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Let my foul be filled

as with marrow and fatnefs: * and my mouth fhall praise thee with joyful lips.

If I call thee to mind on my bed, in the morning will I meditate on thee because thou haft been my help.

And under the covert of thy wings will I rejoice; my foul hath ftuck clofe to thee thy right hand hath upholden me. They, my enemies, have fought my life in vain; they themselves fhall go down into the earth below they fhall be delivered into the hands of the fword; the portion of foxes fhall they be.

But the king fhall rejoice in God; all fhall have praise who sware b by him: * for the mouth of fuch as evil fpoke, is ftopt.

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Pf. lxvi. AY God have MAY

mercy on us, and blefs us:*may he make his countenance fhine upon us, and have mercy

on us.

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Dr, & benedicat nobis:*illuminet vultum fuum fuper nos, & misereatur noftri.

EUS mifereatur no

b Expl. All fhall bave glory and praise, whe enter into the cove nant of the king, the Meffiah, of whom David was a type; and swear allegiance to him, and ufe his name in the most facred acts of religion. Expl. May be caft a favourable look on us.

That we may know thy way on earth:*in all nations thy falvation.

May nations praife thee, O God; may all the nations praise thee.

Let the Gentiles be glad and rejoice: * becaufe thou judgeft the nations with juftice, and ruleft over the Gentiles on earth.

May the nations praife thee, O God, may all the nations praife thee: the earth hath yielded her fruit.

May God, our God, blefs us, may God blefs us: * and may all the bounds of the earth fear him.

Anth. Thy right hand hath upholden me. Anth. From the gates.

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Ut cognofcamus in terrâ viam tuam :*in omnibus gentibus falutare

tuum.

Confiteantur tibi populi, Deus; confiteantur tibi populi omnes.

Lætentur & exultent Gentes:* quoniam judicas populos in æquitate, & Gentes in terrâ dirigis.

Confiteantur tibi populi Deus, confiteantur tibi populi omnes :*teria dedit fructum fuum.

Benedicat nos Deus, Deus nofter, benedicat nos Deus: * & metuant eum omnes fines terræ.

Ant. Me fufcepit dex

tera tua..

Ant. A portâ.

The CANTICLE of EZECHIAS. If. xxxviii

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Said: In the midst of my days, fhall I go down to the gates of

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I fought the remainder of my years:*I faid: I fhall not fee the Lord God in the land of the living.

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Quæfivi refiduum annorum meorum :*Dixi: Non videbo Dominum Deum in terrâ viventium.

d Expl. The place of departed fouls.

I fhall fee man no more,*nor inhabitant of this abode.

My generation is fnatched away, it is folded up and gone, like the fhepherd's tent.

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My life is cut off, as by a weaver: he hath cut me off, while I was as yet beginning: betwixt morning and evening wilt thou make an end of me.

I reckoned till morning*like a lion hath he crushed my bones.

Betwixt evening and morning wilt thou make an end of me: * like a fwallow's young will I cry, I will mourn like the dove.

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My eyes are weakened, with looking up on high.

Lord, I fuffer much, answer thou for me:* what can I fay, and what will he answer for me, when he himself hath done it?

I will recall before thee all my years,*in the bitterness of my foul.

O Lord, if this be life; and the life of my fpirit be in fuch things as thefe; thou wilt correct

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me, and preferve my life:*behold in peace is my bitterness moft bitter. But thou haft delivered my foul from deftruction:* thou haft caft all my fins behind thy back.

For hell will not bless thee, neither will death give praise to thee:*neither will they, who go down into the pit, look for thy fure promise.

The man alive, the man alive, he fhall give praise to thee, as I this day: *the father to his children fhall make known thy truth.

Save me, O Lord:* and we will fing our pfalms all the days of our life in the house of our Lord.

Anth. From the gates of hell deliver, O Lord, my foul.

Anth. Let all that

breatheth.

PR

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Pf. cxlviii.

Raife ye the Lord from heaven: * praise ye him on high. Praife ye him all his angels: praife ye him all his hoft.

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Praise ye him, O fun and moon: * praise ye him all ye ftars and light,

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Audate Dominum

de cœlis:* laudate

eum in excelfis.

Laudate eum omnes angeli ejus : * laudate eum omnes virtutes ejus.

Laudate eum fol & luna :*laudate eum omnes ftellæ & lumen.

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Praise ye the Lord from on earth,*ye monfters of the fea, and all the deep.

Ye fire, hail, fnow, ice, and forms of wind, * who execute his orders.

Ye mountains and all ye hills:*ye fruit-bearing trees and all ye cedars. Ye wild beafts, and all ye cattle:* ye creeping things and winged fowl. Let the kings of the earth, and all their people:*the princes and all the judges of the earth;

Let the young men and maidens, let the old and young praife the name of the Lord :*for his name alone is great. VOL. II.

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