Psalm 51. Miserere mei, Deus.
HAVE mercy upon me, O God, after
thy great goodness;
* according to the multitude of thy mercies do
away mine offences.
2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness, * and
cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my faults, * and my sin
is ever before me.
4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done this
evil in thy sight; * that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and
clear when thou shalt judge.
5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness, *
and in sin hath my mother conceived me.
6 But lo, thou requirest
truth in the inward parts, * and shalt make me to understand wisdom
secretly.
7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; *
thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Thou shalt
make me hear of joy and gladness, * that the bones which thou hast
broken may rejoice.
9 Turn thy face from my sins, * and put out all
my misdeeds.
10 Make me a clean heart, O God, * and renew a right
spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence, * and take
not thy holy Spirit from me.
12 O give me the comfort of thy help
again, * and stablish me with thy free Spirit.
13 Then shall I teach
thy ways unto the wicked, * and sinners shall be converted unto
thee.
14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the
God of my health; * and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness.
15
Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord, * and my mouth shall show thy
praise.
16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee;
* but thou delightest not *in burnt-offerings.
17 The sacrifice of
God is a troubled spirit: * a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt
thou not despise.
18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion; * build
thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the
sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and oblations; *
then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar.
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The Fourteenth Day.
Morning Prayer.
Psalm 71. In te, Domine, speravi.
IN thee, O LORD, have I put my
trust; let me never be put to confusion,
* but rid me and deliver me
in thy righteousness; incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
2 Be
thou my stronghold, whereunto I may alway resort: * thou hast promised
to help me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castle.
3
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly, * out of the hand
of the unrighteous and cruel man.
4 For thou, O Lord GOD, art the
thing that I long for: * thou art my hope, even from my youth.
5
Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born: * thou art he
that took me out of my mother's womb: my praise shall be alway of
thee.
6 I am become as it were a monster unto many, * but my sure
trust is in thee.
7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise, * that
I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long.
8 Cast me not
away in the time of age; * forsake me not when my strength faileth
me.
9 For mine enemies speak against me; * and they that lay wait for
my soul take their counsel together, saying,
10 God hath forsaken
him; * persecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver
him.
11 Go not far from me, O God; * my God, haste thee to help
me.
12 Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul; *
let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to do me
evil.
13 As for me, I will patiently abide alway, * and will praise
thee more and more.
14 My mouth shall daily speak of thy
righteousness and salvation; * for I know no end thereof.
15 I will
go forth in the strength of the Lord GOD, * and will make mention of thy
righteousness only.
16 Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up
until now; * therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.
17 Forsake
me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed, * until I have
showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that
are yet for to come.
18 Thy righteousness, O God, is very high, * and
great things are they that thou hast done: O God, who is like unto
thee!
19 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me !
and yet didst thou turn and refresh me; * yea, and broughtest me from
the deep of the earth again.
20 Thou hast brought me to great honour,
* and comforted me on every side:
21 Therefore will I praise thee,
and thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an instrument of music: * unto
thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
22 My lips
will be glad when I sing unto thee; * and so will my soul whom thou hast
delivered.
23 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the
day long; * for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to
do me evil.
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Evening Prayer.
Psalm 119:1-16.
I. Beati immaculati.
BLESSED are those that are
undefiled in the way, and walk in the law of the LORD.
2 Blessed are
they that keep his testimonies, * and seek him with their whole
heart;
3 Even they who do no wickedness, * and walk in his ways.
4
Thou hast charged * that we shall diligently keep thy commandments.
5
O that my ways were made so direct, * that I might keep thy
statutes!
6 So shall I not be confounded, * while I have respect unto
all thy commandments.
7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart, *
when I shall have learned the judgments of thy righteousness.
8 I
will keep thy statutes; * O forsake me not utterly.
II. In quo corrigit?
WHEREWITHAL shall a young man
cleanse his way? * even by ruling himself after thy word.
10 With my
whole heart have I sought thee; * O let me not go wrong out of thy
commandments.
11 Thy word have I hid within my heart, * that I should
not sin against thee.
12 Blessed art thou, O LORD; * O teach me thy
statutes.
13 With my lips have I been telling * of all the judgments
of thy mouth.
14 I have had as great delight in the way of thy
testimonies, * as in all manner of riches.
15 I will talk of thy
commandments, * and have respect unto thy ways.
16 My delight shall
be in thy statutes, * and I will not forget thy word.
