TONE 7. And for the blasphemy, wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee: reward thou them, O Lord, séven-fold into their bosom. So we, that are thy people, and sheep of thy pas ture*, shall give thee thanks for ever: and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generátion to geněration. PSALM 1xxx. Qui regis Israel. HEAR, O thou Shepherd of Israel*, thou that leadest Jóseph like a sheep shéw thyself also, thou that sittest upon thě chérůbims. : Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manásses: stir up thy strength, and come, and help us. Túrn us again, O God: shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. O Lord God of hosts: how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth? Thou feédest them with the bread of tears and givest them plénteousness of tears to drink. Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh us to scórn. : Turn us again, thou God of hosts: shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and plánted it. Thou máděst room for it; and when it had taken root it filled the land. TONE 7. The hills were covered with the shadow of it: and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar trees. She stretched out her branches unto the sea and her boughs unto the ríver. Why hast thou then brókěn down her hedge: that all they that go by pluck off her grapes? The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up : and the wild beasts of the field devoúr it. Turn thee again, thou God of hosts*, look down from heaven behold, and visit this víne; And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself. : It is burnt with fire, and cut down and they shall perish at the rebúke of thy coúntěnance. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand : and upon the son of man*, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self. And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live and we shall cáll upon thy Name. Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. PSALM lxxxi. Exultate Deo. TONE 2. SING we merrily unto God our strength: make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jácob. Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret : the merry harp with the lute. Blow up the trumpet in the new-moon even in the time appointed, and upon our sólemn feást-day. For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jácob. This he ordained in Joseph for a téstimony: when he came out of the land of Egypt, and had heárd ă strange language. I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from máking the pots. Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the stórm fell upon thee. I proved thee also: at the wátĕrs of strife. Hear, O my people, and I will assure thee, O Ísrael: if thou wilt hearken unto me. There shall no stránge god be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any other god. I am the Lord thy God*, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it. But my people would not hear my voice and Israel would not ŏbéy me. TONE 2. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lusts: and let them follow their own imaginations. O that my people would have hearkened unto me : for if Israel had walked in my ways, I should soon have put down their éněmies: and turned my hand against their adversaries. The haters of the Lord should have been found liars : but their time should have endured for éver. He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee. Evening Prayer. PSALM lxxxii. Deus stetit. GOD standeth in the congregation of princes: he is a Judge ǎmong gods. How long will ye give wrong judgment and accept the persons of the ungodly? Defend the poor and fatherless see that such as are in need and necéssity have right. Deliver the outcast and poor save them from the hand of the ungodly. They will not be learned nor understand*, but walk on still in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. TONE 2. I have said, Ye are gods and ye are all the children of the most Híghest. But ye shall die like men and fall like óne of the prínces. Arise, O God, and judge thou the earth for thou shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance. PSALM lxxxiii. Deus, quis similis ? TONE 1. HOLD not thy tongue, O God*, keép not still sílence refraín not thyself, O God. : For lo, thine enemies máke ǎ múrmuring: and they that hate thee have lift up their head. They have imagined craftily against thy people : and taken counsel against thy secrět ones. They have said, Come, and let us root them out*, that they be no more a people : and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have cast their heads together with one consent and are conféderăte against thee; : The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismǎelites the Moabites, and Hagărens; : Gebal, and Ammon, and Ámålek: the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre. |