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I am weary of crying, multitude of thy mercy, even. my throat is dry; my fight in the truth of thy falvation. faileth me for waiting fo long upon my God.

4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that are mine enemies, and would deftroy me guiltless, are mighty. 5 I paid them the things that I never took: God, thou knoweft my fimplenefs, and my faults are not hid from thee. 6 Let not them that truft In thee, O Lord God of hofts, be ashamed for my caufe; iet not those that feek thee be confounded through me, O Lord God of Ifrael.

7 And why? for thy fake have I fuffered reproof; fhame hath covered thy face.

8 Jam become aftranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's children.

9 For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me.

10 I wept, and chaftened myself with fafting, and that was turned to my reproof.

11 I put on fackcloth alfo, and they jefted upon me.

12 They that fit in the gate fpeak against me, and the drunkards make fongs upon me.

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13 But, Lord, I make my prayer unto thee in an accept able time.

14 Hear me, O God, in the

15 Take me out ofthe mire, that Ifink not; Olet me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deepwaters.

16 Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep fwallow me up; and let not the pit fhut her mouth upon me.

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17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving-kindness is comfortable; turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies.

18 And hide not thy face from thy fervant; for I am in trouble: O hafte thee, and hear me.

19 Draw nigh unto my foul, and fave it; O deliver me, because of mine enemies.

20 Thou haft known my reproof, my fhame, and my difhonour mine adverfaries are all in thy fight.

21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart; I am full of heavinefs: I looked for fome to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me.

22 They gave me gall to eat; and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.

23 Let their table be made a fnare to take themfelves withal; and let the things that fhould have been for their wealth, be unto them an occafion of falling.

24 Let

124 Let their eyes be blinded, that they see not; and ever bow thoudown their backs. 30025 Pour out thine indigna1tion upon them, and let thy wrathful difpleasure take hold of them.

26 Let their habitation be void, and no man to dwell in their tents.

27 For they perfecute him whom thou haft fmitten, and they talk how they may vex them whom thou haft wounded.

28 Let them fall from one wickedness to another, and not

come into thy righteoufnefs.

29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, and not be written among the righteous.

30 As for me, when I am

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ASTE thee, O God, to deliver me; make hafte to help me, O Lord.

2 Let them be ashamed and confounded, that feek af

ter my foul; let them be turned backward and put to confufion, that with me evil.

befoon brought to fhame, that 3 Let them for their reward cry over me, There, there.

4 But let all thofe that feek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let all fuch as de

poor and in heavinefs, thy light in thy falvation say al

help, O God, fhall lift me up.
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I will praise the Name
of God with a fong, and mag-
nify it with thanksgiving.

32 This alfo fhall please the Lord, better than a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

33 The humble shall confider this, and be glad : feek ye after God, and your foul fhall live.

34 For the Lord heareth the poor, and defpiseth not his prifoners.

35 Let heaven and earth praife him; the fea, and all that moveth therein.

36 For God will fave Sion,

way, The Lord be praised,
5 As for me, I am poor and
in mifery; hafte thee unto
me, O God.

6 Thou art my helper, and my Redeemer : O Lord, make no long tarrying.

The Fourteenth Day.

MORNING PRAYER. Pfalm lxxi. In te, Domine, fperavi.

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thee, O Lord, have I put my truft; let me never be put to confufion, but rid me, and deliver me in thy righte oufnefs; incline thine ear un to me, and fave me.

2 Be thou my strong hold, my foul; let them be covered whereunto I may alway refort: with fhame and dishonour, thou haft promised to help that feek to do me evil. me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castle.

3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man:

4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope, even from my youth.

5 Through thee have I been holden up ever fince I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb: my praise fhall be always of thee.

6. I am become as it were a monster unto many, but my fure truft is in thee.

7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praife, that I may fing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

8 Caft me not away in the time of age; forfake me not when my strength faileth me:

9 For mine enemies fpeak againft me; and they that lay wait for my foul take their counsel together, faying, God hath forfaken him; perfecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

To Go not far from me, O God; my God, hafte thee to help me.

