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 THE ENGLISH CHURCH PSALTER, WITH A FEW 
 
 SHORT NOTES ON THE USE OF THE 
 
 PSALMS, GATHERED TOGETHER 
 
 ^\/ 
 
 CHARLES L. M ARSON 
 
 SECOND EDITION, REVISED. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
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 103, SOUTH 15TH STREET. 
 
 1895. 
 
S. J. f., 
 
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PKEFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 Thk public and the press have so kindly entertained 
 this little book that, contrary to the expectation of the 
 compiler, it has been encored. It now reappears some- 
 what amended and a little grown in stature. Hence 
 the editor begs to thank his many friends and reviewers, 
 and at the same time to ask the pardon of such 
 readers as have sent him hints or material which he 
 lias been unable to use. The fact is that out of a con- 
 siderable mass of notes only a few have been selected 
 for publication. !Mere citations, anecdotes of private 
 and local interest have been left out, of set purpose ; 
 so have the too recondite instances, which might 
 indeed have helped the editor to simulate learning, 
 but would have acted only as soporifics to the ' general.' 
 Without doubt the warmest praise of the book has 
 come from its elder readers, and for these the editor 
 is sure that it is still entirely suitable. He may be 
 allowed to say this with less immodesty, because it 
 has generally been found (upon inquiry) that the eyes 
 of such students did not suffer them to read the small 
 print, and that it is to David therefore that their 
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 
 
 This little collection of notes was gathered chiefly in 
 the highways ; and is meant to set tlie reader gathermg 
 for himself. If he does so, the Psalms will not only 
 interest him more, but will unfold themselves to him 
 in man}^ new and deeper meanings. The melody of 
 the Psalter will bo all the sweeter when he hears it 
 harmonized with the music of noble and varied human 
 life. Its greatness will be better set forth, and its 
 beauty will be brought home to him, not by tedious 
 homily, but by that antiphonal method which makes 
 a landscape seem doubly beautiful when it is reflected 
 in a clear lake. Perhaps even a handful of instances 
 can help one dinil,\- to understand how enormously this 
 one little book of poems has affected the life of man- 
 kind ; and that, because the Psalmists have reached 
 the connnon bed-rock of our human nature. 
 
 December, 1803, 
 
 13, SoHO SiH'AKi:. 
 
DAY 1. 
 MOENING PRAYER 
 
 PSALM I. Beatus vir, qui non abiif, etc. 
 
 BLESSED is the man that hath not walked m the 
 counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of 
 sinners : and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful. 
 
 2 But his dehght is in the law of the Lord : and in 
 his law will he exercise himself day and night. 
 
 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the water- 
 side : that will bring forth his fruit in due season. 
 
 4 His leaf also shall not >vither : and look, whatso- 
 ever he doeth, it shall prosper. 
 
 5 As for the ungodly, it is not so with them : but 
 they are like the chatf, which the wmd scattereth away 
 from the face of the earth. 
 
 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in 
 the judgement : neither the simiers in the congregation 
 of the righteous. 
 
 7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous : 
 and the way of the ungodly shall perish. 
 
 This psalm is a " short intro- by St. Gregory to St. Augus- 
 duciion" to the whole book, as tine, that those under the eccle- 
 St. Basil calls it, and is chiefly siastical ,rule should "sing 
 used as such. The whole Psalter psalms early and late" (a.u. 
 is chanted through, with us 6oi). At the Cloves Hoo 
 monthly, among the Latins and Council (747) psalmody is 
 Greeks weekly. By many pious classed with prayer and fast- 
 souls (for instance, by St. Mar- ing. By St. Dunstan's canons, 
 garet of Scotland and George indeed, infirm men might use 
 Herbert) it was recited once the Psalter instead of fasting — 
 daily. The importance of sing- "200 psalms" or the fine of a 
 ing psalms has been insisted penny (a day's pay) for each 
 upon from the very first in the fast-day. The working people 
 Church of England. It is one in the early Church knew the 
 of the early instructions given Psalms so well, that they could 
 
 I r- 
 
Dayi 
 
 PSALM I 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 and did chant and hum them 
 in field and house and street. 
 
 Our translation is, in its base, 
 the joint work of Tyndale and 
 Coverdale, which was made out 
 of the Greek, during the sweat- 
 ing sickness at Antwerp and in 
 exile. The notes were erased, 
 the mistakes corrected, and the 
 language improved by Cran- 
 mer and the bishops, and the 
 book set forth in 1541. Bonner 
 gave six- chained copies to St. 
 i'aul's, which perished in the 
 Great Fire. The Bishops' Bible 
 version was retained for the 
 Psalms partly because it was 
 better known to choirs, partly 
 because it was more rhythmic, 
 and perhaps partly because the 
 Puritans were militantly bitter 
 against it in the seventeenth 
 century. The translators were 
 accustomed to the measured 
 roll of the Latin vtrsion ; and 
 Bishop Cosin -thanks to whom 
 we retain our Prayer-Hook ver- 
 sion — had a fine ear for the now 
 
 almost forgotten art of sonorous 
 and organ-like prose. The ver- 
 sion was therefore started by 
 extreme Protestants, revised by 
 bishops, "mostly popish," de- 
 fended and kept by English 
 Churchmen with almost unani- 
 mous consent, after it had run 
 the gauntlet of the severest 
 criticism. 
 
 Verse i. Erasmus in 1516 
 dedicated his commentary on 
 this psalm to Beatus Rhenanus, 
 the corrector of Froben's press, 
 whose character was aptly 
 described by the text. 
 
 Verse 2. One of St. Jerome's 
 most favourite texts; it is woven 
 in and out of his writings, and 
 he may almost have been said 
 to have moulded his life upon 
 it. Robert Burton also quotes 
 it as one of the cures of melan- 
 choly, in his "Anatomy" "that 
 maze of romedies for a laby- 
 rinth of d,sea3ements,"as Lamb 
 calls it. 
 
 Litiircrtcal 7(sc. — Introit to Mass, ist Sunday in Advent (e).*' 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins ; Punster Day Matins ; Martyrs and 
 
 All Saints Matins. 
 Greeks. — Saturday at Vespers. 
 
 PSALM II. Quarefremuerunt gentes? 
 
 WHY do the heathen so furiously rage together : 
 and why do the people imagine a vain thing ? 
 
 2 The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers 
 take counsel together : against the Lord, and against 
 liis Anointed. 
 
 3 " Let us break their bonds asunder ; and cast away 
 their cords from us." 
 
 4 He that dwellcth in heaven shall laugh them to 
 scorn : the Lord shall have theiu in derision. 
 
 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath : and 
 vex them in his sore displeasure. 
 
 (e) means in ihe first Prayer-Book of EtUvard VI., 15^9. 
 
Morning Prayer 
 
 I'SALM II 
 
 Day I 
 
 6 "Yet have I set my King : upon luy holy hill of 
 Sion." 
 
 7 " I will preach the law, whereof the Lord hath said 
 unto me : Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten 
 thee. 
 
 8 " Desire of me, and I shall give thee the heathen 
 for thine inheritance : and the utmost parts of the 
 earth for thy possession. 
 
 9 " Thou slialt bruise them with a rod of u-on : and 
 break them m pieces like a potter's vessel." 
 
 10 Be wise now therefore, ye kings : be learned, 
 ye that are judges of the earth. 
 
 1 1 IServe the Lord in fear : and rejoice unto him 
 with reverence. 
 
 12 Iviss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish 
 from the right way : if his wrath be kindled, (yea, but 
 a little,) blessed are all they that put their trust in 
 him. 
 
 This has been from the earliest 
 days a psalm of good heart in 
 hardtimes. When the Apostles, 
 SS. Peter and John, had drawn 
 upon themselves the threats of 
 Jewish persecution, by their use 
 of that miracle done on the lame 
 man at the Beautiful Gate, they 
 heartened the little church by 
 chanting this psalm. It was 
 sung by the Jews at the siege 
 of Jerusalem. It inspired many 
 martyrs ; it called the people 
 to the first Crusade. 
 
 It was a favourite psalm of 
 Savonarola, and he used it on 
 two great occasions : once to 
 cheer the Florentines, when 
 they were in fear at the French 
 invasion ; and again (1496) to 
 rally the Republic when the 
 Plague, the Pisan War, the 
 death of Piero Capponi, and 
 the Imperial League seemed to 
 overwhelm everything, when 
 the people were ' ' furiously 
 raging in streets, houses, 
 shops, and markets" against 
 the preacher and his followers. 
 
 St. Athanasius, in the fourth 
 century, had used it as a trum- 
 pet-call against the enemies of 
 the Faith ; and Luther, in the 
 sixteenth, found consolation in 
 the notion that the gathering of 
 princes and " rage of our ene- 
 mies is not aimed at us, but at 
 the Lord and His Christ." 
 
 Verse 4. Sir Thomas Browne 
 with this verse confutes the 
 " vulgar error that our Lord 
 never laughed," " nor need we 
 be afraid to ascribe that unto the 
 incarnate Son, which some- 
 times is attributed to the un- 
 carnate Father." 
 
 Verse 7. St. Paul uses this 
 verse in his sermon at Antioch 
 to illustrate his teaching that 
 the Godhead of Christ was part 
 of historical Jewish teaching. 
 It is used on the same lines in 
 the Epistle to the Hebrews ; 
 and consequently was a Catho- 
 lic motto in the Arian, Socinian 
 and Deist controversies. 
 
 These words, " I'hou art," 
 etc., were heard and a bright 
 
Day I 
 
 PSALM III 
 
 A lorn ins; Prayer 
 
 light shone at Christ's bap- 
 tism. 
 
 Verse 9. Not only used in 
 the Revelation of St. John to 
 the Church at Thyatira ; of the 
 child of the woman clothed 
 with tlie sun ; and of him who 
 rode on the white horse ; but 
 a constant answer of Church- 
 men to those who asserted 
 that the Faith had no political 
 side to it, and of Puritans to 
 
 those who doubted their right 
 to govern the nations. 
 
 Verses 10-12. Baxter, preach- 
 ing at Worcester Cathedral be- 
 fore the judges in 1654, wished 
 " that each man present could, 
 when he forgot Christ, see 
 written on the wall, ' Kiss the 
 Son, lest He be angry, and 
 thou perish, ',and on the tester of 
 his bed, as often as he lay down 
 
 in an unregenerate state. 
 Liturgical use. — English proper psalm for Easter Morning. 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins ; Christmas ; Circumcision ; Good 
 
 Friday ; Easter ; Martyrs. 
 Greeks. — Saturday at Vespers. 
 
 PSALM III. Domine, quid mnltiplicati. 
 
 LORD, how are they increased that trouble xue : 
 many are they that rise against me. 
 
 2 Many one there be that say of my soul : " There 
 is no help for him in his God." 
 
 3 But thou, O Lord, art my defender : thou art mj' 
 worship, and the lifter up of my head. 
 
 4 I did call upon the Lord with \\\\ voice : and he 
 heard me out of his holy hill. 
 
 5 I laid me down and slept, and rose up again : for 
 the Lord sustained me. 
 
 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of the people : 
 that have set themselves against me round about. 
 
 7 Up, Lord, and help me, O my God : for thou 
 smitest all mme enemies upon the cheek-bone ; thou 
 hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. 
 
 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord : and thy bless- 
 ing is upon thy people. 
 
 At the Synod of Haba (loio) 
 Archbishop Elphege ordered 
 lliat in all churches, every day 
 and at each of the iiours of 
 prayer, the whole congregation 
 should prostrate themselves and 
 sing Domine, quid mitltiplicati 
 sunt by reason of the fury of 
 the Norsemen. 
 
 This was one of the psalms 
 appointed to be sung after the 
 
 defeat of the Spanish Armada, 
 before the extent of the victory 
 was fully realized, and when 
 England was still nervous about 
 those who had set themselves 
 against her. It was one of the 
 psalms most dwelt upon by 
 Churchmen in the trying time 
 between the fall of the Rump 
 Parliament and the Restoration 
 of the English Church. 
 
Morning Prayer PSALM IV Day \ 
 
 Liturgical use. — Second Mass, Easter Day (1549). 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins ; Martyrs ; the daily morning hymn 
 
 in monasteries, 
 frrtr/'j-.— Saturday Vespers. 
 
 PSALM IV. Gum invocarem. 
 
 HEAR me when I call, God of my righteousness : 
 thou hast set me at liberty when I was in trouble ; 
 have mercy upon me, and hearken unto my prayer. 
 
 2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme 
 mine honour : and have such pleasure in vanity, and 
 seek after leasing '? 
 
 3 Know this also, that the Lord hath chosen to him- 
 self the man that is godly : when I call upon the Lord 
 he will hear me. 
 
 4 Stand in awe, and sin not : commune with yoiu- 
 own heart, and in yovn- chamber, and be still. 
 
 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousness : and put your 
 trust in the Lord. 
 
 6 There be many that say : " Who \vill shew us any 
 good ?" 
 
 7 Lord, lift thou up : the light of thy countenance 
 upon us. 
 
 8 Thou hast put gladness in my heart : since the 
 time that their corn, and wine, and oil, increased. 
 
 9 I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest : 
 for it is thou. Lord, only, that makest me dwell in 
 safety. 
 
 This is the evening psalm of the subject is almost a series 
 
 Christendom. of sermons, pleading against 
 
 St. Augustine, made glad by things which " dim instead of 
 
 his conversion to the Catholic reveal the light of God's coun- 
 
 Faith, wished the Manichceans tenance." 
 
 could witness his delight as he J^erse 9. St. Gregory Nazi- 
 read this psalm, and was glad anzen tells a story of his sister, 
 at corn, wine, oil, and all such St. Gorgonia, when she was 
 things as they falsely thought dying : " Her father, marking 
 to be " Satan in solution," the her lips a little to move, put 
 work, not of God, but of the his ear near to (for his virtue 
 devil. and compassion made him 
 
 yerse 7. This verse was a bold and hardy), and, listen- 
 
 te.xt for Charlemagne, in his ing, he heard it was a verse of 
 
 struggle against images in a psalm which she muttered, 
 
 churches. His Capitidare on and such a verse as was most 
 
Day X PSALM V Montiiig Prayer 
 
 agreeable to such as were de- rest : for it is Thou, Lord, only, 
 
 parting, and in her a testimony that makest me dwell in 
 
 wherewith she left this life, safety.' " 
 
 And blessed be that person This psalm, used by Chris- 
 
 who yieldeth up his life with tians every evening of their 
 
 those words of hers, which lives, is naturally and beauti- 
 
 were these : ' I will lay me fully used last, in the evening 
 
 down in peace, and take my of life. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for 3rd Sunday in Advent (e). 
 Latins. — Compline and the proper psalm for Easter Eve. 
 Greeks. — Saturday Vespers and late Evensong. 
 
 PSALM V, Verba men cmrihiis. 
 
 PONDER my words, Lord : consider luy medita- 
 tion. 
 
 2 O hearken thou unto the voice of my calhng, my 
 King, and my God : for unto thee will I make my 
 prayer. 
 
 3 My voice shalt thou hear betimes, Lord : early 
 in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and 
 Avill look up. 
 
 4 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in 
 wickedness : neither sliall any evil dwell with thee. 
 
 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight : for 
 thou hatest all them that work vanity. 
 
 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing : the 
 Lord will abhor both tlie blood-thirsty and deceitful 
 man. 
 
 7 But as for me, I will come into tliine house, even 
 upon the multitude of thy mercy : and in thy fear will 
 I worship toward thy holy temple. 
 
 8 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness, because of 
 mine eneinies : make thy way plain before my face. 
 
 9 For there is no faithfulness in his mouth : their 
 inward parts are very wickedness. 
 
 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre : thej- flatter 
 with theu' tongue. 
 
 1 1 Destroy thou them, O God ; let them perish 
 through their own imaginations : cast them out in the 
 multitude of their ungodliness ; for they have rebelled 
 against thee. 
 
 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee re- 
 oice : they shall ever be giv'ing of thanks, because 
 
 6 
 
Evening Prayer I'SALM \'I Day i 
 
 thou defendest them : they that love thy Name shall 
 be joyful m thee : 
 
 13 For thou, Lord, wilt give thy blessing unto the 
 righteous : and with thy favourable kindness \\ilt thou 
 defend him as with a shield. 
 
 This psalm is the first of the had Gloria, and the antiphon, 
 book which conies into the "I am the Resurrection," etc. 
 Enghsh Dirge for the Dead, Prayers and the Grace con- 
 authorized in 1545. This be- eluded the Dirge. Of course 
 gin with, " In the name of the there were many other Dirges, 
 Father," etc. Then were said even in England. 
 Psalms cxvi., xli. , and cxlvi.. Verse 5. St. Athanasius 
 without Gloria. Then, after presses the Arians with this 
 some versicles and prayers, verse, to prove to them that 
 came Psalms v., xxvii., and Wisdom (or Christ) was of the 
 xlii., without Gloria, but with Divine Substance, even before 
 the antiphon, " I believe verily the Incarnation, 
 to see the goodness of the Lord Verse 8. The very name 
 in the land of the living." The Dirge (or Dirige) is from Di- 
 three lessons followed, with rige in coHspectu tuo viam 
 anthems ; and after them meant, the second half of 
 Psalm XXX., Isaiah xxxviii. this verse, the usual antiphon 
 (10-20), and Psalm Ixxi. These in dirges. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit on 4th Sunday in Advent (e). 
 Latins. — Lauds on Monday : Martyrs. 
 Greeks. — Saturday Vespers. 
 
 PS.'VLM VI. Domiiie, ne in furore. 
 
 OLORD, rebiike me not m thine indignation : neither 
 chasten me m thy displeasure. 
 
 2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak : O 
 Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed. 
 
 3 My soul also is sore troubled : but, Lord, how long 
 wilt thou punish me ? 
 
 4 Tin-n thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul : O save 
 me for thy mercy's sake. 
 
 5 For in death no man remembereth thee : and who 
 will give thee thanks in the pit ? 
 
 6 I am wearj' of my groaning ; every night wash I 
 my bed : and water luy couch with my tears. 
 
 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble : and worn 
 away because of all mine enemies. 
 
Day I 
 
 PSALM VI 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 8 Away from me, all ye that work vanity : for the 
 Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. 
 
 9 The Lord hath heard my petition : the Lord will 
 receive my prayer. 
 
 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded, and sore 
 vexed : they shall be tiu'ned back, and put to shame 
 suddenly. 
 
 Canterbury, as he walked bare- 
 foot in the rain from St. Dun- 
 stan's Church to the scene of 
 the martyrdom. Bishop Fisher, 
 who meditated upon the same 
 psalm in his lifetime, preached 
 upon it at length to the " most 
 excellent Princess Margaret, 
 Countess of Richmond and 
 Derby, and mother to our 
 Sovereign Lord King Henry 
 the Seventh," who also much 
 delighted in these psalms. The 
 same psalm naturally comforted 
 Fisher in the Tower, and pre- 
 pared him for death. 
 
 The fierce Catherine de Me- 
 dici called it her favourite 
 psalm. 
 
 Verse I. Doniine, ne in furore 
 arguasme is the motto Edward 
 III. chose for the English 
 florins of 1344. He was then 
 in great commercial difficulties. 
 
 Verses 2 arid 3 are inserted 
 in the pathetic journal of Jane 
 Carlyle (1855), at a time when 
 she was so ill and unhappy that 
 " sleep has come to look to me 
 the highest virtue and the 
 greatest happiness." 
 
 V^erse 3 was the usual ex- 
 pression of Calvin, when he 
 was in any trouble of mind. 
 
 Verse 5. A verse often used 
 to deepen men's horror of hell, 
 but St. Cyprian gave it a 
 pleasanter turn when he made 
 it a basis for readmitting the 
 lapsed to communion, against 
 the Puritan Novatians. This 
 verse is quoted by St. Boniface, 
 
 The penitential psalms are 
 vi. , x.xxii., xxxviii., li., cii., 
 cxxx., and cxliii. 
 
 The beautiful petition in our 
 Litany, " Remember not, Lord, 
 our offences, nor the offences 
 of our forefathers . . . forever," 
 was usually sung as an anti- 
 phon before and after these 
 psalms. By these, " the Seven 
 Psalms," as they were called, 
 has been expressed most of the 
 lamentation and mourning and 
 woe of the Christian Cliurch. 
 Fast days, times of public 
 penance, times of humiliation, 
 and the like, have always been 
 the fitting season for the ' ' seven 
 sobs," as William Hunnis, 
 chapel-master to Queen EUza- 
 beth, used to call them. He 
 turned them into " metre," as 
 was fashionable in his time — 
 very doggerel metre, too — and 
 named them the ' 'Seven Sobs of 
 a sorrowful Soul for Sin." Each 
 of the seven psalms was used in 
 the Middle Ages as a remedy 
 against one of the seven deadly 
 sins. This one was ^'contra 
 /r(z;«" (against Wrath), and was 
 recited by many bearded lips 
 in penance for that vice, during 
 the ages of wrath, and is still 
 used by the pious of our times 
 against their tamer angers. 
 St. Ambrose, who loved sim- 
 plicity, severity, and restraint 
 in poetry, had an especial love 
 of this psalm. Henry II. sang 
 it, at his penance for the 
 murder of St. Thomas of 
 
Evening Prayer PSALM VII Day i 
 
 Wilfrid of Crediton, in his reminding them that the aid 
 circular letter to the English, should be sent "while it is 
 asking for their help in the day." The letter was well re- 
 work of evangelizing Germany, sponded to. 
 
 Litttroical nse.—'Y\\\s is the first penitential psalm, and there- 
 fore a proper psalm for Ash Wednesday. Introit for the 
 Ash Wednesday Mass (e). 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins and Visitation of the Sick. 
 
 (yrtff/&.— Saturday Vespers. 
 
 PSALM VII. Domine, Dens meus. 
 
 OLORD my God, in thee have I put my trust : save 
 me from all them that persecute me, and deliver 
 me ; 
 
 2 Lest he devour my soul, like a lion, and tear it in 
 pieces : while there is none to help. 
 
 3 O Lord my God, if I have done any svach thing : or 
 if there be any wickedness in my hands ; 
 
 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly 
 with me : yea, I have dehvered him that without any 
 cause is mine enemy ; 
 
 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, and take 
 me : yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, 
 and lay mine honour in the dust. 
 
 6 Stand up, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift up thy- 
 self, because of the indignation of mine enemies : arise 
 up for me in the judgement that thou hast commanded. 
 
 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come 
 about thee : for their sakes therefore lift up thyself 
 again. 
 
 8 The Lord sliall judge the people ; give sentence 
 with me, O Lord : according to my rigliteousness, and 
 according to the innocency that is in me. 
 
 9 O let the wickedness of the i;ngodly come to an 
 end : but guide thou the just. 
 
 10 For the righteous God : trieth the very hearts and 
 reins. 
 
 1 1 My help cometh of God : who preserveth them 
 that are true of heart. 
 
 12 God is a righteous Judge, strong, and patient : and 
 God is provoked every daj'. 
 
 13 If a man will not turn, he wUl whet his sword : 
 he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 
 
Day 1 PSALM VII Evening Prayer 
 
 14 He hath prepared for hun the instruments of 
 death : he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 
 
 15 Behold, he travaileth with mischief : he hath con- 
 ceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodhness. 
 
 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit : and is 
 fallen himself into the destruction that he made for 
 others. 
 
 1 7 For his travail shall come upon his own head : 
 and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate. 
 
 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord, according to his 
 righteousness : and I will praise the name of the Lord 
 most High. 
 
 This psalm was a favourite says also that anyone with his 
 
 with the Fifth Monarchy men. five wits ought to blush if he 
 
 Sir Harry Vane uses it in his does not end his day with 
 
 "Valley of Jehoshaphat " to psalmody, for even the tiniest 
 
 support their belief in an im- birds mark the coming of both 
 
 mediate advent of Christ and night and day with holy devout- 
 
 His Monarchy. ness and sweet sons;. 
 
 Verses 3 and 4. St. Ambrose Verse 12. Deux index iustus 
 
 comments on these verses, as foriis pattens is the motto 
 
 the chief Old Testament ex- chosen by Edward the Black 
 
 ample of the spirit of patience, Prince for the coins of 1362. 
 
 expressed in a way that both Verse 16. This is Capgrave's 
 
 foresees and anticipates the commentary upon the fate of 
 
 New Testament spirit. He King Richard II. 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Sunday. 
 Greeks. — Saturday at Vespers. 
 
 PSALM VIII. Dominc, Dominus noster. 
 
 OLORD our Governour, how excellent is thy Name 
 in all the world : thou that hast set thy glory 
 above the heavens 1 
 
 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast 
 thou ordamed strength, because of thine enemies : that 
 thou mightest still the enemy, and the avenger. 
 
 3 For I Avill consider thy heavens, even the works of 
 thy fingers : the moon and the stars, which thou hast 
 ordained. 
 
 4 AMiat is man, that thou art mindful of him : and 
 the son of man, that thou \isitest him ? 
 
 5 Thou madest liim lower than the angels : to crown 
 him with glory and worship. 
 
Morning Prayer 
 
 PSALM VllI 
 
 Day 2 
 
 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works 
 of thy hands : and thou hast put all things in subjection 
 under his feet : 
 
 7 All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the 
 field; 
 
 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and 
 whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. 
 
 9 Lord our Governour : how excellent is thj' Name 
 in all the world ! 
 
 St. Paul uses this whole psalm 
 in his great resurrection passage 
 (i Cor. xv.), the lesson which 
 has been read at the burial of 
 our fathers since 1549, and will 
 probably be read over our own 
 bodies ; and which Bishop Ken 
 so loved that his Greek Testa- 
 ment opens to this day at this 
 very passage. Bishop Berkeley 
 was also tulking to his family 
 on the same when he died. 
 
 Fuller calls this psalm " A 
 Nocturnal," and says of it : 
 "When I cannot sleep, may I 
 with this psalmist entertain my 
 waking with good thoughts! 
 Not to use them as opium, to 
 invite my corrupt nature to 
 slumber, but to bolt out bad 
 thoughts, which otherwise 
 would possess my soul." 
 
 Verse 2. This is quoted by 
 Christ against the Pharisees in 
 defence of the little children 
 (St. Matt. xxi. 16). 
 
 This was the verse which 
 overruled Bishop Defensor's 
 objections to the election 
 of St. Martin at Tours. He 
 despised the saint for his mean 
 
 and unkempt appearance. At 
 the Mass the sub-deacon came 
 in late, and could not find the 
 Epistle for the day, so opened 
 a Psalter and read the eighth 
 psalm. At the words ' ' Still the 
 enemy and avenger " (Defen- 
 so rem), the people all shouted 
 together, and regarded it as an 
 augury from Heaven, and forth- 
 with elected St. Martin to the 
 see. 
 
 Verse 5. Quoted by the writer 
 of the Hebrews in defence ot 
 our Lord's superiority to the 
 angels (Heb. ii. 6-9). 
 
 Gloria ct honore eum coro- 
 nasti Domifie. Philip Howard 
 inscribed these words on the 
 mantelpiece in his dungeon, 
 June 1587. He added, " /;/ 
 memoria cBterna erit Justus." 
 He died in 1597, having been 
 kept a prisoner in the Tower for 
 his zeal in the Roman Catholic 
 cause. 
 
 Verse 6. The motto of the 
 Butcher's Company is Omnia 
 subjecisti sub pedibus, oves et 
 boves. 
 
 Liturgical use. — First psalm for .Ascension Day at Matins. 
 
 Introit for 2nd Mass on Christmas morning (e). 
 ZL(7/2>/.f.— Ascension Day : Adult Biptism ; Martyrs ; Our 
 
 Lady ; All Saints and Trinity-tide. 
 Greelis. — Saturday evening. 
 
Day 2 PSALM IX Morning Prayer 
 
 PSALM IX. Confitebor tiU. 
 
 I WILL give thanks unto thee, Lord, with my whole 
 heart : I will speak of all thy marvellous works. 
 
 2 I will be glad, and rejoice in thee : yea, my songs 
 wiU I make of thy Name, O thou most Highest. 
 
 3 While mine enemies are driven back : they shall 
 fall and perish at thy presence. 
 
 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause : 
 thou art set in the throne that judgest right. 
 
 5 Thou hast rebulied the heathen, and destroyed the 
 ungodly : thou hast put out their name for ever and 
 ever, 
 
 6 thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual 
 end : even as the cities which thou hast destroyed ; 
 their memorial is perished with them. 
 
 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever : he hath also 
 prepared his seat for judgement. 
 
 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness : and 
 minister true judgement unto the people. 
 
 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed : 
 even a refuge in due time of trouble. 
 
 10 And they that know thy Name will put their 
 trust in thee : for thou. Lord, hast never failed them 
 that seek thee. 
 
 1 1 praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion : shew 
 the people of his doings. 
 
 12 For, when he maketh inquisition for blood, he 
 remembereth them : and forgetteth not the complaint 
 of the poor. 
 
 13 "Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the 
 trouble which I suffer of them that hate me : thou that 
 liftest me up from the gates of death. 
 
 14 " That I may shew all thy praises within the ports 
 of the daughter of Sion : I wUl rejoice in thy salvation." 
 
 1 5 Tlie heathen are sunk down in the pit that thej' 
 made : in the same net which they hid privily, is their 
 foot taken. 
 
 16 The Lord is known to execute judgement: the 
 ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. 
 
 1 7 The wicked shall be turned into hell : and all the 
 people tliat forget God. 
 
Morning Prayer PSALM X D.iy 2 
 
 18 For the poor shall not ahvays be forgotten : the 
 patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever. 
 
 19 Up, Lord, and let not man have the upper hand : 
 let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 
 
 20 Put them m fear, Lord : that the heathen may 
 know themselves to be but men. 
 
 Psalms ix. and x. are united no real power at all over us, and 
 
 in the Vulgate. that many so-called struggles 
 
 Psalms ix. , x. , and xi. with the devil are but our own 
 
 were said as the proper psalms disorders. 
 
 for King Charles the Martyr, Verse 10. Dante quotes this 
 
 on the morning of January to St. James in Paradise. 
 30th. Verse II. This verse stirred 
 
 Verse 5. In one of St. up De B^rulle to found the 
 
 Anthony's sermons there is a Oratorian order, 
 curious tale of how a huge Verse 12. Poor little old 
 
 phantom came and complained Bishop Laud quoted this verse 
 
 that he, the devil, was abused in his last speech upon the scaf- 
 
 overmuch by monks, and un- fold on Tower Hill, January 10, 
 
 justly, for that Christ had made 1644. He read his speech with 
 
 him weak, rebuked, destroyed, his clear eye, and his face so 
 
 and "his name was put out," ruddy, that his enemies falsely 
 
 for the world was being filled declared he had painted it, so 
 
 with the Gospel. St. Anthony as not to show fear. Fuller 
 
 agreed that he had spoken the quotes of him: "He pluckt 
 
 truth for once, and told his down Puritans and Property, 
 
 hearers that, unless we co- to build up Paul's and Privi- 
 
 operate with the devil, he has lege." 
 
 Latins. — Sunday ATatins. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning. 
 
 PSALM X. m qniJ, Domine ? 
 
 T17HY standest thou so far off, O Lord : and hidest 
 Y T thy face in the needful time of trouble '? 
 
 2 The ungodly for his own lust doth persecute the 
 poor : let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they 
 have imagined. 
 
 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's 
 desire : and speaketh good of the covetous, whom God 
 abhorreth. 
 
 4 The ungodly is so proud, that he careth not for 
 God : neither is God in all his thoughts. 
 
 5 His ways are always grievous : thy judgements are 
 far above out of his sight, and therefore defieth he all 
 his enemies. 
 
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Day 2 PSALM X Morning Prayer 
 
 6 For he hath said in his heart, "Tush, I shall never 
 be cast down : there shall no harm happen unto lue." 
 
 7 His mouth is full of cm'sing, • deceit, and fraud : 
 under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity. 
 
 8 He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the 
 streets : and privily in his lui'king dens doth he murder 
 the innocent ; his eyes are set against the poor. 
 
 9 For he lieth waiting secretly, even as a lion lurketh 
 he in his den : that he may ravish the poor. 
 
 [o He doth ravish the poor : when he getteth him 
 into his net. 
 
 1 1 He falleth down and humbleth himself : that the 
 congregation of the poor may fall into the liands of his 
 captams. 
 
 12 He hath said in his heart, " Tush, God hath for- 
 gotten : he hideth away his face, and he will never see it." 
 
 13 Ai-ise, O Lord God, and lift up thine hand : for- 
 get not the poor. 
 
 1 4 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God : 
 while he doth say in his heart, " Tush, thou God carest 
 not for it." 
 
 1 5 Surely thou hast seen it : for thou beholdest un- 
 godliness and wrong. 
 
 16 That thou mayest take the matter into thine 
 hand : the poor committeth himself unto thee ; for 
 thou art the helper of the friendless. 
 
 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and 
 malicious : take away his ungodhness, and thou shalt 
 find none. 
 
 1 8 The Lord is King for ever and ever : and the 
 heathen are perished out of the land. 
 
 19 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor : thou 
 preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto. 
 
 20 To help the poor and fatherless unto their right : 
 tliat the man of tlie earth be no more exalted against 
 them. 
 
 Sir riiilip Sidney's rendering For of them in Thine hands 
 
 of part of this psalm is worth The balance cv'nly stands : 
 
 contrasting with some others, But who aright poor minded 
 which do not " carve and polish be, 
 
 the edges of the text, axe-hewn Commit their cause — them- 
 in the Hebrew. " selves— to Thee, [less, 
 " But nak'd before Thine eyes The Succour of the succour- 
 All wrong and mischief lies, The Father of the fatherless. " 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XI Day 2 
 
 Here is Waddell's racy ver- Thou in Thy righteous judg- 
 
 sion : "Ye hae seen 't yersel : ment weigh'st 
 
 for yersel can baiih cark and The fatherless and poor." 
 
 care, till tak a' i' yer han'. Till This is botli the hardest psalm 
 
 yersel the puir man lenks an' for medireval commentators 
 
 lippens : the frien' o' the faither- and for modern critics ; its 
 
 less yerlane are Thou." prophetic darkness puzzled the 
 
 Here is Tate and Brady's one and its title the others, 
 
 poor bald rendering : Verse 20. This verse inspired 
 
 "Thou dost the humble sup- St. Huijh of Lincoln to rebuke 
 
 pliants hear and defy Jordan of the Tower, 
 
 That to Thy throne repair, a powerful Londoner, who had 
 
 Thou first prepares! their wronged two orphan children, 
 
 hearts to pray, and threatened violence to all 
 
 And then accept'st their who opposed him. 
 prayer. 
 
 The Latins make it a part of Psalm ix., and use it at Matins 
 
 on Sundays. 
 Greeks. — On Sunday morning. 
 
 PSALM XI. In Domino confido. 
 
 IN the Lord put I my trust : how say ye then to my 
 soul, that she should Hee as a bu'd unto the hill ? 
 
 2 For lo, the ungodly bend then' bow, and make 
 ready their arrows withui the quiver : that they may 
 privily shoot at them which are true of heart. 
 
 3 For the foundations ^vill be cast down : and what 
 hath the righteous done ? 
 
 4 The Lord is in his holy temple : the Lord's seat is 
 in heaven. 
 
 5 His eyes consider the poor : and his eye-hds try 
 the chUdi'en of men. 
 
 6 The Lord alloweth the righteous : but the ungodly, 
 and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul 
 abhor. 
 
 7 Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire and 
 brimstone, storm and tempest : this shall be their por- 
 tion to drmk. 
 
 8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness : his 
 countenance shall behold the thing that is just. 
 
