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173 Let thine hand help me : for I have chosen thy commandments.

174 I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord and in thy law is my delight.

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175 O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee and thy judgements shall help me.

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176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments

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Morning Prayer.

PSALM 120. Ad Dominum.

HEN I was in trouble I called upon the Lord and he heard me.

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2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips: and from a deceitful tongue.

3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue : even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

4 Wo is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar.

5 My soul hath long dwelt among them : that are enemies unto peace.

6 I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof: they make them ready to battle.

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PSALM 121. Levavi oculos.

Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help.

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2 My help cometh even from the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved : and he that keepeth thee will not sleep. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel : shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;

6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day : neither the moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in from this time forth for

evermore.

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PSALM 122. Lætatus sum.

I Was glad when they said unto me : We will go into the house of the Lord.

2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates: O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself.

4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord.

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5 For there is the seat of judgement: even the seat of the house of David.

6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

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: 7 Peace be within thy walls: and plenteousness within thy palaces.

: 8 For my brethren and companions' sakes : I will wish thee prosperity.

9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God: I will seek to do thee good.

PSALM 123. Ad te levavi oculos meos.

UNTO thee

TO thee lift I up mine eyes: O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress: even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.

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3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have upon us for we are utterly despised. 4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy and with the despitefulness of the proud.

PSALM 124. Nisi quia Dominus.

F the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;

2. They had swallowed us up quick : when they were so wrathfully displeased at us. 3 Yea, the waters had drowned us : and the stream had gone over our soul.

4 The deep waters of the proud : had gone

even over our soul.

5 But praised be the Lord: who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made heaven and earth. PSALM 125. Qui confidunt.

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THEY

HEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion: which may not be removed, but standeth fast for

ever.

2 The hills stand about Jerusalem: even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.

3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous: lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness.

4 Do well, O Lord: unto those that are good and true of heart.

5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness: the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil-doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

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Evening Prayer.

PSALM 126. In convertendo.

WHEN the Lord turned again the cap

tivity of Sion: then were we like unto

them that dream.

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter : and our tongue with joy.

3 Then said they among the heathen: The Lord hath done great things for them.

4 Yea, the Lord hath done great things for us already whereof we rejoice.

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5 Turn our captivity, O Lord: as the rivers in the south.

6 They that sow in tears: shall reap in joy 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed: shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.

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PSALM 127. Nisi Dominus.

XCEPT the Lord build the house: their labour is but lost that build it.

2 Except the Lord keep the city : the watchman waketh but in vain.

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3 It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

4 Lo, children and the fruit of the womb : are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord.

5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children.

6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

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