O my God, my soul is cast down within me:

Therefore do I remember thee from the land of Jordan,
And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:

All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day-time, And in the night his song shall be with me,

Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me;
While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,

Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

PSALM 77: 1-20.

I will cry unto God with my voice;

Even unto God with my voice, and he will give ear unto me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:

My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not;

My soul refused to be comforted.

I remember God, and am disquieted:

I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

Thou holdest mine eyes watching:

I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.

I call to remembrance my song in the night:
I commune with mine own heart;
And my spirit made diligent search.
Will the Lord cast off for ever?
And will he be favourable no more?
Is his mercy clean gone for ever?
Doth his promise fail for evermore?
Hath God forgotten to be gracious?

Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
And I said, This is my infirmity;

But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

I will make mention of the deeds of the Lord;

For I will remember thy wonders of old.

I will meditate also upon all thy work,
And muse on thy doings.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
Who is a great god like unto God?

Thou art the God that doest wonders:

Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples.

Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people,

The sons of Jacob and Joseph.

The waters saw thee, O God;

The waters saw thee, they were afraid:

The depths also trembled.

The clouds poured out water;

The skies sent out a sound:

Thine arrows also went abroad.

The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind;

The lightnings lightened the world:

The earth trembled and shook.

Thy way was in the sea,

And thy paths in the great waters,
And thy footsteps were not known.
Thou leddest thy people like a flock,
By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

XIV. THE KING AND HIS REIGN.

PSALM 45: 1-17.

My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter:

I speak the things which I have made touching the king:

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Thou art fairer than the children of men;

Grace is poured into thy lips:

Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one,

Thy glory and thy majesty.

And in thy majesty ride on prosperously,

Because of truth and meekness and righteousness:
And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Thine arrows are sharp;

The peoples fall under thee;

They are in the heart of the king's enemies.

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:

A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness:
Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee

With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia;

Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.
Kings' daughters are among thy honourable women:

At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

So shall the king desire thy beauty:

For he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift;
Even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

The king's daughter within the palace is all glorious:

Her clothing is inwrought with gold.

She shall be led unto the king in broidered work:

The virgins her companions that follow her

Shall be brought unto thee.

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led:

They shall enter into the king's palace.
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,
Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.

XV. CHRIST'S REIGN.

ISAIAH 42:1-4. Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed

shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgement in truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgement in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

PSALM 72: 1-19.

Give the king thy judgements, O God,

And thy righteousness unto the king's son.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness,

And thy poor with judgement.

The mountains shall bring peace to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.

He shall judge the poor of the people,

He shall save the children of the needy,
And shall break in pieces the oppressor.

They shall fear thee while the sun endureth,

And so long as the moon, throughout all generations.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass:
As showers that water the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish;

And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,

And from the River unto the ends of the earth.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;

And his enemies shall lick the dust.

The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:

The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him:

All nations shall serve him.

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth;

And the poor, that hath no helper.

He shall have pity on the poor and needy,

And the souls of the needy he shall save.

He shall redeem their soul from oppression and violence;

And precious shall their blood be in his sight:

And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba:

And men shall pray for him continually;

They shall bless him all the day long.

There shall be abundance of corn in the earth upon the top of the

mountains;

The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:

And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

His name shall endure for ever;

His name shall be continued as long as the sun:

And men shall be blessed in him;

All nations shall call him happy.

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,

Who only doeth wondrous things:

And blessed be his glorious name for ever;
And let the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen, and Amen.

PSALM 51:1-19.

XVI. PENITENCE AND MERCY.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my trans

gressions.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,

And cleanse me from my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions:

And my sin is ever before me.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,

And done that which is evil in thy sight:

That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,

And be clear when thou judgest.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity;

And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:

And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:

Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness;

That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Hide thy face from my sins,