dwellings, thou Lord of God, than to dwell in the hosts! tents of ungodliness. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. As the sparrow findeth an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young, so let me dwell at thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God. Blessed are they who dwell in thy house; they will be alway praising thee. Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are thy ways. For them the desert valley of Baka hath fountains; and they are refreshed with abundant showers. They will go from strength to strength, till every one of them appeareth before God, in Sion. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob. Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed. For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my For the Lord God is a light and defence; the Lord will give grace and glory; and no good thing shall he withhold from those who live a godly life. O Lord God of hosts, blessed is the man who putteth his trust in thee. PSALM 85. LORD, thou art become gracious unto thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people, and covered all their sins. Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure, and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation. Turn us then, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger cease from us. Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever? and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee? Show us thy mercy, O Lord and grant us thy salvation. I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace to his people and his saints; only let them not return to their folly again. For his salvation is nigh those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall flourish out of the earth; and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall show his loving kindness; and our land shall yield her in crease. Righteousness shall go before him, and shall keep his path continually. Now unto the King eternal, &c. Be honour and glory, &c. EVENING PRAYER. PSALM 86. BOW down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me, for I am poor and in misery. Preserve thou my soul, for thou art my hope; my God, save thy servant who putteth his trust in thee. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I will call daily upon thee. Comfort the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, Ó Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all those who call upon thee. Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer, and ponder the voice of my humble de sires. In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee ; for thou hearest me. Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; there is not one who can do as thou doest. All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name. For thou art great, and doest wondrous things; thou art God alone. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walk in thy truth; O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy name. I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and will praise thy name for evermore. For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the terrors of death, O God, the proud are risen against me, and the congregations of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes. But thou, O Lord God, art full of compassion and mercy, long suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid. Show some token upon me for good, that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed; because thou, Lord, hast holden me, and comforted me. PSALM 89. MY song shall be alway of the loving kindness of the Lord; with my mouth will I ever be showing thy truth from one generation to another. For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever; thy truth shalt thou establish in the heavens. O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works, and thy truth in the congregation of the saints. For who is he in the heavens, that shall he compared unto the Lord? And who is he among the gods, that shall be likened unto the Lord? God is very greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all those who are round about him. O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee? thy truth, most mighty Lord, is on every side. Thou rulest the raging of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof, when they rise. Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it; thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is. Thou hast made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy throne; mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people, O Lord, who know the joyful sound; they shall walk in est them, they are even as the light of thy counte-. a sleep, and fade away nance. Their delight shall be daily in thy name; and in thy righteousness shall they make their boast. For thou art the glory of their strength; and in thy loving kindness we shall greatly prosper. For the Lord is our defence; the Holy One of Israel is our King. Now unto the King eternal, &c. Be honour and glory, &c. The Fifteenth Day. PSALM 90. LORD, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or a watch in the night. As soon as thou scatter suddenly like the grass. For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? or feareth thy displeasure as he ought? So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last, and be gracious unto thy ser vants. O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon; so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again, now after the time that thou hast afflicted us, and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity. Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory. And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us; prosper thou the work of our hands upon us ; O prosper thou our handy work. PSALM 90. WHOSO dwelleth under the defence of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold; my God, in whom I will trust. For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers; his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid arrow that for any terror by night; nor for the flieth by day; For the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. But with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward of the ungodly. For thou, Lord, art my hope; thou hast set thine house of defence very high. There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him up, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will hear him; yea, |