DAY 8.] EVENING PRAYER. • Psalm xli. Beatus qui intelligit. D LESSED is he that considereth the poor and B I needy: the Lord shall deliver him. in the time of trouble.

2 The Lord preserve him, and keep him alive, that he may be blessed • upon earth : and deliver not thou him in to · the 1 will of his enemies.

3 The Lord comfort him, when he lieth sick up /

Psalm xlii. Quemadmodum. TIKE as the hart de sireth · the waterI brooks : so longeth my | soul • after | thee, . 0 God.

2 My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the 1 liv. ing | God: when shall I come to appear bei fore • the presence of God ?

Day 9.] MORNING PRAYER.

Psalm xliv. Deus, auribus. W E have heard with our ears, O God, our |

VV fathers · have told us : what thou hast i done · in their | time · of old;

2 How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them l in: how thou hast destroyed the nations, and I cast · them | out.

3 For they gat not the land in possession through their own | sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them;

4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the | light of thy I countenance : because thou hadst : al favour · un | to them.