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looking up on my trouble: and my | kinsmen | stood afar off.

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12 They also that sought after my life laid | snares for me: and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined de | ceit all the day long.

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13 As for me, I was like a deaf | man, and | heard not: and as one that is dumb, who | doth · not open his mouth.

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14 Í became even as a man that heareth not: and in whose | mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: thou shalt answer for me, O | Lord my God.

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16 I have required that they, even mine enemies, should not triumph | over me; for when my foot slipped, they rejoiced greatly against me. 17 And I truly, am | set in the plague: and my heaviness is ever in my | sight.

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18 For I will confess my | wickedness: and be sorry for my sin.

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19 But mine enemies | live, and are | mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully in number.

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20 They also that reward evil for gainst me: because I follow good is.

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21 Forsake me not, O | Lord my | God: be not | thou far from me.

22 Haste thee to help me: O Lord | God · of my salvation.

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I SAID, I will take heed to my ways: that I

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offend not | in my tongue.

2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a | bridle while the un | godly is | in my | sight.

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3 I held my tongue, and | spake | nothing: I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief | to me.

4 My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the | fire | kindled and at the | last I spake with my tongue;

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5 Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days that I may be certified how | long I have to live.

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6 Behold, thou hast made my days as it were α. span | long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is al to ge ther | vanity.

7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in | vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall | gather them.

8 And now, Lord, what is my hope: truly my hope is even in | thee.

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9 Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a re | buke unto the | foolish. 10 I became dumb, and opened | not mouth for it was thy | doing. 11 Take thy plague even consumed by the

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away from me: I am means of thy | heavy |

12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth | fretting a garment: every man therefore | is but | vanity.

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13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling: hold not thy | peace | at my tears.

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14 For am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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15 O spare me a little, that I may recover. my strength: before I go | hence, and be | no ·

more seen.

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Psalm xl. Expectans expectavi. WAITED patiently for the Lord: and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling. 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay and set my feet upon the | rock, and ordered my goings.

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth : even a thanks giving un to our God.

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4 Many shall see it, and | fear: and shall | put their trust in the

Lord.

5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies.

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6 O Lord my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts which are tous ward: and yet there is no man that ordereth them | unto thee. 7 If I should declare them, and speak of | them they should be more than I am a. ble to • express.

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8 Sacrifice and meat offering thou wouldest not: but mine | ears | hast thou | opened.

9 Burnt-offerings, and sacrifice for sin, hast thou | not required: then said I, | Lo, I come, 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O.my | God: I am content to do it; yea, thy | law is with | in my | heart.

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11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest.

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12 I have not hid thy righteousness with | in. my heart: my talk hath been of thy | truth, and of thy salvation.

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13 I have not kept back thy loving | mercy · and | truth: from the great | congregation. 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me,

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| Lord: let thy loving-kindness and thy | truth · al way preserve me.

15 For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up: yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my | heart hath | failed me.

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16 O Lord, let it be thy | pleasure to deliver me: make | haste, O Lord, to help me.

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17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it: let them be driven backward, and put to re | buke, • that wish me | evil.

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18 Let them he desolate, and rewarded with | shame that say unto me, Fie up on thee, | fie upon thee.

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19 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and | glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say al way, the Lord be praised.

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20 As for me, I am | poor and needy: but the | Lord careth for me.

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and redeemer: make

21 Thou art my | helper no long tarrying, O my God.

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DAY 8.]

EVENING PRAYER.

Psalm xli. Beatus qui intelligit. LESSED is he that considereth the poor and

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Bneedy: the Lord shall deliver him in the

time of trouble.

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2 The Lord preserve him, and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon | earth: and deliver not thou him into the will of. his |

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

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on. his bed: make thou all his | bed in his | sickness.

4 I said, Lord, be merciful | unto me: heal my soul, for I have | sinned against thee.

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5 Mine enemies speak | evil of me: when shall he die, and his | name | perish?

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6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh | vanity and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself, and when he | cometh | forth he | telleth

it.

7 All mine enemies whisper together against me: even against me do they imagine this | evil.

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8 Let the sentence of guiltiness proceed against him: and now that he lieth, | let him. rise up no more.

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9 Yea, even mine own familiar | friend, whom I trusted: who did also eat of my bread, hath | laid great wait for me.

10 But be thou merciful unto raise thou me up a | gain, and | I them.

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me, O | Lord: shall re | ward

11 By this I know thou | favour est me: that mine enemy doth not | triumph against me. 12 And when I am in my health, thou up | holdest me: and shalt set me before thy face •for ever.

13 Blessed be the Lord God world with out | end. · A | men.

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of Israel:

Psalm xlii. Quemadmodum.

IKE as the hart de sireth the water

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Lbrooks: so longeth my soul. after thee,

O God.

2 My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God: when shall I come to appear be fore the presence · of | God?

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