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Psalm 123. Ad te levavi oculos meos.
UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, * O
thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, even as the eyes of
servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a
maiden unto the hand of her mistress, * even so our eyes wait upon the
LORD our God, until he have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O
LORD, have mercy upon us; * for we are utterly despised.
4 Our soul
is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy, * and with the
despitefulness of the proud.
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Psalm 127. Nisi Dominus.
EXCEPT the LORD build the house, *
their labour is but lost that build it.
2 Except the LORD keep the
city, * the watchman waketh but in vain.
3 It is but lost labour that
ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of
carefulness; * for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
4 Lo, children,
and the fruit of the womb, * are an heritage and gift that cometh of the
LORD.
5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, * even so are
the young children.
6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of
them; * they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in
the gate.
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Psalm 128. Beati omnes.
BLESSED are all they that fear the
LORD, * and walk in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labours of
thine hands: * O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.
3 Thy wife
shall be as the fruitful vine * upon the walls of thine house;
4 Thy
children like the olive-branches * round about thy table.
5 Lo, thus
shall the man be blessed * that feareth the LORD.
6 The LORD from out
of Sion shall so bless thee, * that thou shalt see Jerusalem in
prosperity all thy life long;
7 Yea, that thou shalt see thy
children's children, * and peace upon Israel.
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Psalm 129. Saepe expugnaverunt.
MANY a time have they fought
against me from my youth up, * may Israel now say;
2 Yea, many a time
have they vexed me from my youth up; * but they have not prevailed
against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back, * and made long
furrows.
4 But the righteous LORD * hath hewn the snares of the
ungodly in pieces.
5 Let them be confounded and turned backward, * as
many as have evil will at Sion.
6 Let them be even as the grass upon
the housetops, * which withereth afore it be grown up;
7 Whereof the
mower filleth not his hand, * neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his
bosom.
8 So that they who go by say not so much as, The LORD prosper
you; * we wish you good luck in the Name of the LORD.
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The Thirtieth Day.
Morning Prayer.
Psalm 144. Benedictus Dominus.
BLESSED be the LORD my strength, *
who teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My hope and
my fortress, my castle and deliverer, my defender in whom I trust; * who
subdueth my people that is under me.
3 LORD, what is man, that thou
hast such respect unto him? * or the son of man, that thou so regardest
him?
4 Man is like a thing of nought; * his time passeth away like a
shadow.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; * touch the
mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth thy lightning, and tear
them; * shoot out thine arrows, and consume them.
7 Send down thine
hand from above; * deliver me, and take me out of the great waters, from
the hand of strangers;
8 Whose mouth talketh of vanity, * and their
right hand is a right hand of wickedness.
9 I will sing a new song
unto thee, O God; * and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed
lute.
10 Thou hast given victory unto kings, * and hast delivered
David thy servant from the peril of the sword.
11 Save me, and
deliver me from the hand of strangers, * whose mouth talketh of vanity,
and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity:
12 That our sons
may grow up as the young plants, * and that our daughters may be as the
polished corners of the temple;
13 That our garners may be full and
plenteous with all manner of store; * that our sheep may bring forth
thousands, and ten thousands in our fields;
14 That our oxen may be
strong to labour; that there be no decay, * no leading into captivity,
and no complaining in our streets.
15 Happy are the people that are
in such a case; * yea, blessed are the people who have the LORD for
their God.
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The Nineteenth Day.
Morning Prayer.
Psalm 95. Venite, exultemus.
O COME, let us sing unto the LORD;
* let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.
2 Let us
come before his presence with thanksgiving; * and show ourselves glad in
him with Psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God; * and a great King
above all gods.
4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth; * and
the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made
it; * and his hands prepared the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship
and fall down, * and kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7 For he is the
Lord our God; * and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of
his hand.
8 Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts *
as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the
wilderness;
9 When your fathers tempted me, * proved me, and saw my
works.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and
said, * It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not
known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath, * that they should
not enter into my rest.
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Evening Prayer.
Psalm 141. Domine, clamavi.
LORD, I call upon thee; haste thee
unto me, * and consider my voice, when I cry unto thee.
2 Let my
prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense; * and let the lifting
up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before
my mouth, * and keep the door of my lips.
4 O let not mine heart be
inclined to any evil thing; * let me not be occupied in ungodly works
with the men that work wickedness, neither let me eat of such things as
please them.
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Psalm 146. Lauda, anima mea.
