me the head of the heathen.

44 A people whom I have not known : fhall ferve me. 45 As foon as they hear of me, they fhall obey me but the ftrange children fhall diffemble with me.

46 The strange children thall fail: and be afraid out of their prisons.

47 The Lord liveth, and bleffed be my strong helper : and prailed be the God of my falvation.

48 Even the God that feeth that I be avenged: and fubdueth the people unto me.

49 It is he that delivereth me from my cruel enemies, and fetteth me up above mine adverfaries: thou shalt rid me from the wicked man.

50 For this caufe will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles and fing praifes unto thy Name.

51 Great profperity giveth he unto his King: and fheweth loving kindness unto David his Anointed, and unto his Seed for

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm xix. Cæli enarrant.

HE heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament theweth his handy-work.

2 One day teleth another: and one night certifieth another.

3 There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them.

4 Their found is gone out into all lands and their words into the ends of the world.

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5 In them hath he fet a tabernacle for the fun et forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his courfe.

6 It goeth forth from the uttermoft part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again and there is nothing

hid from the heat thereof.

7 The law of the Lord is an undefiled law, converting the foul: the tettimony of the Lord is fure, and giveth wifdom unto the fimple.

8 The ftatutes of the Lord are right, and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, and giveth light unto the

eyes.

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth for ever: the judgements of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

10 More to be defired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold fweeter alfo than honey, and the honey-comb.

11 Moreover by them is thy fervant taught: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth`: O cleanfe thou me from my fecret faults.

13 Keep thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, left they get the dominion over me: fo fhall I be undefiled, and innocent from the great offence.

14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be alway acceptable in thy fight,

15 O Lord my ftrength, and my Redeemer.

Píál. xx. Exaudiat te Dominus.

HE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble: the Name of

Tthe God of Jacob defend thee.

Send thee help from the fanctuary: and strengthen thee out of Sion.

3 Remember all thy offerings: and accept thy burnt-facrifice. 4 Grant thee thy heart's defire: and fulfil all thy mind.

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We will rejoice in thy falvation, and triumph in the Name of the Lord our God: the Lord perform all thy petitions.

6 Now know I, that the Lord helpeth his Anointed, and will hear him from his holy heaven even with the wholesome Strength of his right hand.

7 Some put their trust in chariots, and fome in horses: but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God.

8 They are brought down, and fallen: but we are rifen, and® fland upright.

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9 Save, Lord, and hear us, O King of heaven when we call upon thee.

Pfal. xxi. Domine, in virtute tua.

HE King fhall rejoice in thy strength, O Lord: exceed

Ting glad fha'l he be of thy laivation

Thou haft given him his heart's defire : and haft not denied him the request of his lips.

3 For thou shalt prevent him with the bleffings of goodness: and fhalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

4 He asked life of thee, and thou gaveft him a long life: even for ever and ever.

5 His honour is great in thy falvation: glory and great worfhip fhalt thou lay upon him.

For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity: and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance.

7 And why? becaufe the King putteth his truft in the Lord: and in the mercy of the most Higheft he fhall not mifcarry.

8 All thine enemies fhall feel thy hand thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee.

9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath the Lord fhall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall confume them.

10 Their fruit fhalt thou root out of the earth and their feed from among the children of men.

11 For they intended mifchief against thee and imagined fuch a device as they are not able to perform.

12 Therefore fhalt thou put them to flight and the ftrings of thy bow fhalt thou make ready against the face of them. 13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength : fo will we fing and praife thy power.

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2 O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou heareft not : and in the night-feafon alfo 1 take no reft.

3 And thou continueft holy: O thou worship of Ifrael.

4 Our fathers hoped in thee: they trusted in thee, and thou didit deliver them:

5 They called upon thee, and were holpen they put their truft in thee, and were not confounded.

6 But as for me, I am a worm, and no man: a very scorn of men, and the outcalt of the people.

7 All they that fee me, laugh me to fcorn: they fhoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying,

8 He truited in God, that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, if he will have him.

9 But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb : thou waft my hope when I hanged yet upon my mother's breafts.

Io I have been left unto thee ever fince I was born: thou art my God even from my mother's womb.

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11 O go not from me, for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help nie.

12 Many oxen are come about me: fat bulls of Bafan cloie me-in on every side.

13 They gape upon me with their mouths : as it were a ramping and a roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.

15 My ftrength is dried up like a potfherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums: and thou fhait bring me into the duit of death.

16 For many dogs are come about me and the council of the wicked layeth fiege against me.

17 They pierced my hands and my feet; I may tell all my bones they ftand staring and looking upon me.

18 They part my garments among them and caft lots upon my vefture.

19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: thou art my fuccour; haste thee to help me.

20 Deliver my foul from the fword power of the dog.

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21 Save me from the lions mouth from among the horns of the unicorns. 22 I will declare thy Name unto my brethren in the midft of the congregation will I praife thee.

