8 They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy: their talking is against the most High. 9 For they stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven and their tongue goeth through the world. 10 Therefore fall the people unto them: and thereout suck they no small advantage. 11 Tush, say they, how should God perceive it: is there knowledge in the most High? 12 Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, and these have riches in possession: and I said, Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed mine hands in innocency. 13 All the day long have I been punished: and chastened every morning. 14 Yea, and I had almost said even as they : but lo, then I should have condemned the generation of thy children. 15 Then thought I to understand this: but it was too hard for me, 16 Until I went into the sanctuary of God: then understood I the end of these men ; 17 Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places and castest them down, and destroyest them. 18 Oh, how suddenly do they consume: perish, and come to a fearful end! 19 Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh : so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the city. 20 Thus my heart was grieved: and it went even through my reins. 21 So foolish was I, and ignorant: even as it were a beast before thee. 22 Nevertheless, I am alway by thee: for thou hast holden me by my right hand. 23 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel : and after that receive me with glory. 24 Whom have I in heaven but thee: and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee. 25 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 26 For lo, they that forsake thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that commit fornication against thee. 27 But it is good for me to hold me fast by God, to put my trust in the Lord God: and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Sion... PSALM 74. Ut quid, Deus? GOD, wherefore art thou absent from us so long: why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 O think upon thy congregation; whom thou hast purchased, and redeemed of old. 3 Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 4 Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy: which hath done evil in thy sanctuary. 5 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy congregations and set up their banners for tokens. 6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees; was known to bring it to an excellent work. 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof: with axes and hammers. 8 They have set fire upon thy holy places : and have defiled the dwelling-place of thy Name, even unto the ground. 9 Yea, they said in their hearts, Let us make havock of them altogether: thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land. 10 We see not our tokens, there is not one prophet more: no, not one is there among us, that understandeth any more. 11 O God, how long shall the adversary do this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy Name, for ever? 12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand: why pluckest thou not thy right hand out of thy bosom to consume the enemy? 13 For God is my King of old: the help that is done upon earth he doeth it himself. 14 Thou didst divide the sea through thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 15 Thou smotest the heads of Leviathan in pieces : and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wil. derness. 16 Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks: thou driedst up mighty waters. 17 The day is thine, and the night is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 18 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. 19 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy bath buked and how the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name. 20 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the multitude of the enemies and forget not the con. gregation of the poor for ever. 21 Look upon the covenant: for all the earth is full of darkness, and cruel habitations. 22 O let not the simple go away ashamed: but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy Name. 23 Arise, O God, maintain thine own cause: remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily. 24 Forget not the voice of thine enemies the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more. MORNING PRAYER. NTO thee, O God, do we give thanks: yea, unto 2 Thy Name also is so nigh: and that do thy wondrous works declare. 3 When I receive the congregation: I shall judge according unto right. 4 The earth is weak, and all the inhabiters thereof: I bear up the pillars of it. 5 I said unto the fools, Deal not so madly and to the ungodly, Set not up your horn. 6 Set not up your horn on high and speak not with a stiff neck. 7 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west: nor yet from the south. 8 And why? God is the Judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. 9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same. 10 As for the dregs thereof: all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them out. 11 But I will talk of the God of Jacob: and praise him for ever. 12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break : and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. PSALM 76. Notus in Judæa. N Jewry is God known his Name is great in Is Irael. 2 At Salem is his tabernacle: and his dwelling in Sion. 3 There brake he the arrows of the bow: the shield, the sword, and the battle. 4 Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the robbers. 5 The proud are robbed, they have slept their sleep: and all the men whose hands were mighty have found nothing. 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob: both the chariot and horse are fallen. 7 Thou, even thou art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry? 8 Thou didst cause thy judgement to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled, and was still, 9 When God arose to judgement: and to help all the meek upon earth. 10 The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise: and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain. 11 Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all ye that are round about him: bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 12 He shall refrain the spirit of princes and is wonderful among the kings of the earth. PSALM 77. Voce mea ad Dominum. I cry my voice, and shall hearken WILL cry unto God with my voice: even unto unto me. 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore ran, and ceased not in the night-season; my soul refused comfort. 3 When I am in heaviness, I will think upon God: when my heart is vexed, I will complain. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so feeble, that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old and the years that are past. 6 I call to remembrance my song: and in the night I commune with mine own heart, and search out my spirits. 7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever and will he be no more.intreated? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever: and is his pro mise come utterly to an end for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving-kindness in displeasure? 10 And I said, It is mine own infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most Highest. 11 I will remember the works of the Lord and call : to mind thy wonders of old time. 12 I will think also of all thy works: and my talking shall be of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O God, is holy: who is so great a God as our God? 14 Thou art the God that doeth wonders: and hast declared thy power among the people. 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people: even the sons of Jacob and Joseph. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water, the air thundered: and thine arrows went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about: the lightnings shone upon the ground; the earth was 'moved, and shook withal. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep: by the hand of Moses and Aaron. EVENING PRAYER. PSALM 78. Attendite, popule. EAR my law, O my people : incline your ears Hunto the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare hard sentences of old; 3 Which we have heard and known and such as our fathers have told us; 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come: but to shew the honour of the Lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. 5 He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children; 6 That their posterity might know it: and the children which were yet unborn; 7 To the intent that when they came up they might shew their children the same; 8 That they might put their trust in God: and not |