 This is one of the psalms manifestoes. The next psalm 
 
 which helped the Abolitionist was similarly used, 
 movement in America. Verse Verse 8. Charles, King of 
 
 8 is quoted in one of Pre- Navarre, "the bad," preached 
 
 sident Lincoln's anti-slavery a sermon to the Parisians in 
 
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Day 2. PSALM XII Evening Prayer 
 
 1357, after Poictiers, from this them, so that his audience 
 
 text. He stood on a kind of wept. He thus crept into 
 
 platform outside St. Germain's the hearts of the men of Paris, 
 
 Abbey, and spoke eloquently who, under Marcel, favoured 
 
 of the woes and wrongs of him in the Civil War which 
 
 France, and his desire to right followed. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to Mass of St. John, Evangelist (e). 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins ; Matins of Martyrs. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning. 
 
 PSALM XII. Salvummefac. 
 
 HELP me, Lord, for there is not one godly man 
 left : for the faithful are minished from among 
 the children of men. 
 
 2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour : 
 they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in 
 then- double heart. 
 
 3 The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips : and the 
 tongue that speaketh proud things ; 
 
 4 Which have said, " With our tongue will we pre- 
 vail : we are they that ought to speak ; who is lord 
 over us ?" 
 
 5 Now for the comfortless troubles' sake of the 
 needy : and because of the deep sighing of the poor ; 
 
 6 " I will up," saith the Lord : " and will help every 
 one from him that swelleth against him, and will set 
 him at rest." 
 
 7 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. 
 
 8 Thou shalt keep them, Lord : thou shalt pre- 
 serve him from this generation for ever. 
 
 9 The ungodly walk on every side : when they are 
 exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke. 
 
 This is the psalm used by coming out of heaven with a 
 
 modern Jews at circumcision. long crossed spear, which he 
 
 There is an interesting old presents to St. Michael. He 
 
 picture of this psalm to be falls upon a jeering and armed 
 
 found in the Utrecht Eadwine crowd of knights, who are 
 
 and Harley psalters. A num- standing idle while some 
 
 her of maimed and ragged labourers grind a mill. At a 
 
 men are singing it, and the forge the words of the Lord 
 
 angels with them. Christ is are being tried, and Ihe un- 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM XIII Day 7. 
 
 godly are also going round and said, 'Whoso offereth iiie 
 
 round in a profitless circle {in thanks and praise, he lionourelh 
 
 circiiitu). me ' ? O that one could have 
 
 St. Bernard describes (and it the open eyes which Elisha's 
 
 was a common belief ni liie prayers gave to his servant ! 
 
 Middle Ages, derived from St. Without doubt such an one 
 
 Augustine) how "the angels would see the Princes joined to 
 
 and the spirits of just men them that sing p-alms, in the 
 
 made perfect cannot but join midst of the damsels playing 
 
 with the Church on earth" in on the timbrels. He would be- 
 
 her rapture of worship, when hold how carefully, how rhyth- 
 
 the Psalms are sung, "when mically, they join the singers, 
 
 hands smite the breast and attend those who pray, supply 
 
 knees the floor, when altars those who meditate, help those 
 
 are heaped with devout prayers, whowait.guide those who order 
 
 when cheeks are stained with and arrange. Well do the 
 
 tears, and groans and sighs re- higher powers know their fel- 
 
 sound on all sides, when with low-citizens ; and when these 
 
 the pleading of spiritual songs possess their heritage of salva- 
 
 the roof shakes ; that is what tion, they rejoice lovingly with 
 
 the heavenly citizens love best them, they share their lot, they 
 
 to behold ; that is the sweetest educate, they shield, they aid 
 
 sight to the King of kings, them all, wholly and every- 
 
 What else did He mean who where." 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning. 
 
 PSALM XIII. Usque quo, Domine ? 
 
 HOW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever : 
 how long wilt thou hide thy face from me ? 
 
 2 How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be 
 so vexed in my heart : how long shall mine enemies 
 triumph over me ? 
 
 3 Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God : lighten 
 mine eyes, that I sleep not in death. 
 
 4 Lest mine enemy say, " I have prevailed against 
 him " : for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will 
 rejoice at it. 
 
 5 But my trust is in thy mercy : and my heart is 
 joyful in thy salvation. 
 
 6 I will smg of the Lord, because he hath dealt so 
 lovingly with me : yea, I will praise the Name of the 
 Lord most Highest. 
 
 A commendatory psalm for afflictions," says Beza of Cal- 
 
 the dving. vin, "he uttered no syllable 
 
 "In spite of his manifold save what was worthy of a 
 
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Day 2 PSALM XIV Evening Prayer 
 
 Christian, but just raised his learnt the Psalter by heart. He 
 
 eyes to heaven and said, Usque then returned to his own people 
 
 quo, Domine f And even this and professed his faith. He 
 
 was in his mouth but a mark was heard with fury, and first 
 
 of the sorrow he felt for the thrown out of the house, and 
 
 calamitiesof the brethren rather was at last stoned to death, 
 
 than for any of his own." using the prayers of David: 
 
 J''irrse 2- St. Gregory of De- Psalms xxxi., li., and these 
 
 capolis tells a pathetic story of words, " Lighten mine eyes." 
 a noble Saracen who beheld the Illumina oculos tneos begins 
 
 Lamb of God in a vision, and the "verses of St. Bernard," 
 
 sought out the Christians to which Cranmer, Marshall, and 
 
 "learn from them their Way. He other reformers denounce, as 
 
 was christened and abode three so superstitious in use. 
 years at Decapolis, where he 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for ist Sunday after Epiphany (e). 
 Latins. — Sunday at Matins. 
 Greeks, — Late Evensong in Lent. 
 
 PSALM XIV. Dixit insipiens. 
 
 THE fool bath said in his heart : " There is no 
 God." 
 
 2 They are corrupt, and become abominable in their 
 doings : there is none that doeth good, no not one. 
 
 3 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the 
 children of men : to see if there were any that would 
 miderstand, and seek after God. 
 
 4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are 
 altogether become abominable : there is none that 
 doeth good, no not one. 
 
 5 Then- tliroat is an open sepulchre ; with their 
 tongues have they deceived : the poison of asps is 
 under their lips. 
 
 6 Their mouth is fuU of cursing and bitterness : 
 tlieu" feet are swift to shed blood. 
 
 7 Destruction and unhappiness is m then- ways, and 
 the way of peace have they not known : there is no 
 fear of God before tlieir eyes. 
 
 8 Have they no knowledge, that they are all such 
 workers of mischief : eating up my people as it were 
 bread, and call not upon the Lord ? 
 
 9 There were they brought in great fear, even where 
 no fear was : for God is in the generation of the 
 righteous. 
 
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Morning Prayer 
 
 PSALM XV 
 
 Day-i 
 
 10 As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel 
 of the poor : because he putteth his trust in the Lord. 
 
 1 1 Who shall give salvation inito Israel out of Sion ? 
 When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people : 
 then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. 
 
 TJiis psalm is quoted by I went to London, where Dr. 
 Bacon in his essay, "Of Athe- Wild preach'd the funeral ser- 
 ism " in the sense iliat the fool mon of Preaching, this being 
 
 " rather saith it by rote to hini- 
 selfe, as he that would have 
 then that he can throughly 
 
 the last day, after which Crom- 
 well's Proclamation was to take 
 place, that none of the Church 
 
 beleeve it, or be persuaded of of England should dare either 
 
 it. " So the Meditationes SacrcB 
 on the same subject. 
 
 This psalm was one in which 
 Queen Elizabeth took a delight; 
 probably it expressed her view 
 of the stormy and ungodly age 
 in which she lived, and also 
 promised better things to come. 
 She put it into verse and, 
 added, " Prayse to God " at the 
 end. 
 
 Verse ii. " The captivity of 
 Sion," a phrase much used by 
 the persecuted English Church- 
 men for the outlawry of our 
 liturgy by Cromwell. John 
 Evelyn went to church on 
 Christmas Day, 1652, and 
 wrote : " No more nonce taken 
 of Christmas Day in churches. 
 
 to preach or administer Sacra- 
 ments, teache schoole, etc., on 
 paineof imprisonment or exile. 
 So this was the mournfullest 
 day that in my life I had seene, 
 or the Church of England her- 
 selfe since the Reformation ; to 
 the greate rejoicing both of 
 Papist and Presbyter. So pa- 
 thetic was his discourse, that 
 it drew many teares from the 
 auditory. Myself, wife and 
 some of our family receiv'd the 
 Communion ; God make me 
 thankful!, who hath hitherto 
 provided for us the food of our 
 soules as well as bodies ! The 
 Lord Jesus pity our distress'd 
 Church, and bring back the 
 Captivity of Sion !' 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning. 
 
 PSALM XY. Domine, qiiis hahitabit ? 
 
 LORD, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle : or who 
 shall dwell upon thy holy hill ? 
 
 2 Even he, that leadeth an uncorrupt life : and doeth 
 the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from 
 his heart. 
 
 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor 
 done evil to his neighbour : and hath not slandered his 
 neighbour. 
 
 4 He that setteth not by himself, but is lowly in his 
 
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Days PSALM XVI Morning Prayer 
 
 own eyes : and maketh much of them that fear the 
 Lord. 
 
 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disap- 
 pointeth him not : though it were to his own hindrance. 
 
 6 He that hath not given his monej- upon usury : nor 
 taken reward against the innocent. 
 
 7 Whoso doeth these things : shall never fail. 
 
 This has been called the commentary therefore means, 
 
 gentleman's psalm, for it de- in some sense, a rediscovery of 
 
 scribes that character. It was the use of the Psalter, 
 one of St. Basil the Great's Verse 6. This verse is in the 
 
 favourites. forefront of the long fight 
 
 One of the last books Eras- against usury which the Church 
 
 mus wrote was a commentary has maintained. St. Augustine 
 
 upon this psalm, with mystical constantly appeals to it. The 
 
 interpretations and e.xhorta- Councilof Cealchythe, 785 A.D., 
 
 lions. It was printed at Basle, instance it, and so does every 
 
 1536, and was called, "Con- writer on the subject, down to 
 
 cerning the Purity of the Chris- the last great battle, when in 
 
 tian Church." This is the more the times of Jeremy Bentham 
 
 intpresting because for some the protest against usury practi- 
 
 time the leaders of the New cally ceased, and the civilization 
 
 Learning did not lay much em- begins which Kenan accused 
 
 phasisupon the Psalms, regard- the Church of putting back for 
 
 ing these rather as the strong- a thousand years, 
 hold of their enemies. This 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to 3rd Sunday after Epiphany (e) ; on 
 
 Ascension Day morning. 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins ; Easter Eve ; Matins of Martyrs ; 
 
 Michaelmas ; All Saints, etc. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning. 
 
 PSALM XVI. Conserva me, Domine. 
 
 PRESERVE me, O God : for in thee have I put my 
 trust. 
 
 2 my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord : " Thou 
 art my God, my goods are nothing unto thee. 
 
 3 " All my delight is upon the saints, that are in the 
 earth : and upon such as excel in virtue." 
 
 4 But they that run after another god : shall have 
 great trouble. 
 
 5 Their drmk-offerings of blood will I not offer : 
 neither make mention of their names within my lips. 
 
 6 The Lord himself is the portion of mine inherit- 
 ance, and of my cup : thou shalt maintain my lot. 
 
Morning Prayer PSALM XVII Dayi 
 
 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground : yea., I 
 have a goodly heritage. 
 
 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning : my 
 reins also chasten me in the night-season. 
 
 9 I have set God always before me : for he is on my 
 right hand, therefore I shall not fall. 
 
 10 Wherefore my heart was glad, and my glory 
 rejoiced : my tlesh also shall rest in hope. 
 
 1 1 For why ? thou shalt not leave my soul in hell : 
 neither shalt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corrup- 
 tion. 
 
 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life; in thy 
 presence is fulness of joj' : at thy right hand there is 
 pleasure for evermore. 
 
 This was Pico della Miran- an angel of light. He tempted 
 
 dola's favourite. His comments St. Martin thus; but the saint 
 
 upon it were Englished by Sir looked hard for the print of the 
 
 Thomas More. nails. In this form he also 
 
 This was the last psalm used tempted a boy at a Benedictine 
 
 by Sir Walter Scott's Hugh school to idle away his time. 
 
 M'Kail, a Genevan minister, The boy, in his perplexity, 
 
 who was tortured by the boot made the holy sign, sang these 
 
 in Claverhouse's time. verses, and overcame the sin : 
 
 Verse 7. The Beauchamp and became the learned Bishop 
 
 family have for their motto Oswald, the second saint of 
 
 Fortuiia mea in bello catnpo, that name. 
 which seems to refer to this Ver^e 10. St. Paul argued 
 
 verse. from this verse of the prophetic 
 
 Verses ^ and \o. The enemy nature of this psalm (Acts 
 
 of mankind often takes radiant xiii. 35). 
 Christ-like form, and appears as 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for first Mass on Easter Day (e). 
 Latins. — Sunday morning ; Many Martyrs ; Visitation of the 
 
 Sick. 
 Greeks. — Sunday Matins. 
 
 PSALM XVII. Exaudi, Domine. 
 
 HEAR the right, O Lord, consider my complaint : 
 and hearken unto my prayer, that goeth not out 
 of feigned lips. 
 
 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence : 
 and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal. 
 
 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the 
 night-season : thou hast tried me, and shalt find no 
 
Day 3 PSALM XVII Moi^mig Prayer 
 
 wickedness in me : for I am utterly purposed that my 
 mouth shall not offend. 
 
 4 Because of men's works, that are done against the 
 words of thy lips : I have kept me from the ways of 
 the destroyer. 
 
 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths : tliat my 
 footsteps slip not. 
 
 6 I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt 
 hear me : incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my 
 words. 
 
 7 Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness, thou that 
 art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee : 
 from such as resist thy right hand. 
 
 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye : hide me under 
 the shadow of thy wings, 
 
 9 From the ungodly that trouble me : mine enemies 
 compass me round about to take away my soul. 
 
 10 They are inclosed in their own fat : and their 
 mouth speaketh proud things. 
 
 1 1 They lie waiting in our way on every side : turn- 
 ing their eyes down to the ground ; 
 
 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey : and as 
 it were a lion's whelp, lurking in secret places. 
 
 13 Up, Lord, disappoint him, and cast him down: 
 deliver my soul from the ungodly, which is a sword of 
 thine ; 
 
 14 From the men of thy hand, O Lord, from the 
 men, I say, and from the evil world : which have their 
 portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy 
 hid treasure. 
 
 1 5 They have children at their desire : and leave the 
 rest of their substance for their babes. 
 
 16 But as for me, I will behold thy presence in 
 righteousness : and when I awake up after thy likeness, 
 I shall be satisfied with it. 
 
 St. Jerome says that this is five companions were starved to 
 
 the psalm to which the Church death at Spanish Harbour, and 
 
 betakes herself when her ene- this verse was in his mind as 
 
 mies begin to persecute her. he made his last entry in liis 
 
 Verse 7. Captain Allen Gar- diary. " Great and marvellous 
 
 diner left England in 1850 on a are the loving kindnesses of my 
 
 mission to Patagonia. After a gracious God unto me. He has 
 
 year's gallant eft'ort, he and his preserved me hitherto, and for 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM XVIII Day-T, 
 
 four days, although without tion with the Seraphic doctor, 
 
 bodily food, without any feci- St. Bonaventura, the author of 
 
 ings of hunger and thirst." " In the Lord's Atoning Griel " 
 
 Versed. Cusiodi me ttt pupil- (1221-1274). Also with many 
 
 Ivm oculi was the motto of moderns, <r._f., Archbishop Tait, 
 
 Pope Anastasius IV. (1153). Julius Hare, and others. 
 
 Verse 16. A favourite quota- 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins. 
 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning ; Saturday in Lent at noon. 
 
 rSALM XVIII. Biligmn tc, Domine. 
 
 I WILL love tliee, O Lord, my strength ; the Lord is 
 my stonj' rock, and my defence : my Saviour, my 
 God, and my might, in whom I will trust, my buckler, 
 the liorn also of my salvation, and my refuge. 
 
 2 I will call upon the Lord, which is worthy to be 
 praised : so shall I be safe from mine enemies. 
 
 3 The sorrows of death compassed me : and the 
 overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. 
 
 4 The pains of heU came about me : the snares of 
 death overtook me. 
 
 5 In my trouble I will call upon the Lord : and com- 
 plain unto my God. 
 
 6 So shall he hear my voice out of his holy temple : 
 and my complaint shall come before him, it shall enter 
 even into his ears. 
 
 7 The earth trembled and quaked : the very founda- 
 tions also of the hills shook, and were removed, because 
 he was wroth. 
 
 8 There went a smoke out in his presence : and a 
 consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were 
 kindled at it. 
 
 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and 
 it was dark under his feet. 
 
 10 He rode upon the cherubuns, and did fly : he 
 came flying upon the wings of the wind. 
 
 1 1 He made darkness his secret place : his pavilion 
 round about hun with dark water, and thick clouds to 
 cover him. 
 
 12 At the brightness of his presence his clouds re- 
 moved : hail-stones, and coals of fire. 
 
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Day 3 PSALM XVIII Evening Prayer 
 
 13 The Lord also thundered out of heaven, and the 
 Highest gave his thunder : hail-stones, and coals of 
 fire. 
 
 14 He sent out his arrows and scattered them : he 
 cast forth lif^htnings, and destroyed them. 
 
 15 The springs of water were seen, and the founda- 
 tions of the round world were discovered, at thy 
 chiding, Lord : at the blasting of the breath of thy 
 displeasure. 
 
 16 He shall send down from on high to fetch me: 
 and shall take me out of many waters. 
 
 17 He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy, 
 and from them ^A'hich hate me : for they are too mighty 
 for me. 
 
 1 8 They prevented me in the day of my trouble : but 
 the Lord was my upholder. 
 
 19 He brought me forth also into a place of liberty : 
 he brought me forth, even because he had a favour 
 unto me. 
 
 10 The Lord shall reward me after iny righteous 
 dealing : according to the cleanness of my hands shall 
 he recompense me. 
 
 21 Because I have kept the waj's of the Lord : and 
 have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. 
 
 22 For I have an eye unto all his laws : and will not 
 cast out his commandments from me. 
 
 23 I was also uncorrupt before him : and eschewed 
 mine own wickedness. 
 
 24 Tlierefore shall the Lord reward mc after my 
 righteous dealing : and according unto the cleanness 
 of mj' hands in his eye -sight. 
 
 25 With the holy thou shalt be holy : and with a 
 perfect man thou shalt be perfect. 
 
 26 With the clean thou shalt be clean : and with 
 the froward thou shalt learn frowardness. 
 
 27 For thou shalt save the people that are in adver- 
 sity : and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud. 
 
 28 Thou also shalt light my candle : tlie Lord my 
 God shall make my darkness to be light. 
 
 29 For in thee I shall discomfit an host of men : 
 and witli the help of my God I shall leap over the 
 wall. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM XVIII Day j, 
 
 30 Tlie way of God is an undefilecl way : the way of 
 the Lord also is tried in the fire ; he is the defender of 
 all them that put their trust in him. 
 
 31 For who is God, but the Lord : or who hath any 
 strength, except our God ? 
 
 32 It is God, that girdeth me with strength of war : 
 and maketh my way perfect. 
 
 "i)}) He maketh my feet like harts' feet : and setteth 
 me up on high. 
 
 34 He teacheth mine hands to fight : and mine arms 
 shall break even a bow of steel. 
 
 35 Thou hast given me tlie defence of thy salvation : 
 thy right hand also shall hold me up, and thy loving 
 correction shall make me great. 
 
 36 Thou shalt make room enough under me for to 
 go : that my footsteps shall not slide. 
 
 yj I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake 
 them : neither will I turn again till I have destroyed 
 them. 
 
 38 I will smite them, that they shall not be able to 
 stand : but fall under my feet. 
 
 39 Thou hast girded me with strength unto the 
 battle : thou shalt throw down mine enemies under me. 
 
 40 Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their 
 backs upon me : and I shall destro3' them that hate me. 
 
 41 Thej' shall cry, but there shall be none to help 
 them : yea, even unto the Lord shall they cry, but he 
 shall not hear them. 
 
 42 I "nill beat them as small as the dust before the 
 ^\'iud : I will cast them out as the clay in the streets. 
 
 43 Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the 
 people : and thou shalt make me the head of the 
 heathen. 
 
 44 A people whom I have not known : shall serve me. 
 
 45 As soon as they hear of me, thej' shall obey me : 
 but the strange children shall dissemble with me. 
 
 46 The strange children shall fail : and be afraid out 
 of their prisons. 
 
 47 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my strong helper : 
 and praised be the God of my salvation. 
 
 48 Even the God that seeth that I be avenged : and 
 subdueth the people unto me. 
 
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Day 2, 
 
 PSALM XVIII 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 49 It is he that dehvereth me from mj' cruel enemies, 
 and setteth me up above mine adversaries : thou shalt 
 rid iiie from the wicked man. 
 
 50 For this cause will I give thanks unto thee, O 
 Lord, among the Gentiles : and sing praises luito thy 
 Name. 
 
 51 Great prosperity giveth he unto his King : and 
 sheweth lo\ing-kindness unto David his Anointed, and 
 unto his seed for evermore. 
 
 Verse to. Kirke White chal- 
 lenged any other translator to 
 excel Sternhold and Hopkins' 
 spirited version of these words : 
 " On cherubs and on cherubims 
 Full royally he rode, 
 .And on the wings of mighty 
 winds 
 Came flying all abroad." 
 But Pope ridiculed the lines 
 by his reference to them in the 
 Prologue to his Satires. 
 
 Shakespeare has the verse in 
 his mind in Macbeth's 
 " Pity, like a new born naked 
 babe 
 Striding the blast, or heaven's 
 cherubin, horsed 
 
 Upon the sightless couriers of as his reason. 
 
 light is so intense that it is dark 
 to us, not from its own nature, 
 but from our limitations. So 
 many others, from Molinos' 
 enthusiastic comment, " See 
 now if darkness be not to be 
 esteemed and embraced," to 
 John Norris's lines : 
 
 "Tho' Light and Glory be th' 
 
 Almighty's throne, 
 Darkness is his Pavilion." 
 
 Verses 13 and 14. Bede re- 
 lates that St. Chad used to 
 remain prostrate in prayer in 
 church during great gales and 
 storms, interceding for those in 
 danger. He gave these verses 
 
 the air. 
 Shall blow the horrid deed in 
 
 every eye. 
 That tears shall drown the 
 
 wind." 
 He has several other allusions 
 to this psalm ; for instance : 
 
 " O war ! thou son of hell. 
 Whom angry heavens do make 
 
 their minister, 
 Throw in the frozen bosoms of 
 
 our part 
 Hot coals of vengeance." 
 
 Verse 11. A stronghold of 
 the Mystics. Theodore(of Mop- 
 suestia), for instance, dwells on 
 this verse as showing that God's 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning, 
 
 ]'erse 29. "By the help of 
 God and your holiness," wrote 
 Mary Queen of Scots to the 
 Pope, " I shill leap over the 
 wall " of English opposition to 
 the ecclesiastical domination of 
 the Italian Church ; but the 
 gallant lady broke her neck in 
 the leap. 
 
 I'crse 39. When Clovis sent 
 to St. Mirtin's tomb to ask for 
 an omen in his conflict with 
 Alaric, his messengers heard 
 the monks chanting these words 
 (507 A. D. ). The augury proved 
 correct. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XIX Day /^ 
 
 PSALM XIX. C(di enarrant. 
 
 THE heavens declare the glory of God : and the 
 firmament sheweth his handy-work. 
 
 2 One day telleth another : and one night certifieth 
 another. 
 
 3 There is neither speech nor language : but their 
 voices are heard among them. 
 
 4 Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their 
 words into the ends of the world. 
 
 5 In them hath he sat a tabernacle for the sun : 
 which Cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, 
 and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course. 
 
 6 It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the 
 heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again : 
 and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 
 
 7 The law of the Lord is an undefiled law, converting 
 the soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, and giveth 
 wisdom imto the simple. 
 
 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, and rejoice the 
 heart : the connnandment of the Lord is pure, and 
 giveth hght unto the eyes. 
 
 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth for 
 ever : the judgements of the Lord are true, and righteous 
 altogether. 
 
 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than 
 much fine gold : sweeter also than honey, and the 
 honey-comb. 
 
 1 1 Moreover, by them is thy servant taught : and m 
 keeping of them there is great reward. 
 
 12 Who can tell how often he offendeth : cleanse 
 thou me from my secret faults. 
 
 13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins, 
 lest they get the dominion over me : so shall I be un- 
 defiled, and innocent from the great offence. 
 
 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation 
 of my heart : be alway acceptable in thy sight, 
 
 1 5 Lord : xm strength, and my redeemer. 
 
 This psalm was one of St. cal interpretation of the giant 
 Augustine's favourites. Its use and other imagery. In the 
 at Christmas is from the mysti- Sarum hymn, Veni Redempior , 
 
Day^ 
 
 PSALM XIX 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 attributed sometimes to St. 
 Ambrose, we have this refer- 
 ence : 
 
 Procedens e thalamo suo 
 Pudoris aula regia 
 Gemina; gigas substaiicB 
 Alacris ut ciirrat viam. 
 
 Mr. Ruskin in vol. v. of 
 ' ' Modern Painters, " while treat- 
 ing of the Angel of the Sea, 
 Rain, speaks to iis of the 
 ' ' parts of the Bible we are in- 
 tended to make specially our 
 own " — the Psalms — and writes 
 quite a commentary on this 
 one. 
 
 Verse i. Cesli enarrant 
 gloria m Dei et operationem 
 matntum ejus annunciat Jir- 
 tnamenturn — a common sun- 
 dial motto. 
 
 Verse 2. Dies Diem docet 
 — Disce! is the dial motto in 
 Barniston Church, Yorks. Nox 
 nodi indicat scientiatn is the 
 motto of one of William Hab- 
 ington's most beautiful poems 
 (xvii. cent.), "When I survey 
 the bright celestial sphere." 
 
 Verse 4. Justinianus of 
 Genoa, in his polyglot Psalter 
 of 1562, cannot resist enlarging 
 upon this verse. In fines orbis 
 terrcB verba eorum, in praise of 
 his fellow-countryman, Chris- 
 topher Columbus, who, though 
 born of the meanest of the 
 people, had discovered the ends 
 of the world in America. His 
 digression is the most interest- 
 ing part of his book. 
 
 Verse 5. This is a favourite 
 verse with the poets. St, 
 .Ambrose, Milton, Addison. 
 Thomson, Wordsworth, etc., 
 embody it in their verses. 
 Spenser alludes to it : 
 
 " Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom 
 to his mate. 
 Came dancing forth, shaking 
 his dewy hair." 
 And Shakespeare (with whom 
 it seems a favourite) : 
 " See how the morning opes her 
 golden gates, 
 And takes her farewell of the 
 
 glorious sun ! 
 How well resembles it the 
 
 pride of youth, 
 Trimmed like a younker. 
 prancing to his love." 
 And perhaps these — 
 " Night's candles are burnt out, 
 and jocund day 
 Stands tiptoe on the misty 
 mountain-top." 
 
 And- 
 
 "The glorious sun 
 Stays in his course and plays 
 
 the alchemist ; 
 Turning with splendour of his 
 
 precious eye 
 The meagre cloddy earth to 
 
 glittering gold." 
 But certainly he has an echo of 
 this psalm in his mind in — 
 
 ' ' Look ! how the floor 
 
 of heaven 
 Is thick inlaid with patines of 
 
 bright gold ; 
 There's not the smallest orb 
 
 which thou behold' st 
 But in his motion like an angel 
 
 sings, 
 Still quiring to the young-ey'd 
 
 cherubins : 
 Such harmony is in immortal 
 
 souls ; 
 But, whilst this muddy vesture 
 
 of decay 
 Doth grossly close us in, we 
 
 cannot hear it." 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XX -Oay 4 
 
 Liturgical use. — First psalm Christmas Matins. 
 Latins. — Matins Sundays ; Christmas ; Circumcision ; Ascen- 
 sion-tide ; Trinity ; Matins of Our Lady. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning. 
 
 PSALM XX. Exaudiat te Dominus. 
 
 THE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble : the Name 
 of the God of Jacob defend thee ; 
 
 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary : and strengthen 
 thee out of Sion ; 
 
 3 Remember all thy offermgs : and accept thy burnt- 
 sacrifice ; 
 
 4 Grant thee thy heart's desire : and fulfil all thy 
 mind. 
 
 5 We wiU rejoice in thy salvation, and triumph in 
 the Name of the Lord our God : the Lord perform all 
 thy petitions. 
 
 6 Now know I, that the Lord helpeth his Anointed, 
 and will hear him from his holy heaven : even with 
 the wholesome strength of his right hand. 
 
 7 Some put then* trust in chariots, and some in 
 horses : but we will remember the Name of the Lord 
 our God. 
 
 8 They are brought down, and fallen : but we are 
 risen, and stand upright. 
 
 9 Save, Lord, and hear us, King of heaven : when 
 we call upon thee. 
 
 Verse 7. Both Hilarion and cessfully defended them and 
 
 St. Anthony of the Desert, gave them this motto. The 
 
 when assailed by the mistrust words were often used in the 
 
 and malice of Satan, defeated Byzantine wars afterwards, up 
 
 him with these words. The till the terrible disaster of May, 
 
 same have been used often 1453, when the infidels took 
 
 enough in spiritual conflicts, Constantinople, 
 
 but they have also been a Verse 9. The Latin version, 
 
 battle-cry in actual conflict. Domine salvum fac regem, is 
 
 They were the war-cry of the the origin of the versicle, "O 
 
 Byzantines in the ninth cen- Lord, save the Queen," and, of 
 
 tury. When their city was course, of our National An- 
 
 besieged, Michael Balbus sue- them. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for 5th Sunday after Epiphany (e) ; 
 
 Queen's Accession. 
 Latins. — Sunday morning ; Visitation of the Sick. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning ; Dawn in Lent. 
 
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Day 4 PSALM XXI Morning Prayer 
 
 mi 
 
 PSALM XXI. Domine, in virtute tua. 
 
 IHE King shall rejoice in thy strength, Lord : 
 I exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation. 
 
 2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire : and hast 
 not denied him the request of his lips. 
 
 3 For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of 
 goodness : and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his 
 head. 
 
 4 He asked hfe of thee, and thou gayest him a long 
 life : even for ever and ever. 
 
 5 His honour is great in thy salvation : glory and 
 great worship shalt thou lay upon him. 
 
 6 For thou shalt give hmi everlasting felicity : and 
 make hun glad with the joy of thy countenance. 
 
 7 And why ? because the King putteth his trust in 
 the Lord : and m the mercy of the most Highest he 
 shall not miscarry. 
 
 8 All thine enemies shall feel thy hand : thy right 
 hand shall find out them that hate thee. 
 
 9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of 
 thy wrath : the Lord shall destroy them in his dis- 
 pleasm'e, and the fire shall consume them. 
 
 10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth : and 
 their seed from among the children of men. 
 
 1 1 For they mteuded mischief against thee : and 
 imagined such a device as they are not able to perform. 
 
 12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight : and the 
 strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the 
 face of them. 
 
 13 Be thou exalted. Lord, in thine own strength : so 
 will we sing, and praise thy power. 
 
 Carlyle's book of " Heroes" sore baffled, down as into cn- 
 con tains this passage : " David's tire wreck ; yet a struggle never 
 life and history, as written for ended; ever with tears, repent- 
 us in those Psalms of his, I ance, true unconquerable pur- 
 consider to be the truest em- pose, begun anew. Poor human 
 blem ever given of a man's nature ! Is not a man's walk- 
 moral progressand warfare here ing, in truth, always that : ''a 
 below. All earnest souls will succession of falls " ? Man can 
 ever discern in it the faithful do no other. In this wild elc- 
 struggle of an earnest human ment of a life he has to struggle 
 soul towards what is good and onwards ; now fallen, deep- 
 best. Struggle often baffled, abased ; and ever, with fears, 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM XXII D,iy ^ 
 
 repentance, with bleeding heart, Verses 6 and j. Laud's text 
 he has to rise again, struggle for the accession sermon of 
 again still onwards." King James I. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Ascension Day Matins ; Queen's Accession. 
 Latins. — Sunday Matins ; Martyrs ; Ascension-tide. 
 Greeks. — Sunday Morning and Dawn in Lent. 
 
 PSALM XXII. Deus, Deus mens. 
 
 MY God, my God, look upon me ; why hast thou 
 forsaken me : and art so far from my health, and 
 from the words of my complaint '? 
 
 2 O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest 
 not : and in the night-season also I take no rest. 
 
 3 And thou continuest holy : O thou worship of 
 Israel. 
 
 4 Our fathers hoped in thee : they trusted in thee, 
 and thou didst deliver them. 
 
 5 They called upon thee, and were holpen : they put 
 their trust in thee, and were not confounded. 
 
 6 But as for me, I am a worm, and no man : a very 
 scorn of men, and the outcast of the people. 
 
 7 All the}' that see me laugh me to scorn : they shoot 
 out their lips, and shake their heads, saying, 
 
 8 He trusted in God, that he would deliver him : let 
 him deliver him, if he will have him. 
 
 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mother's 
 womb : thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon 
 my mother's breasts. 
 
 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born : 
 thou art my God even from my mother's womb. 
 
 I r go not from me, for trouble is hard at hand : 
 and there is none to help me. 
 
 1 2 Many oxen are come about me : fat bidls of Basan 
 close me in on every side. 
 
 13 They gape upon me with their mouths : as it 
 were a ramping and a roaring lion. 
 
 14 I am pom'ed out like water, and all my bones are 
 out of joint : my heart also in the midst of my body is 
 even like melting wax. 
 
 1 5 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my 
 tongue cleaveth to my gums : and thou shalt bring me 
 into the dust of death. 
 
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Day 4 PSALM XXII Eveniiig Prayer 
 
 1 6 For many dogs are come about me : and the 
 counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me. 
 
 17 They pierced my hands and my feet ; I may tell 
 all my bones : they stand staring and looking upon me. 
 
 18 They part my garments among them : and cast 
 lots upon my vesture. 
 
 19 But be not thou far from me, Lord : thou art 
 my succour, haste thee to help me. 
 
 20 Deliver my soul from the sword : my darling 
 from the power of the dog. 
 
 2 1 Save me from the lion's mouth : thou hast heard 
 me also from among the horns of the unicorns. 
 
 22 I will declare thy Name unto my brethren : in 
 the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. 
 
 23 O praise the Lord, ye that fear him : magnify 
 him, all ye of the seed of Jacob, and fear him, all ye 
 seed of Israel : 
 
 24 For he hath not despised, nor abhorred, the low 
 estate of the poor : he hath not hid his face from him, 
 but when he called unto hun he heard him. 
 
 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation : 
 my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear 
 him. 
 
 26 The poor shall eat, and be satisfied : they that 
 seek after the Lord shall praise him ; your heart shall 
 live for ever. 
 
 27 All the ends of the world shall remember them- 
 selves, and be tm-ned mito the Lord : and all the kin- 
 dreds of the nations shall worship before him. 
 
 28 For the kingdom is the Lord's : and he is the 
 Governour among the people. 
 
 29 All such as be fat upon the earth : have eaten, 
 and worshipped. 
 
 30 All they that go down mto the dust shall kneel 
 before him : and no man hath quickened liis own soul. 
 
 3 1 My seed shall serve him : they shall be counted 
 unto the Lord for a generation. 
 
 32 They shall come, and the heavens shall declare 
 his righteousness : unto a people that shall be born, 
 whom the Lord hath made. 
 
