PSALM liv. Deus, in nomine.

Tone 2. (1.) p. 3.

† (2.) p. 3.

SAVE me, O God, for thy Name's sake: and avenge me in thy strength.

2 Hear my prayer, O God: and hearken unto the words of my mouth.

3 For strangers are risen up a- {gainst me: and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes,* seek after my soul.

4 Behold, God is my help-er: the Lord is with them that up-hold my soul.

5 He shall reward evil unto mine { en-emies : destroy thou them { in thy truth.

6 An offering of a free heart will I give thee,* and praise thy Name, O Lord: because it is } so comfort-a-ble.

7 For he hath delivered me out of all my { trou-ble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine en-e-mies.

Evening Prayer.

[lxix, lxxxviii.]

PSALM Ixix. Salvum me fac.

Tone 3. A. p. 4.

SAVE {.me,

"O God: for the waters are come

in, e-ven unto my soul. {

2 I stick fast in the deep mire,

where no ground is: I am come into deep waters,* so that the floods run o-ver me.

3 I am weary of crying;* my throat is dry: my sight faileth me for waiting so long up-on my God.

4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless, are migh-ty.

*

5 I paid them the things that I nev-er took: God, thou knowest my simpleness,* and my { faults are not hid from thee.

6 Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of Hosts, be ashamed for my cause: let not those that seek thee be confounded through me,* O Lord God of Is-ra-el.

Tone 3. A. p. 4.

7 And why? for thy sake have I { suffered reproof: shame hath { co-vered my face.

bre-thren:

8 I am become a stranger unto my even an alien unto my { mo-ther's chil-dren.

9 For the zeal of thine house hath { e-ven eat-en me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen up-on me.

10 Iwept and chastened my-self with fast-ing: and that was turned to my re-proof.

11 I put on { sack-cloth al-so: and they {jested

up-on me.

12 They that sit in the gate speak a-gainst me: and the drunkards make { songs up-on me.

13 But, Lord, I make my prayer { un-to thee: in an ac-cept-a-ble time.

14 Hear me, O God, in the multitude of thy mer-cy: even in the truth of { thy sal-va-tion.

15 Take me out of the mire, that I sink not : O let me be delivered from them that hate me,* and out of the deep wa-ters.

16 Let not the water-flood drown me,* neither let the deep { swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth up- on me. }

17 Hear me, O Lord,* for thy loving- }

kindness is comfort-a-ble: turn thee unto me* according to the multitude of thy mer-cies.

18 And hide not thy face from thy servant,* for I am in trou-ble: O haste thee and hear me. 19 Draw nigh unto my soul, and save it: 0

deliver me, because of mine en-e-mies.

20 Thou hast known my reproof, my shame, and { my dis-hon-our: mine adversaries are { all } in thy sight.

21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart;* I am {} full of hea-vi-ness: I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man,* neither found I { any to com-fort me.

22 They gave me { gall to eat and when I was thirsty they gave me vin-e-gar to drink.

23 Let their table be made a snare to take them- { selves with - al: and let the things that should have been for their wealth* be unto them an occasion of fall-ing.

24 Let their eyes be blinded,

that they see not and ever { bow thou down their backs.

25 Pour out thine indig-nation up-on them: and let thy wrathful dis- { pleasure take hold of them.

26 Let their habi- {tation be void: and no man to dwell in their tents.

Tone 3. A. p. 4.

27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smit-ten and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wound-ed.

28 Let them fall from one wickedness { to an-other: and not come into thy right-cous-ness.

29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the liv-ing: and not be written a- {mong the right-eous.

Tone 3. B. (1.) p. 4.

30 (f) As for me, when I am { poor and in heaviness: thy help, O God, shall lift me up.

31 (f) I will praise the Name of God { with a song: and magni- {fy it with thanks-giv-ing.

32 This also shall please the Lord: better than a { bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

33 The humble shall consider this, and be glad: seek ye after God, and your soul shall live. 34 For the Lord {heareth the poor and despisethnot his pris-on-ers.

35 (f) Let heaven and earth praise him the sea, and all that moveth there-in.

36 f) For God will save Sion, and build the {