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 rebuked and how the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name. 20 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the enemies : and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever. 21 Look upon the covenant: for all the earth is full of darkness, and cruel habitations. 22 O let not the simple go away ashamed but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy Name. 23 Arise, O God, maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily. 24 Forget not the voice of thine enemies : the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more. UNTO 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 wondrous works declare. 3 When I receive the congregation: I shall judge according unto right. 4 The earth is weak, and all the inhabiters thereof: I bear up the pillars 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 setteth up another. 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 thereof: 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 exalted. Psalm lxxvi. Notus in Judæa. N Jewry is God known his Name is great in Israel. IN 2 At Salem is his tabernacle dwelling in Sion. and his 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 mighty 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 trembled, and was still, 9 When God arose to judgement: and to help all the meek upon earth. 10 The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain. : 11 Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all ye that are round about him : bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 12 He shall refrain the spirit of princes: and is wonderful among the kings of the earth. Psalm lxxvii. Voce mea ad Dominum. I WILL cry unto God with my voice: even unto God will I cry with my voice, and he shall hearken unto me. 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran, and ceased not in the night-season; my soul refused comfort. 3 When I am in heaviness, I will think upon God when my heart is vexed, I will complain. : 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so feeble, that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old : and the years that are past. 6 I call to remembrance my song: and in the night I commune with mine own heart, and search out my spirits. 7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever : and will he be no more intreated? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever: and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious: and will he shut up his loving-kindness in displeasure? 10 And I said, It is mine own infirmity : 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 wonders 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 doeth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people. 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people: even the sons of Jacob and Joseph. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and were afraid : the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water, the air thundered and thine arrows went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground; the earth was moved, and shook withal. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep : by the hand of Moses and Aaron. HE Evening Prayer. Psalm 1xxviii. Attendite, popule. [EAR my law, O my people: incline your ears unto the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable : I will declare hard sentences 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 generations 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 forefathers to teach their children; 6 That their posterity might know it : and the children which were yet unborn; 7 To the intent that when they came they might shew their children the up same; 8 That they might put their trust in God: and not to forget the works of God, but to keep his commandments; 9 And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit cleaveth not stedfastly unto 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 shewed 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. |