 Verse \. The greatest associ- it on the Cross. It has be<'n 
 ation this psahn can have is suggested that perhaps He 
 that our Lord Himself quoted quoted the Psalter from this 
 
 32 
 
Eveniiis P raver 
 
 PSALM XXllI 
 
 Day 4 
 
 lip to Psalm xxxi. 6, at wliicli 
 lie gave up the ghost. The 
 mere possibility of this, invests 
 this part of the Psalter with 
 a peculiar interest ; but the 
 Church has never autliorized 
 this view, and has even by im- 
 plication denied it, by the small 
 liturgical use she has made of 
 some of the intervening psalms. 
 
 Richard Coeur de Lion had 
 this psalm in his mind when 
 he ordered out the crusa- 
 ders to battle and scarce a fifth 
 came out, and he saw that the 
 crusade had failed. He cried 
 out, " My God, why hast Thou 
 forsaken me? Oli, how unwill- 
 ing should I be to forsake Thee 
 in so forlorn and dreadful a 
 position were I Thy Lord and 
 Advocate, as Thou art mine." 
 
 This psalm was formerly sung 
 by the African Church at the 
 Easter Communion, as it is still 
 used by Scottish Presbyterians. 
 
 I'crses 2 and 3 were the dying 
 meditation of Dr. Thomas 
 Newton, the art-loving Bishop 
 of Bristol (1781). He was the 
 
 mouthpiece of Reynolds, West, 
 and others for their request 
 that they might be allowed to 
 decorate the interior of St. 
 Paul's. The Dean and Chapter 
 refused. 
 
 Verses 4 and 5 were used by 
 Notker, the monk of St. Gall, 
 in his great antiphon, " In the 
 midst of life we are in death," 
 which he composed as he 
 watched boys trying to "gather 
 samphire, dreadful trade," on 
 a cliff. The antiphon is used 
 in our Burial Service. 
 
 / 'erse 12. Shakespeare makes 
 Antony alhide to this psalm, 
 and Psalm Ixviii. 15, in "An- 
 tony and Cleopatra," iii. 13. 
 
 Verse 18. Applied by St. 
 John (xix. 24) to the soldiers 
 at the Crucifixion. 
 
 Verse 2.1. Evidently alluded 
 to in the Lion and Unicorn ot 
 the Royal Arms. This is the 
 verse which Bishop Burnet 
 selected when he preached be- 
 fore the King at the Rolls 
 Chapel, and thereby obtained 
 his dismissal. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Good Friday morning ; Introit for Good 
 
 Friday Mass (e). 
 Latins. — Friday at Prime ; Good Friday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning. 
 
 PSA.LM XXIII. Domimis regit me. 
 
 ri'^HE Lord is my shepherd : therefore can I lack 
 I nothing. 
 
 2 He shall feed nie in a green pastiu-e : and lead me 
 forth beside the waters of comfort. 
 
 3 He sliall convert my soul : and bring me forth m 
 the paths of righteousness, for his Name's sake. 
 
 4 Yea, though I walk tlu'ougli the valley of the 
 shadow of death, I will fear no e\il : for thou art with 
 me ; thy rod and thy staff comfort me. 
 
 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them 
 
Days I'SALM XXIV Mor/iing Pi ayer 
 
 that trouble me : thou hast anointed my head with oil, 
 and my cup shall be full. 
 
 6 But thy lovmg-kindness and mercy shall follow 
 me all the days of my life : and I will dwell in the 
 house of the Lord for ever. 
 
 Mr. Ruskin tells us that this and "The King of Love my 
 
 psalm was the first he learnt at Shepherd is," are their render- 
 
 liis mother's knee ; and the rest ings. Sir Henry Baker died 
 
 she gave him as a solid founda- repeating his verse, " Perverse 
 
 tion for life and learning, were and foolish oft 1 strayed." 
 
 Nos. .\xxii , xc. , xci. , ciii., cxii., Verse 2. One of the last 
 
 cxix. , cxxxix. poems of Heine quotes this 
 
 This was the last psalm of verse. 
 
 Edward Irving, who recited it Verse 4. This is the verse 
 
 in Hebrew on his death-bed which St. Francis of Assisi 
 
 before his great disappointment chanted when he went alone, 
 
 and death. bare-headed and bare-footed, 
 
 It was a favourite with most to convert the Sultan and to 
 
 of our poets. George Her- Christianize the Saracens, in- 
 
 bert, John Byrom, Addison, stead of crusading against 
 
 and Sir Henry Baker, are not them. He was warned tliat he 
 
 the least among those who was going to certain death, as 
 
 have translated it into well- a price had been set on every 
 
 known verse. "The God of Christian's head. His sincerity 
 
 Love my Shepherd is," "The and zeul so impressed the 
 
 Lord is my shepherd, His good- heathen that he was courteously 
 
 ness my song," "The Lord treated, and sent home, 
 my pasture shall prepare," 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Septuagesima (e). 
 Latins. — Thursday at Prime. 
 
 Greeks. — -On Sunday morning ; Visitation of the Sick ; Burial 
 of Priests. 
 
 PSALM XXIV. Domini est terra. 
 
 THE earth is the I>ord's, and all tliat therein is : the 
 compass of the world, and thoy that dwell thereui, 
 
 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas : and pre- 
 pared it upon the floods. 
 
 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord : or who 
 shall rise up in his holy place ? 
 
 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart : 
 and that hath not lift up his mind imto vanity, nor 
 sworn to deceive his neighbour. 
 
 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord : and 
 righteousness from the God of his salvation. 
 
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Munti/iir Pniyer 
 
 I'SALM XX1\' 
 
 -^^''.1' 5 
 
 6 This is tliG generation of them that seek liim : 
 even of them that seek thy face, O Jacob. 
 
 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye hft up, 
 ye everlasting doors : and the King of glory sliall 
 come in. 
 
 8 " AVho is the King of glory " : " it is the Lord 
 strong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle." 
 
 9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, 
 ye evei lasting doors : and the King of glory shall 
 come in. 
 
 10 " Who is the King of glory " : " e^ven the Lord of 
 liosts, he is the Iving of glorj'." 
 
 This was a burial psalm in 
 St. Chrysostom's time, and that 
 gives particular point to his 
 use of it, when he defied the 
 Empress Eudoxia, who threat- 
 ened him for his sermon against 
 her. " Let her banish me, if 
 she will, 'The earth is the 
 Lord's ': let her have me sawn 
 asunder, Isaiah suffered so," 
 etc. 
 
 This psalm is the foundation 
 of that glorious old drama of 
 tlie" tiarrowingof Hell " (found 
 in the ' ' Gospel of N'icodemus " 
 the " Parliament of Devils," and 
 elsewhere). On Good Friday 
 the spirits and souls of the men 
 of old time were sitting in the 
 land of Darkness, when they 
 saw a purple light break into 
 the sky. They looked at one 
 and another, and each quoted 
 from his writings a prophecy of 
 tins time. But ^atan bade 
 make fast tlie great doors of 
 brass, and bar them with the 
 iron bars of Cruelty. But pre- 
 sently Christ and His knights 
 were seen, and they shouted, 
 " Lift up your heads," and 
 Satan with his men replied 
 scornfully, " \\'ho is the King 
 of Glory?" At the last Christ 
 burst the brazen gates, and 
 
 taking Adam by the hand, 
 delivered him to the tender 
 care of the angels. To this 
 old drama allusion is made in 
 the custom of singing verse 7, 
 etc., on Palm Stmday, outside 
 the Rood-screen. Handel also 
 refers to this legend in his 
 " Messiah." But Dionysius the 
 Areopagite says that as Christ 
 ascended the lower angels in 
 wonder asked of the mid ones 
 above them , ' ' Who is the King 
 of Glory?" This also explains 
 some of its ritual uses, t\o., on 
 Ascension Day. 
 
 The \'en. Bede quotes it in 
 his Ascension hymn. 
 
 On Christinas Eve, 1669, 
 Bishop Hacket reconsecrated 
 the restored cathedral of Lich- 
 field, and "reconciled it from 
 much bloodshed and confusion 
 according to piety and best 
 antiquity " with these psalms : 
 in the south aisle, x.xiv. ; north, 
 c. ; upper nave, cii. ; south 
 chancel, cxxii. ; north chancel, 
 cxxxii. 
 
 Dean Milman selected the 
 opening words of the psalm 
 for the legend under the figure 
 of Commerce in the Stock Ex- 
 chancre. 
 
Days PSALM XXV Morning Prayer 
 
 Liturgical lese. — Ascension Day evening; Introit for Sexa- 
 gesima (e). 
 
 Latins. — Monday at Piinie ; Matins for Martyrs ; 2nd Matins 
 Easter Eve ; Trinity Sunday ; Dedication of a Churcli ; St. Mary ; 
 St. Michael ; All Saints ; Burial of Children, at the Church ; 
 Churching of Women. 
 
 Greeks. — Sunday morning ; Burial of Priests. 
 
 PSALM XXV. Ad te, Domine, levari 
 
 UNTO thee, O Lord, will I lift up my sovil ; my God, 
 I have put my trust in thee : O let me not be 
 confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me. 
 
 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed : 
 but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to 
 confusion. 
 
 3 Shew me thy ways, O Lord : and teach me thy 
 paths. 
 
 4 Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me : for 
 thou art the God of my salvation ; in thee hath been 
 my hope all the day long. 
 
 5 Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy tender mercies : 
 and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old. 
 
 6 O remember not the sins and offences of my youth : 
 but accordmg to thy mercy think thou upon me, O 
 Lord, for thy goodness. 
 
 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord : tlierefore will 
 he teach sinners in the way. 
 
 8 Them that are meek shall he guide in judgement : 
 and such as are gentle, them shall he learn his way. 
 
 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth : 
 mito such as keep his covenant, and his testimonies. 
 
 10 For thy Name's sake, O Lord : be merciful unto 
 my sin, for it is great. 
 
 1 1 What man is he, that feareth the Lord : him shall 
 he teach in the way that he shall choose. 
 
 12 His soul shall dwell at ease : and his seed shall 
 inherit the land. 
 
 13 The secret of the Lord is among tliem that fear 
 biui : and he will shew them his covenant. 
 
 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord : for 
 he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 
 
 1 5 Turn thee luito me, and liave mercy upon me : 
 for I am desolate, and in misery. 
 
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Morning Prayer I'SALM XXVI Day 5 
 
 16 The sorrows of my heart are enlarged : bring 
 thou me out of my troubles. 
 
 17 Look upon my adversity and nuiscry : and forgive 
 me all my sin. 
 
 18 Consider mine enemies, how many they are : and 
 tliey bear a tyrannous hate against me. 
 
 19 keep my soul, and deliver me : let me not be 
 confounded, for I have put my trust in thee. 
 
 20 Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon 
 me : for my hope hath been in thee. 
 
 2 1 Deliver Israel, O God : out of all his troubles. 
 
 This was part of the private and Defender of the poor : for 
 
 daily prayers given to the clergy "he had perfect trust in God, 
 
 by .Archbishop Elfric, v.ith Ps. even to his death, for at the 
 
 x.wi. and li. moment of his dying, in his 
 
 Joinville notices that St. last words, he invoked God and 
 
 Louis of France was crowned His saints, especially Mon- 
 
 onist Sunday in .Advent, "when seigneur St. James and Madame 
 
 the Mass begins with Ad te Ste. Genevieve." 
 
 kvavi animam meiZiii, and Strafford repeated the psalm 
 
 what follows is this : Fair Sire on the scaffold. 
 
 God, I will lift up my soul unto From wn-g 5, the Introit, the 
 
 Thee, I put my trust in Thee ;" 2nd Sunday in Lent, is called 
 
 words which seemed to strike Reminiscere : and from verse 
 
 the keynote of the reign of that 14, the 3rd Sunday, is called 
 
 noble Prince, pious Crusader Oculi. 
 
 Latins. — Prime on Tuesday. 
 
 Greeks.— On Monday morning, 3rd hour; late Evensong in 
 Lent. 
 
 PSALM XXVI. Judica me, Domine. 
 
 BE thou my Judge, O Lord, for I have walked inno- 
 cently : my trust hath been also in the Lord, 
 therefore shall I not fall. 
 
 2 Examine me. O Lord, and prove me : try out my 
 reins and my heart. 
 
 3 For thy loving-kindness is ever before mine eyes : 
 and I will walk in thy truth. • 
 
 4 I have not dwelt with vain persons : neither will I 
 have fellowship with the deceitful. 
 
 5 I have hated the congregation of the wicked : and 
 will not sit among the ungodly. 
 
 6 I will wash my hands in innocency, Lord : and 
 so will I go to thine altar ; 
 
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Day 
 
 PSALM XXVII 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 7 That I may shew the voice of thanksgiving : and 
 tell of all thy wondrous works. 
 
 8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house : 
 and the place where thine honour dwelleth. 
 
 9 O shut not up m^■ soul with the sinners : nor my 
 life with the bloodthirsty ; 
 
 10 In whose hands is wickedness : and their right 
 hand is full of gifts. 
 
 1 1 But as for me, I will walk innocently : O deliver 
 me, and be merciful unto me. 
 
 12 My foot standeth right : I will praise the Lord in 
 the congregations. 
 
 This psalm (with xxv. and li. ) 
 was given for daily use by 
 Archbishop Elfric to his clergy 
 in 995 A.D. He followed Theo- 
 dulf's Capitnla in recommend- 
 ing it for this use. 
 
 Verse 4. Both that " unpity- 
 ing Phrygian sect," the Mon- 
 tanists, and the Donatists laid 
 great stress upon this verse, 
 and used it to uphold their 
 schisms, forgetting that the ad- 
 mission to the Church Catholic 
 is not given us because we love 
 Christ and are good, but be- 
 cause He loves us. The Bap- 
 tists, who have been called 
 "Donatists new dipt," occupy 
 now some of the ground once 
 held by the earlier sects. 
 
 Verse 6 to the end. These 
 words are the f.avabo, the words 
 the priest uses at Mass, when 
 he washes his finger-tips, after 
 the oblation of the alms, bread, 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Mass on Quinquagesima Sunday 
 (e). 
 
 Latins. — Prime on Wednesday. 
 
 Greeks. — On Monday morning. 
 
 and wine, before the Canon or 
 essential part of the service. 
 
 / 'erse 8. A favourite verse of 
 Charlemagne's (Doiiiine dilexi 
 decoi'em doiin'/s tuce), though 
 he was careful to insist that 
 decorcm in church does not 
 mean statues. He took great 
 interest in psalm-singing and 
 reformed it carefully, and 
 "although he was a master at 
 reading and psalming, yet he 
 would not read aloud in church, 
 nor sing in his resonant voice, 
 save with all the rest, and in 
 obedience to the precentor" — 
 no small virtue in his day. 
 
 Verse 11. In innocent id med 
 ingressiis sum. This was Inno- 
 cent YIlI.'s motto, and it wa<; 
 also his epitaph, 1484. He was 
 a friend of Lorenzo dei Medici. 
 It was also a favourite saying 
 of Pico della Mirandola. 
 
 PSALM XXVII. Dominm illumimitio. 
 
 THE Lord is my light, and my salvation ; whom 
 then shall I fear : the Lord is the strength of my 
 life ; of whom then shall I be afraid ? 
 
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Evening Prayer PSAI.M XXVII Days 
 
 2 Wlien the wicked, even mine enemies, and my 
 foes, came upon me to eat up my tiesh : they stumbled 
 and fell. 
 
 3 Though an host of men were laid against me, yet 
 shall not my heart be afraid : and though there rose up 
 war against me, yet will I put my trust in him. 
 
 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will 
 require : even that I may dwell in the house of the 
 Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty 
 of the Lord, and to visit his temple. 
 
 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his 
 tabernacle : yea, m the secret place of his dwelling 
 shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone. 
 
 6 And now shall he lift up mine head : above inine 
 enemies round about me. 
 
 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation 
 with great gladness : I will sing, and speak praises 
 unto the Lord. 
 
 8 Hearken unto my voice, O Lord, when I cry unto 
 thee : have mercy upon me, and hear me. 
 
 9 My heart hath talked of thee, " Seek ye my face " : 
 " Thy face, Lord, will I seek." 
 
 10 hide not thou thy face from me : nor cast thy 
 servant away in displeasure. 
 
 1 1 Thou hast been my succour : leave me not, 
 neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 
 
 1 2 A\lien my father and my mother forsake me : the 
 Lord taketh me up. 
 
 1 3 Teach me thy way, O Lord : and lead me in the 
 right way, because of mine enemies. 
 
 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adver- 
 saries : for there are false witnesses risen up agahist 
 me, and such as speak wrong. 
 
 15 I should utterly have fainted : but that I be- 
 lieve verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the 
 land of the living. 
 
 16 O tarry thou the Lord's leisure : be strong, and 
 he shall comfort thine heart ; and put thou thy trust in 
 the Lord. 
 
 Tliis was one of the psalms for January, 1858, records that 
 
 with which St. Anselm cheered she read this psalm just before 
 
 himself in his exile. parting with her husband in 
 
 Lady Lawrence, in her diary India. 
 
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Day^ PSALM XXVI 1 1 Evening Prayer 
 
 Verse i. Duminus ilhiuii- with which Richard Reynolds 
 
 7iatio fnea is the Charles II. received his sentence of ex ecu - 
 
 motto of Oxford University. lion at Tyburn in 1535, lor 
 
 Verse 4. The last words of his adhesion to the auto- 
 many of the saints, e.g. , SS. cracy of the Pope. He has 
 Peter Balsam, Magloire of been 'beatified' in our own 
 Brittany, etc. time. Like many of the 
 
 Verse 12. This verse inspired Psalms it has been said by 
 
 and comforted Mary Bosanquet those appointed to die, as 
 
 (afterwards Mrs. Fletcher of they were carried along ihe 
 
 Madeley), when, at the age of old Tyburn Road from New- 
 
 tuenty-two, she was cast out of gate, which is no.v Holborn 
 
 her father's house for Method- and Oxford Street. I he gallows 
 
 jsrn. stood where 43, tlonnaught 
 
 Verse 15. "I believe to see," Square is now, near the Marble 
 
 etc., were the Requiem words Arch. 
 
 Liturgical use.— A. dirge psalm (see note on Ps. v.). 
 
 ZLa//«y.— Matins on Monday ; Good Friday morning ; Laster 
 
 Eve. ^ , ... 
 
 Greeks. — Monday morning and Visitation of the Sick. 
 
 PSALM XXVIIT. Ad te, Domhw. 
 
 UNTO thee will I cry, O Lord my strength : think 
 no scorn of me \ lest, if thou make as though 
 thou hearest not, I become like them that go clown 
 into the pit. 
 
 2 Hear the voice of my humble petitions, when I cry 
 unto thee : when I hold up my hands towards the 
 mercy-seat of thy holy temple. 
 
 3 6 pluck me not away, neither destroy me with the 
 ungodly and wicked doers : which speak friendly to 
 their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts. 
 
 4 Keward them according to their deeds : and ac- 
 cording to the wickedness of their own inventions. 
 
 5 Recompense them after the work of their hands : 
 pay them that they have deserved. 
 
 6 For they regard not in their mind the works of 
 the Lord, nor the operation of his hands : therefore 
 shall he break them down, and not build tliem up. 
 
 7 Praised be the Lord : for he hath heard the voice 
 of my humble petitions. 
 
 8 The Lord is my strength, and my shield ; my 
 heart hath trusted in"^ him, and I am helped : therefore 
 my heart danceth for joy. and in my song will I praise 
 him. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM XXIX Day 5 
 
 9 The Lord is my strength : and he is the whole- 
 some defence of his Anointed. 
 
 10 O save thy people, and give thy blessing uuto 
 thine inheritance : feed them, and set them up for ever. 
 
 Verses i and ■2. These were I'crse 8. Doininus adiutor 
 
 the verses which Albertus mens el protector mens : in ipso 
 
 Magnus regarded as the type sperjvif cor menin. These 
 
 and model of all prayer, worrls were chosen by Edward 
 
 He was a Suabian by birth, the Black Prince as the motto 
 
 became a Dominican, and for the silver coins he struck in 
 
 was so learned that it was Guienne, after his victories in 
 
 commonly said of him that France. 
 
 "God had never divulged so Verse 10. The last quarter 
 
 many of His secrets to one of of the Te Dciim is wholly 
 
 His creatures," and he must compiled from the Psalms, this 
 
 have practised evil arts to get verse forming vv. 22 and 23 
 
 them. He died in 1280. of that hymn. 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Monday. 
 Greeks. — On Monday morning. 
 
 PSALM XXIX. yiffrvte Domino. 
 
 BEING unto the Lord, ye mighty, bring young 
 rams unto the Lord : ascribe unto the Lord wor- 
 ship and strength. 
 
 2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his Name : 
 worsliip the Lord with holy worship. 
 
 3 It is the I^ord, that commandeth the waters : it is 
 the glorious God, that maketh the thmider. 
 
 4 It is the Lord, that ruleth the sea ; the voice of 
 the Lord is mighty in operation : the voice of the Lord 
 is a glorious voice. 
 
 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar-trees : 
 yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus. 
 
 6 He maketli them also to skip hke a calf : Libanus 
 also, and Sirion, like a young unicorn. 
 
 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the tlames of fire ; 
 the voice of the Lord shaketh the %\-ilderness : yea, the 
 Lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades. 
 
 8 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to bring 
 forth young, and discovereth the thick bushes : in his 
 temple doth every man speak of his honour. 
 
 9 The Lord sitteth above the water-Hood : and the 
 Lord remaineth a King for ever. 
 
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Day 6 PSALM XXX Morning Prayer 
 
 lo The Lord shall give strength unto his people : the 
 Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace. 
 
 This was the psalm sung at every man speak of his honour. " 
 
 the baptism of Clevis, and of These words are the motto, and 
 
 Ethelbert, and of all the con- suggested as the title, of George 
 
 verts from paganism in the Herbert's " Sacred Poems and 
 
 warfare of the Church with Private Ejaculations," which 
 
 Western and Northern bar- were published at Cambridge 
 
 barism. in 1633, and called " The 
 
 Versed. " In his temple dolh Temple." 
 
 Latins. — Monday at Matins ; Epiphany Matins ; Adult 
 
 Baptism. 
 Greeks. — Monday morning. 
 
 PSALM XXX. Emltaho fe, Domine. 
 
 I WILL magnify thee, Lord, for thou hast set me 
 up : and not made my foes to triumph over me. 
 
 2 Lord my God, I cried unto thee : and thou hast 
 healed me. 
 
 3 Thou, Lord, hast brought my soul out of hell : 
 thou hast kept my life from them that go down to 
 the pit. 
 
 4 Sing praises unto the Lord, ye saints of his : 
 and give thanks unto him for a remembrance of his 
 holiness. 
 
 5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an 
 eye, and in his pleasure is life : heaviness may endure 
 for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 
 
 6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be 
 removed : thou. Lord, of thy goodness hast made my 
 hill so strong. 
 
 7 Thou didst turn thy face from me : and I was 
 troubled. 
 
 8 Then cried I vmto tliee, O T^ord : and gat me to 
 my Lord right humbly. 
 
 9 " What profit is there in my blood : when I go 
 down to the pit ? 
 
 10 *• Shall the dust give thanks unto thee : or shall 
 it declare thy truth ? 
 
 I I " Hear, Lord, and have mercy upon me : Lord, 
 be thou my helper." 
 
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Morning P my er I'SALM XXXI D.iy 6 
 
 12 Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy : thou 
 hast put otl' my sackcloth, and girded me with glad- 
 ness. 
 
 1 3 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise 
 without ceasing : O my God, I will give thanks unto 
 thee for ever. 
 
 This is the first of the niusi- ]'e?-se 5. A common medi- 
 cal psalms, as they are called osval text for I""aster Day, 
 from their titles. The others "alluded to in many of the 
 are xlviii. , Ixvii., Ixviii., Ixxv,, Latin Easter hymns"; hence 
 xcii. its Latin use on Easter Eve. 
 
 Liturgical use. — A dirge psalm (see Ps. v.). 
 
 Latins. — Monday Matins ; Easter Eve. 
 
 Greeks. — Monday morning ; Mesorion of third hour. 
 
 PSALM XXXI. In fe, Domine, speravi. 
 
 TX thee, O Lord, have I put my trust : let me never 
 be put to confusion, deliver me in thy righteous- 
 ness. 
 
 2 l^ow down thine ear to me : make haste to deliver 
 me. 
 
 3 And be thou my strong rock, and house of defence : 
 that thou mayest save me. 
 
 4 For thou art my strong rock, and my castle : be 
 thou also my guide, and lead me for thy Name's sake. 
 
 5 Draw me out of the net, that they have laid privily 
 for me : for thou art my strength. 
 
 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit : for thou 
 hast redeemed me, Lord, thou God of truth. 
 
 7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious 
 vanities : and my tn;st hatli been in the Lord. 
 
 8 I will be glad, and rejoice in thy mercy : for thou 
 hast considered my trouble, and hast known my soul 
 in adversities. 
 
 9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the 
 enemy : but hast set my feet in a large room. 
 
 10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in 
 trouble : and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness ; 
 yea, my soul and my body. 
 
 1 1 For my life is waxen old with heaviness : and 
 my yeai's with mourning. 
 
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Day 6 PSALM XXXI Morning Prayer 
 
 12 My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity : 
 and my bones are consumed. 
 
 13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies, but 
 especially among my neighbours : and they of mine 
 acquaintance were afraid of me ; and they that did see 
 me without conveyed themselves from me. 
 
 14 I am clean forgotten, as a dead man out of mind : 
 I am become like a broken vessel. 
 
 15 For I have heard the blasphemy of the multi- 
 tude : and fear is on every side, while they conspire 
 together against me, and take their counsel to take 
 away my life. 
 
 16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord : I have 
 said. Thou art my God. 
 
 17 My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the 
 hand of mine enemies : and from them that persecute 
 me. 
 
 18 Shew thy servant the light of thy countenance : 
 and save me for thy mercy's sake. 
 
 19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have 
 called upon thee : let the ungodly be put to confusion, 
 and be put to silence in the grave. 
 
 20 Let the lying lips be put to silence : which 
 cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully, speak against 
 the righteous. 
 
 21 O how plentiful is thy goodness, which thou hast 
 laid up for them that fear thee : and that thou hast 
 prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even 
 before the sons of men ! 
 
 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own pre- 
 sence from the provoking of all men : thou shalt keep 
 them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of 
 tongues. 
 
 23 Thanks be to the Tjord : for he hath shewed me 
 marvellous great kindness in a strong city. 
 
 24 And when I made haste, I said : I am east out of 
 the sight of thine eyes. 
 
 25 Nevertheless, thou heardcst the voice of my 
 prayer : when I cried unto thee. 
 
 26 O love the Lord, all ye his saints : for the Lord 
 preserveth tliem that are faithful, and plenteously re- 
 wardetli the proud doer. 
 
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Even in '<■ Pn iver 
 
 >AI.M XXXII 
 
 Day 6 
 
 27 Be strong, and lie shall (.'stablisli your licart : all 
 ye that put your trust in the Lord. 
 
 The fact that our Lord's ftindar in crterniiui, were the 
 last words were contained in last words of the heroic ;iuilior 
 this psahii would have given of the hymn, " My God, 1 love 
 it a greater universal promin- Thee," Francis Xavier, the 
 ence, if it had not been that Jesuit missionary, who died on 
 he inserted the word" Father," the sand of the island of San- 
 which makes it improbable cian, leaning on his crucifix, 
 that he meant merely to cite He was bent on reaching China, 
 David's words. The enormous when death cut him off in 1552. 
 number of eminent and ob- .Savonarola had meditated upon 
 this psalm between his cruel 
 torture and his judicial murder 
 in 1498 {vide Ps. cxlviii.). 
 
 /V;-.v(' I. In te, Dominc, 
 speravi, is the heraldic motto of 
 the House of Straihmore ; and 
 Esperance en Dieu is that of 
 the Percies of Northumberland. 
 Verse 6. In ma mis f/ias 
 Dominc, commendo spiritum 
 mciun were the last words also 
 
 scure Christians who ha\ e died 
 with verse 6 on their lips is 
 beyond all possible calculation. 
 Even King Arthur, in the old 
 romances, says his In maniis 
 tuas. Most of the earlier Saints, 
 Christian Fatliers, Schoolmen, 
 even the heretics, the greater 
 Reformers, and the victims of 
 hatred or persecution on either 
 side, used the psalm thus, 
 e.g., S.S. Polycarp, Epiphanius of Columbus, as he died heart- 
 Nicholas, Basil, CharU-magne, broken at Valladolid, in 1506 ; 
 Louis and Bernard. Also Con- as also of poor mad Tasso, in 
 radine and Mary Queen of the monastery of St. Onofrio 
 Scots, and Northumberland, (1594) ; and of gentle George 
 
 Suffolk, and Essex, at their 
 execution.'-. If Huss, I^uther, 
 Ridley, and Kno.x said the 
 words when they were dying, 
 so did the blessed Cuthbert 
 
 Herbert, at Bemerton, in 1632, 
 etc. 
 
 Verse 7. On July 27th, 1628, 
 Dr. Peter Smart preached from 
 this a violent tirade against 
 
 Maine, John Nelson and Father Cosin for ritualism, and stirred 
 Campion, in Elizabeth's time ; up the people to madness 
 and John Houghton, Robert against a most moderate ritual. 
 
 Lawrence, and Austin Webster, 
 in 1535. Many only reached the 
 first verse when the end came. 
 In te, Domine, speravi , nun con- 
 Latins. — Monday at Matins 
 
 He was at once imprisoned and 
 fined ; and this was made much 
 of in Parliament as " the Eng- 
 lish counter-Reformation." 
 Compline daily (verses 1-6). 
 
 (ireeks. — Monday morning ; late Lent Evensong 
 
 PSALM XXXII. Beafi quorum. 
 
 BLESSED is he whose unrighteousness is forgiven : 
 and whose sin is covered. 
 ? Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth 
 no sin : and in whose spirit there is no guile. 
 
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Dayd PSALM XXXI I Even iiij^' Prayer 
 
 3 For while I held my tongue : my bones consumed 
 away through my daily complaining. 
 
 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night : 
 and my moisture is like the drought in summer. 
 
 5 I will acknowledge my sin unto thee : and mine 
 unrighteousness have I not hid. 
 
 6 I said, I will confess my sins unto the Lord : and 
 so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. 
 
 7 For this shall everyone that is godly make his 
 prayer unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be 
 found : but in the great water-floods they shall not 
 come nigh him. 
 
 8 Thou art a place to hide me in, thou shalt pre- 
 serve me from trouble : thou shalt compass me about 
 with songs of deliverance. 
 
 9 I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein 
 thou shalt go : and I will guide thee with mine eye. 
 
 10 Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no 
 understanding : whose mouths must be held with bit 
 and bridle, lest they fall upon thee. 
 
 1 1 Great plagues remain for the ungodly : but 
 whoso putteth his trust in the Lord, mercy embraceth 
 him on everj- side. 
 
 12 Be glad, O ye righteous, and rejoice in tlie Lord ! 
 and be joyful all ye that are true of heart. 
 
 Tlie penitential psalms are (1270) ; and Sir Thomas More 
 
 vi., xxxii., xxxvili., li. , cii., read it, before his execution, 
 
 cxxx. , cxliii. with his daughter. 
 
 This was the psalm pre- Piers Ploughman heard Hope 
 
 scribed against the deadly sin blow his horn with it, and set 
 
 of pride. all the saints in heaven a sing- 
 
 St. Augustine of Hippo, to ing. 
 whom much was forgiven, used I'ersez. Izaak Walton's great 
 
 to repeat this weeping. He hope was that he should attain 
 
 wrote it over his bed, that he to this " guileless spirit '' before 
 
 might see it the first thing in he died ; and, indeed, no man 
 
 the morning. At the end of had more of it. 
 his life, during the siege of /Vvjc 4. On Nov. 21st, 1693, 
 
 Hippo, he had all Seven written Henry Wharton visited tlie 
 
 in four columns over his bed, meek, deprived Archbishop 
 
 gazed on them, read and wept Sancroft, the nonjuror, at 
 
 as he lay dying. Fressingfield, and found him, 
 
 When St. Louis of France though he was old, poor, and 
 was dying, he repeated its dying, busy prepaiin.^ Arch- 
 verses in turn as best he could bishop Laud's papers for pub- 
 
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Rveuittg Prayer PSALM XXXIII Day (y 
 
 lication. " That which came of the verse, anent " the stout 
 
 nearest to a complaint" was skorneful gentil man " and his 
 
 that he said this verse, but im- mule, who said they both had 
 
 tnediately added, " Thou,i:;h He absolution at Paul's Cross, 
 
 slay me, yet will I trust in Him." Luther declared that the best 
 
 Verse lo. One cannot but psalms were xxxii., li. , cxxx., 
 
 remember here racy old Bishop and cxliii., which he called the 
 
 Latimei's third sermon before Pauline Psalms. 
 King Edward VI., and his use 
 
 Liturgical use. — Ash Wednesday mornitig ; Introit on ist 
 Sunday in I^nt (e) ; the second penitential psalm. 
 
 Latins. — Monday Matins ; All Saints' Dav ; \'isitation of the 
 Sick. 
 
 Greeks. — On Monday morning ; Mesorion of third hour : after 
 Baptism. 
 
 PSALM XXXIII. £.nillafe,jii.4i. 
 
 REJOICE in the Lord, O ye righteous : for it be- 
 cometh well the just to be thankful. 
 
 2 Praise the Lord with harp : sing praises unto him 
 mth the lute, and instrument of ten strings. 
 
 3 Sing tmto the Lord a new song : sing praises 
 lustily unto him with a good courage. 
 
 4 For the word of the Lord is true : and all his 
 works are faithful. 
 
 5 He loveth righteousness and judgement : the earth 
 is full of the goodness of the Lord. 
 
 6 By the word of the Lord Avere the heavens made : 
 and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 
 
 7 He gathered the waters of the sea together, as it 
 were upon an heap : and layeth up the deep, as in a 
 treasure-house. 
 
 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord : stand in awe of 
 him, all ye that dwell in the world. 
 
 9 For he spake, and it was done : he commanded, 
 and it stood fast. 
 
 10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heatlien to 
 nought : and maketh the devices of the people to be of 
 none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes. 
 
 1 1 The counsel of the Lord shall endure for ever : 
 and the thoughts of his heart from generation to 
 generation. 
 
 12 Blessed are the people, whose God is the Lord 
 
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Oayd PSALM XXXIII Evcnbig Prayer 
 
 Jehovah : and blessed are the folk, that he hath chosen 
 to him to be his inheritance. ■■ , . n 
 
 13 The Lord looked down from heaven, and beheld 
 all the children of men : from the habitation of his 
 dweUing he eonsidereth all them that dwell on the 
 
 14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them : and under- 
 standeth all their works. 
 
 I 5 There is no kin^ that can be saved liy the multi- 
 tude of an host : neither is any mighty man delivered 
 by much strength. 
 
 16 \ horse is counted but a vain thing to save a 
 man : neither shall he deliver any man by his great 
 strength. , 
 
 17 Behold, the eve of the Lord is upon them that 
 fear huii : and upoii them that put their trust m his 
 
 "^78"To deliver their soul from death : and to feed 
 them in the time of dearth. , , t 1 * 
 
 19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord : tor 
 he is our help, and our shield. 
 