23 O praife the Lord, ye that fear him : magnify him, all ye of the feed of Jacob; and fear him, all ye fred of ifrael.

24 For he hath not defpifed, nor abhorred the low eftate of the poor he hath not hid his face from him; but when he called unto him, he heard him.

25 My praife is of thee in the great congregation: my vows will I perform in the fight of them that fear him.

26 The poor fhall eat, and be fatisfied: they that feek after the Lord, thall praife him; your heart fhall live for ever.

27 All the ends of the world fhall remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations fhall worship before him.

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28 For the kingdom is the Lord's and he is the Governor among the people.

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Ali fuch as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. 30 All they that go down into the duft, fhall kneel before

him and no man hath quickened his own foul.

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31 My feed fhall ferve him: they fhall be counted unto the Lord for a generation.

32 They thall come, and the heavens hall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, whom the Lord hath made.

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Pfalm xxiii. Dominus regit me.

HE Lord is my fhepherd: therefore can I lack nothing.
2 He fhall feed me in a green paiture and lead me

forth befide the waters of comfort.

3 He hall convert my foul and bring me forth in the paths of righteoufnefs for his Name's fake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the fhadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfa'm xxiv. Domini eft terra.

HE earth is the Lord's, and all that therein is the compafs of the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the feas pared it upon the floods.

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Who fhall afcend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rife up in his holy place?

4 Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor fworn to deceive his neighbour.

5 He fhall receive the bleffing from the Lord: and righteoufnefs from the God of his falvation.

6 This is the generation of them that feek him even of them that feek thy face, O Jacob.

7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlafting doors and the King of glory fhall come in.

8 Who is the King of glory: it is the Lord strong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlatting doors and the King of glory fhall come in.

10 Who is the King of glory: even the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.

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Pfalm xxv. Ad te, Domine, levavi.

NTO thee, O Lord, will I lift up my foul; my God, I have put my trust in thee: O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me.

2 For all they that hope in thee fhall not be ashamed but fuch as tranfgrefs without a caufe, fhall be put to confufion. 3 Shew me thy ways, O Lord and teach me thy paths.

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4 Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me : for thou art the God of my falvation; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.

5 Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy tender mercies : and thy loving kindneffes, which have been ever of old.

6 Oh remember not the fins and offences of my youth: but according to thy mercy think thou upon me, O Lord, for thy goodness.

7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord teach finners in the way.

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8 Them that are meek fhall he guide in judgement fuch as are gentle, them fhall he learn his way.

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All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth : unto such

as keep his covenant, and his testimonies.

10 For thy Name's fake, O Lord : be merciful unto my fin, for it is great.

II What man is he that feareth the Lord : him fhall he teach in the way that he fhall choose.

12 His foul fhall dwell at eafe and his feed fhall inherit the land.

13 The fecret of the Lord is among them that fear him : and he will thew them his covenant.

14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord : for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

15 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me : for I am defolate, and in mi ery.

16 The forrows of my heart are enlarged : O bring thou me out of my troubles.

17 Look upon my adverfity and mifery: and forgive me all my fin.

18 Confider mine enemies, how many they are bear a tyrannous hate against me.

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19 O keep my foul, and deliver me let me not be confounded, for I have put my trust in thee.

20 Let perfectnefs and righteous dealing wait upon me : for my hope hath been in thee.

21 Deliver Ifrael, O God: out of all his troubles. Pial. xxvi. Judica me, Domine.

E thou my Judge, O Lord, for I have walked innocently:

Biny truft hath been alfo in the Lord, therefore thall I not

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3 For thy loving kindness is ever before mine eyes and I will walk in thy truth.

4 I have not dwelt with vain persons : neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful.

5 I have hated the congregation of the wicked fit among the ungodly.

6 I will wash my hands in innocency, O Lord go to thine altar;

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That I may fhew the voice of thankfgiving thy wonderous works.

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8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

9 O fhut not up my fout with the finners: nor my life with the blood-thirty;

10 In whofe hands is wickednefs and their right hand is full of gifts.

11 But as for me, I will walk innocently: O deliver me, and be merciful unto me.

12 My foot ftandeth right: I will praife the Lord in the congregations.

2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes came upon me, to eat up my flesh: they ftumbled and fell.

3 Though an hoft of men were laid against me, yet fhall not my heart be afraid : and though there rofe up war againit me, yet will I put my trust in him.

4 One thing have I defired of the Lord, which I will require : even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to vifit his temple.

5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea, in the fecret place of his dwelling fhall he hide me, and fet me up upon a rock of stone.

6 And now fall he lift up mine head : above mine enemies round about me.

7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness: I will fing, and fpeak praifes unto the Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voice, O Lord, when I cry unto thee: have mercy upon me, and hear me.

