PSALM LXXIV. Ut quid, Deus ?

GOD, wherefore art thou absent from us so long:

Why is thy wrath so hot a-gainst the sheep of thy pasture? 2 O think upon thy con-gre-gation:

Whom thou hast purchased, and re-deemed of old.

3 Think upon the tribe of thine in-heritance :

And mount Sion, where-in thou hast dwelt.

4 Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy eve-ry

enemy:

Which hath done e-vil in thy sanctuary.

5 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy con-gre-gations : And set up their banners for tokens.

6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees:

Was known to bring it to an excel-lent work.

7 But now they break down all the carved work there-of : With ax-es and hammers.

8 They have set fire upon thy ho-ly places:

And have defiled the dwelling-place of thy Name, even un-to the ground.

9 Yea, they said in their hearts, Let us make havoc of them al-to-gether:

Thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land. 10 We see not our tokens, there is not one pro-phet more: No, not one is there among us, that under-stand-eth a-ny

more.

11 O God, how long shall the adversary do this dis-honour : How long shall the enemy blas-pheme thy Name, for ever? 12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand:

Why pluckest thou not thy right hand out of thy bosom to con-sume the enemy?

13 For God is my King of old:

The help that is done upon earth he do-eth it him-self.

14 Thou didst divide the sea through thy power :

Thou brakest the heads of the dra-gons in the waters.

15 Thou smotest the heads of the Le-viathan in pieces:

And gavest him to be meat for the peo-ple in the wilderness. 16 Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks:

Thou driedst up might-y waters.

17 The day is thine, and the night is thine:

Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

18 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.

19 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy hath re-buked :

And how the foolish people hath blas-phemed thy Name. 20 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the multitude of the enemies:

And forget not the congregation of the poor for ever.

21 Look up-on the covenant:

For all the earth is full of darkness, and cru-el ha-bi-tations. 22 O let not the simple go a-way a-shamed:

But let the poor and needy give praise un-to thy Name.

23 Arise, O God, maintain thine own cause:

Remember how the foolish man blas-phemeth thee daily. 24 Forget not the voice of thine enemies :

The presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ev-er more and more.

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Morning Prayer.

PSALM LXXV. Confitebimur tibi.

NTO thee, O God, do we give thanks :
Yea, unto thee do we give thanks.

2 Thy Name also is so nigh:

And that do thy won-drous works de-clare.

3 When I receive the con-gre-gation :

I shall judge ac-cord-ing un-to right.

4 The earth is weak, and all the in-habitants there-of: I bear up the pil-lars of it.

5 I said unto the fools, Deal not so madly:

And to the ungodly, Set not up your horn.

6 Set not up your horn on high:

And speak not with a stiff neck.

7 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the

west:

Nor yet from the south.

8 And why? God is the Judge:

He putteth down one, and set-teth up an-other.

9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine

is red:

It is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same.

10 As for the dregs there-of:

All the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them

out.

11 But I will talk of the God of Jacob:

And praise him for ever.

12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break :

And the horns of the righteous shall be ex-alted.

PSALM LXXVI. Notus in Judæa.

N Jewry is God known:

I His Name is great in Israel.

2 At Salem is his ta-ber-nacle:
And his dwell-ing in Sion.

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow:
The shield, the sword, and the battle.
4 Thou art of more honour and might :
Than the hills of the robbers.

5 The proud are robbed, they have slept their sleep: And all the men whose hands were might-y have found nothing. 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob:

Both the chariot and horse are fallen.

7 Thou, even thou art to be feared:

And who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry? 8 Thou didst cause thy judgement to be heard from heaven : The earth trem-bled, and was still,

9 When God a-rose to judgement :

And to help all the meek up-on earth.

10 The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise:

And the fierceness of them shalt thou re-frain.

11 Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all ye that are round a-bout him:

Bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

12 He shall refrain the spirit of princes:

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And is wonderful a-mong the kings of the earth.

PSALM LXXVII. Voce mea ad Dominum.

WILL unto God with cry

my voice:

Even unto God will I cry with my voice, and he shall hearken un-to-me.

2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord:

My sore ran, and ceased not in the night-season; my soul re-fus-ed comfort.

3 When I am in heaviness, I will think up-on God:

When my heart is vexed, I will com-plain.

4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking :

I am so feeble, that I can-not speak.

5 I have considered the days of old: And the years that are past.

6 I call to re-membrance my song:

And in the night I commune with mine own heart, and search out my spirits.

7 Will the Lord absent him-self for ever:
And will he be no more en-treated?
8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever:

And is his promise come utterly to an end for e-ver-more? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious:

And will he shut up his loving-kind-ness in dis-pleasure? 10 And I said, It is mine own in-firmity:

But I will remember the years of the right hand of the most Highest.

11 I will remember the works of the Lord: And call to mind thy won-ders of old time. 12 I will think also of all thy works:

And my talking shall be of thy doings.

13 Thy way, O God, is holy:

Who is so great a God as our God?

14 Thou art the God that do-eth wonders:

And hast declared thy power a-mong the people.

15 Thou hast mightily de-livered thy people :

Even the sons of Jacob and Joseph.

16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and were a-fraid:

The depths al-so were troubled.

17 The clouds poured out water, the air thundered :

And thine ar-rows went a-broad.

18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round a-bout :

The lightnings shone upon the ground; the earth was moved, and shook with-al.

19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters: And thy foot-steps are not known.

20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep: By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Evening Prayer.

PSALM LXXVIII. Attendite, popule.

EAR my law, O my

H Incline your ears unto the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable:
I will declare hard sen-ten-ces of old;
3 Which we have heard and known:
And such as our fathers have told us;

4 That we should not hide them from the children of the

gene-rations to come :

But to shew the honour of the Lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

5 He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law: Which he commanded our fore-fathers to teach their children; 6 That their posterity might know it:

And the children which were yet un-born; 7 To the intent that when they came up:

They might shew their children the same; 8 That they might put their trust in God:

And not to forget the works of God, but to keep his com-mandments;

9 And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn gene-ration:

A generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit cleaveth not steadfast-ly un-to God;

10 Like as the children of Ephraim:

Who being harnessed, and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the day of battle.

11 They kept not the covenant of God: And would not walk in his law ;

12 But forgat what he had done:

And the wonderful works that he had shew-ed for them. 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers, in the land of Egypt:

Even in the field of Zoan.

14 He divided the sea, and let them go through: He made the waters to stand on an heap.

15 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud: And all the night through with a light of fire.

16 He clave the hard rocks in the wilderness:

And gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.

17 He brought waters out of the sto-ny rock : So that it gushed out like the rivers.

18 Yet for all this they sinned more a-gainst him: And provoked the most High-est in the wilderness.

19 They tempted God in their hearts:

And re-quired meat for their lust.

20 They spake against God al-so, saying:

Shall God prepare a ta-ble in the wilderness?

21 He smote the stony rock indeed, that the water gushed out, and the streams flowed with-al:

But can he give bread also, or pro-vide flesh for his people?

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