PRAISE the LORD, O my soul: while
I live, will I praise the LORD;
* yea, as long as I have any being,
I will sing praises unto my God.
2 O put not your trust in princes,
nor in any child of man; * for there is no help in them.
3 For when
the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, * and
then all his thoughts perish.
4 Blessed is he that hath the God of
Jacob for his help, * and whose hope is in the LORD his God:
5 Who
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; * who keepeth
his promise for ever;
6 Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong;
* who feedeth the hungry.
7 The LORD looseth men out of prison; * the
LORD giveth sight to the blind.
8 The LORD helpeth them that are
fallen; * the LORD careth for the righteous.
9 The LORD careth for
the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow: * as for the way
of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.
10 The LORD thy God, O
Sion, shall be King for evermore, * and throughout all generations.
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Evening Prayer.
Psalm 147. Laudate Dominum
PRAISE the LORD, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God;
*
yea, a joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful.
2 The
LORD doth build up Jerusalem, * and gather together the outcasts of
Israel.
3 He healeth those that are broken in heart, * and giveth
medicine to heal their sickness.
4 He telleth the number of the
stars, * and calleth them all by their names.
5 Great is our Lord,
and great is his power; * yea, and his wisdom is infinite.
6 The LORD
setteth up the meek, * and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground.
7
O sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; * sing praises upon the harp
unto our God:
8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth
rain for the earth; * and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains,
and herb for the use of men;
9 Who giveth fodder unto the cattle, *
and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him.
10 He hath no
pleasure in the strength of an horse; * neither delighteth he in any
man's legs.
11 But the LORD'S delight is in them that fear him, * and
put their trust in his mercy. ~
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; *
praise thy God, O Sion.
13 For he hath made fast the bars of thy
gates, * and hath blessed thy children within thee.
14 He maketh
peace in thy borders, * and filleth thee with the flour of wheat.
15
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth, * and his word runneth very
swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool, * and scattereth the hoar-frost
like ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: * who is able
to abide his frost?
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: *
he bloweth with his wind, and the waters flow.
19 He showeth his word
unto Jacob, * his statutes and ordinances unto Israel.
20 He hath not
dealt so with any nation; * neither have the heathen knowledge of his
laws.
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BOOK II.
Psalm 42. Quemadmodum.
LIKE as the hart desireth the
water-brooks, * 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 before the presence of God?
3 My tears have been my meat day
and night, * while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God?
4
Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; * for I went
with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God;
5
In the voice of praise and thanksgiving, * among such as keep
holy-day.
6 Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul? * and why
art thou so disquieted within me?
7 O put thy trust in God; * for I
will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my
God.
8 My soul is vexed within me; * therefore will I remember thee
from the land of Jordan, from Hermon and the little hill.
9 One deep
calleth another, because of the noise of thy water-floods; * all thy
waves and storms are gone over me.
10 The LORD will grant his
loving-kindness in the day-time; * and in the night season will I sing
of him, and make my prayer unto the God of my life.
11 I will say
unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me? * why go I thus
heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?
12 My bones are smitten
asunder as with a sword, * while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in
the teeth;
13 Namely, while they say daily unto me, * Where is now
thy God?
14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soul? * and why art thou so
disquieted within me?
15 O put thy trust in God; * for I will yet
thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.
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Psalm 43. Judica me, Deus.
GIVE sentence with me, O God, and
defend my cause against the ungodly people;
* O deliver me from the
deceitful and wicked man.
2 For thou art the God of my strength; why
hast thou put me from thee? * and why go I so heavily, while the enemy
oppresseth me?
3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may
lead me, * and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling;
4
And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and
gladness; * and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my
God.
5 Why art thou so heavy, O my soul? * and why art thou so
disquieted within me?
6 O put thy trust in God; * for I will yet give
him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.
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Psalm 40:1-16 Expectans expectavi.
I 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 thanksgiving unto our God.
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.
6 O LORD my God, great are the
wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which
are to usward; * 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 able to express.
8 Sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not, * but mine ears hast thou opened.
9 Burnt-offering 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
within my heart.
11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great
congregation: * lo, I will not refrain my lips, O LORD, and that thou
knowest.
12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; * my
talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.
13 I have not kept
back thy loving mercy and truth * from the great congregation.
14
Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me, O LORD; * let thy loving-kindness
and thy truth alway 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.
16 O LORD, let it be thy pleasure to deliver
me; * make haste, O LORD, to help me.