 20 For our heart shall rejoice in him : because we 
 have hoped in his holy Name. 
 
 21 Let thy merciful kindness, O Lord, be upon us : 
 like as we do put our trust in thee. 
 
 St. Augustine fixed this as a then.. The mysteriousness of 
 hvmn for martyrs. the decachord, regarded as the 
 
 Verse '2 It is probably to type of a heavenly instrument, 
 this verse we owe the fact that kept the imagmaiion and in- 
 St Gregory allowed the use vention on the alert, and pos- 
 of' organs in the Western sibly resulted m that series of 
 Church, and St. Thomas instruments, the last of which 
 Aquinas did not condemn is the piano. 
 
 Liturgical «.«•.— Introit for Wliit Sunday (e). 
 
 Z.fl^//'I —Monday morning ; for many Martyrs. 
 
 G/wX-j.— Monday morning. 
 
 PSALM XXX IV. Benedicam Domino. 
 
 I\VILL alwaygive thanks unto the Lord : his praise 
 shall ever be in my mouth. , ^ :■ 1 
 
 2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : tlie 
 humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 
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Evening Prayer PSAI-M XXX IV Day 6 
 
 3 O praise the Lonl with inc : and let i;s maf^nify 
 his name toj^ether. 
 
 4 I sought the Lord, and he heard nie : yea, he 
 dehvered me ont of all my fear. 
 
 5 They had an eye unto him, and were lightened : 
 and their faces were not ashamed. 
 
 6 Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him : yea, 
 and savcth him out of all his troubles. 
 
 7 The angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them 
 that fear him : and delivereth them. 
 
 8 O taste, and see, how gracious the Lord is : blessed 
 is the man that trusteth in him. 
 
 9 fear the Lord, ye that are his saints : for they 
 that fear him lack nothing. 
 
 10 The lions do lack, and suffer himger : but they 
 who seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that 
 is good. 
 
 1 1 Come, ye children, and hearken unto me : I will 
 teach you the fear of the Lord. 
 
 12 AVhat man is he that lusteth to live : and would 
 fain see good days ? 
 
 13 Keep thy tongue from evil : and thy hps, that 
 they speak no guile. 
 
 14 Eschew evil, and do good : seek peace, and 
 ensue it. 
 
 1 5 The eN'es of the Lord are over the righteous : and 
 his ears are open unto their prayers. 
 
 16 The countenance of the Lord is against them that 
 do evil : to root out the remembrance of them from the 
 earth. 
 
 17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth them : 
 and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 
 
 18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of aeon- 
 trite heart : and will save such as be of an humble 
 spirit. 
 
 1 9 Great are the troubles of the righteous : but the 
 Lord delivereth him out of all. 
 
 20 He keepeth aU his bones : so that not one of them 
 is broken. 
 
 2 1 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly : and they 
 that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 
 
 22 The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants : and 
 
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Day 7 PSALM XXXV Mornitig Prayer 
 
 all they that put their trust in him shall not be 
 destitute. 
 
 St. Theodore, the Martyr, ment of his approaching end, 
 
 was scourged to death singing walked out with some of the 
 
 this psalm. brethren, and thanked God, as 
 
 Whatever be the weakness of he looked in at the granary, for 
 
 Tate and Brady's version, their the corn he had been able 
 
 hymn of " Through all the to lay up for the winter, 
 
 changing scenes of life" (Ps. Tlien he began to transcribe 
 
 xxxiv. ) is a very noble one. Ps. xx.xiv., but coming to 
 
 Verse 5. When Bishop Fisher the tenth verse, remarked he 
 
 was on the scaffold, the south- might as well stop there. "The 
 
 east sun shined very brightly next words belong," said he, 
 
 upon him, and he was heard "rather to my successor than 
 
 to say, Acceditc ad eurn et to myself." At the midnight 
 
 illuminamini et fades vestrcs Matins he was found on the 
 
 MOW confundentur. altar step dying indeed, but 
 
 Verse 10. This is the last smiling and blessing the breth- 
 
 verse transcribed by St. Co- ren, and " doubtless seeing the 
 
 lumba on Saturday, June 8, lioly angels coming to meet 
 
 597 A.D. He had a presenti- him." 
 
 Latins, — Monday Matins ; for many Martyrs ; All Saints' Day. 
 Greeks. — Monday morning. 
 
 PSALM XXXV. Judka Domine. 
 
 PLEAD thou my cause, Lord, with them that 
 strive with me : and fight thou against them that 
 fight against me. 
 
 2 Lay hand upon the shield and buckler : and 
 stand v;p to help me. 
 
 3 Bring forth the spear, and stop the way against 
 them that persecute me : say unto my soul, I am thy 
 salvation. 
 
 4 Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that 
 seek after my soul : let them be turned back, and 
 brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me. 
 
 5 Let them be as the dust before the wind : and the 
 angel of the Lord scattering them. 
 
 6 Let their way be dark and slippery : and let the 
 angel of the Lord persecute them. 
 
 7 For they liave privily laid their net to destroy me 
 without a cause : yea, even witliout a cause have they 
 made a pit for my soul. 
 
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M or niiis; Prayer PSALM XXXV Day ^ 
 
 8 Let a siuldon (lostructioii come upon him miawares, 
 ami his net, that he hath laid privily, catch liimself : 
 tliat he may fall into his own miscliief. 
 
 9 And, my soul, be joyful in the Lord : it shall 
 rejoice in liis salvation. 
 
 10 All my l)ones shall say, "Lord, who is like unto 
 thee, who dolivereth the poor from him that is too 
 strong for him : yea, the poor, and liim that is in 
 misery from him that spoileth him ?" 
 
 1 1 False witnesses did rise up : they laid to my 
 chax'ge things that I knew not. 
 
 12 They rewarded me evil for good : to the great 
 discomfort of my soul. 
 
 13 Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sack- 
 cloth, and humbled my soul with fasting : and my 
 prayer shall turn into mine own bosom. 
 
 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my 
 friend, or my brother : I went heavily, as one that 
 mourneth for his mother. 
 
 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered 
 themselves together : yea, the very abjects came to- 
 gether against me unawares, making mouths at me, 
 and ceased not. 
 
 16 With the flatterers were busy mockers : who 
 gnashed upon me with their teeth. 
 
 1 7 Lord, how long wilt thou look upon this : O de- 
 liver my soul from the calamities which the^- bring on 
 me, and my darling from the lions. 
 
 18 So will I give thee thanks in the great congrega- 
 tion : I will praise thee among much people. 
 
 19 O let not them that are mine enemies triumph 
 over me ungodly : neither let them wink with their 
 eyes that hate me without a cause. 
 
 20 And why? their communing is not for peace : 
 but they imagine deceitful words against them that are 
 quiet in the land. 
 
 2 1 They gaped upon me with their mouths, and said : 
 " Fie on thee, lie on thee, we saw it witli our eyes." 
 
 22 This thou hast seen, O Lord : hold not thy 
 tongue, then, go not far from me, O Lord. 
 
 23 Awake, and stand up to judge my quarrel : avenge 
 thou my cause, my God, and my Lord. 
 
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Day J PSALM XXXVI Morning Prayer 
 
 24 Judge me, Lord my God, according to thy 
 righteousness : aud let them not triumph over me. 
 
 25 Let them not say in theii* hearts, "• There, there, 
 so would we have if" : neither let them say, "\N"e have 
 devoured him." 
 
 26 Let them be put to confusion and shame together, 
 that rejoice at my trouble : let them be clothed with 
 rebuke and dishonour, that boast themselves against me. 
 
 27 Let them be glad and rejoice, that favour my 
 righteous dealing : yea, let them say alway, '' Blessed 
 be the Lord, who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his 
 servant." 
 
 28 And as for my tongue, it shall be talking of thy 
 righteousness : and of thy praise all the day long. 
 
 " What is there necessary for Let there be any grief or dis- 
 man to know, which the Psalms ease incident unto the soul of 
 are not able to teach? They man, any wound or sickness 
 are, 10 beginners, an easy and named, for which there is not 
 familiar introduction ; a mighty in this treasure-house a present 
 augmentation of all virtue and comfortable remedy at all times 
 knowledge, in such as are en- ready to be found. Hereof it 
 tared before ; a strong contir- is that we covet to make the 
 mation to the most perfect Psalms esjjecially familiar unto 
 amongst others. Heroical us all '" (Hooker), 
 magnanimity, exquisite justice, This celebrated passage is a 
 grave moderation, exact wis- witness to the power of the 
 dom, patience unfeigned, un- Psalter in yet anether way ; for 
 wearied patience, the mysteries though it is quoted even by the 
 of God, the sufferings of Christ, extremest Protestant, it was 
 the terrors of wrath, the com- originally derived from the ex- 
 forts of grace, the works of position of Torquemada, the 
 Providence over this world, Dominican Inquisitor( 1420-98). 
 and the promised joys of the /Vr.-e-ig. The words, " They 
 world which is to come, all liated me without a cause," are 
 good necessarily to be either quoted by Christ in His last 
 known, or done, or had, this discourses to His disciples (St. 
 one celestial fountain yieldeth. John xv. 25V 
 Latins. — Monday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Monday morning. 
 
 PSALM XXXYI. Dixit injvsius. 
 
 MY heart showeth me the wickedness of the un- 
 godly : that there is no fear of God before his 
 eyes. 
 
 2 For he flattereth himself in his own sight : until 
 his abominable sin be found out. 
 
 3 The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XXXVl IXiy j 
 
 of deceit : lie hath left off to behave himself wisely, 
 and to do good. 
 
 4 He iinagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set 
 himself in no good way : neither doth he abhor any- 
 thing that is evil. 
 
 5 Thy mercy, Lord, reacheth unto the heavens : 
 and thy faithfulness unto the clouds. 
 
 6 Thy righteousness standeth like the sti'ong moun- 
 tains : thy judgements are like the great deep. 
 
 7 Thou, Lord, shalt save both man and beast ; How 
 excellent is thy mercy, O God : and the children of men 
 shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. 
 
 8 They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of 
 thy house : and thou shalt give them drink of thy 
 pleasures, as out of the river. 
 
 9 For with thee is the well of life : and in thy light 
 shall we see light. 
 
 10 O continue forth thy loving-kindness unto them 
 that know thee : and thy righteousness unto them that 
 are true of heart. 
 
 1 1 O let not the foot of pride come against me : and 
 let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down. 
 
 12 Tliere are they fallen, all that work wickedness : 
 they are cast down, and shall not be able to stand. 
 
 Verse 5. Mr. Ruskin uses region which we can neither 
 this verse to instance the fact see nor know ; and gradually 
 that in those psalms which from the close realization of a 
 most distinctly set forth the living God who ' maketh the 
 power of God, clouds and clouds His chariot,' we refine 
 heavens are used as inter- and explain ourselves into dim 
 changeable words, and as con- and distant suspicion of an in- 
 stant revelations of Him. And active God, inhabiting incon- 
 so, " by accepting the words in ceivable places, and fading into 
 their simple sense, we are led the multitudinous formalisms of 
 to apprehend the immediate the laws of nature." 
 presence of the Deity and His I'crse 7. Piers Ploughman 
 purpose of manifesting Himself heard all the saints in heaven 
 as near us whenever the storm- sing this at once, for joy over 
 cloud stoops upon its course ; sinners that repent, 
 while, by our vague and inac- Verse 9. The expression 
 curate acceptance of the words. Lumen de Liimine (Light of 
 we remove the idea of His Light) in the Nicene Creed was 
 presence far from us into a adopted from this verse. 
 
 Latins. — Monday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Monday morning. 
 
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Day^ PSALM XXXVII Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM XXXVII. Noli mmuUn. 
 
 FRET not thyself because of the nngodlj' : neither 
 be thou envious against the evil doers. 
 
 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass : 
 and be withered even as the green herb. 
 
 3 Put thou thy trust in the Lord, and be doing 
 good : dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be 
 fed. 
 
 4 Delight thou in the Lord : and he shall give thee 
 thy heart's desire. 
 
 5 Commit thj^ way unto the Lord, and put thy trust 
 in him : and he shall bring it to pass. 
 
 6 He shall make thy righteousness as clear as the 
 light : and thy jiist dealing as the noonday. 
 
 7 Hold thee still m the Lord, and abide patiently 
 upon him : but grieve not thyself at him, whose way 
 doth prosper, against the man that doeth after evil 
 counsels. 
 
 8 Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure : fret 
 not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil. 
 
 9 AVicked doers shall be rooted out : and they 
 that patiently abide the Lord, those shall inherit the 
 land. 
 
 10 Yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean 
 gone : thou shalt look after his place, and he shall be 
 away. 
 
 I \ But the meek-spirited shall possess the earth : 
 and shall be refreshed in the multitude of peace. 
 
 12 The ungodly seeketh counsel against the just : 
 and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 
 
 13 The Lord shall laugh him to scorn : for he hath 
 seen that his day is coming. 
 
 14 The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have 
 bent their bow : to cast down the poor and needy, and 
 to slay such as are of a right conversation. 
 
 1 5 Their sword shall go through theii- own heart : 
 and their bow shall be broken. 
 
 16 A small thing that the righteous liath : is better 
 than great riclies of tlie ungodly. 
 
 17 For tlie anus of the ungodly shall be broken : 
 and the Lord upholdeth the righteous. 
 
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livening Prayer PSALM XXXVII Day 7 
 
 18 The Lord knoweth the days of the godly : and 
 their inheritance shall endure for ever. 
 
 19 Tliey shall not be confounded in the perilous 
 time : and in the days of dearth they shall have 
 enough. 
 
 20 As for the ungodly, they shall perish ; and the 
 enemies of the Lord shall consume as the fat of 
 lambs : yea, even as the smoke, shall they consume 
 away. 
 
 21 The ungodly borroweth, and payeth not again: 
 but the righteovis is merciful, and liberal. 
 
 22 Such as are blessed of God shall possess the 
 land : and t\\Qy that are cursed of him shall be rooted 
 out. 
 
 23 The Lord ordereth a good man's going : and 
 maketh his way acceptable to himself. 
 
 24 Though he fall, he shall not be cast away : for 
 the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. 
 
 25 I have been young, and now am old : and yet 
 saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging 
 their bread. 
 
 26 The righteous is ever merciful, and lendeth : and 
 his seed is blessed. 
 
 27 Flee from evil, and do the thing that is good : 
 and dwell for evermore. 
 
 28 For the Lord lovcth the thing that is right : he 
 forsaketh not his that be godly, but they are preserved 
 for ever. 
 
 29 The unrighteous shall be punished : as for the 
 seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out. 
 
 30 The righteous shall inherit the land : and dwell 
 therein for ever. 
 
 31 The mouth of the righteous is exercised in 
 wisdom : and his tongue will be talking of judgement. 
 
 32 The law of his God is in his heart : and his 
 goings shall not slide. 
 
 ^;^ The ungodly seeth the righteous : and seeketh 
 occasion to slay him. 
 
 34 The Lord will not leave him in his hand : nor 
 condemn him when he is judged. 
 
 35 Hope thou in the Lord, and keep his way, and he 
 shall promote thee, that thou shalt possess the land : 
 when the ungodly shall perish, thou shalt see it. 
 
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Day J 
 
 PSALM XXXVII 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 36 I myself have seen the ungodly m great power : 
 and flourishing like a green bay-tree. 
 
 37 I went by, and lo, he was gone : I sought him, but 
 his place could nowhere be found. 
 
 38 Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing 
 that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the 
 last. 
 
 39 As for the transgressors, they shall perish to- 
 gether : and the end of the ungodly is, they shall be 
 rooted out at the last. 
 
 40 But the salvation of the righteous cometh of 
 the Lord : who is also their strength in the time of 
 trouble. 
 
 41 And the Lord shall stand by them, and save 
 them : he shall deliver them from the ungodly, and 
 shall save them, because they put their trust in him. 
 
 Verse 3. Spera in Domino. But what do I listen to the 
 Don Manuel of Portugal took 
 this as his motto, and spelt it 
 spkera. Hence all the churches 
 of his time are capped by a 
 sphere, for hope, instead of a 
 cross. 
 
 Verse 5. A favourite verse 
 of Dr. Livingstone, the great 
 African traveller. 
 
 Verse 11. Fuller's "mixed 
 contemplation" on this, which 
 he calls "Good Auguries," com- 
 forted many distressed souls in 
 the confusions and hopes which 
 came with the decline of the 
 Commonwealth. " I was much 
 affected with reading that dis- 
 tich in Ovid, as having some- 
 thing extraordinary therein : 
 
 ' Tarpeia quondam prcedixit 
 
 ab nice cor nix, 
 Est bene non pot nit dice re 
 dixit erit. ' 
 
 ' The crow sometimes did sit 
 
 and spell on top of Tarpie 
 
 Hall; 
 She could not say. All's well ! 
 
 all's well ! but said. It 
 
 shall ! it shall !' 
 
 to 
 language of the crow, whose 
 black colour hath a cast of hell 
 therein, in superstitious sooth- 
 saying ? Let us hearken to 
 what the Dove of the Holy 
 Spirit saith, promising God's 
 servants that, though the pre- 
 sent times be bad, the future 
 will be better. Ps. xxxvii. 11 : 
 'The meek shall inherit the 
 earth, and shall delight them- 
 selves in the abundance of 
 peace.' " 
 
 Verse 2^. One cannot but 
 remember here Thackeray's pic- 
 ture in "The Newcomes" of the 
 old colonel in the (jrey Friars' 
 Almshouse, in the black gown 
 of the pensioners and the order 
 of the Bath on his breast, stand- 
 ing among the Poor Brethren 
 and repeating the responses of 
 the Founder's psalm. 
 
 Verse 24. This was Henry de 
 Blois, the Bishop of Win- 
 chester's, comment, when he 
 heard of the martyrdom of St. 
 Thomas of Canterbury ; as it 
 was St. Gregory Nazianzen's 
 when his sister Gorgonia died. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XXXVIII Day Z 
 
 Verse 25. Piers Ploughman poor, used often to say, " If it 
 
 conclucied from this that "the seems to you impossible to keep 
 
 Book banneth bej,'gary." many commandments, then 
 
 I'ersfzy. Benedict of Aniane keep only this one little com- 
 
 (821 A.n.), who braved the mandnicnt, 'Flee from evil, 
 
 hostility of the nobles by his and do the thing that is 
 
 fearless championship of the good. ' " 
 
 Latins. — Monday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Monday moyiing. 
 
 PSALM XXXVIIL Domine, ve infum-e. 
 
 PUT me not to rebuke, Lord, in thine anger : 
 neither chasten me in thy lieavy displeasure. 
 
 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me : and thy hand 
 presseth me sore. 
 
 3 Tlaere is no health in my flesh, because of thy dis- 
 pleasure : neither is there any rest in my bones, bj' 
 reason of my sin. 
 
 4 For my ■\\-ickednesses are gone over my head : and 
 are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear. 
 
 5 My wounds stink, and are corrupt : through my 
 foolishness. 
 
 6 I am brought into so great trouble and misery : 
 that I go mourning all the day long. 
 
 7 For my loins are filled with a sore disease : and 
 there is no whole part in my body. 
 
 8 I am feeble, and sore smitten : I have roared for 
 the very disquietness of my heart. 
 
 9 Lord, thou knowest all my desire : and my groan- 
 ing is not hid from thee. 
 
 10 My heart panteth, my strength hath failed me : 
 and the sight of mine eyes is gone from me. 
 
 1 1 My lovers and my neighbours did stand looking 
 upon my trouble : and my kinsmen stood afar off. 
 
 12 They also that sought after my life laid snares for 
 me : and they that went about to do me evil talked of 
 wickedaiess, and imagined deceit all the day long. 
 
 13 As for me, I was like a deaf naan, and heai'd not : 
 and as one that is dumb, who doth not open his 
 mouth. 
 
 1 4 I became even as a man that heareth not : and in 
 whose mouth are no reproofs. 
 
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DayZ 
 
 PSALM XXXVIII 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 15 For in thee, Lord, have I put my trust : thou 
 shalt answer for nie, O Lord my God. 
 
 16 I have required that they, even mine enemies, 
 should not triumph over me : for when my foot shpped, 
 they rejoiced greatly against me. 
 
 17 And I, truly, am set in the plague : and my 
 heaviness is ever in my sight. 
 
 18 For I will confess my wickedness : and be sorry 
 for my sin. 
 
 19 But mine enemies live, and are mighty : and they 
 that hate me wrongfully are many in number. 
 
 20 They also that reward evil for good are against 
 me : becaiise I follow the thing that good is. 
 
 21 Forsake me not, Lord my God : be not thou 
 far from me. 
 
 22 Haste thee to help me : Lord God of my sal- 
 vation. 
 
 The third penitential psalm. 
 These are, vi., xxxii., xxxviii., 
 li. , cii., cxxx., and cxliii. This 
 is the antidote against the 
 deadly sin of gluttony (contra 
 Gulam). 
 
 St. Louis of France, when 
 death was at hand, "received 
 the last sacraments of the 
 Church with a full conscious- 
 ness, as appeared by this, that 
 while they were anointing him 
 with holy oil and saying the 
 seven psalms, he repeated the 
 verses in his turn." 
 
 Sir Thomas Wyatt, " the de- 
 light of the Muses and of man- 
 kind," the poet of the dawn of 
 English poetry, 
 "Amid great storms, whom 
 grace assured so 
 To live upright and smile at 
 fortune's choice," 
 (1503-1542) wrote in his youth 
 a book of " the vii. penytentiall 
 psalmes, drawen into Englyshe 
 meter," which Sir John Harring- 
 ton edited and dedicated to the 
 brother of Queen Catharine 
 Parr. Sir Thomas was a close 
 
 student of Dante, He depicts 
 David singing this psalm to his 
 harp in a cave, with great and 
 many tears — 
 
 " But who had been without 
 the cave's mouth, 
 And heard the tears and 
 sighs that him did strain, 
 He would have sworn, there 
 had out of the south, 
 A lukewarm wind brought 
 forth a smoky rain." 
 
 Edmund Spenser also wrote 
 a paraphrase upon the peni- 
 tential psalms, which is lost. 
 
 \'eric 15. "Thou shalt an- 
 swer for me, O Lord my God," 
 suggested to George Herbert 
 his matchless and most charac- 
 teristic poem, " The Quip," the 
 burden of which is — 
 
 "Thou shalt answer. Lord, 
 for me." The World with 
 Beauty, Money, Glory, and Wit 
 in turn jeered at the poet — 
 " Yet when the houre of Thy 
 designe 
 
 To answer these fine things 
 shall come, 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XXXIX Day ^ 
 
 Speak not at large, say, I am Tlie same text was one of the 
 
 thine, last recorded sayings of John 
 
 And then tliey have their Wesley, 
 answer home." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Ash Wednesday morning. 
 
 Latins. — Monday Matins ; Good Friday Matins ; Visitation 
 
 of the Sick. 
 Greeks. — Monday evening; Dawn in Lent 
 
 PSALM XXXIX. J)\x\, cmfodiam. 
 
 I SAID, " I will take heed to my ways : that I offend 
 not in my tongue. 
 
 2 '"I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle : 
 ■\\hile the ungodly is in my sight." 
 
 3 I held my tongue, and spake nothing : I kept 
 silence, yea, even from good words ; but it was pain 
 and grief to me. 
 
 4 My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus 
 iimsing the lire kindled : and at the last I spake with 
 my tongue ; 
 
 5 " Lord, let me know mine end. and the number of 
 my days : that I may be certified how long I have to 
 live. 
 
 6 " Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span 
 long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of 
 thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. 
 
 7 " For man walketh in a vain shadow, and dis- 
 qtiieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and 
 cannot tell who shall gather them. 
 
 8 " And now, Lord, what is my hope : truly my hope 
 is even in thee. 
 
 9 " Deliver me from all mine offences : and make me 
 not a rebuke unto the foolish. 
 
 10 "I became dumb, and opened not my mouth : 
 for it was thy doing. 
 
 11 " Take thy plague away from me : I am even 
 consumed by means of thy heavy hand. 
 
 12 " When thou with rebvikes dost chasten man for 
 sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it 
 were a niotli frettmg a garment : every man therefore 
 is but vanity. 
 
 13 "Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears 
 consider my calling : hold not thy peace at luy tears. 
 
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Day 8 PSALM XL Morning Prayer 
 
 14 " For I am a stranger with thee : and a sojourner, 
 as all my fathers were. 
 
 15 "O spare me a little, that I may recover my 
 strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen." 
 
 Archbishop Leighton's fa- that this verse contained the 
 
 voiirite psahii. secret of all poetry — strong 
 
 St. Ambrose was stirred up feeling, meditative reason, and 
 
 by this psalm to write his book lastly, expression, 
 of Offices, being much moved Verse\o. John Calvin passed 
 
 by its holy tone, patience, apt the last of his days "almost 
 
 speech, and its contempt of wholly in prayers. His voice 
 
 riches, which is the founda- was chokt with the asthma, and 
 
 tion of all virtue. his eyes, which to the end 
 
 Verse i. Socrates Scholas- shone clearly, were raised to 
 
 ticus tells us that Isidore gave heaven, and his face was as 
 
 this as the first lesson to St. composed as the ardour of 
 
 Pambo. After nineteen yearn prayer allowed. Often in his 
 
 the pupil complained that he pain he groaned out David's 
 
 had not yet been able to learn words, ' I became dumb, Lord, 
 
 it, in spite of the most diligent for it was Thy doing,' and 
 
 study ; so that he was not yet sometimes Isaiah's ' I mourned 
 
 ready for the second lesson, as a dove.' He was also heard 
 
 See, also, Browning's "Joco- to say, 'Thou affiictest me, O 
 
 seria." Lord, but it is fully enough 
 
 Verse 4. Keble used to say for me that it is Thy hand.' " 
 
 Liturgical use. — Burial psalm. 
 Latins. — Tuesday morning. 
 Greeks. — Monday evening. 
 
 PSALM XL. Expedans expedavi. 
 
 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 m my mouth : even 
 a thanksgiving unto our God. 
 
 4 Many shall see it, and fear : and sliall put tlioir 
 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 Lord, my God, great are the wondrous works 
 which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts 
 
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 which are to us-warcl : 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 meat offering,', thou wouldest not : 
 but mine ears hast thou opened. 
 
 9 Burnt offerings, 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." 
 
 1 1 I have declared thj' righteousness in the great 
 congregation : lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, 
 and that thou knowest. 
 
 1 2 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, Lord : 
 let thy loving-kindness and thj- truth alway preserve me. 
 
 1 5 For innumerable troubles are come about me ; my 
 sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able 
 to look up : j-ea, 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. 
 
 17 Let them be ashamed, and confounded together, 
 that seek after my soul to destroy it : let them be 
 driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me 
 evil. 
 
 18 Let them be desolate, and rewarded with shame : 
 that say mito me, " Fie upon thee, lie upon thee." 
 
 1 9 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in 
 thee : and let such as love thy salvation say alway, 
 "The Lord be praised." 
 
 20 As for me, I am poor and need}- : but the Lord 
 careth for me. 
 
 2 1 Thou art mj' helper and redeemer : make no long 
 tarrying, my God. 
 
 Among the smallest books in were published in Birmingham 
 
 the British Museum are two in 1855, and contain one this 
 
 little volumes the size of a psalm and one Ps. cxlv. The 
 
 postage stamp (64mo). They words are clearly printed, but 
 
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Days PSALM XLI Evening Prayer 
 
 without note or comment. The and obtained his prayer, that 
 
 catalogue number is 1221. i. threescore and ten of his own 
 
 Each psahn is the cry of a years should be given to this 
 
 poor man, and the little volumes spirit, and thus Adam fell 
 
 are but drifiweed, which tells short of one thousand years by 
 
 of a whole continent — small David's seventy. The story not 
 
 tokens of the love which the only "shows the high opinion 
 
 unknown many have had for that the Rabbins entertained of 
 
 these poems. the sweet Psalmist of Israel," 
 
 There is a beautiful legend but also tells that the Psalms 
 
 of David, quoted by the old seemed to them to fulfil human 
 
 Guardian (No. 138], from the life. 
 
 Rabbins, that Adam saw the Verses i and 2 were the last 
 
 spirits of all his sons pass words of St. Francis de Sales, 
 
 before him. The most beau- and to them he added only 
 
 tiful of all, he was told, was but Advesperascit et iticlinata est 
 
 to live one year. He prayed jam dies. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Good Friday morning. 
 Latins.- — Tuesday Matins ; Good Friday. 
 Greeks. — Monday evening. 
 
 PSALM XLI. Beatus qui intelligif. 
 
 BLESSED is he that considereth the poor and needy : 
 the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. 
 
 2 The Lord preserve him, and keep him alive, that 
 he may be blessed upon earth : and deliver not thou 
 him into the will of his enemies. 
 
 3 The Lord comfort him, when he lieth sick upon 
 his bed : make thou all his bed in his sickness. 
 
 4 I said, " Lord, be merciful unto me : heal my soul, 
 for I have sinned against thee." 
 
 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me : " "When shall he 
 die, and his name perish?" 
 
 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity : and 
 his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself, and when 
 he Cometh forth he telleth it. 
 
 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me : 
 even against me do they imagine this evil. 
 
 8 " Let the sentence of guiltiness proceed against 
 him : and now that he lieth, let him rise up no more." 
 
 9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I 
 trusted : who did also eat of my bread, hatli laid great 
 wait for me. 
 
Evening Prayer PSALM XLII Day Q 
 
 10 But be thou inevciful unto me, Lord : raise thou 
 me up again, and 1 shall reward them. 
 
 1 1 By this I know thou favourest me : that mine 
 enemy doth not triiunph against me. 
 
 12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest 
 me : and shalt set me before thy face for ever. 
 
 13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel : world with- 
 out end. Amen. 
 
 It has been the text of many Verse 6. St. Ambrose calls 
 famous political sermons, e.g., this Judas Iscariot's verse, and 
 BishopHacket upon the Gowrie indeed this whole psalm used 
 Conspiracy (verse 9), and Dr. T. always to be applied to him. 
 Laurie upon the Victory of Hence at Milan it was always 
 Waterloo (verses 1-3). used on Wednesday, the day 
 
 This is a dirge psalm, be- of the betrayal, 
 cause St. Augustine interprets Verse 9. Our Lord Himself 
 it (with Psalms iii., xvi., and applies this verse to Judas (St. 
 Ixviii. ) as prophetic of the resur- John xiii. 18). 
 rection. 
 
 Liturgical use. — English dirge (see Ps. v.). 
 Latins. — Tuesday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Monday evening. 
 
 PSALM XLII. 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 mj' 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 Put thy trust in God ; for I wUl yet give him 
 thanks for the help of his countenance. 
 
 8 'Sly God, my soul is vexed within me : therefore 
 will I remember thee concerning the land of Jordan, 
 and the little hill of Hermon. 
 
 9 One deep caUeth another, because of the noise of 
 
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 PSALM XLII 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 the water-pipes : all thy waves and storms are gone 
 over me. 
 
 lo The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the 
 daytime : and in the night-season did I sing of him, 
 and made ray prayer unto the God of my life. 
 
 Ill will say vmto the God of my strength, " Why 
 hast thou forgotten me : why go I thus heavily, while 
 the enemy oppresseth me '?" 
 
 1 2 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. 
 
 This psalm was formerly used 
 in the English Burial Service : 
 and because it was said over 
 the bodies of our fathers for 
 many generations it is very 
 appropriate as a devotion in 
 the presence of the dead. It 
 acquires a new and tender sig- 
 nificance in this use. 
 
 " As pants the hart for cool- 
 ing streams" is perhaps the 
 most successful of Tate and 
 Brady's version of the Psalter. 
 
 In reference to this psalm, 
 the hart appears often upon 
 the walls of the catacombs 
 and in later Christian art and 
 heraldry. 
 
 "From the time of" Lord 
 William Russell's "imprison- 
 ment, he looked upon himself 
 
 quieted within me. Trust in 
 God, for thou shalt quickly by 
 e.xperience be taught to give 
 Him thanks and praise, who is 
 the health of my countenance 
 and my God." Lord Russell 
 on his way to the scaffold in 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields "was 
 singing psalms a great part 
 of the way, and said he hoped 
 to sing better very soon." 
 
 The psalm was one of Bede's 
 favourites, and he turned it into 
 Latin verse. 
 
 Verse 8. St. Maur used to 
 retire from the busy cares of 
 his bishopric, when the troubles 
 of his office vexed him, to a 
 little grove where he had a cell, 
 his " little hill of Hermon," 
 with as much delight as if he 
 
 as a dead man, and turned his were going to a banquet. He 
 
 thoughts wholly to another 
 world. He read much in the 
 Scriptures, particularly in the 
 Psalms, and read Baxter's 
 ' Dying Thoughts,' " in which 
 Ps. xlii. is very prominent. 
 " Be not cast down, O depart- 
 ing soul, nor by unbelief dis- 
 
 was buried there at the last, 
 and his shrine raised where his 
 Hermon once stood. 
 
 I'erse 9. The mediaeval ex- 
 planation of this was always 
 mystical. " The deep of misery 
 to the deep of mercy" is the 
 usual comment upon it. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XLIV Day 
 
 Liturgical 7ise. — In the dirge (see Ps. v.) ; kocjuic-m (e). 
 Latins. — Matins on Tuesday ; Baptism of Adults. 
 Greeks. — On Monday evening. 
 
 PSALM XLIII. JwVmi me, Deus. 
 
 GIVE sentenpo with nie. O God, and defend my cause 
 against the ungodly people : deliver me from 
 the deceitful and wicked man. 
 
 2 For thou art the (rod 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 thej' may 
 lead me : and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy 
 dwelling. 
 
 4 And tliat I may go imto 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 heavj', 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 mv countenance, and my 
 God. 
 
 This psalm belongs to the 1485), he straightway knelt 
 Secrcfa at Mass, and has been upon the shore, raised his gray 
 for cfiituries the psalm by eyes to heaven, and recited 
 which the priest prepares him- Judica me. Dens all through, 
 self for the celebration of the His fine fair hair, long neck, 
 great Christian service. bright complexion, and smiling 
 
 It was sung at the baptism of mouth had not yet toned down 
 St. Augustine by St. Ambrose, into the thin-lipped, almost 
 at which time the Te Deum is monkish-looking king of later 
 said to have been composed. pictures. He seems to have 
 
 Wiien Henry of Richmond retained a love of this psalm to 
 landed nt Milford Haven (in the end of his life. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to 3rd Sunday in Lent (e). 
 
 Latins. — Tuesday at Lauds. 
 
 Greeks. — Monday evening. 
 
 PSALM XLIV. Deus, aurihvs. 
 
 JYi have heard with our ears, O God. our fathers 
 have told us : what thou hast done in their 
 time of old ; 
 
 2 How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy 
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 hand, and planted them in : how thou hast destroyed 
 the nations, and cast them out. 
 
 3 For they gat not the land in possession through 
 their own sword : neither was it their own arm that 
 helped them ; 
 
 4 But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light 
 of thy countenance : because thou hadst a favour unto 
 them. 
 
 5 Thou art my King, O God : send help unto Jacob. 
 
 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies : and 
 in thy Name will we tread them under, that rise up 
 against us. 
 
 7 For I will not trust in my bow : it is not my sword 
 that shall help me ; 
 
 8 But it is thou that savest us from oiu' enemies : 
 and puttest them to confusion that hate us. 
 
 9 We make our boast of God all daj' long : and will 
 praise thy Name for ever. 
 
 10 But now thou art far ofT, and puttest us to con- 
 fusion : and goest not forth with our armies. 
 
 1 1 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our 
 enemies : so that they which hate us spoil om* goods. 
 
 1 2 Thou lettest us be eaten up hke sheep : and hast 
 scattered us among the heathen. 
 
 1 3 Thou sellest thy people for nought : and takest no 
 money for thenr. 
 
 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours : 
 to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that 
 are round about us. 
 
 15 Thou makest us to be a bj'-word among the 
 heathen : and that the people shake tlieir heads at us. 
 
 16 My confusion is daily before me : and the shame 
 of my face hath covered me ; 
 
 1 7 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer : 
 for the enemy and avenger. 
 
