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. : 175 O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee and thy judgements shall help me. : 176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments WE Morning Prayer. PSALM 120. Ad Dominum. HEN I was in trouble I called upon the Lord and he heard me. : 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. I PSALM 121. Levavi oculos. Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help. 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. : 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. : 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. C : 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. mercy 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. : 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. 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. : 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. E 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. 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. |