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Psalm 119:17-32
III. Retribue servo tuo.
O DO well unto thy servant; * that
I may live, and keep thy word.
18 Open thou mine eyes; * that I may
see the wondrous things of thy law.
19 I am a stranger upon earth; *
O hide not thy commandments from me.
20 My soul breaketh out for the
very fervent desire * that it hath alway unto thy judgments.
21 Thou
hast rebuked the proud; * and cursed are they that do err from thy
commandments.
22 O turn from me shame and rebuke; * for I have kept
thy testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me; * but
thy servant is occupied in thy statutes.
24 For thy testimonies are
my delight, * and my counsellors.
IV. Adhaesit pavimento.
MY soul cleaveth to the dust; * O
quicken thou me, according to thy word.
26 I have acknowledged my
ways, and thou heardest me: * O teach me thy statutes.
27 Make me to
understand the way of thy commandments; * and so shall I talk of thy
wondrous works.
28 My soul melteth away for very heaviness; * comfort
thou me according unto thy word.
29 Take from me the way of lying, *
and cause thou me to make much of thy law.
30 I have chosen the way
of truth, * and thy judgments have I laid before me.
31 I have stuck
unto thy testimonies; * O LORD, confound me not.
32 I will run the
way of thy commandments, * when thou hast set my heart at liberty.
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Psalm 117. Laudate Dominum.
O PRAISE the LORD, all ye nations;
* praise him, all ye peoples.
2 For his merciful kindness is ever
more and more toward us; * and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever.
Praise the LORD.
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The Twenty-seventh Day.
Morning Prayer.
Psalm 120. Ad Dominum.
WHEN I was in trouble, I called
upon the LORD, * and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from
lying lips, * and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What reward shall be
given or done unto thee, thou false tongue? * even mighty and sharp
arrows, with hot burning coals.
4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to
dwell with Meshech, * and to have my habitation among the tents of
Kedar!
5 My soul hath long dwelt among them * that are enemies unto
peace.
6 I labour for peace; but when I speak unto them thereof, *
they make them ready to battle.
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Psalm 121. Levavi oculos.
I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the
hills; * from whence cometh my help?
2 My help cometh even from the
LORD, * who hath made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot
to be moved; * and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.
4 Behold, he
that keepeth Israel * shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD
himself is thy keeper; * the LORD is thy defence upon thy right
hand;
6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, * neither the
moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; * yea,
it is even he that shall keep thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy
going out, and thy coming in, * from this time forth for evermore.
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Psalm 122. Laetatus sum.
I WAS glad when they said unto me,
* We will go into the house of the LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand in
thy gates, * O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is built as a city * that is at
unity in itself.
4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of
the LORD, * to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the
LORD.
5 For there is the seat of judgment, * even the seat of the
house of David.
6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; * they shall
prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, * and
plenteousness within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions'
sakes, * I will wish thee prosperity.
9 Yea, because of the house of
the LORD our God, * I will seek to do thee good.
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The Twenty-eighth Day.
Morning Prayer.
Psalm 132. Memento, Domine.
LORD, remember David, * and all
his trouble:
2 How he sware unto the LORD, * and vowed a vow unto the
Almighty God of Jacob:
3 I will not come within the tabernacle of
mine house, * nor climb up into my bed;
4 I will not suffer mine eyes
to sleep, nor mine eyelids to slumber; * neither the temples of my head
to take any rest;
5 Until I find out a place for the temple of the
LORD; * an habitation for the Mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of
the same at Ephratah, * and found it in the wood.
7 We will go into
his tabernacle, * and fall low on our knees before his footstool.
8
Arise, O LORD, into thy resting-place; * thou, and the ark of thy
strength.
9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; * and let
thy saints sing with joyfulness.
10 For thy servant David's sake, *
turn not away the face of thine anointed.
11 The LORD hath made a
faithful oath unto David, * and he shall not shrink from it:
12 Of
the fruit of thy body * shall I set upon thy throne.
13 If thy
children will keep my covenant, and my testimonies that I shall teach
them; * their children also shall sit upon thy throne for
evermore.
14 For the LORD hath chosen Sion to be an habitation for
himself; * he hath longed for her.
15 This shall be my rest for ever:
* here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.
16 I will bless
her victuals with increase, * and will satisfy her poor with
bread.
17 I will deck her priests with health, * and her saints shall
rejoice and sing.
18 There shall I make the horn of David to
flourish: * I have ordained a lantern for mine anointed.