 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we 
 not forget thee : nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy 
 covenant. 
 
 19 Our heart is not turned back : neitlier our steps 
 gone out of thy way ; 
 
 20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place 
 of dragons : and covered us with the shadow of death. 
 
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Morning Prayer I'SALM XLV Day 9 
 
 21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and 
 holden up our hands to any strange god : shall not God 
 searcli it out ".' for he knoweth the very secrets of the 
 heart. 
 
 22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long : 
 and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain. 
 
 23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thou : awake, and be not 
 absent from us for ever. 
 
 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face : and forgettest 
 our misery and trouble ? 
 
 25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust : 
 oiu" belly cleavetli unto the ground. 
 
 26 Arise, and lielp us : and deliver us for thy mercy's 
 sake. 
 
 Verse I. In 1544 Cranmer less to say, caused some offence 
 
 added the opening words of to the severer critics of the 
 
 this psalm to our Litany : "O Prayer-book. 
 God, we have heard with our I'crse 22. Quoted by St. 
 
 ears, and our fathers have de- Paul, to show hovv the Catholic 
 
 clared unto us, the noble works P'aith brings light out of the 
 
 that thou didst in their days, darkest things of life — "God's 
 
 and in the old time before throne from man's grave " 
 
 them." He took them from (Rom. viii. 36). 
 the lesser Litany of Salisbury, Verse 23. St. Ambrose of 
 
 and the words are a translation Milan died as lie was dictating 
 
 of the Vulgate, and from none of a commentary. He had just 
 
 our versions, which, it is need- reached this verse. 
 
 La/ins. — Tuesday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Monday evening. 
 
 PSALM XLV. Eiudavit air meum. 
 
 MY heart is inditing of a good matter : I speak of 
 the thmgs which I have made unto the King. 
 
 2 My tongue is the pen : of a ready writer. 
 
 3 Thou art fairer than the children of men : full of 
 grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for 
 ever, 
 
 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, thou 
 most ]\Iighty : according to thy worship and renown. 
 
 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour : ride on, 
 because of the word of truth, of meekness, and right- 
 eousness ; and thy riglit hand shall teach thee terrible 
 things. 
 
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Day 9 PSALM XLV Morning Prayer 
 
 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be 
 subdued unto thee : even in the midst among the King's 
 enemies. 
 
 7 Thy seat, O God, endureth for ever : the sceptre 
 of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 
 
 8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity : 
 wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with 
 the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 
 
 9 All thy garments smell of m\-rrh, aloes, and cassia : 
 out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee' 
 glad. 
 
 10 Kings' daughters were among thy honom'able 
 women : upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a 
 vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours. 
 
 1 1 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, incline thine 
 ear : forget also thine own people, and thy father's 
 house. 
 
 12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty : 
 for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him. 
 
 1 3 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a 
 gift : like as the rich also among the people shall make 
 their supplication before thee. 
 
 14 The King's daughter is all glorious within : her 
 clothing is of wrought gold. 
 
 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment 
 of needlework : the virgins that be her fellows shall 
 bear her companj', and shall be brought unto thee. 
 
 16 With joy and gladness shall they be brought : and 
 shall enter into the King's palace. 
 
 1 7 Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children : 
 whom thou luayest make princes in all lands. 
 
 18 I ■will remember thy name from one generation 
 to another : therefore shall the people give thanks unto 
 .thee, world \nthout end. 
 
 St. Columbawith his tremen- uni, verbum bonum. Tliis was 
 dous voice chanted this ps.ilm a verse often quoted against 
 so loud, when a body of Picts the Arians. St. Athanasiiis, 
 interrupted his evening devo- for instance, says, " Let the 
 tions, near the mouth of the Son of God be always and 
 river Xess, that they fled in everywhere acknowledged to 
 fear and amazement. He was be what He is, the hving 
 remarkable for his power of Counsel, the genuine and co- 
 voice, essential Offspring of the 
 
 Verse I. Eriictavit cor me- Father, just as the brightness 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XLVI Day 9 
 
 is of the light ; for thus the quity, and therefore I die in 
 
 Father Himself hath spoken : exile," were the last words of 
 
 ■ My heart hath given forth a tiie fierce and masterful Hilde- 
 
 good Word.' " brand, who did so much to en- 
 
 Verse 7. The Arian leaders, large and consolidate the power 
 Arius and Eusebius, on the of the Papacy, 
 other hand, " were always talk- Verse 11. Capgrave's com- 
 ing about this verse in streets, nient upon the baptism of 
 shops, and market-places." It baby Henry VI. applies this 
 was their stronghold. verse to those "regenerate in 
 
 I'crse 8. "I have loved baptism, who are to forget the 
 
 righteousness, and hated ini- House of Wrath." 
 
 Liturgical ?««•. — Christmas morning. 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Tuesday ; Christmas Day ; Circumcision ; 
 
 Festivals of Our Lady ; Apostles and Evangelists. 
 Greeks. — Monday evening. 
 
 PSALM XLVI. Dens noster refugium. 
 
 GOD is our hope and strength : a very present help 
 in trouble. 
 
 2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be 
 moved : and though the hills be carried into the midst 
 of the sea. 
 
 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell : and 
 though the mountains shake at the tempest of the 
 same. 
 
 4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the 
 city of God : the holy place of the tabernacle of the 
 most Highest. 
 
 5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not 
 be removed : God shall help her, and that right early. 
 
 6 The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms 
 are moved : but God hath showed his voice, and the 
 earth shall melt awa3\ 
 
 7 The Lord of hosts is with us : the God of .Jacob is 
 our refuge. 
 
 8 come hither, and behold the works of the Lord : 
 what destruction he hath brouglit upon the earth. 
 
 9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world : he 
 breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear m sunder, 
 and burnetii the chariots in the fire. 
 
 10 " Be still then, and know that I am God : I will 
 be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted 
 in the earth." 
 
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Day 9 
 
 PSALM XLVII 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 1 1 The Lord of hosts is with us : the God of Jacob 
 is our refuge. 
 
 This psalm is the foundation 
 of Luther's hymn, Ein feste 
 Burg ist unser Go/f, which has 
 played such a prominent part 
 in German history, and was 
 the " Marseillaise of the Refor- 
 mation." 
 
 men, and held it for the king 
 against Hungerford, Ludlow, 
 and an army. She obtained 
 at last honourable terms, not 
 very honourably kept. Her 
 husband was killed fighting for 
 the king at Oxford. She was a 
 
 On June 19, 1645, after the large-eyed lady, with a flexible, 
 humorous moutli, whose pic- 
 ture still survives at .Arundel 
 Castle. 
 
 Verse 10. Vincent of Lerins 
 {ob. 450 .X.D. ) chose the quiet 
 abbey m the island off Caimes 
 as his lot in life, that he might 
 without great distraction prac- 
 tise that psalm-song, I'acate et 
 videte qiioniaiu ego sum Deus ; 
 and so, nfter divers and sad 
 storms in the wars of the world, 
 he sheltered himself in " the 
 most certain port of the re- 
 ligious life." 
 
 ; Epiphany ; Dedication fesii- 
 
 battle of Naseby, both Houses 
 of Parliament attended a 
 thanksgiving seivice in the 
 Grey Friars' Church, and 
 dined together in the Grocers' 
 Hall, Poultry. After dinner 
 they sang together their 
 favourite Ps. xlvi. 
 
 J'erse 7. "God was our re- 
 fuge and strength : the Lord 
 of armies was with us : the 
 God of jRcob was our Pro- 
 tector." These words are the 
 epitaph of brave Blanche Lady 
 Arundel, who defended War- 
 dour Castle with a handful of 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Tuesday 
 
 vals ; Our Lady. 
 Greeks. — Monday evening ; Mesorion of first hour. 
 
 ; he is the 
 
 : and the 
 
 even the 
 
 PSALM XLVII. Omnei< (jenles, iilaudite. 
 
 OCLAP your liands together, all ye people : O sing 
 unto God with the voice of melody. 
 
 2 For the Lord is high, and to be feared 
 great King upon all the earth. 
 
 3 He shall subdue the people mider us 
 nations under our feet. 
 
 4 He shall choose out an heritage for us 
 worship of Jacob, whom he loved. 
 
 5 God is gone up with a merry noise : and the Lord 
 with the sound of the trump. 
 
 6 O smg praises, sing praises unto our God : O sing 
 praises, sing praises unto our King. 
 
 7 For God is tlie King of all the earth : slug ye 
 praises witli understanding. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM XLVIIl Day g 
 
 8 God reipneth ovei' the heathen : God sitteth upon 
 his holy seat. 
 
 9 The princes of the people are joined unto the 
 people of tile God of Abraham : for God, wliich is very 
 high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a 
 shield. 
 
 Verse 7. The motto Arch- exile," a.d. 1557. Since then 
 bishop Parker chose for his the same motto has served 
 metrical Psalms, which were for many Psalters, e.g., Hel- 
 his " exercise in his religious more's. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Ascension Day evening ; Introit on Ascen- 
 sion Day (e). 
 Latins. — Matins on Tuesday ; Epiphany ; Trinity Sunday ; 
 
 Apostles and Evansrelist?. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSALM XLVin. Magnm Dominus. 
 
 GREAT is the Lord, and highly to be praised : in the 
 city of our God, even upon his holy hill. 
 
 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the 
 whole earth : upon the north side lieth the city of the 
 gi'eat King ; God is well known in her palaces as a sure 
 refuge. 
 
 3 For lo, the kings of the earth : are gathered, and 
 gone by together. 
 
 4 They marvelled to see such things : they were 
 astonished, and suddenly cast do^\^l. 
 
 5 Fear came there upon them, and sorrow : as upon 
 a woman in her travail. 
 
 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea : through the 
 east wmd. 
 
 7 Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the 
 city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God : God 
 upholdeth the same for ever. 
 
 8 "We wait for thy loving-kindness, O God : in the 
 midst of thy temple. 
 
 9 O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise 
 unto the world's end : thy right hand is full of righteous- 
 ness. 
 
 10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of 
 Judah be glad : because of thy judgements. 
 
 1 1 Walk about Sion, and go round about her : and 
 tell the towers thereof. 
 
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 1 2 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses : that 
 ye may tell them that come after. 
 
 13 For this God is our God for ever and ever : he 
 shall be our guide unto death. 
 
 This is the psalm in which the Bernard, St. Thomas of Can- 
 Church celebrates her victories terbury, and many more, 
 over the World, that is to say, Ve7-sc 7. When this was ap- 
 over the unchristian arrange- plied to Christ, it "made the 
 ments of Society. It com- Arians frenzied with rage," that 
 memorated the triumph of St. He should be regarded as the 
 Athanasius, Constantine, St. God who upholds the world. 
 
 Liturgical US';. — Whit Sunday morning. 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Tuesday ; Christmas Day ; Whi(sunday ; 
 
 Trinity Sunday ; Dedication fea=t. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSALM XLIX. Auclite hcec, omnes. 
 
 OHEAR ye this, all ye people : ponder it with your 
 ears, all ye that dwell in the world ; 
 
 2 High and low, rich and poor : one with another. 
 
 3 j\Iy mouth shall speak of wisdom : and my heart 
 shall muse of understanding. 
 
 4 I will incline mine ear to the parable : and show 
 my dark speech upon the harp. 
 
 5 Wherefore should I fear in the daj^s of wicked- 
 ness : and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth 
 me romid about ? 
 
 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods : 
 and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. 
 
 7 But no man may deliver his brother : nor make 
 agreement unto God for him ; 
 
 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls : so that he 
 must let that alone for ever ; 
 
 9 Yea, tliough he live long : and see not the grave. 
 
 10 For he seeth that wise men also die, and perish 
 together : as well as the ignorant and foolisli, and leave 
 their riches for other. 
 
 1 1 And yet they think that their houses sliall con- 
 tinue for e^•er : and that their dwelling-places shall 
 endure from one generation to another ; and caU the 
 lands after their own names. 
 
 12 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour : see- 
 
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Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM XLIX 
 
 Day 9 
 
 ing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish ; 
 this is the way of them. 
 
 13 Tliis is their fooHshness : and their posterity praise 
 their saying. 
 
 14 They he in the hell like slieep, death gnaweth 
 upon them, and the righteous shall have domination 
 over them in the morning : their beauty shall consume 
 in the sepulchre out of their dwelling. 
 
 1 5 But God hath delivered my soul from the place 
 of hell : for he shall receive me. 
 
 16 Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich : or 
 if the glory of his house be increased ; 
 
 17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when 
 he dieth : neither shall his pomp follow him. 
 
 18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy 
 man : and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men 
 will speak good of thee. 
 
 1 9 He shall follow the generation of his fathers : and 
 shall neAer see light. 
 
 20 Man being in honour hath no understanding : but 
 is compared unto the beasts that perish. 
 
 This is the psalm which con- 
 tained for Matthew .Arnold's 
 " Obermann once more" the 
 whole message of David's land. 
 He says of Christ : 
 "While we believed, on earth 
 He went 
 And open stood His grave ; 
 Men cail'd from chamber, 
 church, and tent, 
 And Christ was by to save. 
 " Now He is dead ! Far hence 
 He lies 
 In the lorn Syrian town, 
 And on His grave, with shin- 
 ing eyes, 
 TheSyrian stars look down. 
 " In vain men still, with hoping 
 new. 
 Regard His death - place 
 dumb, 
 .And say the stone is not yet 
 to, 
 And wait for words to come. 
 
 "Ah, from that silent sacred 
 land 
 Of sun and arid stone, 
 And crumbling wall, and 
 sultry sand. 
 Comes now one word alone ! 
 
 " From David's lips this word 
 did roll, 
 'Tis true and living yet : 
 No man can save his brother s 
 soul, 
 Xor pay his brother s debt. 
 
 "Alone, self- poised, hence- 
 forward man 
 Must labour ! must resign 
 His all too human creeds, 
 and scan 
 Simply the way Divine." 
 
 Henry Lok, an Elizabethan 
 courtier, transl.ited this psalm 
 with some others into English 
 verse, and thought the Book of 
 Ecclesiastes was a commeiitarv 
 
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Day lo PSALM L Morning Prayer 
 
 upon if, a conclusion which Verse i opens St. Gregory 
 seems parallel to that of the Nazianzen's first great polemic 
 nineteenth century poet. against Julian the Apostate. 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Tuesday. 
 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSALM L. Beus deorum. 
 
 THE Lord, even the most mighty God, hath spoken : 
 and called the world, from the rismg up of the 
 sun, unto the gomg down thereof. 
 
 2 Out of Sion hath God appeared : in perfect beauty. 
 
 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence : 
 there shall go before him a consuming tire, and a 
 mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him. 
 
 4 He shall call the heaven from above : and the 
 earth, that he may judge his people. 
 
 5 "Gather my saints together unto me : those that 
 have made a covenant with me with sacrifice." 
 
 6 And the heaven shall declare his righteousness : 
 for God is Judge himself. 
 
 7 " Hear, O my people, and I will speak : I myself 
 will testify against thee, O Israel ; for I am God, even 
 thy God. ' 
 
 8 " I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices, 
 or for thy burnt-offerings : because they were not alway 
 before me. 
 
 9 " I will take no bullock out of thine house : nor 
 he-goat out of thj' folds. 
 
 10 " For all the beasts of the forest are mine : and so 
 are the cattle upon a thousand hills. 
 
 11 "I know all the fowls upon the mountains : and 
 the wild beasts of the field are in my sight. 
 
 12 "If I be hungry, I will not tell thee : for the 
 whole world is mine, and all that is therein. 
 
 13 "Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls' flesh : and 
 drink the blood of goats ? 
 
 14 "Offer unto God thanksgiving : and pay thy 
 vows unto the most Highest. 
 
 1 5 " And call upon nie in the time of trouble : so 
 will I hear thee, and thou slialt praise me." 
 
 16 But unto the ungodly said God : " Why flost thou 
 preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth ; 
 
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Morning Prayer PSAI.M LI Day \o 
 
 17 '* Whereas tliou liatcst to be reformed : and hast 
 cast my words behind thee i 
 
 18 " When tliou sawcst a thief, thou consentedst unto 
 him : and hast been partaker with the aduUerers. 
 
 19 " Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness : and 
 with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit. 
 
 20 " Tliou satest, and spakest against thy brother : 
 yea, and hast slandered thine own mother's son. 
 
 21 "These things hast thou done, and I held my 
 tongue, and thou thoughtest wickedly, that I am even 
 sucli a one as thyself : but I will reprove thee, and set 
 before thee the tilings that thou hast done. 
 
 22 " O consider this, ye that forget God : lest I pluck 
 you away, and there be none to deliver you. 
 
 23 " Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honour- 
 eth me : and to him that ordereth his conversation 
 right will I shew the salvation of God." 
 
 Verse 16. Origen was threat- lament, which is one of the 
 
 ened, says Suidas, with an mo^t tragic passages in litera- 
 
 abuse and shame worse than ture. 
 
 torture, if he did not sacrifice I'erse 18. This was once 
 to Cagsar. In a moment of much used in magic for thief- 
 fear he consented, and they finding. A number of sus- 
 filled his hand with incense, pected names or letters were 
 and thrust it over the altar, put into a key, and the key 
 He thus escaped martyrdom, was laid and turned over the 
 and fled from Alexandria to verse Si videbas fiirem cur- 
 Judi^a, where he was entreated rebas cum eo, and the name 
 to preach. He took the which leaped out showed the 
 Psalter, prayed, and opened at thief. So with adultery, slan- 
 this verse, read it : shut the der, back - biting, etc., the 
 book, sat down, and burst into psalm always consulted was 
 tears, in which all the audience Dciis Jeortim, " wliose title im- 
 joined. "The prophet David plies that He is God over 
 himself shut the door of my evil spirits and imps of mis- 
 lips," as he wrote in his bitter chief." 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Tuesday. 
 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSALA[ LI. Miserere mei, Dem. 
 
 HAVE mercy upon me, O God, after thy great good- 
 ness : according to the multitude of thy mercies 
 do away mine offences. 
 
 2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness : and 
 cleanse me from my sin. 
 
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Day 10 PSALM LI Morning Prayer 
 
 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 : tliat thou mightest be justified in thy 
 saying, and clear when thou art judged. 
 
 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. 
 
 1 1 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 sliall 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 slialt open my lips, Lord : and my mouth 
 shall shew 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 
 tliou the walls of .Terusalem. 
 
 19 Then shalt thou be j)leased with the sacrifice of 
 righteousness, with the burnt-otferings and oblations : 
 then shall they offer young bullocks upon tliine altar. 
 
 This is the fourth penitential deadly sin of lechery {ro»/r,i 
 
 psalm. The others are vi. , luxiiriiun). 
 xxxii., xxxviii., cii. , cxxx., .ind None of the other psalms 
 
 cxliii. It is an antidote lo the have had half the effect upon 
 
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Morning Praver 
 
 PSALM LI 
 
 Day 10 
 
 men's minds that this one has 
 exercised. It lias a library of 
 its own. " The more one me- 
 ditates upon it, the richer it 
 seems, and that unendingly," 
 is most folk's comment. 
 
 The earliest luiglish version 
 of the Psalms begins with this 
 one : for it, more than any 
 other, inspired Adheliri in the 
 eighth century, and was his 
 favourite, as it was Keble's in 
 tliis age. St. Dunstan's canons 
 so highly esteemed it that a 
 sick man who said fifteen Mis- 
 ereres and Pahr /losters re- 
 deemed a day's fasting. In 
 Theodulf's Capitula it is given 
 for private daily prayers ; and 
 Archbishop Elfric, in 995, 
 ordered his clergy so to use it 
 (with XXV. and xxvi. ). It has 
 been the psalm to many of tlie 
 sternest and most active- 
 minded men ; for instance, 
 St. Bernard, wlio heard its 
 cadences as the first prelude to 
 his monastic life, and loved it 
 best. Indeed, when Dante saw 
 the heavenly rose of saints 
 round God's throne, St. Ber- 
 nard pointed out Ruth to him 
 as " the ancestress of him who 
 wrote the Miserere." The 
 same Dante heard it in purga- 
 tory, chanted by the spirits of 
 those who had delayed repent- 
 ance till their violent deaths. It 
 was sung at great humiliations 
 and repentances : by those, for 
 instance, who were absolved 
 froni excommunication ; by 
 King John at Winchester, in 
 1213 A.u. Hardly any holy 
 men died on a death-bed, or at 
 a scaffold, or at a stake, with- 
 out breathing out the unwoin 
 passion of this great prayer. 
 
 Savonarola, just before his 
 death, with his liand trembling 
 
 from the toriure, wrote ui<on it 
 a wonderful commentary, which 
 some influential people — pro- 
 bably inspired by Colet— Iried 
 to have inserted in our Pra\er- 
 book as a Passion medita- 
 tion in the Reformniion 
 times. The opening sentences 
 of this meditation Cranmer 
 repeated on his knees in St. 
 Mary's, Oxford, before he was 
 burnt. Sir Thomas More 
 repeated the psalm on the 
 scaffold ; Lady Jane Grey at 
 her e.Necution (1554) ; Rowland 
 Taylor, while he was burning 
 (1555), said it, and was struck 
 in the mouth for not saying it in 
 Latin ; just as Alexander Brian, 
 Robert Johnson, and William 
 Filbie, Romanists, who would 
 not betray Parsons the Jesuit, 
 at their execution, were ill- 
 treated for not saying it in 
 English. When Dr. .Arnold 
 knew he was dying, and was 
 asked what should be read to 
 hini, he answered instantly, 
 ■' The fifty-first psalm." 
 
 I'crse 7. Dr. Ker says that 
 in the northernmost grave in 
 the world, near Cape Beechy, 
 in the white Polar regions, is 
 buried a sailor who went ex- 
 ploring with Sir George Nares. 
 Above it there is a copper tablet, 
 with the words, "Thou shalt 
 wash me, and I shall be whiter 
 than snow." 
 
 This is the verse used in the 
 Asperges, when the holy-water 
 is sprinkled. 
 
 J'erse 17. Bernabo Visconti 
 (1385), who was dying in filth 
 and neglect in Trezzo prison, 
 where so many of his victims 
 had died, used to drag himself 
 to the grating, and repeat with- 
 out ceasing, again and again, 
 Cor contritiim et humiliatiim. 
 
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Day \o PSALM LII Morning Prayer 
 
 Deics non dcspicies. The very that the great ambition of his 
 term " contrition " comes from life had been to lead a crusade 
 this verse, just as the Kyrie to restore Jerusalem, 
 ^/e/j-fw does from the opening "The souls of the faithful 
 words. pilgrims plead ever to God for 
 Verse i8. When Henry V. us in these words," says Cap- 
 heard this on his death-bed, grave, 
 he raised himself up, and said 
 
 I.ihtrgical ?«<?.— Commination service. 
 
 Latins. — On all weekdays at Lauds ; Communion of the Sick ; 
 
 Burial of the Dead, in procession from the house ; Preces, 
 
 etc. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning ; daily Nocturns ; Saturday ; Third 
 
 Hour ; late Evensong ; Visitation of the Sick ; Confession ; 
 
 Office for the Dying ; burial of laymen, monks, infanis, 
 
 and of priests. 
 
 PSALM LII. Quid fjloriaris ? 
 
 WHY boastest thou thyself, thou tyr.ant : that thou 
 canst do mischief ; 
 
 2 Whereas the goodness of God : endui'eth yet daily ? 
 
 3 Thy tongue iniagineth wickedness : and with lies 
 thou cuttest like a sharp razor. 
 
 4 Thou hast loved vmrighteousness more than good- 
 ness : and to talk of lies more than righteousness. 
 
 5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do 
 hurt : O thou false tongue. 
 
 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever : he shall 
 take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root 
 thee out of the land of the living. 
 
 7 The righteous also shall see this, and fear : and 
 shall laugh him to scorn ; 
 
 8 " Lo, this is the man that took not God for his 
 strength : but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, 
 and strengthened himself in his wickedness." 
 
 9 As for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house 
 of God : my trust is in the tender mercy of God for 
 ever and ever. 
 
 10 I will always give thanks unto thee for that thou 
 hast done : and I will hope in thy Name, for thy saints 
 like it well. 
 
 When Charles L came to treat him resjjectfully, the min- 
 the Scotch camp at Newark, isters knew no check, and often 
 though the generals affected to insulted the r.tiliappy king to 
 
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Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM LI 1 1 
 
 Day lo 
 
 his face. One of them, after a 
 railing sermon, ordered Ps. lii. 
 to be sung : 
 
 "Why doest thou, tyrant, 
 boast abroad, 
 Thy wicked works to 
 praise ? 
 Dost thou not know there is 
 a God 
 Whose mercies last al- 
 ways?" 
 
 Then the king stood up, and, 
 with a meekness and dignity 
 that touched even those rigid 
 enthusiasts, called for Ps. Ivi. 
 instead : 
 
 " Have mercy, Lord, on me, 
 I pray. 
 For man would me de- 
 vour ; 
 He fightelh with me day by 
 day, 
 And troubleth me each 
 hour." 
 
 This version is Sternhold and 
 Hopkins', of whom Fuller says 
 " that they had drunk more of 
 Jordan than of Helicon," and 
 who "have in many verses such 
 poor rhyme that two hammers 
 on a smith's anvil would make 
 better music." It is said (falsely 
 
 said, Fullerdeclares) that Queen 
 Elizabeth called these versions 
 " Geneva (jigs." " Some have 
 made libellous verses in abuse 
 of them ; and no wonder if 
 songs were made on the trans- 
 lators of the Psalms, seeing 
 drunkards made them on 
 David, the author thereof." 
 "Such as sing them must en- 
 deavour to amend them, by 
 singing them with understand- 
 ing heads and gracious hearts, 
 whereby that which is but had 
 ma/ter on earth will be made 
 good music in heaven." 
 
 In the life of St. Porphyrins, 
 Bishop of Gaza, it is told that 
 the great idol temple there took 
 fire, and burnt for many days. 
 The Christians gathered round 
 and chanted this psalm, es- 
 teeming this fire the work of 
 God ; and, indeed, not a few 
 heathen were thus converted. 
 
 Verse 8. In relerence to this 
 verse, and its warning against 
 trusting in riches. King Edward 
 VI. put on the English groats, 
 Postii Deum aiiitorem meutii 
 — "I have taken God for my 
 strength," and Queen Elizabeth 
 had the same words engraved 
 upon her household silver. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for St. Stephen's Mass (e) 
 Latins. — Tuesday Matins. 
 Greeks.— TnesA^y morning. 
 
 PSALM LIII. Dixit imipiens. 
 
 ri"^HE foolish body hath said in his heart : Tliere is 
 _L no God. 
 
 2 Corrupt are they, and become abominable in their 
 wickedness : there is none that doeth good. 
 
 3 God looked down from heaven upon the children 
 of men : to see if there were any that v.'ould imder- 
 stand, and seek after God. 
 
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Day lo PSALM LIV Evening Prayer 
 
 4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are 
 altogether become abonimable : there is also none that 
 doeth good, no not one. 
 
 5 Are not they without understanding that work 
 wickedness : eating up my people as if they would eat 
 bread ? they have not called upon God. 
 
 6 They were afraid where no fear was : for God 
 hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee ; thou 
 hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised 
 them. 
 
 7 Oh, that the salvation were given unto Israel out 
 of Sion : Oh, that the Lord would deliver his people 
 out of captivity ! 
 
 8 Then should Jacob rejoice : and Israel should be 
 right glad. 
 
 This psalm, which is the mcnt is briefly this, Can we 
 
 Elohist version of Ps. xiv. , is suppose that the mind fashioned 
 
 one of the bones of contention and invented a thouglit so 
 
 among modern critics. great that it fills all thought? 
 
 Verse 1. The discourses upon Prof. Caird sums up and ap- 
 
 ihis verse opened the wide field proves the meaning which 
 
 of controversy upon the onto- underlies this "proof" : "As 
 
 logical argument for the exist- spiritual beings, our whole 
 
 ence of God ; St. Anselm, Duns conscious life is based on a 
 
 Scotus, and Descartes, being universal self-consciousness, an 
 
 among the defenders of that absolute spiritual life, which is 
 
 argument. St. Thomas Aquinas not a mere subjective notion or 
 
 and Kant rejected it, and most conception, but which carries 
 
 modern philosophers have prac- with it the proof of its necessary 
 
 tically abandoned it. Theargu- existence or reality." 
 
 Latins. — On Wednesday at Matins. 
 Greeks. — On Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LIV. Dens, in nomine. 
 
 SAVE me, God, for thy Name's sake : and avenge 
 me in thy strength. 
 
 2 Hear my prayer, O God : and hearken unto the 
 words of my mouth. 
 
 3 For strangers are risen up against me : and tyrants, 
 which have not God before their eyes, seek after my 
 soul. 
 
 4 Behold, God is my helper : the Lord is with them 
 that uphold my soul. 
 
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Evening Prayer I'SALM L\' Day \o 
 
 5 He shall reward e\ il unto mine enemies : destroy 
 thou them in tliy trutli. 
 
 6 An oft'eriuf,' of a free heart will I give thee, and praise 
 thy Name, O Jx)rd : because it is so comfortable. 
 
 7 For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble : 
 and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. 
 
 I'ersc 6. These words de- tunaiely, ihey could not control 
 
 cided both popes and councils the inside of the monasteries, 
 
 to niLilce it illegal to devote and hence many a Filippo 
 
 children of a tender age to the Lippi was forced to take vows 
 
 monkish life, until they could for which he had no call, 
 give "a free heart." Unfor- 
 
 Liturgical use. — Good Friday morning. 
 Latins. — Daily at Prime ; Easter Eve. 
 Greeks. — On Tuesday morning, at sixth hour. 
 
 PSALM LV. E.raudi, Dem. 
 
 HEAR my prayer. O God : and hide not thyself from 
 my petition. 
 
 2 Take heed unto me, and hear me : how I mourn 
 in my pi'ayer, and am vexed. 
 
 3 The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on 
 so fast : for they are minded to do me sonie mischief ; 
 so maliciously are they set against me. 
 
 4 My heart is disquieted within me : and the fear of 
 death is fallen upon me. 
 
 5 Tearfulness and trembling are come upon me : 
 and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 
 
 6 And I said, O that I had wdngs like a dove : for 
 then would I flee away, and be at rest. 
 
 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off : and remain 
 in the wilderness. 
 
 8 I would make haste to escape : because of the 
 stormy wind and tempest. 
 
 9 Destroy tlieu* tongues, O Lord, and divide them : 
 for I have spied unrighteousness and strife in the city. 
 
 10 Day and night they go about within the walls 
 thereof : mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 
 
 1 1 "Wickedness is therein : deceit and guile go not 
 out of their streets. 
 
 12 For it is not an open enemy, that hath done me 
 tliis dishonour : for then I could have borne it. 
 
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Day lo PSALM LV Evening Prayer 
 
 13 Neither was it mine adversary, that did magnify 
 himself against me : for then peradventure I would 
 have hid myself from him. 
 
 14 But it was even thou, my companion : my guide, 
 and mine own familiar friend. 
 
 1 5 We took sweet counsel together : and walked in 
 the house of Grod as friends. 
 
 16 Let death come hastily upon them, and let them 
 go down quick into hell : for wickedness is in their 
 dwellings, and among them. 
 
 17 As for me, I will call upon God : and the Lord 
 shall save me. 
 
 18 In the evening, and morning, and at noonday will 
 I pray, and that instantly : and he shall hear my voice. 
 
 19 It is he that hath delivered my soul in peace from 
 the battle that was against me : for there were many 
 with me. 
 
 20 Yea, even God, that endureth for ever, shall hear 
 me, and bring them down : for they will not turn, nor 
 fear God. 
 
 21 He laid his hands upon such as be at peace with 
 him : and he brake his covenant. 
 
 22 The words of his mouth were softer than butter, 
 having war in his heart : his words were smoother than 
 oil, and yet be they very swords. 
 
 23 O cast thy burden upon the I^ord, and he shall 
 nourish thee : and shall not suffer the righteous to fall 
 for ever. 
 
 24 And as for them : thou, O God, shalt bring them 
 into the pit of destruction. 
 
 25 The blood-thirsty and deceitful men shall not live 
 out half their days : nevertheless, my trust shall be in 
 thee, O Lord. 
 
 This was the last psalm (his that this motto was constantly 
 
 favourite) read by the wretched in the mouths of the peaceful 
 
 Darnley, the night he was blown and pious Egyptian CcL'nobites 
 
 up at Kirk-o'-Field, February, while they libteiu-ci to the words 
 
 1567. of their " Father," whose praise 
 
 Verse I, first part, is the as a speaker was in the weep- 
 
 niotto carved on the Jacobitan ing of liis hearers. Their holy, 
 
 reading - pew in Newport oijcdient, and discijilined life 
 
 Church, Isle of Wight. was the loveliest contrast to 
 
 Verse 6. St. Jerome says the fierce anaichy and lust 
 
.\ronii/i^ Pniyer PSALM LVl Day ii 
 
 about tliem. Tlie verse was, daily and iiiterclianocably pass 
 
 at any rate, one wliich St. in the hearing of Cjod Himself 
 
 Jerome iiimself repeats again and in the presence of His holy 
 
 and again. It has also played angels, so many heavenly ac- 
 
 no small part in literature and clainations, exultations, provo- 
 
 art, e.g., Mendelssohn's well cations, petitions, songs of 
 
 known musical setting; Brown- comfort, psalms of praise and 
 
 ing's " I'ompilia," iii. 991-997, thanksgiving." 
 
 etc. Verse 25. Giraldus Cam- 
 
 Verse 15. Hooker deduced brensis' comment upon the 
 
 from this that it is reasonable to death of King John, and a very 
 
 think, that if walking as friends apposite one, too. The same 
 
 in the house of God made the words formed the fierce retort 
 
 bond of men's love insoluble, of old Cecil, Lord Burleigh, to 
 
 that all piety will be witnessed the Earl of Essex, when the 
 
 to and kindled by the use of latter vehemently opposed the 
 
 psalms between clergy, and policy of peace with Spain, 
 those ' ' between whom there 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Wednesday. 
 
 Greeks. — On Tuesday morning ; Sixth hour ; \'isitation of the 
 Sick. 
 
 PSALM LVL Miserere met, Dens. 
 
 BE merciful unto me, O God, for man goeth about to 
 devour me : he is daily lighting, and troubling me. 
 
 2 Mine enemies are daily in hand to swallow me 
 up : for they be many that fight against me, O thou 
 most Highest. 
 
 3 Nevertheless, though I am sometime afraid : yet 
 put I my trust in thee. 
 
 4 I will praise God, because of his word : I have put 
 my trust in God, and wiU not fear what flesh can do 
 unto me. 
 
 5 They daily mistake my words : all that they 
 imagine is to do me evil. 
 
 6 They hold all together, and keep themselves close : 
 and mark my steps, when tliey lay wait for my soul. 
 
 7 Shall they escape for their wickedness : thou, 
 ( rod, in thy displeasure shalt cast them down. 
 
 8 Thou tellest my flittings ; put my tears into thy 
 bottle : are not these things noted in thy book "? 
 
 9 Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine 
 enemies be put to flight : this I know ; for God is on 
 my side. 
 
 10 In God's word will I rejoice : in the Lord's word 
 will I comfort me. 
 
Dam PSALM L\'II Morning Prayer 
 
 1 1 Yea, in God have I put my trust : I will not be 
 afraid what man can do unto me. 
 
 12 Unto thee, O God, will I pay my vo\\s : unto thee 
 will I ^\% thanks. 
 
 13 For thou hast deli^ered mj' soul from death, and 
 mj' feet from falling : that I may walk before God in 
 the light of the living. 
 