12 As for me, I will pati ently abide alway, and will praise thee more and more.

13 My mouth fhall daily speak of thy righteousness and falvation; for I know no end thereof.

14 I will go forth in the ftrength of the Lord God, and will make mention of thy righteousness only.

15 Thou, O God, haft taught me from my youth up until now; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

16 Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have fhowed thy ftrength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

17 Thy righteousness, O God, is very high, and great things are they that thou haft done: O God, who is like unto thee!

18 O what great troubles and adverfities haft thou fhowed me! and yet didft thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.

19 Thou haft brought me to great honour, and comforted me on every fide: 11 Let them be confounded 20 Therefore will I praife and perish, that are against thee, and thy faithfulness, O God,

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God, playing upon an inftrument of mufic: unto thee will I fing upon the harp, O thou Holy One of Ifrael.

21 My lips will be fain when I fing unto thee; and fo will my foul, whom thou haft delivered.

22 My tongue fhall alfo talk of thy righteousness all the day long; for they are confounded and brought unto fhame, that seek to do me evil.

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Pfalm lxxii. Deus, judicium. IVE the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's fon.

2. Then fhall he judge thy people according unto right, and defend the poor.

3 The mountains also fhall bring peace, and the little hills righteousness unto the people.

4 He fhall keep the fimple folk by their right, defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrong doer.

5 They fhall fear thee as long as the fun and moon endureth, from one generation. to another.

6 He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool, even as the drops that water the earth.

7 In his time shall the righteous flourish; yea, and abundance of peace, fo long as the moon endureth.

8 His dominion fhall be alfo from the one fea to the other, and from the flood unto the world's end.

9 They that dwell in the wilderness fhall kneel before him; his enemies fhall lick the duft.

10 The kings of Tharfis and of the ifles fhall give prefents; the kings of Arabia and Saba fhall bring gifts.

11 All kings fhall fall down before him; all nations fhall do him fervice.

12 For he fhall deliver the poor, when he crieth; the needy alfo, and him that hath no helper.

13 He fhall be favourable to the fimple and needy, and shall preferve the fouls of the poor.

14 He fhall deliver their fouls from falfhood and wrong and dear fhall their blood be in his fight.

15 He fhall live, and unto him thall be given of the gold of Arabia; prayer fhall be made ever unto him, and daily fhall he be praised.

16 There fhall be an heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit fhall fhake like Libanus, and fhall be green in the city like grass upon the earth.

17 His name fhall endure for ever; his name fhall remain under the fun amongst the pofterities, which shall be

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bleffed through him; and all ple unto them, and thereout the heathen fhall praife him.

18 Bleffed be the Lord God, even the God of Ifrael, which only doeth wondrous things; 19 And bleffed be the Name of his Majefty for ever: and all the earth fhall be filled with his Majefty. Amen, Amen.

EVENING PRAYER.

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Pfalm lxxiii. Quam bonus Ifrael!
RULY God is loving
unto Ifrael; even unto
fuch as are of a clean heart.
2 Nevertheless my feet
were almoft gone, my tread-
ings had well nigh flipt.

3 And why? I was grieved at the wicked: I do alfo fee the ungodly in fuch profperity. 4 For they are in no peril of death; but are lufty and strong. 5 They come in no misfortunelike other folk; neither are they plagued like other men.

6 And this is the cause that they are so holden with pride, and overwhelmed with cruelty. 7 Their eyes fwell with fatnefs, and they do even what they luft.

8 They corrupt other, and fpeak of wicked blafphemy; their talking is against the moft High.

9 For they ftretch forth their mouth unto the heaven, and their tongue goeth through the world.

10 Therefore fall the peo

fuck they no small advantage.

11 Tufh, fay they, how fhould God perceive it? is there knowledge in the most High?

12 Lo, these are the ungodly: thefe profper in the world; and thefe have riches in poffeffion and I said, Then have I cleanfed my heart in vain, and washed mine hands in innocency.

13 All the day long have I been punished, and chastened every morning.

14 Yea, and I had almost faid even as they ; but lo, then I fhould have condemned the generation of thy children. 15 Then thought I to underftand this; but it was too hard for me,

16 Until I went into the fanctuary of God: then underftood I the end of thefe men;

17 Namely, how thou doft fet them in flippery places, and cafteft them down and deftroyeft them.

18 O how fuddenly do they confume, perish, and come to a fearful end!

19 Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh; fo shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the city.

20 Thus my heart was grieved, and it went even through my reins.

21 So foolish was I, and ig

norant,

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