9 My heart hath talked of thee, Seek ye my face: thy face, Lord, will I seek.

10 O hide not thou thy face from me: nor caft thy fervant away in displeasure.

11 Thou haft been my fuccour leave me not, neither forfake me, O God of my falvation.

12 When my father and my mother forfake me : the Lord taketh me up.

13 Teach me thy way, O Lord and lead me in the right way, because of mine enemies.

14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adverfaries; for there are falfe witneffes rifen up against me, and such as speak wrong.

15 I fhould utterly have fainted but that I believe verily to fee the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 16 O tarry thou the Lord's leifure: be ftrong, and he fhall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy truft in the Lord. Pfalm xxviii. Ad te, Domine.

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TNTO thee, will I cry, O Lord my strength: think no fcorn of me ; left if thou make as though thou heareft not, I become like them that go down into the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my humble petitions, when I cry unto thee: when I hold up my hands towards the mercy-feat of thy holy temple.

3 O pluck me not away, neither deftroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mifchief in their hearts.

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4 Reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their own inventions.

5 Recompenfe them after the work of their hands: pay them that they have deferved.

6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands: therefore fhall he break them down, and not build them up.

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Pfalm xxix. Afferte Domino.

RING unto the Lord, O ye mighty, bring young rams unto

Bthe Lord, afcribe unto the Lord Worship and strength.

2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his Name : worship the Lord with holy worship.

3 It is the Lord that commandeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder.

4 It is the Lord that ruleth the fea; the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation: the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice.

5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar trees: yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus.

6 He maketh them alfo to fkip like a calf : Libanus alfo, and Sirion like a young unicorn.

7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire; the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness: yea, the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades.

8 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to bring forth young, and discovereth the thick bushes in his temple doth every man speak of his honour.

9 The Lord fitteth above the water-flood maineth a King for ever.

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10 The Lord fhall give ftrength unto his people : the Lord fhall give his people the bleffing of peace.

8 Then cried I unto thee, O Lord and gat me to my Lord right humbly.

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What profit is there in my blood: when I go down to the

10 Shall the dust give thanks unto thee or fhall it declare thy truth?

11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me : Lord be thou my helper.

12 Thou haft turned my heavinefs into joy thou haft put off my fackcloth, and girded me with gladness.

13 Therefore fhall every good man fing of thy praise without ceafing Omy God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. Pfalm xxxi. In te, Domine, fperavi.

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2 Bow down thine ear to me: make hafte to deliver me. 3 And be thou my strong rock and house of defence thou mayeft fave me.

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4 For thou art my ftrong rock and my castle: be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy Name's fake.

5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me : for thou art my strength.

6 Into thy hands I commend my fpirit: for thou haft redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth.

7 I have hated them that hold of fuperftitious vanities: and my truft hath been in the Lord.

8 I will be glad, and rejoice in thy mercy for thou haft confidered my trouble, and haft known my foul in adversities.

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Thou haft not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: but haft fet my feet in a large room.

10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; and mine eye is confumed for very heaviness; yea, my foul and my body.

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11 For my life. is waxen old with heaviness and my years with mourning.

12 My ftrength faileth me, because of mine iniquity: and my bones are confumed.

13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me; and they that did fee me without, conveyed themfelves from me.

14 I am clean forgotten, as a dead man out of mind become like a broken veffel.

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15 For I have heard the blafphemy of the multitude fear is on every fide, while they confpire together against me, and take their counfel to take away my life.

16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord: I have faid,' Thou art my God.

17 My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that perfecute me.

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18 Shew thy fervant the light of thy countenance : and fave me for thy mercies fake.

19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee let the ungodly be put to confufion, and be put to filence in the grave.

20 Let the lying lips be put to filence which cruelly, dif dainfully, and defpitefully speak against the righteous.

21 O how plentiful is thy goodnefs which thou haft laid up' for them that fear thee: and that thou haft prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the fons of men!

22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own prefence from the provoking of all men: thou shalt keep them fecretly in thy tabernacle from the rife of tongues.

23 Thanks be to the Lord : for he hath fhewed me marvellous great kindness in a ftrong city.

24 And when I made hafte, I faid: I am caft out of the fight' of thine eyes.

25 Nevertheless thou heardeft the voice of my prayer : when' I cried unto thee.

26 O love the Lord, all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithful, and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer.

27 Be ftrong, and he shall establish your heart: all ye that put your truft in the Lord.

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2 Bleffed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no and in whofe fpirit there is no guile.

3 For whilft I held my tongue my bones confumed away through my daily complaining.

4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is like the drought in fummer.

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5 I will acknowledge my fin unto thee and mine unrighteoutnefs have I not hid.

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6 I faid, I will confefs my fins unto the Lord and fo thou forgaveft the wickednefs of my fin.

7 For this fhall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee, in a time when thou mayeft be found : but in the great water floods they fhall not come nigh him.

8 Thou art a place to hide me in; thou fhalt preferve me from trouble thou fhalt compass me about with fongs of deliverance.

9 I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou fhalt go and I will guide thee with mine eye.