 In the Middle Ages this in the lines of the face ; no 
 
 psalm was usually said by the doubt because of the king's 
 
 sick, before they took their love for them. Charles II. 
 
 physic. begged it of the college, and it 
 
 Charles I.'s choice [vide Ps. was given him with so strong a 
 
 Hi.) when insulted by the Pres- hint of the loss to the society 
 
 byterian ministers. There was that he felt obliged to restore 
 
 a picture of this king at St. it. 
 
 John's College, O.xford, which ]'crsc 8. These words were 
 the 5/>(rAr/('/- noticed. It had the a favourite saying of holy Arch- 
 whole Book of Psalms written bishop Usher (1580-1655). 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning ; Mesorion of si.xth hour. 
 
 PSALM LYII. M'mm-e mei, Deus. 
 
 BE merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me. 
 for my soul trusteth in thee : and under the 
 shadow of thy wings shall be my refuge, until this 
 tyranny be over-past. 
 
 2 I will call unto the most high God : even unto the 
 God that shall perform the cause which I have in hand. 
 
 3 He shall send from heaven : and save me from the 
 reproof of him that w ould eat me up. 
 
 4 God shall send forth his mercy and truth : my soul 
 is among lions. 
 
 5 And I lie even among the children of men, that 
 are set on fire : whose teeth are spears and arrows, and 
 their tongue a sharp sword. 
 
 6 yet up thyself, O God, aboAc the heavens : and 
 thy glory above all the earth. 
 
 7 They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed 
 down my soul : the,\' have digged a pit before me, and 
 are fallen into the midst of it themselves. 
 
 8 My heart is fixed. O God, my heart is fixed : I will 
 sing and give praise. 
 
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 9 Awake np. my glory ; awake, lute and harp : I 
 myself will awake right early. 
 
 10 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the 
 people : and I will sing unto tliee among the nations. 
 
 1 1 For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the 
 heavens : and thy trutli unto the clouds. 
 
 12 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens : and 
 thy glory above all the earth. 
 
 Verse i. Miserere met, Walton and everyone else the 
 
 Domi/ie, miserere mei, was the freciuent use of the Psalms of 
 
 motto of Pope Nicholas III. David, saying " that they were 
 
 (1277-1279), the great opponent the treasury of Christian com- 
 
 of Charles of Anjou. fort, fitted for all persons and 
 
 The last words were in con- necessities : able to raise the 
 
 stant use in reference to the soul from dejection by the 
 
 enforced signing of tiie Cove- frequent mention of God's 
 
 nant, January 29, 1643. mercies to repentant sinners: 
 
 Verse ^. This verse was not to stir up holy desires ; to in- 
 
 without reason applied by St. crease joy : to moderate sorrow ; 
 
 Athanasius to the fiery and to nourish hope and teach us 
 
 persecuting .\rians, whose patience by waiting God's 
 
 arguments frequently did take leisure ; to beget a trust in the 
 
 sword form. mercy, power, and providence 
 
 Verse 8. These words were of the Creator; and to cause 
 
 among the last of Dr. Robert a resignation of ourselves to 
 
 .'-Janderson, as Walton tells us His will ; and then, and not 
 
 in his Lives. This learned till then, to believe ourselves 
 
 and pious man commended to happy." 
 
 I.itiirgieal use. — Easter morning. 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 (Greeks. — Tuesday morning ; Mesorion of sixth hour. 
 
 PSALM LVIII. S'b vere uth^ue. 
 
 ARE your mmds set upon righteousiiess, ye con- 
 gregation : and do ye judge the thing that is 
 right, O ye sons of men '? 
 
 2 Yea, ye imagine mischief in your heart upon the 
 earth : and your hands deal with wickedness. 
 
 3 The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's 
 womb : as soon as they are born, they go astray, and 
 speak lies. 
 
 4 They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent : 
 even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears ; 
 
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Day II PSALM LIX Evening Prayer 
 
 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer : 
 charm he ne^•er so wisely. 
 
 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths ; smite 
 the jawbones of the Uons, O Lord : let them fall away 
 like water that runneth apace ; and when they shoot 
 their arrows let them be rooted out. 
 
 7 Let them consume away like a snail, and be like 
 the untimely fruit of a woman : and let them not see 
 the svm. 
 
 8 Or ever 3'our pots be made hot with thorns : so let 
 indignation vex him, even as a thing that is raw. 
 
 9 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the 
 vengeance : he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of 
 the ungodly. 
 
 10 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward 
 for the righteous : doubtless there is a God that judgeth 
 the earth. 
 
 This psalm was much used most lovable of all English 
 
 by St. Bernard in his Crusade saints and bishops, used to 
 
 sermons. justify himself by this ver^e 
 
 Verse 7. A queer piece of for his tremendous severity of 
 
 natural history came from the rebuke and fierce indignation 
 
 Jews with this verse, that the against the proud evil-doers of 
 
 snail (the waster) was born big, his day. Though he was the 
 
 and crawled until it had worn great idol of children, the gen - 
 
 itself away into slime. By tlest nurse of lepers, the friend 
 
 Albertus Magnus' time, how- of birds and beasts, and one 
 
 ever, snails had been observed so careful of the dead that to 
 
 more carefully, for he says the bury a dead tramp he would 
 
 verse refers to snails when keep the king waiting for 
 
 salted. dinner, yet his rebukes were so 
 
 Verseg. St. Hugh of Lincoln, severe they seemed almost un- 
 
 one of the bravest, wisest, and measured. 
 
 I.a/ins. — Wednesday morning. 
 Greeks. — On Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSA.LM LIX. Eripe tm de inimkis. 
 
 DELIVER me from mine enemies, O God : defend 
 me from them that rise up against me. 
 
 2 O dehver me from the wicked doers : and save me 
 from the blood-thirsty men. 
 
 3 For lo, they lie waiting for my soul : the mighty 
 men are gathered against me. without i\.\\\ offence or 
 fault of me. O T^ord. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSAI.MLIX Day w 
 
 4 They run ivnd propave thenist'lves without \\\\ 
 fault : arise thou therefore to lielp )ne, and beliold. 
 
 5 Stand up, Lord God of liosts, tliou God of Israel, 
 to visit all the heathen : and be not merciful unto them 
 that otl'end of malicious wickedness. 
 
 6 They go to and fro in the evening : thev grin like 
 a dog, and run about tlirough the city. 
 
 7 13ehold, they speak with tlieir mouth, and swords 
 are in their lips : for " who doth hear ?"' 
 
 8 But thou, O Lord, shalt liave them in derision : 
 and thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn. 
 
 9 My sti'ength will I ascribe unto thee : for thou art 
 the God of my refuge. 
 
 10 God sheweth me his goodness plenteously : and 
 God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 
 
 1 1 Slay them not, lest my people forget it : but 
 scatter them abroad among the people, and put them 
 down, O Lord, our defence. 
 
 1 2 For the sin of their mouth, and for the words of 
 their lips, they shall be taken in their pride : and why : 
 their preaching is of cursing and lies. 
 
 13 Consiuue them in thy wrath, consume them, that 
 they may perish ; and know that it is God that ruletli 
 in Jacob, and unto the ends of the world. 
 
 14 And in tlie evening they will return : grin like a 
 dog, and will go aboiit the city. 
 
 1 5 Tliey will run here and there for meat : and 
 grudge if they be not satisfied. 
 
 16 As for me, I will sing of thy power, and will 
 praise thy mercy betimes in the inorning : for thou hast 
 been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. 
 
 17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing : for thou, 
 O God, art my refuge, and my merciful God. 
 
 In the time of Henry VIII. ized people with them by using 
 
 this psalm was used as a them on Sundays. The word 
 
 Passion psalm. " vindictive " has only lately ac- 
 
 This is one of the vindictive quired the meaning of studied 
 
 psalms, as they are called, the malice. "Vindication" is a 
 
 others being Ixix. , Ixxix., and special virtue in the eyes of 
 
 cix. , and they have caused no St. Thomas Aquinas, opposed 
 
 little controversy in every age, to savagery and cruelty on the 
 
 especially among us since the one hand, and carelessness 
 
 English Church has familiar- about evil on the other. He 
 
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D,iy\i PSALM LX Evening Prayer 
 
 insists, of course, that it must But if the New Testament were 
 not spring from hate, but from merely a repetition of the Old, 
 a good motive, charity to the it would be unnecessary. Tiiese 
 evil-doer (his amendment or psalms show how widely the 
 restraint), or for the general two differ in places, even when 
 peace and welfare. If any de- the words of the Old are 
 fence is made of these psalms, weighed impartially, and with- 
 it usually goes on these lines, out modern misconceptions. 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Wednesday. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LX. Di'ui, repulisti nns. 
 
 OGOI), thou hast cast us out, and scattered us 
 abroad : thou hast also been displeased ; O turn 
 thee unto us again. 
 
 2 Thou hast moved the land, and divided it : heal 
 the sores thereof, for it shaketh. 
 
 3 Thou hast shewed thy people heavy things : thou 
 hast given us a drink of deadly wine. 
 
 4 Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee : 
 that they may triumph because of the truth. 
 
 5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered : help me 
 with thy right hand, and hear me. 
 
 6 God hath spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice, and 
 divide Hichem : and mete out the valley of Succoth. 
 
 7 Gilead is mine, and IVIanasses is mine : Ephraim 
 also is the strength of my head ; Judah is un- law- 
 giver ; 
 
 8 Moab is my wash-pot ; over ImIoui will I cast out 
 my shoe : Philistia, be thou glad of me. 
 
 9 Who will lead me into the strong city : who will 
 bring me into Edom "? 
 
 10 Hast not thou cast us out, God : wilt not thou. 
 O God, go out with our hosts '? 
 
 1 1 O be thou our help in trouble : for vain is the 
 help of man. 
 
 12 Through God will we do great acts : for it is he 
 that shall tread down oiu" enemies. 
 
 When St. Cuthbert drew near midniglit he raised his hands 
 his end he was in his cell off and sped forth iiis spirit. When 
 Lindisfarne, alone with his Herefrid told the bretliren out- 
 eider ducks. Herefrid and side tiiey were just beginning 
 certain monks landed to give the midnight psalm, /leus 
 liim the last Sacrament. .\t i/utire rcpiilisli nos, and a 
 
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Evenin- /')\iycr PSALM LXI D.ry ii 
 
 brother went to the liigher I'ersc 2. The text of the 
 ground and raised two torches, Bishop of Exeter, Joseph 
 as a signal to I.indisfarne. Tiie Hall's magnificent and brave 
 brethren there were chanting plea for peace, which he 
 the same psahn wlien the signal preached to Charles I. at 
 was spied, and they knew that Whitehall, on the 2nd Sunday 
 their chief was gone. So this in Lent, 1641, " On the Mis- 
 psalm has been called the Dirge chiefe of Faction and the 
 of St. Cuthbert, and was the Reniedie of it." He was trans- 
 dirge also of Celtic Christianity, lated to Norwich; but his ad- 
 which died with liini. vice was left to he where it fell. 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday morning. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning. 
 
 P8ALM LXr. E.nmd[, Deu<. 
 
 HEAR iny crying, O God : give ear unto iny 
 prayer. 
 
 2 From the ends of the earth will I call upon thee : 
 when uiy heart is in heaviness. 
 
 3 O set me up upon the rock that is higher than I : 
 for thou hast been my hope, and a strong tower for me 
 against the enemy. 
 
 4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever : and my 
 trust shall be under the covering of thy wings. 
 
 5 For thou, O Lord, hast heard my desires : and 
 hast given an heritage unto those that fear thy Name. 
 
 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life : that his 
 years may endure tln-otighout all generations. 
 
 7 He shall dwell before God for ever : O prepare 
 thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may pre- 
 serve him. 
 
 8 So will I alway sing praise mito thy Name : tliat 
 I may daily perform thy vows. 
 
 V^erse 5. St. Chrysostom's from this heavenly heritage, of 
 
 comment on this is that the being eternally repelled from 
 
 "heritage" is Christ Himself. Christ, and hearing from His 
 
 " A thousand hells are nothing mouth, ' I never knew you.' " 
 to the evil of being shut out 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday morning ; Apostles and Evangelists ; 
 
 .AH .Saints'. 
 Greeks.— Tuesday morning ; Visitation of the Sick. 
 
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Day 12 PSALM LXII hlonting Prayer 
 
 PSALM LXII. Nonm Deo ? 
 
 MY soiil truly waiteth still upon God : for of liiiu 
 cometh iiij? salvation. 
 
 2 He verily is my strength and my salvation : he is 
 my defence, so that I shall not greatly fall. 
 
 3 How long will ye imagine mischief against every 
 man : ye shall be slain all the sort of you ; yea, as a 
 tottering wall shall ye be, and like a broken hedge. 
 
 4 Their device is only how to put him out whom 
 God will exalt : their delight is in lies ; they give 
 good words with their mouth, but curse with their 
 heart. 
 
 5 Nevertheless, my soul, wait thou still upon God : 
 for my hope is in him. 
 
 6 He truly is my strength and ni,\ salvation : he is 
 my defence, so that I shall not fall. 
 
 7 In God is my health, and m,\- glory : the rock of 
 my might, and in God is my trust. 
 
 8 O put your trust in him alway, ye people : pour 
 out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. 
 
 9 As for the children of men, they are but vanity : 
 the children of men are deceitful upon the weights, 
 they are altogether lighter than ^ anity itself. 
 
 10 O trust not in wrong and robbery, give not your- 
 selves unto vanity : if riches increase, set not your 
 heart upon them. 
 
 1 1 God spake once, and twice I ha\e also heard the 
 same : that power belongeth unto God ; 
 
 12 And that thou. Lord, art merciful : for thou re- 
 wardest every man according to his work. 
 
 St. Athana'iub's favourite time to meditate upon the cor- 
 
 psalm. " Against all attempts ruptions of .Alexandria, where 
 
 upon thy body, thy state, thy he was born, and where lie 
 
 soul, thy fame, temptations, died {},72,). 
 tribulations, machinations, de- Veisc i. Allan Gardiner 
 
 famations, say this psalm." painted these words in red over 
 
 He probably learnt his great the cave in which he was starved 
 
 love for it in the desert with to death (z'f'rtV xvii. ). 
 St. Anthony. There he had 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Mass on Easier morning (e). 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday Matins. 
 
 Greeks.— TntidAy morning. 
 
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Morn in ^^ Prayer PSALM LXI II Day \i 
 
 PSALM LXIII. Deii^, Deus mens. 
 
 OGOD. thou art my God : early will I seek thee. 
 2 My soul thirsteth for thee, my Hesh also 
 longeth after thee : in a barren and (h\\ land where no 
 water is. 
 
 3 Thus have I looked for thee in holiness : that I 
 might behold thy power and glory. 
 
 4 For thy loving-kindness is better than the life 
 itself : my lips shall praise thee. 
 
 5 As long as I live will I magnify thee on this 
 manner : and lift up my hands in thy Name. 
 
 6 My soul shall be satisfied, even as it were with 
 marrow and fatness : when my mouth praiseth thee 
 with joyful lips. 
 
 7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed : and 
 thought upon thee when I was waking '? 
 
 8 Because thou hast been my helper : therefore under 
 the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 
 
 9 My sold hangeth upon thee : thy right hand hath 
 upholden me. 
 
 [o These also that seek the hurt of my soul : they 
 shall go under the earth. 
 
 1 1 Let them fall upon the edge of the sword : that 
 they may be a portion for foxes. 
 
 12 But the King shall rejoice in God; all they also 
 that swear by him shall be commended : for the mouth 
 of them that speak lies shall be stopped. 
 
 The African Church used Theodore Beza (after whom 
 
 this as the morning psalm, and the rhymed psalms were called 
 
 in the Apostolic constitutions it " Beza's Ballets ") said that this 
 
 begins the day's devotions. It was the psalm he always said 
 
 has been called the morning over and over to himself on 
 
 hymn of the Early Church. It his sleepless nights, 
 
 was also called the psalm of J'c'rsr 8. The last words of 
 
 the Three Kings. "Blessed" John Forrest, who 
 
 It was St. Chrysostom's was burnt at Smithfield (May 
 
 favourite psalm, and he thought 22, 1538), with the approval of 
 
 that the spirit of the whole book Bishop Latimer, 
 was compressed into it. 
 
 La/ins. — L-iuds daily. 
 
 Greeks. — On Tuesday morning. 
 
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Dajr 12 PSALM LX IV Morning Prayer 
 
 PSALM LXIV. ExAmdi, Deus. 
 
 HEAR my voice, O God, in my prayer : preserve 
 my life from fear of the enemy. 
 3 Hide me from the gathering together of the fro- 
 ward : and from the insurrection of wicked doers ; 
 
 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword : and 
 shoot out their arrows, even bitter words ; 
 
 4 That they may privilj' shoot at him that is perfect : 
 suddenly do they hit him, and fear not. 
 
 5 Tliej' encourage themselves in mischief : and com- 
 mune among themselves how they may lay snares, and 
 say, that no man shall see them. 
 
 6 They imagine wickedness, and practise it : that 
 they keep secret among themselves, every man in the 
 deep of his heart. 
 
 7 But God shall suddenly shoot at tliem with a swift 
 arrow : that they shall be wounded. 
 
 8 Yea, their own ton.gues shall make them fall : in- 
 somuch that whoso seeth them shall laugh them to 
 scorn. 
 
 9 And all men that see it shall say, " This hath God 
 done " : for they shall perceive that it is his work. 
 
 10 The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and put 
 his trust in him : and all they that are true of heart 
 shall be glad. 
 
 The proper psalms once ap- tric^l editions, were \'icars 
 
 pointed to be said on (iun- the I'resbyferian, lampooned in 
 
 powder Treason Day were Ixi v., " Hudibras," and Blackmore, 
 
 cxxiv., and cxxv. William 1 11. 's physician, whom 
 
 John Holland, in his " P.=alni- Pop-^ called "the godless 
 
 ists of Britain, " numbers 173 author, who burlesqued a 
 
 authors of metrical translations psalm." These poor fellows 
 
 from the sixteenth century. Up must have understood this 
 
 to the year 1723, Le Long psalm, at any rate, 
 
 numbers 1,120 editions of the J'erse 7. This verse (which 
 
 Old Testament m^de since the in the Vulgate ends, sagitfeF. 
 
 year 1475, and counts 500 com- paivnlorum fact(€ sunt plagtc 
 
 mentators on tlie Psalms ; but tiirnin, their blows are turned 
 
 Calmet, not long afterwards, into children's arrows) was ac- 
 
 asserled that there were close cepted by St. .\mbrose, as a 
 
 upon a thousand known. promise of deliverance, when 
 
 .•\niong the nuich- wronged he was threatened with fire, 
 
 minor authors, who out of love sword, and banishment, 
 for the Psalter published me- 
 
 92 
 
Eve/iifio- Pniyer PSALM LX\' D,n i2 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday at Matins ; Apostles and Evangelists. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXV. Te dccet hyninn.^. 
 
 THOU. God, art praised in Sion : and unto thee 
 shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. 
 
 2 Thou that hearest the prayer : unto thee shall all 
 tlesh come. 
 
 3 My misdeeds prevail against me : O be thou merci- 
 ful unto our sitis. 
 
 4 Blessed is the man, whom thou choosest, and re- 
 ceivest unto thee : he shall dwell in thy court, and shall 
 be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy 
 holy temple. 
 
 5 Thou shalt show us wonderful things in thy right- 
 eousness, O God of our salvation : thou that art the 
 hope of all the ends of the earth, and of theni that re- 
 main in the broad sea. 
 
 6 Who m his strength setteth fast the mountains : 
 and is girded about with power. 
 
 7 Who stilleth the raging of the sea : and the noise 
 of his waves, and the madness of the people. 
 
 8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the 
 earth shall be afraid at thy tokens : thou that makest 
 the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise 
 thee. 
 
 9 Thou visitest the earth, and blessest it : thou makest 
 it very plenteous. 
 
 10 The river of God is full of water : thou preparest 
 their corn, for so thou providest for the earth. 
 
 1 1 Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into 
 the little valleys thereof : thou makest it soft with the 
 drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. 
 
 1 2 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and 
 thy clouds drop fatness. 
 
 13 They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilder- 
 ness : and the little hills shall rejoice on every side. 
 
 14 The folds shall be full of sheep : the valleys also 
 shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh 
 and sing. 
 
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Day 12 PSALM LXVI Evening Prayer 
 
 This is the basis of Ongen's And opening showers, re- 
 prayer for the Alexandrine strain'd from harm, 
 Church. Soften the mould, while all 
 
 This (with Psalms civ. and unseen 
 
 cxxi. ) was a favourite with The blade grows up alive and 
 
 Henry Vaughan, the W^ords- green." 
 worth of the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, whose intense delight in 
 
 nature gives his sacred poems ]'erse ii. \n .v/iUiclt/ii.v cilLr 
 some of tlie freshness of the \ivtab\ty\.r gervainaiis baifciiCes 
 Psalms themselves. Coro/i<r. Out of these words 
 a prophecy of tlie birth of 
 " Thou waterest every ridge of Charles VIII. was e.\tracted 
 land, by forming thedate mccclllxvv. , 
 And settlest with Thy secret i.e. 1470. It was a curious in- 
 hand stance of ingenuity, and cele- 
 The furrows of it ; then Thy brated because it succeeded, 
 warm 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday Lauds. 
 
 Greeks. — Tuesday evening ; Saturday evening. 
 
 PSALM LXVI. JuUlate Ben. 
 
 OBE joyful in God, all ye lands : sing praises unto 
 the honour of his Name, make his praise to be 
 glorious. 
 
 2 Say unto God, " O how wonderful art thou in thy 
 works : thi'ough the greatness of thy power shall thine 
 enemies be found liars unto thee. 
 
 3 " For all the world shall worship thee : sing of thee, 
 and praise thy Name." 
 
 4 come hither, and behold the works of God : how 
 wonderful he is in his doing toward the children of 
 men. 
 
 5 He turned the sea into dry land : so that they 
 went through the water on foot ; there did we rejoice 
 thereof. 
 
 6 He ruleth with his power for ever ; his eyes be- 
 hold the people : and such as will not believe sliall not 
 be able to exalt themselves. 
 
 7 O praise our (iod, ye people : and make tlie voice 
 of his praise to be heard ; 
 
 8 \\\\o holdeth our soul in life : and sufifereth not 
 our feet to slip. 
 
 9 For thou, O God, hast proved us : thou also hast 
 tried us, like as silver is tried. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM LXVI Day 12 
 
 10 Thoii brou},'htest us into the snare : and laidest 
 trouble upon our loins. 
 
 1 1 Thou sufferetlst men to ride over our heads : we 
 went through fire and water, and thou broughtest us 
 out into a wealthy place. 
 
 12 I will go into thine house with bm-nt-otierings : 
 and will pay thee my vows, which I promised with my 
 lips, and spake with my naouth, when I was in trouble. 
 
 13*'! will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacritices, with the 
 incense of rams : I will offer bullocks and goats.'' 
 
 14 come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God : 
 and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul. 
 
 15 I called unto him with my mouth ; and gave him 
 praises with my tongue. 
 
 16 If I mcline unto wickedness with mine heart : 
 the Lord will not hear me. 
 
 17 But God hath heard me : and considered the voice 
 of my prayer. 
 
 18 Praised be God who hath not cast out my praj'er : 
 nor turned his mercy from me. 
 
 Verse 11. Traiisiviinus per " But verily God hath heard 
 ignem et aquam ct eduxisti nos me, He hath attended to the 
 in refrigeriinn. This is the voice of my prayer. ' 
 motto Savonarola's Venetian " Now, I expected that David 
 editors chose for his sermons should have concluded thus : 
 (1543, etc.1. It was also St. ' Therefore I regard not wicked- 
 Basil's text for the forty martyrs, ness in my heart.' But, far 
 who were exposed to the cold otherwise, he concludes : 
 and frozen to death. 'Blessed be God, who hath 
 
 Verses 16, 17 and 18. This not turned away my prayer, 
 
 syllogism, without a conclusion nor His mercy from me.' 
 
 in logical form, caused no little Thus David hath deceived, 
 
 debate among the schoolmen, but not wronged me. I looked 
 
 and no less comment. Fuller's that he should have clapped the 
 
 note upon it perhaps settled crown on his own, and he puts 
 
 the question of its " bad logic." it on God's head. I will learn 
 
 " I^ord, I find David making this excellent logic ; for I like 
 
 a syllogism, in mood and figure, Davids better than Aristotle's 
 
 two propositions he perfected. syllogisms, that, whatsoever the 
 
 " ' If I regard wickedness in premises be, I make God's 
 
 my heart, the Lord will not glory tlie conclusion." 
 hear me. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Thanksgiving after a storm at sea. 
 Latins. — Wednesday Matins ; Epiphany. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday night ; Saturday night. 
 
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Day 12 PSALM LXVHl A fornint:; Prayer 
 
 PSALM LXVII. Dens misereafur. 
 "^ OD be merciful unto us, and bless us : and shew 
 
 G' 
 
 us the light of his countenance, and be merciful 
 luito us. 
 
 2 That thy way may be known upon earth : thy 
 saving health among all nations. 
 
 3 Let the people praise thee, O God : yea. let all the 
 people praise thee. 
 
 4 O let the nations rejoice and be glad : for thou 
 shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations 
 upon earth. 
 
 5 Let the people pi-aise thee. O God : let all the 
 people praise thee. 
 
 6 Then shall the earth bring forth her increase : and 
 God, e\en our own God, shall give us his blessing. 
 
 7 God shall bless us : and all the ends of the world 
 shall fear him. 
 
 J''erse 3. These words de- centuries, and even going 
 
 cided Pope John VIII., in the beyond him in claims, for he 
 
 ninth century, to allow Metho- declared that the election of 
 
 dius to evangelize the Bui- the emperor rested with him. 
 
 garians, who knew neither This mission is all the more 
 
 Latin, Greek, nor Hebrew, and important from the fact that 
 
 he thus opened the door to Methodius and his brother 
 
 foreign missions. This Pope Cyrilluswere the first to invent 
 
 carried the papal claims to an alphabet and reduce the 
 
 their greatest height, antici- Slavonian language to writ- 
 
 pating (Gregory VH. by two ing. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Marriage psalm ; Evensong psalm, alter- 
 native to Xunc Dimittis ; Introit to Mass on Trinity Sunday (e). 
 Latins.— V>2i\\y at Lauds. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday evening ; Saturday evening. 
 
 PSALM LXVin. E.nn-fiat Ijcvs. 
 
 IET God arise, and let his enemies be scatteretl : let 
 J them also that hate him Hee before him. 
 
 2 Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive 
 them away : and like as wax melteth at the fire, so let 
 the ungodly perish at the presence of God. 
 
 3 But let the righteous be glad and rejoice before 
 God : let them also be merry and joyful. 
 
 4 O sing unto God, and sing praises unto his Name : 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM LX VI 1 1 Day 13 
 
 magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were 
 upon an horse ; praise liim in his Name JAH, and 
 rejoice before him. 
 
 5 He is a Father of the fatherless, and defendeth the 
 cause of tlie widows : even God in his holy habitation. 
 
 6 He is tlie God that maketh men to be of one mind 
 in an house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity : 
 but letteth tlie runagates continue in scarceness. 
 
 7 God, when thou wentest forth before the people : 
 when thou wentest through the wilderness, 
 
 8 The earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the 
 presence of God : even as Sinai also was moved at the 
 presence of God, who is the God of Israel. 
 
 9 Thou, O God, sentest a gracious rain upon thine 
 inheritance : and refreshedst it when it was weary. 
 
 10 Thy congregation shall dwell therein : for thou, 
 God, hast of thy goodness prepared for the poor. 
 
 1 1 The Lord gave the word : great was the company 
 •of the preachers. 
 
 12 " Kings with their armies did flee, and were dis- 
 comfited : and they of the household divided the spoil." 
 
 1 3 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye 
 be as the wings of a dove : that is covered with silver 
 wings, and her feathers like gold. 
 
 14 When the Almighty scattered kings for their 
 sake : then were they as white as snow in Salmon. 
 
 1 5 As the hill of Basan, so is God's hill : even an 
 high hill, as the hill of Basan. 
 
 16 Why hop ye so, ye high hills ? this is God's hill, 
 in the which it pleaseth him to dwell : yea, the Lord 
 will abide in it for ever. 
 
 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even 
 thousands of angels : and the Lord is among them, as in 
 the holy place of Sinai. 
 
 18 Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity 
 captive, and received gifts for men : yea, even for thine 
 enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. 
 
 19 Praised be tlie Lord daily : even the God who 
 helpeth us, and poureth his benefits upon us. 
 
 20 He is our God, even the (xod of whom cometh 
 .salvation : God is the Lord, by whom we escape death. 
 
 21 God shall wound the head of his enemies : and 
 
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Day 13 PSALM LXVIII Morning Prayer 
 
 the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his 
 wickedness. 
 
 22 The Lord hath said, I will bring my people a^ain, 
 as I did from Basan : mine own will I bring again, as 
 I did sometime from the deep of the sea. 
 
 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine 
 enemies : and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red 
 through the same. 
 
 24 It is well seen, God, how thou goest : how thou, 
 my God and Kmg, goest in the sanctuary. 
 
 25 The singers go before, the minstrels follow after : 
 in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels. 
 
 26 Give thanks, O Israel, unto God the Lord in the 
 congregations : from the ground of the heart. 
 
 27 There is little Benjamin their ruler, and the 
 princes of Judah their counsel : the princes of Zabulon, 
 and the princes of Nephthali. 
 
 28 Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee : 
 stablish the thing, O God, that thou hast wrought in us ; 
 
 29 For thy temple's sake at Jerusalem : so shall 
 kings bring presents unto thee. 
 
 30 When the company of the spearmen, and mul- 
 titude of the mighty are scattered abroad among the 
 beasts of the people, so that they humbl}' bring pieces 
 of silver : and when he hath scattered the people that 
 delight in war ; 
 
 31 Then shall the princes come out of Egypt : the 
 Morians' land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. 
 
 32 Sing unto God, O ye kingdoms of the earth : O 
 sing praises unto the Lord ; 
 
 2^1 Who sitteth in the heavens over all from the 
 beginning ■; lo, he doth send out his voice, yea, and that 
 a mighty voice. 
 
 34 Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel : liis 
 worship and strength is in the clouds. 
 
 35 () God, wonderful art thou in thy holy places : 
 even the God of Israel ; he will give strength and power 
 unto his people ; blessed be God. 
 
 This warrior psalm, as Ad- W'liitsuiiticle has always been 
 
 helm names it (psalmum sacri regarded in the Church as a 
 
 certaminis), has chiefly been time of strength for battle, and 
 
 used at times of conflict, the Comforter cheers inen, as 
 
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Morning Prayer 
 
 I'SALM LXVIII 
 
 Day 13 
 
 a trumpet comforts them. The 
 great warriors, who often had 
 a special (ievoiion to the Holy 
 Ghost, found particular delight 
 in this psalm. It was Charle- 
 magne's favourite ; and he is 
 said to have vvriiten the prayer 
 for purity in tlie Eucharisiic 
 Oftice for the "inspiration of the 
 Holy Spirit" and the I'cni 
 Creator Spiri/us (Come, Holy 
 Ghost), both of which contain 
 echoes of it. 
 
 It was sung by the Christian 
 women under old Publia in 
 
 recollected tlie psalm of holy 
 battle and chanted it loudly. 
 This put the enemy to flight, 
 and he found tliat it was just 
 here his devotions had been 
 interrupted by sleep. 
 
 I'erhaps Browning alludes to 
 these and similar uses in his 
 quotations of it, " Ring and 
 the Book," ii., 1302. 
 
 Savonarola, on his way to 
 the ordeal by fire in the Piazza 
 in 1497, chanted this psalm. 
 The enemy were in this case 
 the Franciscan monks, who 
 
 defiance of Julian the Apostate disputed his mission, and were 
 
 (362). They selected all the 
 psalms most likely to goad that 
 I'Lmperor into acts of tyranny. 
 The guard by his orders seized 
 Publia and brought her to the 
 Emperor, still singing this 
 psalm, and he disappointed her, 
 for, instead of a worse punish- 
 ment, he ordered her ears to be 
 boxed until they were red. 
 
 When St. Anthony was 
 thirty-five years old, he lived 
 in a ruined castle. One day 
 the monks heard so fierce an 
 altercation f;oing on that they 
 
 the allies of the Pope, the 
 Medici, and the Compagnacci, 
 for the destruction of the great 
 leader. 
 
 On September 3, 1650, 
 Oliver Cromwell and his army 
 raised this. psalm as they fell 
 upon the Scotch at the battle of 
 Dunbar. 
 
 An old West-Country recipe 
 for charming a snake is to draw 
 a circle round the reptile, sign 
 the cross, and repeat the first 
 two verses of this psalm. 
 
 Verse 1. When James I. 
 
 feared the people of the country came to the throne, he was 
 had broken in upon the hermit ; 
 but they found no one, and 
 presently they heard the song 
 of triumph (" Let God arise") 
 resound from the castle, and 
 knew that Anthony had over- 
 come his ghostly foes. 
 
 St. Dunstan, while he was 
 praying before St. George's image of death, and speaking 
 altar at Glastonbury, fell into a in a faint sepulchral voice. 
 
 asked to choose a motto for the 
 coins of the realm. He chose 
 Ex/u-i^af Dens et dissipentur 
 inimici. 
 
 Verse 20. Dr. Donne 
 preached from this verse his 
 last sermon, his own funeral 
 sermon (1631), looking the 
 
 light sleep, and saw in a vision 
 a huge bear rushing upon him. 
 He seized a staff and smote it, 
 but his staff passed through the 
 vision and struck the walls of 
 the church. In despair he 
 
 Verse 35. A voice from 
 heaven chanted this to St. 
 Hugh, the valorous Bishop of 
 Lincoln, and cheered him when 
 he was in low s])irits at the 
 disturbed state of England. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Whit-Sunday Matins. 
 Latins. — Wednesday Matins ; Wliit-Sunday. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday night ; Saturday Nocturns. 
 
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Z»<y 13 PSALM LX IX Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM LXIX. Sidvtim mefac. 
 
 SAVE me, God : for the waters are come in, even 
 unto my sonl. 
 
 2 I stick fast in the deep mire, where no ground is : 
 I am come into deep waters, so that the Hoods run 
 over me. 
 
 3 I am weary of crying ; iny throat is dry : my sight 
 faileth me for waiting so long upon my God. 
 
 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than 
 the hairs of my head : they that are mine enemies, and 
 would destroy me guiltless, are mighty. 
 
 5 I paid them the things that I never took : God, 
 thou knowest my simpleness, and my faults are not hid 
 from thee. 
 
 6 Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of 
 hosts, be ashamed for my cause : let not those that 
 seek thee be confounded through me, O Lord God of 
 Israel. 
 
 7 And why '? for thy sake have I suffered reproof : 
 shame hath covered my face. 
 
 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren : even 
 an alien unto my mother's children. 
 
 9 For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me : 
 and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen 
 upon me. 
 
 10 I wept, and chastened mj-self with fasting : and 
 that was turned to my reproof. 
 
 11 I put on sackcloth also : and they jested upon 
 me. 
 
 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me : and 
 the drunkards make songs upon me. 
 
 13 But, Lord, I make my prayer unto thee : in an 
 acceptable time. 
 
 14 Hear me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy : 
 even in the truth of thy salvation. 
 
 15 Take me out of the mire, that I sink not : O let 
 me be dehvered from them that liate me, and out of the 
 deep waters. 
 
