14 For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 15 O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go hence, and be no more seen. PSALM 40. Expectans expectavi. WAITED patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling. I 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth even a thanksgiving unto our God. 4 Many shall see it, and fear: and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies. 6 O Lord my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. 7 If I should declare them, and speak of them they should be more than I am able to express. 8 Sacrifice, and meat-offering, thou wouldest not: but mine ears hast thou opened. 9 Burnt-offerings, and sacrifice for sin, hast thou not required: then said I, Lo, I come, 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am consider content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart. 11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest. 12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart: my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation. 13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth: from the great congregation. 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me, O Lord : let thy loving-kindness and thy truth alway preserve me. 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up: yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me. 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me: make haste, O Lord, to help me. 17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it : let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil. 18 Let them be desolate, and rewarded with shame: that say unto me, Fie upon thee, fie upon thee. 19 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say alway, The Lord be praised. 20 As for me, I am poor and needy: but the Lord careth for me. 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer : make no long tarrying, O my God. Prayer. blessed upon earth and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies. 3 Lord comfort when BLESSED is he that coy: the he lieth sick upon for him? wake Lord shall deliver him in the time thou all his bed in his sickness. of trouble. 2 The Lord preserve him, and keep him alive, that he may be 4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me: When shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself, and when he cometh forth he telleth it. 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me: even against me do they imagine this evil. 8 Let the sentence of guiltiness proceed against him and now that he lieth, let him rise up no more. 9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted who did also eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me. 10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them. 11 By this I know thou favourest me that mine enemy doth not triumph against me. 12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me: and shalt set me before thy face for ever. 13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel world without end. Amen. PSALM 42. Quemadmodum. LIKE as the hart desireth the water-brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God: when shall I come to appear before the presence of God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God? 4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God; 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving: among such as keep holy-day. 6 Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 7 Put thy trust in God: for I Day 8. will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance. 8 My God, my soul is vexed within me therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon. 9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the waterpipes: all thy waves and storms are gone over me. 10 The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the day-time: and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. 11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth; 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me: Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, 0 my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. GI PSALM 43. Judica me, Deus. IVE sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people: O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength, why hast thou put me from thee and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me: and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. 4 And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my God. 5 Why art thou so heavy, 0 my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me? 60 put thy trust in God: for DAY 9. PSALM 44. I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. Morning Prayer. E have beard with our ears, 15 Thou makest us to be a byword among the heathen: and that the people shake their heads WO God, our fathers have told at us. us what thou hast done in their time of old : 2 How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in how thou hast destroyed the nations, and cast them out. 3 For they gat not the land in possession through their own sword neither was it their own arm that helped them; 4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto them. 5 Thou art my King, O God: send help unto Jacob. 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies and in thy Name will we tread them under, that rise up against us. 7 For I will not trust in my bow it is not my sword that shall help me; 16 My confusion is daily before and the shame of my face hath covered me; me 17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer for the enemy and avenger. 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant. 19 Our heart is not turned back: neither our steps gone out of thy way; 20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange god : shall not God search it out? for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart. 22 For thy sake also are we kill8 But it is thou that savest used all the day long: and are countfrom our enemies and puttest ed as sheep appointed to be slain. them to confusion that hate us. 23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not absent from us for ever. 9 We make our boast of God all day long and will praise thy Name for ever. : 16 But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion and goest not forth with our armies. 11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies so that they which hate us spoil our goods. 12 Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep and hast scattered us among the heathen. 13 Thou sellest thy people for nought and takest no money for them. 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble? 25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground. 26 Arise, and help us and deliver us for thy mercy's sake. PSALM 45. Eructavit cor meum. MY Y heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the King. 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 3 Thou art fairer than the children of men full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever. 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most Mighty according to thy worship and renown. 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour ride on, because of the word of truth, of meekness, and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee: even in the midst among the King's enemies. 7 Thy seat, O God, endureth for ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: wherefore God, even thy God, hath Day 9. anointed thee with the oil of glad-rage and swell: and though the ness above thy fellows. mountains shake at the tempest of the same. 9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. 10 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours. 11 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, incline thine ear: forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. 12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him. 13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee. 14 The King's daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought gold. 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. 4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the tabernacle | of the most Highest. 5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed: God shall help her, and that right early. 6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved : but God hath shewed his voice, and the earth shall melt away. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. 8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what destruction he hath brought upon the earth. 9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire. 10 Be still then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. PSALM 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite. CLAP your hands together, all ye people: O sing unto God with the voice of melody. 2 For the Lord is high, and to be feared he is the great King upon all the earth. 3 He shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose out an heritage for us: even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. 5 God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the trump. 6 O sing praises, sing praises unto our God: O sing praises, sing praises unto our King. 7 For God is the King of all the earth sing ye praises with understanding. 8 God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon his holy seat. 9 The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham for God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a shield. PSALM 48. Magnus Dominus. YREAT is the Lord, and highly to be praised in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill. G 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth: upon the north-side lieth the city of the great King; God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge. 3 For lo, the kings of the earth: are gathered, and gone by together. 4 They marvelled to see such things they were astonished, and suddenly cast down. 5 Fear came there upon them, and sorrow as upon a woman in her travail. 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the east-wind. 7 Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God God upholdeth the same for ever. 8 We wait for thy loving-kindness, O God in the midst of thy temple. 9 O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise unto the world's end thy right hand is full of righteousness. 10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be giad because of thy judgments. 11 Walk about Sion, and go round about her and tell the towers thereof. 12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses: that ye may tell them that come after. 13 For this God is our God for ever and ever he shall be our guide unto death. PSALM 49. HEAR ye this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world; 2 High and low, rich and poor : one with another. 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom and my heart shall muse of understanding. 4 I will incline mine ear to the parable: and shew my dark speech upon the harp. 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness: and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth me round about? 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. 7 But no man may deliver his brother nor make agreement unto God for him; 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls: so that he must let that alone for ever; 9 Yea, though he live long and see not the grave. 10 For he seeth that wise men also die, and perish together: as |