TONE 4.

O Lord my God, if I have done ány such thing: or if there be any wíckědněss in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me yea, I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy;

Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and táke me: yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth*, and lay mine honour in the dust.

Stand up, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift up thyself, because of the indignation of mine éněmies : arise up for me in the judgment that thou hast commánded.

And so shall the congregation of the people cóme about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thyself again.

The Lord shall judge the people*; give sentence with me, O Lord according to my righteousness*, and according to the innocency that is ín me.

O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the just.

For the righteous God: trieth the very hearts and reins.

My help cóměth of God: who preserveth them that are true of heart.

God is a righteous Judge, strong, and patient: and God is provókěd évěry day.

If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword: he hath bent his bów, and made it reády.

TONE 4.

He hath prepared for him the ínstruments of death: he ordaineth his arrows against the pérsecutors.

Behold, he trávailĕth with mischief: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness.

He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other. For his travail shall come upon his own head : and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

I will give thanks unto the Lord*, according to his ríghteousness and I will praise the Náme of the Lórd most High.

PSALM viii. Domine, Dominus noster.

(ASCENSION DAY. MORN.)

TONE 6.

O LORD our Governour*, how excellent is thy Name in all the world: thou that hast set thy glóry above the heavens!

Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength*, because of thine éněmies : that thou mightest still the énemy, and the ǎvénger.

For I will consider thy heavens*, even the works of thy fingers the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained.

What is mán, that thou art mindful of him : and the son of mán, that thou visĭtest him?

TONE 6.

Thou madest him lower than the angels: to crown him with glóry and worship.

Thou makest him to have dominion of the works and thou hast put all things in sub

of thy hands

jéction under his feet;

All sheep and oxen: yea, and the beasts of the field;

The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Góvěrnour: how excellent is thy Náme in áll the world!

THE SECOND DAY.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM ix. Confitebor tibi.

TONE 5.

I WILL give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: yea, my songs will I make of thy Name*, O thou most Highest. While mine enemies are driven back they shall fall and pérish at thy présence.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause : thou art set in the throne that júdgest right.

TONE 5.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen*, and destroyed the ungodly thou hast put out their name for évěr and éver.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end even as the cities which thou hast destroyed*; their memorial is pérished with them.

But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath also prepared his seat for judgment.

For he shall judge the world in ríghteousness : and minister true judgment unto the people.

The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed: even a refuge in due time of trouble.

And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou, Lord, hast never failed them that seék thee.

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O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion: shew the people of his dóings.

For, when he maketh inquisition for blood*, he remembereth them and forgétteth not the complaint of the poor.

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Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that háte mě: thou that liftest me úp from the gates of death.

That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion: I will rejoice in thy sălvátion.

The heathen are sunk down into the pit that they

TONE 5.

made in the same net which they hid privily*, is their foot táken.

The Lord is known to execute judgment: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands.

The wicked shall be turned into hell: and all the people that forgét God.

For the poor shall not alway be forgotten: the patient abiding of the meek* shall not pérish for ever. Up, Lord *, and let not man have the upper hand : let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

Put them in fear, O Lord: that the heathen may knów themselves to be but men.

PSALM X. Ut quid, Domine?

TONE 7.

WHY standest thou so far off, O Lord : and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble?

The ungodly for his own lust doth pérsecute the poor let them be taken in the crafty wiliness* that they have imagined.

For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire : and speaketh good of the covetous *, whom God abhórreth.

The ungodly is so proud, that he cárěth not for God neither is Gód in áll his thoughts.