XX.

Psalm xlviii.

GREAT is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, the mountain of his holiness.
Beautiful for situation,

The joy of all the earth is Mount Zion.

We have thought of thy kindness, O God,

In the midst of thy temple.

As thy name, O God,

So is thy praise to the ends of the earth.
Let Mount Zion rejoice,

Let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her;

Tell ye the towers thereof.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces;
That ye may tell it to the generation following.
For this God is our God for ever and ever:
He will be our guide unto death.

XXI.

Isaiah XXXV.

FOR in the wilderness shall waters break out,
And streams in the desert.

And the parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water:
In the habitation of dragons, where each lay,
Shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

And an highway shall be there, and a way,
And it shall be called The way of holiness;

The unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those :

The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err.

No lion shall be there,

Nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
It shall not be found there:

But the redeemed shall walk there.

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return,
And come to Zion with songs

And everlasting joy upon their heads:
They shall obtain joy and gladness,
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

XXII.

Psalm xxix.

GIVE to Jehovah, O ye sons of God,
Give to Jehovah glory and strength.
Give to Jehovah the glory of his name:
Worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness.
The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters:

The God of glory thundereth; Jehovah is upon great

waters.

The voice of Jehovah is powerful:

The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
Jehovah sitteth upon the flood:

Yea, Jehovah shall sit King for ever.
Jehovah will give strength to his people.
Jehovah will bless his people with peace.

XXIII.

Psalm cxxxvi.

INTRODUCTION.

O GIVE thanks to Jehovah; for he is good:
For his mercy is for ever.

O give thanks to the God of gods:

For his mercy is for ever.

O give thanks to the Lord of lords:
For his mercy is for ever.

To him who alone doeth great wonders:

For his mercy is for ever.

To him that by wisdom made the heavens:

For his mercy is for ever.

To him that spread out the earth above the waters: For his mercy is for ever.

CLOSE.

O give thanks to the God of heaven:
For his mercy is for ever.

XXIV.

Psalm 1xxxix.

I WILL sing of the mercies of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy truth to all generations.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: Thy truth shalt thou establish in the very heavens. I have made a covenant with my chosen,

I have sworn to David my servant,

Thy seed will I establish for ever,

And build up thy throne to all generations.

And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah!
Thy truth also in the congregation of saints.
For who in heaven can be compared to Jehovah ?
Who among the sons of God, likened to Jehovah?
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the
saints,

And to be reverenced by all about him.

O Jehovah, God of hosts, who is mighty Jah like to

thee?

Or to thy truth round about thee?

XXV.

Luke i.

BLESSED be the Lord God of Israel;

For he hath visited and redeemed his people;
And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us,
In the house of his servant David;

As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets,
Who have been since the world began;
That we should be saved from our enemies,
And from the hand of all that hate us;

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
And to remember his holy covenant;

The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
That he would grant unto us,

That we, being delivered from the hand of our ene

mies,

Might serve him without fear,

In holiness and in righteousness,
All the days of our life.

XXVI.

Psalm cxlviii.

PRAISE ye Jehovah from the heavens;

Praise ye him in the heights.

Praise ye him, all his angels;

Praise ye him, all his hosts.
Praise ye him, sun and moon;
Praise him, all ye stars of light.

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens,

And ye waters that are above the heavens.
Let them praise the name of Jehovah ;

For he commanded, and they were created:
He hath also established them for ever and ever;

He hath made a decree, and it shall not pass.
He also exalteth the horn of his people,
The praise of all his saints;

Of the children of Israel,

A people near to him. Praise ye Jah.

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THE END.