TONE 4. That they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Ebening Prayer. : PSALM cvi. Confitemini Domino. O GIVE thanks unto the Lórd, for he is grácious: and his mercy endureth for éver. Who can express the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise? Blessed are they that álway keep judgment : and do righteousness. Remember me, O Lord, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people : O vísit me with thy salvation; : That I may see the felicity of thy chosen and rejoice in the gladness of thy people *, and give thanks with thine inhérĭtance. We have sinned with our fathers: we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly. Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt*, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance: but were disobedient at the sea*, even at the Réd sea. Nevertheless, he helped them for his Náme's sake: that he might make his power to be known. He rebuked the Red sea also*, and it was dried TONE 4. up so he led them through the deép, as through a wilderness. And he saved them from the ádversăry's hand : and delivered them from the hand of the enemy. As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them: there was not one of them léft. Then believed they his words and sang praíse unto him. But within a while they forgat his works and would not ǎbíde his counsel. But lust came upon them in the wilderness and they tempted God in the désert. And he gave them their desire: and sent leánness withal into their soúl. : They ángered Moses also in the tents and Aaron the saínt of the Lord. So the earth opened*, and swallowed up Dáthan : and covered the congregátion of Abíram. And the fire was kindled in their cómpăny: the flame burnt up the ungodly. They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the mólten ímage. Thus they turned their glóry: into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay. And they forgat God their Saviour: who had done so great things in Égypt; Wondrous works in the land of Ham and fearful things by the Réd sea. TONE 4. So he said, he would have destroyed them*, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap: to turn away his wrathful indignation*, lést he should destroy them. Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasănt land: and gave no créděnce unto his word; But murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lórd. : Then lift he up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness; To cast out their seed among the nations: and to scátter them in the lands. They joined themselves unto Baal-peor and ate the offerings of the dead. : Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions and the plágue was greát among them. Then stood up Phíněes and prayed and so the plágue ceásed. And that was coúnted unto him for righteousness: among all postérities for évermore. They angered him also at the waters of strife: so that he punished Moses for their sakes; Because they provókěd his spirit: so that he spake unadvísědly with his lips. Neither destroyed they the heathen: as the Lord commanded them; But were mingled ămong the heathen: and leárněd their works. TONE 4. Insomuch that they worshipped their idols*, which túrned to their own decáy: yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto dévils; And shed innocent blood*, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters: whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan*; and the land was defiled with bloód. Thus were they stained with their own works : and went a whoring with their own invéntions. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled ǎgainst his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inhéritance. And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen and they that háted them were lórds over them. : Their enemies oppressed them and had them in subjéction. : Mány a time did he děliver them but they rebelled against him with their own inventions*, and were brought down in their wickedness. Névertheless, when he saw their advérsity: he heard their complaint. He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them*, according unto the multitude of his mercies: yea, he made all those that led them away cáptive to píty them. Deliver us, O Lord our God*, and gather us from ǎmong the heathen that we may give thanks unto thy holy Name*, and make our boást of thy praíse. : TONE 4. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlásting, and world without énd: and let áll the peoplě say, Ámen. THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY. Morning Prayer. PSALM Cvii. Confitemini Domino. TONE 8. O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endúrěth for éver. Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath rědeemed and delivered from the hand of the éněmy; : And gathered them out of the lands*, from the east, and from the west from the north, and from the south. They went astray in the wilderness out of the way : and found no cíty to dwéll in; Hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: and he delivered them from their distréss. He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt. |