 16 Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the 
 deep swallow me up : and let not the pit shut her 
 mouth iipon me. 
 
Evening Prayer PSALM LX IX Day ^Z 
 
 17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy lovinp^-kindness is com- 
 fortable : turn thee nnto me accordiiiff to the multitude 
 of thy mercies. 
 
 18 And hide not tliy face from thy ser\ant, for I am 
 in trouble : O haste thee, and hear me. 
 
 19 Draw nif^li unto my soul, and save it : O deliver 
 me, because of mine enemies. 
 
 20 Thou hast known my I'eproof, my shame, 
 and my dishonour : mine adversaries are all in thy 
 sight. 
 
 21 Thj' rebuke hath broken my heart; I am full of 
 heaviness : I looked for some to have pity on me, 
 but there was no man, neither found I any to com- 
 fort me. 
 
 22 TheN' gave me gall to eat : and when I was thirsty 
 they gave me vinegar to drink. 
 
 23 Let their table be made a snare to take themselves 
 withal : and let the things that should have been for 
 their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling. 
 
 24 Let their eyes be blinded, that they see not : and 
 ever bow thou down their backs. 
 
 25 Pour out thine indignation upon them : and let 
 thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them. 
 
 26 Let their habitation be void^ : and no man to dwell 
 in then- tents. 
 
 27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten : 
 and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast 
 wounded. 
 
 28 Let them fall from one wickedness to another : 
 and not come into thy righteousness. 
 
 29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living : 
 and not be written among the righteous. 
 
 30 As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness : thy 
 help, O God, shall lift me up. 
 
 31 I will praise the Name of God with a song : and 
 magnify it with thanksgiving. 
 
 32 This also shall please the Lord : better than a 
 bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 
 
 33 The humble shall consider this, and be glad : seek 
 ye after God. and your soul shall live. 
 
 34 For the Lord heareth the poor : and despiseth not 
 his prisoners. 
 
Day 13 PSALM LXX Evening Prayer 
 
 35 Let heaven and earth praise him : the sea, and all 
 that moveth therein. 
 
 36 For God will save Sion, and build the cities of 
 Judah : that men may dwell there, and have it in 
 possession. 
 
 37 The posterity also of his servants shall mherit it : 
 and they that love his Name shall dwell therein. 
 
 This psalm was used for this verse to Christ, when He 
 
 meditations upon the Passion had cleansed the Temple. 
 in the primer of Henry VIH. Verse\i^. St. Boniface quoted 
 
 It was a medicine psalm in this verse in his farewell speech 
 
 the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- to his friends. He was waitin.ij 
 
 turies. for a number of confirmation 
 
 Verse 2. St. Gregory the candidates, and instead a band 
 
 Great lamented that he was so of armed heathen appeared, 
 
 buffeted by the waves of busi- brandishing their weapons, and 
 
 ness and sunk by fortune, that tlireatening the missionaries 
 
 he could say of himself : "lam with death. St. Boniface laid 
 
 come into deep waters, so that his head upon the (jospel book 
 
 the floods run over me." and was thus slain. This was 
 
 Verse 9. St. John relates in Friesland, at a place called 
 
 ii. 17) that the disciples applied iJockum (a.d. 755). 
 Liturgical use. — Good Friday evening. 
 Latins. — Thursday Matins ; Maundy Thursday. 
 
 Greeks. — Tuesday night ; Nocturns for Saturday. 
 
 PSALM LXX. Deus in adjutmium. 
 
 HASTE thee, O God, to deliver me : make haste to 
 help me, O Lord. 
 
 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek 
 after my soul : let them be turned backward and put 
 to confusion that wish me e\al. 
 
 3 Let them for their reward be soon brought to 
 shame : that cry o^er me. There, there. 
 
 4 But let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad 
 in thee : and let all such as delight in thy salvation sa.v 
 alway, the Lord be praised. 
 
 5 As for me, I am poor and in misery : haste thee 
 unto me, God. 
 
 6 Thou art my helper and my redeemer : O Lord, 
 make no long tarrying. 
 
 Among the once famous tuned" (1662). He was a 
 writers on the Psalms was Magdalen choir-boy, Croydon 
 William Nicholson, author of schoolmaster, Archdeacon of 
 " David's Harp strung and Brecknock, a refugee, a friend 
 
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Morniii!^ Prayer PSALM LXXI Day \\ 
 
 of Clarendon's, and at last maintained that the older a 
 
 Hishop of Gloucester. He was man gets the more he loves the 
 
 "a person of great erudition, Psalms. "The best of expositors 
 
 prudence, modesty, and of a have presented their thoughts 
 
 moderate mind," says Wood, on the Psalms in their riper 
 
 meaning by the last term that years, and inade them one of 
 
 lie was just and fair. He their last works." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Mass 2nd Sunday after Easter (e). 
 Latins. — Matins on Thursday ; Maundy Thursday. 
 Greeks. — Tuesday night ; Saturday Nocturns ; Mesorion of 
 sixth hour ; late Evensong in Lent ; Office for the Dying. 
 
 PSALM LXXr. In fe, Doinbie, '^peravi. 
 
 IN thee, O Lord, have I put my trust ; let me never 
 be put to confusion : but rid me, and dehver me, in 
 thy righteousness ; incHne 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 
 migodly : out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel 
 man. 
 
 4 For thou, 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 : tliou art he that took me out of my mother's 
 womb ; my praise shall alway be of thee. 
 
 6 I am become as it were a monster unto many : but 
 my sure trust is in thee. 
 
 7 O let my luouth be filled with tliy 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, say- 
 ing : God hath forsaken him. persecute him, and take 
 him ; for there is none to deliver him. 
 
 10 Go not far from me. O God : my God, haste thee 
 to help me. 
 
 1 1 Let them be confounded and perish that are 
 
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Day 14 PSALM LXXI Morning Prayer 
 
 against my soul : let them be covered with shame and 
 dishonour that seek to do me evil. 
 
 12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway : and will 
 praise thee more and more. 
 
 13 My mouth shall dail^' speak of thy righteousness 
 and salvation : for I know no end thereof. 
 
 14 I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God : 
 and will make mention of thy righteousness only. 
 
 15 Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up 
 until now : therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. 
 
 16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I 
 am gray-headed : until I have shewed thy strength 
 unto this generation, and thy power to all them that 
 are yet for to come. 
 
 17 Thy righteousness, O God, is very high, and great 
 things are they that thou hast done : O God, who is 
 like unto thee '? 
 
 18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou 
 shewed me ! and yet didst thou turn and refresh me : 
 yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again. 
 
 19 Thou hast brought me to great honour : and 
 comforted me on every side. 
 
 20 Therefore will I praise thee and th.\- faithfulness, 
 O God, pla^dng upon an instrument of musick : unto 
 thee will I sing upon the harp, O tho\i Holy One of Israel. 
 
 21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee ; and 
 so will my soul whom thou hast delivered. 
 
 22 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. 
 
 This is one of the Dirge Bishop Fisher recited it on 
 
 psalms (see note on Psalm v.) his way to the scaffold from 
 
 in the English Dirge for tlie the'. Tower ; and the blessed 
 
 Dead. Thomas Cottam on the scaf- 
 
 This psalm, though it is one fold in 1568. It was sung to 
 made up out of texts from Bishop Jewel on his death-bed, 
 other psalms, has been much and he joined in as well as his 
 used by Christians in their last feeble strength would allow 
 hours. Its leading thoughts him. Kirke Wliitc alludes to 
 were embodied by Mary it in his prayer found on the fly- 
 Queen of Scots, in a passionate leaf in his memorandum book. 
 Latin hymn she wrote before It is this " composition 
 her execution : O Domint' Jesii. psalm" which determined the 
 speravi in ie. compilers of our Prayer-book 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALMLXXII Day r\ 
 
 to compose psalms, in the same / 'ersc 8. Wlien George Her- 
 
 way, for the King's Accession bert was dying lie quoted these 
 
 and for Thanksgiving after a words, " Lord, forsake me not 
 
 Victory at Sea. when my strength faileth ; but 
 
 Verse J. This was used in grant nie mercy for the merits 
 
 the Anglo-Saxon office of of my Jesus. And now, Lord 
 
 Prime, very early translated — Lord, now receive my soul." 
 into the English tongue. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Visitation of the sick. 
 
 Latins. — Tluirsday morning ; Maundy Thursday. 
 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXII. Demjudirium. 
 
 GIVE the King thy judgements, O God : and thy 
 righteousness unto the King's son. 
 
 2 Then shall he judge thy people according unto 
 right : and defend the poor. 
 
 3 The mountains also shall liring peace : and the 
 little hills righteousness unto the people. 
 
 4 He shall keep the simple folk by their right : de- 
 fend the children of the poor, and prmish the wrong 
 doer. 
 
 5 They shall fear tliee, as long as the sun and moon 
 endureth : from one generation to another. 
 
 6 He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of 
 wool : even as the drops that water the earth. 
 
 7 In his time shall the righteous flourish : yea, and 
 abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth. 
 
 8 His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the 
 other : and from the flood unto the world's end. 
 
 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel be- 
 fore him : his enemies shall lick the dust. 
 
 10 The kings of Thar sis and of the isles shall give 
 presents : the kings of Arabia and Saba shall bring 
 gifts. 
 
 1 1 All kings shall fall down before him : all nations 
 shall do him service. 
 
 1 2 For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth : the 
 needy also, and him that hath no helper. 
 
 13 He shall be favourable to the simple and needy : 
 and shall preserve the souls of the poor. 
 
 14 He shall deli\er their souls from falsehood and 
 wrong : and dear shall their blood be in his sight. 
 
Day 14 PSALM LXXIII Evening Prayer 
 
 1 5 He shall live, and unto him shaU be given of the 
 gold of Arabia : prayei* shall be made ever unto him, 
 and daily shall he be praised. 
 
 1 6 There shall be an heap of corn in the earth, high 
 upon the hills : his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and 
 shall be green in the citj' like gi'ass upon the earth. 
 
 1 7 His name shall endm'e for ever ; his name shall 
 remain under the sun among the posterities : which 
 shall be blessed through him ; and all the heathen 
 shall praise him. 
 
 1 8 Blessed be the Lord God, even the God of Israel : 
 which only doeth wondrous things ; 
 
 19 And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever : 
 and all the earth shall be liUed with his Majesty. 
 Amen, Amen. 
 
 This noble ideal of kingship make the earth heavenly, as 
 
 has moulded the lives of many he could, instead of walking 
 
 devout sovereigns, among them sumptuously and pridefully 
 
 King Alfred, and Edmund with Mammon, leaving the 
 
 of Thetford, the martyr and earth to grow hellish as it liked, 
 
 St. Sebastian of England, seen and felt by all men to 
 
 Of the latter Carlyle says, have done a man's part in this 
 
 " How then, may it be asked, life-pilgrimage of his ; and 
 
 did this Edmund rise into benedictions and overflowing 
 
 favour? Really, except it were love and admiration from the 
 
 by doing justly and loving universal heart were his meed, 
 
 mercy to an unprecedented e.x- ' Well done ! well done !' cried 
 
 tent, we do not know. Tlie the hearts of all men." 
 
 man, it would seem, 'had Ferses 10 and 11. These 
 
 walked,' as they say, 'humbly verse? have caused the wise 
 
 with God ■ — humbly and vali- men from the East to be repre- 
 
 antly with God, struggling to sented in .Art as three kings. 
 
 Latins. — Thursday Matins ; Christmas ; Epiphany ; Maundy 
 
 Thursday : Trinity Sunday. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning;. 
 
 PSALM LXXIII. Qmm honu.-^ Israel.' 
 
 TRULY God is loving imto Israel : even unto such 
 as are of a clean heart. 
 
 2 Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone : my tread- 
 ings had well-nigh slipt. 
 
 3 And why ? I was giieved at the wicked : I do also 
 see tlie ungodly in such prosperity. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM LXXIII Day \/\, 
 
 4 For they are in no peril of death : but are lusty 
 and strong. 
 
 5 They come in no misfortune hke other folk : neither 
 are they plagued like other men. 
 
 6 And this is the cause that they are so liolden with 
 pride ; and overwhelmed with cruelty. 
 
 7 Their eyes swell with fatness : and they do even 
 what they lust. 
 
 8 They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blas- 
 phemy : their talking is against the most High. 
 
 9 For they stretch forth their mouth unto the 
 heaven : and their tongue goeth through the world. 
 
 10 Therefore fall the people unto them : and there- 
 out suck they no small advantage. 
 
 11 " Tush,"' say they, " how should God perceive it : 
 is there knowledge in the most High '?" 
 
 12 Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the 
 world, and these have riches in possession : and I said. 
 " Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed 
 mine hands in innocency. 
 
 13 "All the day long have I been punished : and 
 chastened every mo'^ning." 
 
 14 Yea, and I had almost said "' even as they '' : but 
 lo, then I should have condemned the generation of thy 
 children. 
 
 15 Then thought I to understand this : but it was 
 too hard for nae, 
 
 16 Until I went into the sanctuary of God : then 
 understood I the end of these men ; 
 
 17 Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery 
 places : and castest them down, and destroyest them. 
 
 18 Oh, how suddenly do they consume : perish, and 
 come to a fearful end ! 
 
 19 Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh : 
 so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the 
 city. 
 
 20 Thus my heart was grieved : and it went even 
 through my reins. 
 
 21 So foolish was I, and ignorant : even as it were a 
 beast before thee. 
 
 22 Nevertheless, I am alway by thee : for thou hast 
 holden me bv my right hand. 
 
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Day 14 PSALM LXXIV Evening Prayer 
 
 23 Thou shalt ^uide me with thy counsel : and after 
 that receive nie with glory. 
 
 24 Whom have I in heaven but thee : and there is 
 none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee. 
 
 25 M.J tlesh and my heart faileth : but God is the 
 strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 
 
 26 For lo, they that forsake thee shall perish : thou 
 hast destroyed all them that connnit fornication against 
 thee. 
 
 27 But it is good for ine to hold me fast by God, to 
 put my trust in the Lord God : and to speak of all thy 
 works in the gates of the daughter of Sion. 
 
 Verse 17. St. Gregory the sor, Lord Leicester, thus corn- 
 Great pathetically applies these merits upon the executions of 
 words to his own great busy the Duke of Hamilton, Lord 
 life, amid the earthly cares of Capel, and Lord Holland "on 
 which he was prevented "from a cold March morning, 1650," 
 thinking, much more from " So the glory of the world 
 preaching publicly, of the mi- passes away, and those that 
 raculous works of the Lord." think themselves to be great 
 " Overwhelmed by the tuiimlt and happy and safe are sette in 
 of secular affairs, I am one of slippery places, perish, and 
 those," he says, " of whom it is come to a fearfull end." 
 written, ' Thou dost set them Verse 25. Charles Wesley, 
 in slippery places : and castest when dying, wrote a hymn 
 them down.' " from these words. 
 
 Verse 17. Strafford's succes- 
 
 Latins. — Thursday Matins ; Maundy Thursday (the eve of 
 
 the Passion). 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXIV. Vt quid, Dem .? 
 
 OGOD, wherefore art thou absent from us so long : 
 why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy 
 pasture ? 
 
 2 O think upon thy congregation : wliom thou hast 
 purchased, and redeemed of old. 
 
 3 Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance : and 
 mount Sion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 
 
 4 Lift up thy feet, tliat thou uiayest utterly destroy 
 every enemy : which hath done evil in tliy sanctuarj-. 
 
 5 Thine adversaries roar in tlie midst of thy congre- 
 gations : and set up their banners for tokens. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM LXXIV Day 14 
 
 6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trues : 
 was known to brin^' it to an excellent work. 
 
 7 But now they break down all the carved work 
 thereof : with axes and hammers. 
 
 8 They have set fire upon thy holy places : and have 
 defiled the dwelluag-place of thy Name, even unto the 
 ground. 
 
 9 Yea, thej' said in their hearts, " Let us make havock 
 of them altogether " : thus have they burnt up all the 
 houses of God in the land. 
 
 10 We see not our tokens, there is not one prophet 
 more : no, not one is there among us, that understandeth 
 any more. 
 
 1 1 O God, how long shall the adversary do this dis- 
 honour : how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy 
 Name, for ever ? 
 
 1 2 AVhy withdrawest thou thy hand : why pluckest 
 thou not thy right hand out of thy bosom to consume 
 the enemy '? 
 
 13 For God is my King of old : the help that is done 
 upon earth he doeth it himself. 
 
 14 Thou didst divide the sea through thy power : 
 thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 
 
 1 5 Thou smotest the heads of Leviathan in pieces : 
 and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wilder- 
 ness. 
 
 16 Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of 
 the hard rocks : thou driedest up mighty waters. 
 
 17 The day is thine, and the night is thine : thou 
 hast prepared the light and the sun. 
 
 18 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth : thou 
 hast made sunnner and winter. 
 
 19 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy hath re- 
 buked : and how the foolish people hath blasphemed 
 thy Name. 
 
 20 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the 
 multitude of the enemies : and forget not the congre- 
 gation of the poor for ever. 
 
 21 Look upon the covenant : for all the earth is full 
 of darkness, and cruel habitations. 
 
 22 O let not the simple go away ashamed : but let 
 the poor and needy give praise unto thy Name. 
 
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Day IS 
 
 PSALM LXXV 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 23 Arise, O God, maintain thine own cause : re- 
 member liow the foolish man blaspliemeth thee daily. 
 
 24 Forget not the voice of thine enemies : the pre- 
 sumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more 
 and more. 
 
 This psalm was much used 
 in the great northern rebelhon, 
 the Pilgrimage of Grace, 1537, 
 which followed the suppression 
 of the abbeys. Robert Aske, 
 the leader, accounts for the re- 
 volt, saying that in the North 
 ' ' the abbeys gave great alms to 
 poor men, and laudably served 
 God. In which parts, of late 
 days, they had but small com- 
 fort of ghostly teaching ; and 
 by occasion of the said sup- 
 pression the divine service of 
 Almighty God is much di- 
 minislied, great numbers of 
 Masses unsaid, and the blessed 
 consecration of the Sacrament 
 now not used and showed in 
 those places, to the distress of 
 the faith and spiritual comfort 
 to man's soul. The temple of 
 God (is now) razed and pulled 
 
 down ; the ornamentsand relics 
 of the Church of God unre- 
 verently used ; the tombs and 
 sepulchres of honourable and 
 noble men pulled down and 
 sold." 
 
 Emanuel Swedenborg — be- 
 loved of Coleridge — concluded 
 from the same psalm that " The 
 Church, with all things belong- 
 ing thereto, has been entirely 
 destroyed and its holy things 
 profaned," and that he was 
 commissioned to refound and 
 reconsecrate it (1688-1772). 
 
 Verse 17. Tuns csl dies et 
 tua est nox : tu fabricatus es 
 am-oram et solem. This is the 
 dial motto at Maxey Vicarage, 
 Northampton. 
 
 Verse 24. A'e obliviscaris is 
 the old motto of the Dukes of 
 Argyle. 
 
 Latins. — Thursday Matins ; Maundy Thursday (eve of the 
 
 Passion). 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXV. Conjiiebimur tibi. 
 
 UNTO thee, O God, do we give thanks : yea, unto 
 thee do we give thanks. 
 
 2 Thy Name also is so nigh : and that do thy won- 
 drous works declare. 
 
 3 " When I receive the congregation : I shall judge 
 according unto right. 
 
 4 " The earth is weak, and all the inhabiters thereof : 
 I bear up the pillars of it. 
 
 5 " I said unto the fools. Deal not so madly : and to 
 the ungodly. Set not up your horn." 
 
 1 10 
 
Morning Prayer PSALM LXXVI Day 15 
 
 6 Set not up your horn on liigh : and speak not witli 
 a stift' neck. 
 
 7 For promotion conietli neither from the east, nor 
 from the west : nor yet from the south. 
 
 8 And why '? God is the Judge : he putteth down 
 one, and setteth up another. 
 
 9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the 
 wine is red : it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the 
 same. 
 
 10 As for the dregs thereof : all the ungodly of the 
 earth shall drink them, and suck them out. 
 
 1 1 But I will talk of the God of Jacob : and praise 
 him for ever. 
 
 12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break : 
 and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh, in his piety and his excellent learn- 
 
 " History of the World" (a book iiig, of whom Jerome to 
 
 which Cromwell loved and Paulinus : 'David,' saith he, 
 
 studied), has an interesting note 'our Simonides, Pindarus, and 
 
 on the Psalter. " For his in- Alca;us, Horatius Catullus and 
 
 ternal gifts and graces David Serenus, playeih Christ on his 
 
 so far exceeded all other men, harp, and on a ten-stringed 
 
 as, putting his human frailty lute raiseth Him up rising from 
 
 apart, he was said by God Him- the dead. And being both a 
 
 self to be a man according to king and prophet, he foretelleth 
 
 His own heart. The psalms Christ more lightsomely and 
 
 which he wrote instance his lively than all the rest. ' " 
 
 Liturgical 7ise. — Introit for the Mass 3rd Sunday after 
 Easter (e). 
 ; Latins. — Thursday Matins ; Maundy Thursday ; Apostles and 
 Evangelists. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXVI. Notm in Judcea. 
 
 IN Jewry is God known : his name is great in 
 Israel. 
 
 2 At Salem is his tabernacle : and his dwelling in 
 Sion. 
 
 3 There brake he the arrows of the bow : the shield, 
 the sword, and the battle. 
 
 4 Thou art of more honour and might : than the 
 hills of the robbers. 
 
 5 The proud are robbed, they have slept their sleep : 
 
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Day IS PSALM LXXVII Morning Prayer 
 
 and all the men whose hands were mighty have found 
 nothing. 
 
 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob : both the chariot 
 and horse are fallen. 
 
 7 Thou, even thou art to be feared : and who may 
 stand in thy sight when thou art angry ? 
 
 8 Thou didst cause thy judgement to be heard from 
 heaven : the earth trembled, and was still, 
 
 9 When God arose to judgement : and to help all 
 the meek upon earth. 
 
 10 The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise : 
 and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain. 
 
 1 1 Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all 
 ye that are round about him : bring presents unto him 
 that ought to be feared. 
 
 12 He shall refrain the spirit of princes : and is 
 wonderful among the kings of the earth. 
 
 This psalm was Charles Verse ii. When St. Bona- 
 
 Kingsley's favourite : he called ventura (the Seraphic doctor) 
 
 it "my psalm." was twenty-two years old, he 
 
 The rebel covenanters at was meditating upon this 
 
 Drumclog (in 1649), so vividly verse, he remembered that 
 
 described by Scott in "Old when he was a child, and 
 
 Mortality," sang this psalm. It near death with sickness, his 
 
 had been sung in Edinburgh mother had promised him to 
 
 at the defeat of the Armada, St. Francis. He then joined 
 
 and in many of the London that order, 
 churches at the same news. 
 
 Latins. — Thursday morning ; Maundy Thursday ; Easter Eve. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXVII. Voce men ad Dominum. 
 
 I WILL cry unto God ^vith my voice : even unto 
 God will I cry with my voice, and he shall 
 hearken unto me." 
 
 2 In the time of my trouble I souglit the Lord : my 
 sore ran, and ceased not in the niglit-season ; my soul 
 refused comfort. 
 
 3 " When I am in heaviness, I will think upon God : 
 when my heart is vexed, I will complain." 
 
 4 Thou boldest mine eyes waking : I am so feeble, 
 that I cannot speak. 
 
 1 12 
 
Morning Prayer PSALM LXXVII Day Xt^ 
 
 5 I have considered the days of old : and the years 
 that are past. 
 
 6 I call to remembi-ance my song : and in the night 
 I commune with mine own heart, and search out my 
 spirits. 
 
 7 " "Will the Lord absent himself for ever : and will 
 he be no moi-e iiitreated ? 
 
 8 "Is his mercy clean gone for ever : and is his 
 promise come utterly to an end for evermore ? 
 
 9 " Hath God forgotten to be gracious : and will he 
 shut up his loving-kinthiess in displeasure?" 
 
 10 And I said, " It is mine own infirmity : but I will 
 remember the years of the right hand of the most 
 Highest. 
 
 11 "I wiU remember the works of the Lord : and 
 call to mind thy wonders of old time. 
 
 12 "I will think also of all thy works : and my 
 talking shall be of thy doings." 
 
 13 Thy way, O God, is holy : who is so great a God 
 as our God '? 
 
 14 Thou art the God that doeth wonders : and hast 
 declared thy power among the people," 
 
 15 Thou hast mightilj' delivered thy people : even 
 the sons of .lacob and Joseph. 
 
 16 The watei's saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, 
 and were afraid : the depths also were troubled. 
 
 17 The clouds poured out water, the air thundered : 
 and thine arrows went abroad. 
 
 1 8 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about : 
 the lightnings shone upon the ground ; the earth was 
 moved, and shook withal. 
 
 1 9 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great 
 waters : and thy footsteps are not known. 
 
 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep : by the hand 
 of Moses and Aaron. 
 
 This is the psalm Bishop most solid substance, was that 
 Hooper recommended to his reply made by the old Car- 
 wife " when you find yourself thusian monk to the trifier who 
 too much oppressed." He had asked him how he managed to 
 just been condemned to be get through his life. Cogitavi 
 burned. dies antiqiios et annos ceternos 
 I'ersee,. " Not pathetic only, in 7)teiite habui" (M. Arnold, 
 but profound also, and of the on the study of history). 
 113 I 
 
D,iyis PSALM LXXVIII Evening Prayer 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Thursday ; Maundy Thursday. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXVIII. Aitendite, popule. 
 
 HEAR my law, O my people : incline your ears unto 
 the words of my mouth. 
 
 2 I will open my mouth in a parable : I will declare 
 hard sentences of old ; 
 
 3 Which we have heard and known : and such as 
 our fathers have told us ; 
 
 4 That we should not hide them from the children 
 of the generations to come : but to shew the honour of 
 the Lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he 
 hath done. 
 
 5 He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel 
 a law : which he commanded our forefathers to teach 
 their children ; 
 
 6 That their posterity might know it : and the 
 cliildren which were yet unborn ; 
 
 7 To the intent that when they came up : they miglit 
 sliew their children the same; 
 
 8 That they might put their trust in God : and not 
 to forget the works of God, but to keep his command- 
 ments ; 
 
 9 And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and 
 stubborn generation : a generation that set not their 
 heart aright, and whose spirit cleaveth not stedfastly 
 unto God ; 
 
 10 Like as the children of Ephraim : who being har- 
 nessed, and carrying bows, turned themselves back in 
 the day of battle. 
 
 1 1 They kept not the covenant of God : and would 
 not walk in his law ; 
 
 12 But forgat what he had done : and the wonderful 
 works that he had sliewed for them. 
 
 13 Marvellous tilings did he in the sight of our fore- 
 fathers, in the land of Egypt : even in the field of Zoan. 
 
 14 He divided the sea, and let them go through : he 
 made the waters to stand on an heap. 
 
 I 5 In the day-time also lie led them with a cloud : 
 and all the night through with a light of lire. 
 
 16 He clave the hard rocks in the mlderness : and 
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Evening Prayer PSALM LXXVIII Day \^ 
 
 gave tluin drink thereof, as it had been out of the 
 great depth. 
 
 17 He brought waters out of the stony rock : so that 
 it gushed out like the rivers. 
 
 18 Yet for all this they sinned more against hiiu : 
 and provoked the most Highest in the wilderness. 
 
 1 9 They tempted (lod in their hearts : and required 
 meat for tlieir lust. 
 
 20 They spake against God also, saying : Shall God 
 prepare a table in the wilderness '? 
 
 . 21 He smote the stony rock indeed, that the water 
 gushed out, and the streams flowed withal : but can he 
 give bread also, or provide flesh for his people ? 
 
 22 AVhen the Lord heard this, he was wroth : so the 
 fire was kindled in Jacob, and there came up heavy 
 displeasure against Israel ; 
 
 23 Because thej' believed not in God : and put not 
 their trust in his help. 
 
 24 So he commanded the clouds above : and opened 
 the doors of heaven. 
 
 25 He rained down manna also upon them for to eat : 
 and gave them food from heaven. 
 
 26 So man did eat angels' food : for he sent them 
 meat enough. 
 
 27 He caused the east wind to blow under heaven : 
 and through his power he brought in the south-west 
 AA ind. 
 
 28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust : and 
 feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. 
 
 2y He let it fall among their tents : even round 
 about their habitation. 
 
 30 So they did eat, and were well filled ; for he gave 
 them their own desire : they were not disappointed of 
 their lust. 
 
 3 ( But while the meat was j'et in their mouth, the 
 heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the 
 wealthiest of them : yea, and smote down the chosen 
 men that were in Israel. 
 
 32 But for all this they sinned yet more : and be- 
 lieved not his wondrous works. 
 
 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity : 
 and their years in trouble. 
 
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Day 15 PSALM I.XXVIII Evening Prayer 
 
 34 When he slew them, they sought hini : and 
 turned them early, and inquired after God. 
 
 35 And they remembered that God was their 
 strength : and that the high God was their redeemer. 
 
 36 Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their 
 mouth : and dissembled with him in their tongue. 
 
 37 For their heart was not whole with him : neither 
 continued they stedfast in his covenant. 
 
 38 But he was so merciful, that he forgave their 
 misdeeds : and destroyed them not. 
 
 39 Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away : 
 and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise. 
 
 40 For he considered that they were but flesh : and 
 that they were even a wind that passeth away, and 
 cometh not again. 
 
 41 Many a time did they provoke him in the wilder- 
 ness : and grieved him in the desert. 
 
 42 They turned back, and tempted God : and mo^'ed 
 the Holy One in Israel. 
 
 43 They thought not of his hand : and of the day 
 when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy ; 
 
 44 How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt : and 
 his wonders in the field of Zoan. 
 
 45 He turned their waters into blood : so that they 
 might not drink of the rivers. 
 
 46 He sent lice among them, and devoured them up : 
 and frogs to destro.y them. 
 
 47 He gave their fruit unto the caterpillar : and 
 their labour unto the grasshopper. 
 
 48 He destroyed their vines with hail-stones : and 
 their mulberry-trees with the frost. 
 
 49 He smote their cattle also with hail-stones : and 
 their flocks with hot thunderbolts. 
 
 50 He cast upon them the furiousness of his ■wTath, 
 anger, displeasure, and trouble : and sent evil angels 
 among them. 
 
 51 He made a way to his indignation, and spared 
 not their soul from death : but gave their life over to 
 the pestilence ; 
 
 52 And smote all the first-born in Egypt : the 
 most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of 
 Ham. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM LXX VI 1 1 Day \z, 
 
 53 But as for his own people, he led them foi'th like 
 sheep : and carried them in the wilderness like a Hock. 
 
 54 He brouf^ht them out safely, that they should not 
 fear : and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea, 
 
 55 And brought them within the borders of his 
 sanctuary : even to his mountain which he purchased 
 with his right hand. 
 
 56 He cast out the heathen also before them : caused 
 their land to be divided among them for an heritage, 
 and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 
 
 57 So they tempted, and displeased the most high 
 God : and kept not his testimonies ; 
 
 58 But turned their backs, and fell away like their 
 forefathers : starting aside like a broken bow. 
 
 59 For they grieved him with their hill-altars : and 
 provoked him to displeasure with their images. 
 
 60 AMien God heard this, he was wroth : and took 
 sore displeasure at Israel. 
 
 61 So that he forsook the tabernacle in Silo : even 
 the tent that he had pitched among men. 
 
 62 He delivered their power into captivity : and 
 their beauty into the enem3''s hand. 
 
 63 He gave his people over also unto the sword : and 
 was wroth with his inheritance. 
 
 64 The fire consumed their young men : and their 
 maidens were not given to luarriage. 
 
 65 Their priests were slain with the sword : and 
 there were no widows to make lamentation. 
 
 66 So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep : and 
 like a giant refreshed with wine. 
 
 67 He smote his enemies in the liinder parts : and 
 put them to a perpetual shame. 
 
 68 He refused the tabernacle of Joseph : and chose 
 not the tribe of Ephraim ; 
 
 69 But chose the tribe of Judah : even the hill of 
 Sion which he loved. 
 
 70 And there he built his temple on higli : and laid 
 the foundation of it like the ground which he hath 
 made continually. 
 
 71 He chose David also his servant : and took him 
 away from the sheep-folds. 
 
 72 As lie was following the ewes great with young 
 
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Day 16 
 
 PSALM LXXrX 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 ones he took him : that he might feed Jacob his people, 
 and Israel his inheritance. 
 
 73 So he fed them with a faithful and true heart : 
 and ruled them prudently with all his power. 
 
 most barbarous of churches — 
 
 Uppingham boys will like to 
 know that this was the last 
 psalm read in the school by 
 Edward Thring, their great 
 head-master, before he died, 
 " weary, ill and battered." 
 Many of those who knew him 
 felt that the last verse was one 
 
 the Abyssinian — the Psalter is 
 treated almost as an idol, is 
 the only book allowed to be 
 read by the children of the 
 laity, and is sung through from 
 end to end at every funeral. 
 In the most Protestant of 
 
 that exactly summed up his churches — the Presbyterians of 
 
 own head-mastership. 
 
 " Of the other Scriptures," 
 says Theodore in the fifth cen- 
 tury, " the generality of men 
 know next to nothing. But 
 the Psalms you will find again 
 and again repeated in private 
 houses, in market places, in 
 streets, by those who have 
 learned them by heart, and 
 who soothe themselves by their 
 divine melody. " " When other 
 parts of Scripture are used," 
 says St. Ambrose, "there is 
 such a noise of talking in the 
 
 Scotland, the Nonconformists 
 of England — " psalm-singing " 
 has almost passed into a fami- 
 liar description of their ritual. 
 In the churches of Rome and 
 of England they are daily re- 
 cited, in proportions such as 
 far exceed the reverence shown 
 to any other portion of the 
 Scriptures (Stanle\). 
 
 Verse 2. St. Matthew quotes 
 this of Christ's parables. 
 
 / crse 34. St. Porphyry, 
 Bishop of Gaza, used often to 
 point out this verse to his 
 
 church that you cannot hear people, to remind them that 
 
 what is said. But when the 
 Psalter is read, all are silent." 
 The Psalms were sung by the 
 ploughmen of Palestine in the 
 time of Jerome ; by the boat- 
 men of Gaul in the time of 
 Sidonius Apollinaris. In the 
 
 God's service is purified by a 
 persecution even to the death. 
 
 Verse 71. Bishop Light- 
 foot's motto for St. Columba's 
 window at Bishop Auckland 
 is Siistulit eiivi de grcgibiis 
 ovium. 
 
 Latins. 
 Greeks.- 
 
 -Thursday Matins. 
 -Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXIX. Bens, venenuit. 
 
 OGOD, the heathen are come into thine inherit- 
 ance : thy holy temple have they defiled, and 
 made Jerusalem an heap of stones. 
 
 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given 
 to be meat unto the fowls of the air : and the tlesh of 
 thy saints unto the beasts of the land. 
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Morning Prayer PSALM LXXIX Day i6 
 
 3 Their blood have they shed like water on every 
 side of Jerusalem : and there was no man to bury 
 them. 
 
 4 We are become an open shame to our enemies : a 
 very scorn and derision unto them that are round 
 about us. 
 
 5 Lord, how long wilt thou be angry : shall thy 
 jealousy bum like tire for ever '? 
 
 6 Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that 
 have not known thee : and upon the kingdoms that 
 have not called upon thy Name. 
 
 7 For the^^ have devoured .Jacob : and laid waste 
 his dwelling-place. 
 
 8 remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon 
 us, and that soon : for we are come to great misery. 
 
 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of 
 thy Name : deliver us, and be merciful unto our sins, 
 for thy Name's sake. 
 
