22 My hand shall hold him fast and my arm shall strengthen him.

23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the son of wickedness shall not hurt

him.

24 I will smite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him.

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37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine Anointed : and art displeased at him.

38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant and cast his crown to the ground. 39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges and broken down his strong holds.

26 I will set his dominion also in the sea and his right hand in the floods.

27 He shall call me, Thou art my Father my God, and my strong salvation.

28 And I will make him my first-born: higher than the kings of the earth.

29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

30. His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven.

31 But if his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgements;

32 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with Scourges.

33 Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my truth to fail.

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David.

41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies : and made all his adversaries to rejoice.

42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword and givest him not victory in the battle.

43 Thou hast put out his glory and cast his throne down to the ground.

44 The days of his youth hast thou shortened and covered him with dishonour.

45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, for ever: and shall thy wrath burn like fire?

46 O remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought?

47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death: and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

48 Lord, where are thy old loving-kindnesses: which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy servants have : and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people;

50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine Anointed: Praised be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and

MORNING PRAYER. PSALM 90. Domine, refugium. LORD, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of

men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass.

6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

7 For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sins in the light of thy counte

13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last and be gracious unto thy servants.

14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

16 Shew thy servants thy work and their children thy glory.

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17 And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handy-work.

PSALM 91. Qui habitat.

WHOSO dwelleth under the defence of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold my God, in him will I trust.

3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter : and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers: his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness: nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day.

7 A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee.

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8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the ungodly.

11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him I will set him up, because he hath known my Name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him: yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour

16 With long life will I satisfy him and shew him my salvation.

PSALM 92. Bonum est confiteri.

IT is a good thing to give

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thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy Name, O most Highest;

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2 To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-season; 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute: upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp.

4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.

5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works thy thoughts are very deep.

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6 An unwise man doth not well consider this and a fool doth not understand it.

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8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, lo, thine enemies shall perish and all the workers of wickedness shall be destroyed. 9 But mine horn shall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn for I am anointed with fresh oil.

10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that arise up against me.

11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree: and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.

12 Such as are planted in the house of the Lord shall flou rish in the courts of the house of our God.

13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age: and shall be fat and well-liking.

14 That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is: and that there is no unrighte ousness in him.

EVENING PRAYER. PSALM 93. Dominus regnavit, TH HE Lord is King, and hath

put on glorious apparel : the Lord hath put on his ap parel, and girded himself with strength.

2 He hath made the round world so sure that it cannot be moved.

3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared: thou art from everlasting.

4 The floods are risen, O Lord, the floods have lift up

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The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.

6. Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very sure: holiness becometh thine house for ever.

PSALM 94. Deus ultionum. Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth: thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

2 Arise, thou Judge of the world and reward the proud after their deserving.

3 Lord, how long shall the ungodly how long shall the ungodly triumph?

4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully and make such proud boasting?

5 They smite down thy people, O Lord and trouble thine heritage.

6 They murder the widow, and the stranger and put the fatherless to death.

7 And yet they say, Tush, the Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

8 Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear or he that made the eye, shall he not see?

14 For the Lord will not fail his people: neither will he forsake his inheritance;

15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgement: all such as are true in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked: or who will take my part against the evil doers?

17 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence.

18 But when I said, My foot hath slipt thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have refreshed my soul.

20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness which imagineth mischief as a law?

21 They gather them toge, ther against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my refuge: and my God is the strength of my confidence.

23 He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.

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God and a great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hills is his also.

5 The sea is his, and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land.

6 O come, let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

7 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

8 To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness;

9. When your fathers tempted me proved me, and saw my works.

10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said: It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways;

11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

PSALM 96. Cantate Domino.

Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord,

all the whole earth.

2 Sing unto the Lord, and praise his Name: be telling of his salvation from day to day.

3 Declare his honour unto the heathen and his wonders unto all people.

4 For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised: he is more to be feared than all gods.

5 As for all the gods of the heathen, they are but idols: but it is the Lord that made the heavens.

6 Glory and worship are before him power and honour are in his sanctuary.

7 Ascribe unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people a scribe unto the Lord worship and power.

8 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name : bring presents, and come into his courts.

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth stand in awe of him.

10 Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is King: and that it is he who hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved; and how that he shall judge the people righteously.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad": let the sea make a noise, and ali that therein is.

12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord.

13 For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with his truth.

PSALM 97. Dominus regnavit, THE Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof yea, the multitude of the isles may be glad thereof.

2 Clouds and darkness are round about him righteousness and judgement are the habitation of his seat.

3 There shall go a fire before him and burn up his enemies on every side.

4 His lightnings gave shine unto the world: the earth saw it, and was afraid.

5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord : at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

6 The heavens have declared