19 As for
his enemies, I shall clothe them with shame; * but upon himself shall
his crown flourish.
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Psalm 133. Ecce, quam bonum!
BEHOLD, how good and joyful a
thing it is, * for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like
the precious oil upon the head, that ran down unto the beard, * even
unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing.
3
Like as the dew of Hermon, * which fell upon the hill of Sion.
4 For
there the LORD promised his blessing, * and life for evermore.
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Psalm 134. Ecce nunc.
BEHOLD now, praise the LORD, * all
ye servants of the LORD;
2 Ye that by night stand in the house of the
LORD, * even in the courts of the house of our God.
3 Lift up your
hands in the sanctuary, * and praise the LORD.
4 The LORD that made
heaven and earth * give thee blessing out of Sion.
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Psalm 137:1-6. Super flumina.
BY the waters of Babylon we sat
down and wept, * when we remembered thee, O Sion.
2 As for our harps,
we hanged them up * upon the trees that are therein.
3 For they that
led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our
heaviness: * Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4 How shall we sing
the LORD'S song * in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
* let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee,
let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; * yea, if I prefer not
Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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The Twenty-ninth Day.
Morning Prayer.
Psalm 139. Domine, probasti.
O LORD, thou hast searched me out,
and known me. *
Thou knowest my down-sitting, and mine uprising;
thou understandest my thoughts long before.
2 Thou art about my path,
and about my bed; * and art acquainted with all my ways.
3 For lo,
there is not a word in my tongue, * but thou, O LORD, knowest it
altogether.
4 Thou hast beset me behind and before, * and laid thine
hand upon me.
5 Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me;
* I cannot attain unto it.
6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit?
* or whither shall I go then from thy presence?
7 If I climb up into
heaven, thou art there; * if I go down to hell, thou art there
also.
8 If I take the wings of the morning, * and remain in the
uttermost parts of the sea;
9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me,
* and thy right hand shall hold me.
10 If I say, Peradventure the
darkness shall cover me; * then shall my night be turned to day.
11
Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as
the day; * the darkness and light to thee are both alike.
12 For my
reins are thine; * thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
13 I
will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: *
marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.
14 My
bones are not hid from thee, * though I be made secretly, and fashioned
beneath in the earth.
15 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being
imperfect; * and in thy book were all my members written;
16 Which
day by day were fashioned, * when as yet there was none of them.
17
How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God; * O how great is the sum of
them!
18 If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand: *
when I wake up, I am present with thee.
19 Wilt thou not slay the
wicked, O God? * Depart from me, ye blood-thirsty men.
20 For they
speak unrighteously against thee; * and thine enemies take thy Name in
vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? * and am not I
grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 Yea, I hate them
right sore; * even as though they were mine enemies.
23 Try me, O
God, and seek the ground of my heart; * prove me, and examine my
thoughts.
24 Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me; * and
lead me in the way everlasting.
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Psalm 145. Exaltabo te, Deus.
I WILL magnify thee, O God, my
King; * and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever.
2 Every day
will I give thanks unto thee; * and praise thy Name for ever and
ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and marvellous worthy to be praised; *
there is no end of his greatness.
4 One generation shall praise thy
works unto another, * and declare thy power.
5 As for me, I will be
talking of thy worship, * thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous
works;
6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous acts;
* and I will also tell of thy greatness.
7 The memorial of thine
abundant kindness shall be showed; * and men shall sing of thy
righteousness.
8 The LORD is gracious and merciful; * long-suffering,
and of great goodness.
9 The LORD is loving unto every man; * and his
mercy is over all his works.
10 All thy works praise thee, O LORD; *
and thy saints give thanks unto thee.
11 They show the glory of thy
kingdom, * and talk of thy power;
12 That thy power, thy glory, and
mightiness of thy kingdom, * might be known unto men.
13 Thy kingdom
is an everlasting kingdom, * and thy dominion endureth throughout all
ages.
14 The LORD upholdeth all such as fall, * and lifteth up all
those that are down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord; * and
thou givest them their meat in due season.
16 Thou openest thine
hand, * and fillest all things living with plenteousness.
17 The LORD
is righteous in all his ways, * and holy in all his works.
18 The
LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him; * yea, all such as call
upon him faithfully.
19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear
him; * he also will hear their cry, and will help them.
20 The LORD
preserveth all them that love him; * but scattereth abroad all the
ungodly.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD; * and let
all flesh give thanks unto his holy Name for ever and ever.
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