O Lord our Governor, how excellent is thy name in all the world!

PSALM 9.

I WILL give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will speak of all thy marvellous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, Ŏ thou Most High.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly; thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

Desolations have consumed the enemy for ever; and as to the cities which thou hast destroyed, their memory is perished with them.

But the Lord shall endure for ever; he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, and minister true judgment unto the people.

The Lord also will be a defence for the oppress

ed, even a refuge in time of trouble.

And they, who know thy name, will put their trust in thee; for thou, Lord, hast never failed those who seek thee.

O praise the Lord who dwelleth in Sion: show the people of his doings.

For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaiut of the poor.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

The Lord is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is ensnared in the work of his own hands.

The wicked shall be turned into the pit, and all the people who forget God.

For the poor shall not always be forgotten; the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for

ever.

Arise, O Lord, and let not man prevail; let the

heathen be judged in thy sight.

Put them in fear, O Lord; that the heathen may know themselves to be but men.

righteous; but the ungodly and him who delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor.

Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire and

EVENING PRAYER.

PSALM 11.

IN the Lord put I my trust; how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill?

For lo the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at those who are true of heart.

If the foundation be cast down, what can the righteous do?

The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor; and his eyelids try the children of men.

The Lord trieth the

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance will behold the thing that is just.

PSALM 12.

HELP, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail from among the children of

men.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.

The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things;

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; we are they who ought to speak; who is lord over us?

Now for the oppression

of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor;

I will arise saith the Lord, and will help every one from him who swelleth against him, and will set him at rest.

The words of the Lord are pure words; even as the silver which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

PSALM 15.

LORD, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest upon thy holy hill?

an

Even he who leadeth

uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

He who hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbor, nor slandered his neighbor.

He who despiseth a worthless person, but honoreth those who fear the Lord.

He who sweareth unto his neighbor, and disappointeth him not, though it were to his own hindrance.

He who hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken a bribe against the innocent.

Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.

PSALM 16.

PRESERVE me, O God; for in thee have I put my trust.

O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my God, I have nothing good without thee.

The saints who are on the earth, and the excellent, in them is all my delight.

They who run after another god, shall have great trouble.

Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer ; neither make mention of their names with my lips.

The Lord himself is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup; thou shalt maintain my lot.

The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground; yea, I have a goodly heritage. I will thank the Lord for giving me warning; my secret thoughts also instruct me in the night

season.

I have set the Lord alway before me; for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall not fall.

Wherefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also shall rest in hope.

For why? thou shalt not leave my soul in the grave; neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

Thou shalt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fulness of joy; and at thy right hand there are pleasures for

evermore.

Now unto the King eternal, &c.

Lord, my strength; the Lord is my rock, and my defence; my Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will trust; my buckler, the horn also of my salvation, and my refuge.

I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be safe from mine enemies.

When the waves of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid ;

When the sorrows of the grave surrounded me, and the toils of death overtook me ;

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God.

So he heard my voice out of his holy temple; and my complaint came before him, even into his

ears.

Then the earth trem

The Third Day. MORNING PRAYER.

PSALM 18.

I WILL love thee, O

very foundations also of the hills shook, and were removed, because he was wroth.

There went a smoke out in his presence, and a consuming fire out of

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and it was dark under his feet.

He rode upon the cherubim, and did fly; he came flying upon the wings of the wind.

He made darkness his pavilion; his tent round about him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness of his presence black clouds swept along, bolts of fire were kindled.

The Lord also thundered in the heaven, and the Highest gave his voice, hailstones, and coals of fire.

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them.

The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure.

He sent down from above; he took me, he

waters.

He delivered me from my strongest enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

They assaulted me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my upholder.

He brought me forth also into a place of liberty; he brought me forth, even because he had a favor unto me.

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteous dealings; according to the cleanness of my hands did he recompense

me.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

I was also upright before him; and I kept myself from iniquity.

Therefore hath the Lord rewarded me according to my righteous dealing, according to the