4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and | lie in the grave: who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest | pit: in a place of darkness, and in the | deep.

6 Thine indignation lieth | hard up on me : and thou hast | vexed me with | all thy | storms. 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance |far | from me and made me to be · ab | horred · of \ them.

8 I am so fast in | prison: that. I cannot get forth.

9 My sight faileth for | very trouble: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched | forth my hands unto thee.

10 Dost thou shew wonders among the drad: or shall the dead rise up again, and praise | thee?

11 Shall thy loving-kindness be shewed in the grave or thy | faithfulness | in destruction? 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark and thy righteousness in the land where | all things are· forgotten?

13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord and early shall my prayer | come · before thee. 14 Lord, why abhorrest | thou my soul: and hidest thou thy face from me?

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15 I am in misery and like unto him that is at the point to die: even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered | with a troubled | mind. 16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth | over me: and the fear of thee | hath un | done me. 17 They came round about me | daily like | water and compassed me together · on ry side.

18 My lovers and friends hast thou put a from me and hid mine acquaintance

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EVENING PRAYER.

Psalm lxxxix. Misericordias Domine.
song shall be alway of the loving | kindness ·

shewing thy truth from one gener | a• tion | to an other.

2 For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for | ever thy truth shalt thou | stab・ lish | in ・ the | heavens.

3 I have made a covenant with my chosen : I have sworn unto | David my | servant;

4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever: and set up thy throne from one generation | to an | other. 5 O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy | wondrous works: and thy truth in the congre | gation of the | saints.

6 For who is he among the clouds: that shall be compared unto the Lord?

7 And what is he among the gods: that shall be like unto the Lord?

8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints: and to be had in reference of all | them that are | round · a | bout him.

9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto | thee: thy truth, most mighty | Lord, is on every side. 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise. 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, | and destroyed it: thou hast scattered thine enemies a broad · with thy mighty | arm.

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12 The heavens are thine, the earth

also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that there in } is.

13 Thou hast made the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon | shall ·re | joice in thy | Name.

14 Thou hast a mighty | arm: strong is thy hand, and high | is thy | right hand.

15 Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

16 Blessed is the people, O Lord, that can re joice in thee: they shall walk in the light of • thy countenance.

17 Their delight shall be daily in thy | Name: and in thy righteousness | shall they | make · their boast.

18 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy loving-kindness | thou shalt lift up our horns.

19 For the Lord is our defence: the Holy One of Israel | is. our | King.

20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen | out • of the people.

21 I have found | David my | servant: with my holy oil have|I anointed him.

22 My hand shall | hold · him | fast: and | ·my | arm shall strengthen him.

23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the son of wicked hurt him.

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24 I will smite down his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him.

25 My truth also and my mercy | shall be | with him: and in my Name | shall his | horn be exalted. 26 I will set his dominion also in the and his right hand | in the floods.

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27 He shall call me, Thou art • my | Father: my God, and my strong salvation. 28 And I will make him my higher than the kings of the earth.

first-born :

29 My mercy will I keep for him for | ever | more: and my covenant | shall stand | fast with | him. 30 His seed also will I make to endure for | ever: and his throne as the days of | heaven. 31 But if his children for | sake my law: and | walk not in my judgements;

32 If they break my statutes, and keep not my • commandments: I will visit their offences with the rod, and their | sin with | scourges.

33 Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him: nor | suffer · my | truth • to fail.

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone | out of my lips: I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not | fail | David. 35 His seed shall endure for ever: and his seat is like as the sun before me.

36 He shall stand fast for ever | more as the| moon and as the faithful witness in | heaven. 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken | thine · Anointed: and | art· dis plea · sed | at him. 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy | servant and cast his | crown to the ground. 39 Thou hast overthrown all his | hedges: and | broken down • his | strong holds.

40 All they that go by spoil him: and he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his | enemies and made all his | adversaries | to re | joice.

42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his | sword: and givest him not | victory in the | battle.

43 Thou hast put | out his | glory: and cast his throne down to the ground.

44 The days of his youth | hast thou | shortened: and covered him with dis | honour.

45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thy | self- for lever and shall thy | wrath | burn · like | fire ? 46 O remember how | short my | time is: wherefore hast thou made all men · •for nought?

47 What man is he that liveth, and shall | not see death and shall he deliver his | soul from the hand of | hell?

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48 Lord, where are thy old | loving | kindnesses which thou swarest unto | David | in · thy truth?

49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy ser vants have and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people.

50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine· An | vinted: Praised be the Lord for ever | more. · A men, and A | men.

DAY 18.]

MORNING PRAYER.

Psalm xc. Domine, refugium,

LORD, thou hast been our refuge from one

generation to another.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the | world · were | made: thou art God from ever | lasting, and | world without end.

3 Thou turnest | man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again, ye | children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but · as | yesterday: seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even | as a sleep and fade away | suddenly | like the 1 grass.