 10 Wherefore do the heathen say : Where is now 
 their God ? 
 
 11 O let the vengeance of thy servants' blood that is 
 shed : be openly shewed upon the heathen in our 
 sight. 
 
 12 O let the sorrowful sighmg of the prisoners come 
 before thee : according to the greatness of thy power, 
 preserve thou those that are appointed to die. 
 
 13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neigh- 
 bours have blasphemed thee : reward thou them, O 
 Lord, seven-fold into their bosom. 
 
 14 So we, that are thy people, and sheep of thy 
 pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever : and will 
 alway be shelving forth thy praise from generation to 
 generation. 
 
 This psalm was formerly " muskatiers drinking and to- 
 used in the Evensong of King bacconing freely"? "Lord, 
 Charles, the martyr, the proper what work was here, what clat- 
 psalms then being Ixxix. , xciv. , tering of glasses, what beating 
 and Ixxxv. It was applied as down of Walls, what tearing 
 freely to the Puritan excesses up of Monuments, what pulling 
 as it afterwards was to the pro- down of Seates, what wrestling 
 fanity of the French Revolu- out of Irons and Brass from the 
 tionists ; and who can wonder, Windowes and Graves ! What 
 when pious Bishop Hall saw defacing of Armes, what de- 
 Norwich Cathedral filled with molishingof curiousstonework, 
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Day 1 6 
 
 PSALM LXXX 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 that had not any representation 
 in the World, but only of the 
 cost of the Founder and skill 
 of the Mason, what loting 
 and piping upon the destroyed 
 Organ pipe, and what a hideous 
 triumph on the Market-day be- 
 fore all the Countrey, when, in 
 a kind of Sacrilegious and pro- 
 fane procession, all the Organ- 
 pipes, Vestments, both Copes 
 and Surplices, together with 
 the Leaden Crosse which had 
 been newly sawne down from 
 over the Green- Yard Pulpit, and 
 the Service books and singing- 
 books that could be had were 
 carried to the fire in the publick 
 Market-place ; A laud wretch 
 walking before the Train, in his 
 Cope trailing in the dirt, with 
 a Service book in his hand, 
 imitating in an impious scorne 
 the tune and usurping the words 
 
 Soissons. They had renounced 
 their rank, and for the love of 
 Christ made shoes for the poor, 
 and were slain as traitors to 
 the Empire. Their bodies were 
 cast into the sea, " but the 
 waves, from love of His feet 
 who had walked upon them, 
 carried the holy bodies of the 
 brothers to Romney Marsh, 
 where the inhabitants, weeping 
 for joy, received them and built 
 a church to receive them " at 
 Lydd. 
 
 Abbot Hobbs, the last Abbot 
 of Woburn Abbey, in a pathe 
 tic last effort to inspire his dis- 
 ordered community with the 
 old Faith and Order, bade each 
 monk to recite this psalm on 
 Fridavs, " because of the evil 
 times and his own sorrow, till 
 certain did murmur about the 
 saying of it, and so it was left ;" 
 
 of the Letany ; neer the publick and shortly after the Abbey 
 
 Crosse, all these monuments 
 of Idolatry must be sacrificed 
 to the fire, not without much 
 Ostentation of a zealous joy." 
 
 This is a psalm much used 
 by our people during the 
 Indian Mutiny. It was read 
 at Lucknow frequently during 
 the siege ; at Cawnpore and 
 in Meerut the Roman Catho- 
 lics added it to their daily 
 devotions. 
 
 Among the other saints who 
 made use of it were the noble 
 brothers SS. Crispin and Cris- 
 
 was secularized and given to 
 the Russells. 
 
 Every Friday the Jews use 
 this great lament over the ruins 
 of Jerusalem. 
 
 Verse 2. This is the motto 
 which Parsons, the Jesuit, 
 chose for his celebrated book, 
 De persecutione Anglicana, 
 1581. 
 
 I'erses 5 and 8. These are 
 the words of St. Augustine's 
 great agony under the fig-tree 
 in the garden, when he was 
 tortured by the great struggle 
 which ended in his conversion. 
 
 pinian at the martyrdom at 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Childermas (e). 
 Latins. — Thursday Matins [Saru/n, All Saints'). 
 G/^(f/('5.— Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXX. Qxii regh Israel 
 
 HEAE, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest 
 Joseph Uke a sheep : shew thyself also, thou that 
 sittest upon the cherubiiiis. 
 
Morning Prayer PSALM LXXX Day id 
 
 2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses : stir 
 up thy strength and come and help us. 
 
 3 Turn us again, O (lod : shew the hght of thy 
 countenance, and we shall be whole. 
 
 4 O Lord God of hosts : how long wilt thou be angry 
 with thy people that praycth ? 
 
 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears : and 
 givest them plenteousness of tears to drink. 
 
 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neigh- 
 bours : and our enemies laugh us to scorn. 
 
 7 Turn us again, thou God of hosts : shew the light 
 of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 
 
 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast 
 cast out the heathen, and planted it. 
 
 9 Thou madest room for it : and when it had taken 
 root it filled the land. 
 
 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it : 
 and the boughs thereof are like the goodly cedar- 
 trees. 
 
 1 1 She stretched out her branches unto the sea : and 
 her boughs unto the river. 
 
 12 AVhy hast thou then broken down her hedge : 
 that all they that go by pluck off her grapes '? 
 
 13 The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up : 
 and the wild beasts of the field devour it. 
 
 14 Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down 
 from heaven : behold, and visit this vine ; 
 
 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right 
 hand hath planted : and the branch that thou madest 
 so strong for thyself. 
 
 16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down : and they 
 shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 
 
 1 7 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand : 
 and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong 
 for thine own self. 
 
 18 Amd so will not we go back from thee : let us 
 live, and we shall call upon thy Name. 
 
 19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts : show the 
 Ught of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 
 
 Verse 3. On a sundial in the numberless versifiers of the 
 
 Abbeyfield is written, " Shew me Psalms was Walton's friend, 
 
 the light of Thy countenance. " Dr. Henry King, Bishop of 
 
 Verses 8, 9, and 10. .Among Chichester, who appeared at 
 
Day 1 6 
 
 PSALM LXXXr 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 the Savoy Conference. He was 
 once disgusted at the wretched 
 expression of a metrical psalm 
 " which quite marred the pen- 
 man's matter and his own de- 
 votion" in the current metrical 
 version, and, thinking George 
 Sandys' version "too eloquent 
 for the vulgar use," composed a 
 version of his own, and dedi- 
 cated to Archbishop Usher in 
 1651 : 
 
 ' ' Thou didst a Vine from 
 .l^:gypt bring, 
 
 Thy hand which planted 
 made it spring, 
 
 And that it might have room 
 to spred. 
 
 The Heathen were discom- 
 fited : 
 
 " Its root Thou caused'st fast 
 
 to stand, 
 And with faire branches fill 
 
 the land ; 
 The Hills were cover'd with 
 
 Hir shade, 
 Hir boughes like goodly 
 
 Cedar's made." 
 
 Here is Sandys' version of 
 the same verses (1635) : 
 
 " This vine from Egypt brought 
 (the foe 
 
 Latins. — Matins on Thursday. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 E.vpeld) was planted by thy 
 hand, 
 Thou gav'st it roome and 
 strength to grow 
 Until her branches fill'd 
 the Land. 
 
 " The Mountaines tooke a 
 shade from these. 
 Which like a giove of 
 Cedars stood. 
 Extending to the Tyrian seas 
 And to Euphrates rowling 
 Flood." 
 
 Ferse 13. Applied by Origen 
 to himself in the bitter lament 
 he made for his apostasy (vide 
 Psalm l). 
 
 I'erseij^. Archbishop Thomas 
 de Rotherham refounded Lin- 
 coln College, Oxford, owing to 
 a stirring sermon preached 
 from this text by Tristoppe, 
 the Rector in 1478. Bishop 
 Flemmyng had Ibunded it in 
 1426, but it languished. By 
 the licence of Edward IV. five 
 new fellowships were added. 
 The vines in the college are in 
 allusion to this. 
 
 l^erse 19. This is used in the 
 Anglo-Saxon vernacular office 
 of Prime, and occurs frequently 
 in a detached form in many 
 services. 
 
 PSALM LXXXI. ExuUate Deo. 
 
 SING we merrily unto God our strength : make a 
 cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob. 
 
 2 Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret : the merry 
 harp with the lute. 
 
 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new-moon : even in 
 the time appointed, and upon our solenm feast-day. 
 
 4 For this was made a statute for Israel : and a law 
 of the God of Jacob. 
 
Evening Pniyer PSALMLXXXII Day i 
 
 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony : when 
 he came out of the land of Egypt, and had heard a 
 strange hvnguage. 
 
 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden : and his 
 hands were delivered from nniking the pots. 
 
 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and I delivered 
 thee : and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon 
 thee. 
 
 8 I proved thee also : at the waters of strife. 
 
 9 Hear, O my people, and I will assure thee, O 
 Israel : if thou wilt hearken unto uae, 
 
 10 There shall no strange god be in thee : neither 
 shalt thou worship any other god. 
 
 1 1 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of 
 the land of Egvpt : open thv mouth wide, and I shall 
 fill it. 
 
 12 But my people would not hear my voice : and 
 Israel would not obey me. 
 
 13 So I gave them up unto then* own hearts' lusts : 
 and let them follow their own imaginations. 
 
 14 that my people would have hearkened unto me : 
 for if Israel had walked in my ways, 
 
 I 5 I should soon have put down their enemies : and 
 turned my hand against their adversaries. 
 
 16 The haters of the Lord should have been found 
 liars : but their time should have endured for ever. 
 
 17 He should have fed tliem also with the finest 
 wheat-flour : and with honey out of the stony rock 
 should I have satisfied thee. 
 
 To carry a Psalter seemed a wishes to dre~s up as a Be- 
 iiecessity to the religious of the guine, she takes the coverchief 
 Middle Ages. In Chaucer's of thread, " Rut she forgate not 
 Romaunt of the Rose, when hir Sawter," which was quite 
 " Dame Abstinence-Streyned " as much part of the costume. 
 
 Latins. — Friday Matins. 
 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXXII. Deus stetit. 
 
 GOD standeth in the congregation of princes : he is 
 a Judge among gods. 
 2 How long will ye give wrong judgement : and 
 accept the persons of the ungodly '? 
 
Day i6 PSALM LXXXTII Evening Prayer 
 
 3 Defend the poor and fatherless : see that such as 
 are in need and necessity have riglit. 
 
 4 Dehver tlie out-cast and poor : save them from the 
 hand of tlie nngodl3^ 
 
 5 They will not be learned nor understand, but walk 
 on still in darkness : all the foundations of the earth 
 are out of course. 
 
 6 I have said, Ye are gods : and ye are all the 
 children of the most Highest. 
 
 7 But ye shall die like men : and fall like one of the 
 princes. 
 
 8 Arise, O God, and judge thou the earth : for thoii 
 shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance. 
 
 Verse i. This is the thought 1621) from this text, and by 
 which decided Constantine not making no allusion to the 
 to act as umpire between con- critical state of public affairs, 
 tending bishops at Nictea ; for made " a tacit protest against 
 he regarded the "gods" as thegrowingtendencyof Church- 
 meaning the clergy. This use men to engage in politics and 
 of the term, of course, was serve in secular affairs." 
 prominent in the struggles be- Verse 6. Our Lord quoted 
 tween Popes and Emperors in these words to justify His 
 after-ages. language when He said, " 1 
 
 Bishop Andrewes preached and My Father are one," after 
 
 before the House of Lords which they were about to stone 
 
 in Westminster Abbey (Jan. 30, Him, in Solomon's Porch. 
 
 Latins. — Friday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXXIII. Bern, qnis .wnili.^ ? 
 
 HOLD not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence : 
 refrain not thyself, O God. 
 
 2 For lo, thine enemies make a inurmuring : and 
 they that hate thee have lift up their head. 
 
 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people : 
 and taken counsel against thy secret ones. 
 
 4 They have said, Come, and let us root them out, 
 that they be no more a people : and that the name of 
 Israel may be no more in remembrance. 
 
 5 For they have cast their heads together with one 
 consent : and are confederate against thee ; 
 
 6 The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Tsmael- 
 ites : the Moab'tes, and Hagarenes ; 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM LXXXlll /Ay i6 
 
 7 Gebal, and Amnion, and Amalek : the Philistines, 
 with them that dwell at Tyre. 
 
 8 Assur also is joined with them : and have holpen 
 the children of Lot. 
 
 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites : unto 
 Sisera, and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison ; 
 
 10 AVho perished at Endor : and became as the dung 
 of the earth. 
 
 1 1 ]Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb : 
 yea, make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana ; 
 
 12 Who say, " Let us take to ourselves : the houses 
 of God in possession." 
 
 13 my God, make them like unto a wheel : and as 
 the stubble before the wind ; 
 
 14 Like as the lire that burnetii up the wood : and 
 as the flame that consumeth the mountains. 
 
 I 5 Persecute them even so with thy tempest : and 
 make them afraid with thy storm. 
 
 16 Make their faces ashamed, O Lord : that they 
 may seek thy Name. 
 
 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more 
 and more : let them be put to shame, and perish. 
 
 18 And the}' shall know that thou, whose Name is 
 Jehovah : art only the most Highest over all the 
 earth. 
 
 The monks at Jarrow were may seek Thy Name arighr. 
 chanting this psahn while St. Let them confounded be, and 
 Benedict Biscop died, and they prove 
 
 took it as an omen that the from trouble never free ; 
 powers of evil could not prevail Yea, let them all be put to 
 against his parting soul. shame, 
 
 James I. translated the Psalter and wholly ruined be. 
 into metre rather well. Charles That men may know that 
 1. published his " dear father's" Thou, whose name 
 
 work, and hoped with it to oust Jehovah is alone, 
 Sternhold, but in vain. Here Art the most high, the like of 
 is his version of the close of whom 
 
 this psalm. It was printed at o'er all the earth is none." 
 the side of our version : gj^^^p Williams declares 
 
 " So with Thy tempest them that the royal author died after 
 
 pursue, he had done only thirty of these 
 
 and with Thy storm them psalms ; but Charles's Impri- 
 
 fright ; matiir gives the whole book 
 
 Their faces fill with shame, to his fatlier. 
 
 that they 
 
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Day \6 PSALM LXXXIV Evening P raycr 
 
 Litii>gicai use. — Introit for Mass on IV Sunday after Easter (e). 
 Latins. — Matins on Friday. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning. 
 
 PSALM LXXXIV. Qaam dlleda ! 
 
 OHOW amiable are thy dwellings : thou Lord of 
 liosts ! 
 
 2 My soul hath a desire and longing to eiiter into 
 the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice 
 in the living God. 
 
 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and 
 the swallow a nest where she may lay her A'oung : even 
 thy altars, Lord of hosts, my King and my God. 
 
 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : thej' will 
 be alway praising thee. 
 
 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee : in 
 whose heart are thy ways. 
 
 6 Who going through the vale of misery use it for 
 a well : and the pools are filled with water. 
 
 7 They will go from strength to strength : and unto 
 the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. 
 
 8 Lord God of hosts, hear my prater : hearken, 
 O God of Jacob. 
 
 9 Behold, O God our defender : and look upon the 
 face of thine xVnointed. 
 
 10 For one day in thy courts : is better than a 
 thousand. 
 
 1 1 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my 
 God : than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. 
 
 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence : the 
 Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing 
 shall he withhold from them that live a godly life. 
 
 13 O Lord God of hosts : blessed is the man that 
 putteth his trust in thee. 
 
 This is used as a psalm of Dying as well as for Holy 
 
 preparation for the Holy Com- Living. When the aged Paula 
 
 munion by devout people of drew near iier end she repeated 
 
 all shades of belief. It is re- again and again the opening 
 
 commended, not only by the verses, the tenth verse, and 
 
 Pope, but by our own great (Psalm xxvi. 8) " Lord, I have 
 
 divines for this use, and even loved the habitation of Thy 
 
 by devout Nonconformists and house, and the place where 
 
 Separatists. Thine honour dwelleth." St. 
 
 It is a prt-paration for Holy Jerome liad inspired her with 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM LX XXV Day \6 
 
 this enthusiasm for the Cinirch, hair falling on either side of his 
 
 and what it represented. open countenance. He mostly 
 
 This psalm was a favourite went barefoot." 
 with Rev. F. H. Lyte, the Verse 7. St. Columba's motto, 
 
 editor of Henry Vaughan's when he met in conference with 
 
 Silex Scintillans, and the Keniigern (584 .\.D.), near 
 
 author of "Abide with nie." where Glasgow stands. 
 It is the basis of his hymn, Verse 11. St. Thomas Aqui- 
 
 " Pleasant are thy courts nas's verse, which resolved him 
 
 above." He translated many to join the Dominican order, 
 
 of the Psalms into verse. He was but thirteen years old 
 
 Verse 2. The monk Jocelyn when he received this vocation, 
 
 in his life of England's St. and had to combat all the 
 
 Augustine, tells us how pas- wishes of his family to obey 
 
 sionate was the saint's longing the call. 
 
 to depart and be with Christ. Verse 12. "This, as it was 
 
 " Who will give me wings as of the ancient Psalmist's faith, let 
 
 a dove? My soul hath a desire it likewise be ours. It is the 
 
 and longing to enter into the Alpha and Omega, I reckon, 
 
 courts of the Lord." The saint of all possessions that belong 
 
 was " a tall, straight man, kind to man " (Carlyle to his brother, 
 
 and dignified in face, with his June 27, 1824). 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass for the V Sunday after 
 
 Easter. 
 Latins. — Friday Matins ; Dedication of a church. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday morning ; Ninth hour ; Burial of Priests, 
 
 PSALM LXXXV. Benedixisti, Domine. . 
 
 LOED, thou art become gracious unto th}^ land : thou 
 hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. 
 
 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of tliy people : and 
 covered all their sins. 
 
 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure : and 
 turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation. 
 
 4 Turn us then, God our Saviour : and let thine 
 anger cease from us. 
 
 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever : and wilt 
 thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to 
 another ? 
 
 6 Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us : that 
 thy people may rejoice in thee '? 
 
 7 Shew us thy mercy, O God : and grant us thy 
 salvation. 
 
 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say con- 
 cerning me : for he shall speak peace unto liis people, 
 and to his saints, that they turn not again. 
 
Day 1 6 
 
 PSALM LXXXV 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him : 
 that glory may dwell in our land. 
 
 10 Mercy and truth are met together : righteousness 
 and peace have kissed each other. 
 
 1 1 Truth shall flourish out of the earth : and 
 righteousness hath looked down from heaven. 
 
 12 Yea, the Lord shall shew loving-kindness : and 
 our land shall give her increase. 
 
 13 Kighteousness shall go before him : and he shall 
 direct his going in the way. 
 
 Another preparation psalm 
 
 with Psalm Ixxxiv., Ixxxvi., and 
 cxxx. 
 
 Verse 4. This was in the 
 Anglo-Saxon vernacular Prime 
 office, said at six o'clock. 
 
 J'crseS. This is the thought 
 which grew into the third book 
 of St. Thomas a Kempis's De 
 Imitafiorie Christi, on Internal 
 Consolation, perhaps the best 
 part of one of the best of books. 
 " Thesmallold-fashionedbook, 
 for which you need only pay 
 sixpence on a bookstall, works 
 miracles to this day, turning 
 bitter waters into sweetness ; 
 while expensive sermons and 
 treatises, newly issued, leave all 
 things as they were before. It 
 was written down by a hand 
 that waited for the heart's 
 prompting ; it is the chronicle 
 of a solitary hidden anguish, 
 trust and triumph — not written 
 on velvet cusiiions to teach 
 endurance to those who are 
 treading with bleeding feet on 
 the stones. .'\nd so it remains 
 to all time a lasting record of 
 himian needs and human con- 
 solations ; the voice of a brother 
 who years ago felt and suffered 
 and renounced— in the cloister, 
 perhaps, with serge gown and 
 tonsured head, with much 
 chanting and long fasts, and 
 with a fashion of speech dif- 
 
 ferent from ours — but under the 
 same silent far-off heavens, and 
 with the same passionate de- 
 sires, the same strivings, the 
 same failures, the same weari- 
 ness ' ((j. Eliot). 
 
 I'erse 10. Tiiis was the verse 
 chosen by King Henry III. 
 when he preached to the Win- 
 chester monks upon their duties 
 to the Crown. He succeeded in 
 his object, which was to get 
 -4£thelmar, his nominee, elected 
 abbot, for, as the historian 
 remarks, Sfric/o siippliciit ense 
 potens ! It was a favourite 
 text in the mouth of Bishop 
 Andrewes, and one much used 
 in mediaeval writers for the 
 Incarnation. Blake, from his 
 instinctive sympathy with the 
 Middle Ages, painted his illus- 
 tration of the text " in two 
 figures, not four. Jesus is the 
 representative of Mercy and 
 Righteousness : Truth and 
 Peace are embodied in a beard- 
 less youth. The two are seated, 
 and turn round to kiss and 
 embrace, their arms meeting 
 over a Greek cross. Above, at 
 the summit of some steps, is an 
 aged man with a book, no 
 doubt representing tlie Deity. 
 He is surrounded by a glory of 
 angels." An interesting work, 
 yellow being the predominant 
 lint I 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM LXXXVI Day 17 
 
 Liturgical use. — Christmas morning. 
 Latins. — Friday Matins ; Christmas Day. 
 t;«^/Jj.— Wednesday morning ; Ninth hour. 
 
 PSALM LXXXVI. Indina, Domine. 
 
 BOW down thine ear, Lord, and hear rue : for I 
 am poor, and in misery. 
 
 2 Preserve thou my soul, for I am holy : my God, 
 save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee. 
 
 3 Be merciful unto me, O God : for I will call 
 daily upon thee. 
 
 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, 
 O Lord, do I lift up mj- soul. 
 
 5 For thou, Lord, art good and gracious : and of 
 gi-eat mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 
 
 6 Give ear. Lord, unto mj^ prayer : and ponder the 
 voice of my humble desires. 
 
 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee : 
 for thou hear est me. 
 
 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O 
 Lord : there is not one that can do as thou doest. 
 
 9 All nations whom tliou hast made shall come and 
 worship thee, Lord : and shall glorify thj' Name. 
 
 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things : 
 thou art God alone. 
 
 1 1 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. 
 
 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my 
 heart : and will praise thy Name for evermore. 
 
 13 For great is thy mercy toward me : and thou hast 
 delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. 
 
 14 God, the proud are risen against me : and the 
 congregations of naughty men have sought after my 
 soul, and have not set thee before their eyes. 
 
 15 But thou. O Lord God, art full of compassion and 
 mercy : long-suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. 
 
 16 tiu"n thee then unto me, and have mercy upon 
 me : give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the 
 son of thine handmaid. 
 
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Day 17 
 
 PSALM LXXXVI Murning Prayer 
 
 17 Shew some token upon me for good, that they 
 who hate me may see it, and be ashamed : because 
 thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me. 
 
 This psalm is also a devout Diocletian was beginning to 
 preparation for the Holy Com- 
 munion (vide Psalm Ixxxiv. ). 
 
 "Men seemingly the most 
 unlikely to express enthusiasm 
 ;ibout any such matter," says 
 Trench, speaking of the Psalter, 
 "have been forward as the 
 forwardest to set their seal to 
 this book, have left their con- 
 fession that it was the voice of 
 their innermost heart, that 
 the spirit of it passed into 
 
 draw men's attention to the 
 Church by persecuting her, a 
 young man, Luxorius of Sar- 
 dinia, ran through the Psalter, 
 out of curiosity, wishing to 
 know something of Christian 
 literature. He got as far as 
 these verses, and could contain 
 himself no longer, but rushed 
 to a Christian Church and en- 
 tered himself as a catechumen. 
 On his way back he heard the 
 
 their spirits, as did the spirit of v;ords Retribiie servo liio vivam 
 
 no other book ; that it found 
 them more often and at greater 
 depths of their being, lifted 
 them to higher heights than 
 did any other — or, as one 
 greatly suffering man, telling of 
 the solace which he found from 
 this Book of Psalms in the 
 hours of a long imprisonment, 
 has expressed it, that it bore 
 him up into the everlasting 
 sunlight, till he saw the world 
 and all its troubles for ever 
 underneath him." 
 
 Verse i. The Oxford Move- 
 ment supplied a metrical ver- 
 sion, of a brighter faith, and 
 in a more melodious fashion 
 than the doggerel of the " New 
 Version." Keble undertook it 
 anonymously, but even then 
 unmistakably : 
 
 O Lord, bow down Tliine ear 
 
 and hear. 
 
 Poor am I , low and lone. 
 
 Preserve my soul, for 1 am 
 
 dear 
 
 And holy, all Thine own." 
 
 and 
 
 When 
 
 et custodiam vias ti/as ( Ps. cix. ), 
 which comforted him in the 
 faith, so that he boldly en- 
 dured martyrdom with the 
 sword. 
 
 I'erse 15. This is evidently 
 the verse to which Tennyson's 
 poor old Rizpah appeals, 
 against the callous visiting 
 lady : 
 
 "Sin? O yes — we are sinners, 
 
 I know — let all that be. 
 And read me a Bible verse of 
 
 the Lord's goodwill to- 
 wards men. 
 ' Full of compassion and 
 
 mercy, the Lord,' let me 
 
 hear it again, 
 ' Full of compassion and 
 
 mercy — long suffering.' 
 
 Yes, O yes ! 
 For the lawyer is born but to 
 
 murder, the Saviour lives 
 
 but to bless. 
 He'll never jnit on the black 
 
 cap, except for the worst of 
 
 the worst, 
 And the first may be last — 1 
 
 have heard it in church — 
 
 and the last may be first." 
 
 Verses 
 
 Lathis. — Friday Matins ; lipipliany ; Visitation of the Sick. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday evening ; Ninth hour. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM LXXXV^II Day 17 
 
 PSALM LXXXVII. Fundamenta ejus. 
 
 HER foundations are upon the holy hills : the Lord 
 lovcth the gates of Sion naore than all the 
 dwellings of Jacob. 
 
 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee : thou 
 cit}' of God. 
 
 3 " I will think upon Rahab and Babylon : with 
 them that know nie. 
 
 4 " Behold ye the Philistines also : and they of 
 Tyre, with the Morians ; lo, there was he born." 
 
 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born 
 in her : and the most High shall stablish her. 
 
 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the 
 people : that he was born there. 
 
 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse : 
 All my fresh springs shall be in thee. 
 
 The favourite psrtlm of l^ersc 2. Gloriosa dicta sunt 
 
 Thomas Pierson, the Puritan, de te Civifas Dei. This is the 
 
 who calls it " The Great Char- verse which gave the title to 
 
 ter of the Church," and "ex- St. Augustine's great work, 
 
 cellent encouragements against "The City of God," in which 
 
 afflictions." he draws out the picture of the 
 
 Verse I. The motto chosen co-existence of a conflict be- 
 by Van Mildert for Durham tvveen the Divine society — the 
 University in 1832 is Funda- Church — and the disordered 
 menta ejus in motitibiis Sanctis, political world of the Empire. 
 
 Latins. — Friday Matins ; Circumcision ; Epiphany ; Dedi- 
 cation of a Church. 
 
 Greeks. — Wednesday evening. 
 
 PSALM LXXXVII r. Domine Dem. 
 
 OLORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and 
 night before thee : let my prayer enter into thy 
 presence, incline thine ear unto my calling. 
 
 2 For my soul is full of trouble : and my life draweth 
 nigh unto hell. 
 
 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into 
 the pit : and I liave been even as a man that hath no 
 strength. 
 
 4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are 
 
Day\j PSALM LXXXVIII Morning Prayer 
 
 wounded, and lie in the grave : who are out of remem- 
 brance, and are cut away from thy hand. 
 
 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit : in a place of 
 darkness, and in the deep. 
 
 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me : and thou 
 hast vexed me with all thy storms. 
 
 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from 
 me : and made me to be abhorred of them. 
 
 8 I am so fast in prison : that I cannot get forth. 
 
 9 My sight faileth for very trouble : Lord, I have 
 called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands 
 unto thee. 
 
 10 Dost thou shew wonders among the dead : or 
 shall the dead rise up again, and praise thee ? 
 
 1 1 Shall thy loving-kindness be shewed in the grave : 
 or thy faithfuhiess in destruction ? 
 
 12 Shall thy wondrous work be known in the dark : 
 and thy righteousness in the land where all things are 
 forgotten ? 
 
 13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord : and early shall 
 my prayer come before thee. 
 
 14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul : and hidest 
 thou thj' face from me '? 
 
 1 5 I am in miserj', and like unto him that is at the 
 point to die : even from my youth up thy terrors have 
 I suffered with a troubled mind. 
 
 1 6 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me : and the 
 fear of thee hath undone me. 
 
 1 7 They came round about me daily like water : and 
 compassed me together on everj' side. 
 
 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from 
 me : and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight. 
 
 Bishop Hooper (the austere ingof our Lord's : "The nearer 
 
 Puritan Bishop of Gloucester, to me, the nearer the fire." 
 
 who was burnt before his V^erse 11. The dirge of the 
 
 people, beating upon his bre;\st "Solitary" in Wordsworth's 
 
 till his hand fell off), reconi- "Excursion," 
 
 mended his wife to study this ''.And now distinctly could I 
 
 psalm in her misery. He sug- recognise 
 
 gested also Psalms vi., xxii.. These words : 'Shall in the 
 
 XXX., .xxxi., xxxviii., and Ixix. grave ihy love fie hninvn, 
 
 Verse 8. In an early com- In death thy faithfulness f " 
 
 ment on this verse, written by P'crsei^,. This was used in the 
 
 Didymus, is a traditional say- Anglo-Saxon version of Prime. 
 
 Ii2 
 
Evening Prayer PSALM LXXXIX Day \j 
 
 Liturgical use. — QiooA Friday; Introit to Easter Eve Mass (e). 
 Latins. — Friday Matins; Easter Eve; Dedication of a 
 Church. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday evening ; Dawn. 
 
 PSALM LXXXIX. Misericordias Domini. 
 
 MY sonpf shall be ahvay of the lovmg-kindness of 
 the Lord : with my mouth will I ever be shew- 
 ing thy truth from one generation to another. 
 
 2 For I have said, " Mercy shall be set up for ever : 
 thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens. 
 
 3 " I have made a covenant with my chosen : I 
 have sworn unto David my servant ; 
 
 4 " Thy seed will I stablish for ever : and set up 
 thy throne from one generation to another." 
 
 5 Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy won- 
 drous works : and thy truth in the congregation of the 
 saints. 
 
 6 For who is he among the clouds : that shall be 
 compared unto the Lord ? 
 
 7 And what is he among the gods : that shall be like 
 unto the Lord '? 
 
 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of 
 the saints : and to be had in reverence of all them that 
 are round about him. 
 
 9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee ; thy 
 truth, most mighty Lord, is on every side. 
 
 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea : thou stillest 
 the waves thereof when they arise. 
 
 1 1 Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it : 
 thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy 
 mighty arm. 
 
 12 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine : 
 thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and 
 all that therein is. 
 
 13 Thou hast made the north and the south : Tabor 
 and Hermon shall rejoice in thy Name. 
 
 14 Thou hast a miglity arm : strong is thy hand, 
 and high is thy right hand. 
 
 1 5 Righteousness and equity are the habitation of 
 thy seat : mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 
 
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Day\7 PSALM LXXXIX Evening Prayer 
 
 i6 Blessed is the people, O Lord, that can rejoice 
 in thee : they shall walk in the light of thy coun- 
 tenance. 
 
 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name : and in 
 thy righteousness shall they make their boast. 
 
 18 For thou art the glory of their strength : and in 
 thy loving-kindness thou shalt lift up our horns. 
 
 19 For the Lord is our defence : the H0I3' One of 
 Israel is our King. 
 
 20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, 
 and saidst : " I have laid help upon one that is mighty ; 
 I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 
 
 21 "I have found David my servant : with my holy 
 oil have I anointed him. 
 
 22 " My hand shall hold him fast : and my arm 
 shall strengthen him. 
 
 23 " The enemy shall not be able to do him violence : 
 the son of wickedness shall not hurt him. 
 
 24 " I will smite down his foes before his face : and 
 plague them that hate him. 
 
 25 " My truth also and my mercy shall be with 
 him : and in my Name shall his horn be exalted. 
 
 26 " I will set his dominion also in the sea : and his 
 right hand in the floods. 
 
 27 " He shall call me, Thou art my father : mj' God, 
 and my strong salvation. 
 
 28 " And I will make him my first-born : higher 
 than the kings of the earth. 
 
 29 " My mercy will I keep for him for evermore : 
 and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 
 
 30 " His seed also will I make to endure for ever : 
 and his throne as the days of heaven. 
 
 31 " But if his children forsake my law : and walk 
 not in my judgements ; 
 
 32 "If they break my statutes, and keep not mv 
 commandments : I will visit their offences with the 
 rod, and their sin with scourges. 
 
 33 " Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not 
 utterly take from him : nor suffer my truth to fail. 
 
 34 " My covenant will I not break, nor alter the 
 thing that is gone out of my lips : I have sworn once 
 by my holiness, that I will not fail David. 
 
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Rveniiig Prayer FSALM LXXXIX Day ij 
 
 35 " His seed shall endure for ever : and his seat is 
 like as the sun before nie. 
 
 36 " He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon : 
 and as the faithful witness in heaven." 
 
 ■^'j But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine 
 Anointed : and art displeased at him. 
 
 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant : 
 and cast his crown to the ground. 
 
 39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges : and broken 
 down his strong holds. 
 
 40 All they that go by spoil him : and he is become 
 a reproach to his neighbours. 
 
 41 Tliou hast set up the right hand of his enemies : 
 and made all his adversaries to rejoice. 
 
 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword : and 
 givest him not victory in the battle. 
 
 43 Thou hast put out his glory : and cast his throne 
 down to the ground. 
 
 44 The daj's of his youth hast thou shortened : and 
 covered him with dishonour. 
 
 45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, for ever : 
 and shall thy wrath burn like fire "? 
 
 46 O remember how short my time is : wherefore 
 hast thou made all men for nought "? 
 
 47 "What man is he that liveth, and shall not sec 
 death : and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of 
 hell ? 
 
 48 Lord, where are thy old loving-kindnesses : which 
 thou swarest unto David in thy truth ? 
 
 49 Kemember, Lord, the rebuke that thy servants 
 have : and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of 
 many people ; 
 
 50 AVherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, 
 and slandered the footsteps of thine Anointed : Praised 
 be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen. 
 
 St. Athanasius (in the reign to slay their great opponent 
 of Constantius) was about to in a trap. The saint was 
 preach at a church near Con- hardly dissuaded from preach- 
 stantinople one day, when a ing, but bade the deacon strike 
 cry was raised by the crowded up this psalm- — one much used 
 congregation that the Arians by the Catholics in this con- 
 had surrounded the building troversy — and while it was 
 with 500 soldiers, and meant being sung he escaped as by a 
 
Day i8 PSALM XC Morning Prayer 
 
 miracle, passing through the short my time is" — e.g., St. 
 
 soldiers without recognition. Patrick's, Isle of Man. 
 
 Abraham, in the spirit of Verse 47. Is not this the 
 
 prophecy, the Talmudists say, verse which Shakespeare's 
 
 wrote this psalm. Justice Shallow has in mind 
 
 Verse 46. A sundial motto, when he assures Silence that 
 
 and one often engraved on old " death, as the Psalmist saith, 
 
 clocks, is, "O remember how is certain to all " ? 
 
 Liturgical nse. — Christmas evening. 
 Latins. — Friday Matins ; Christmas. 
 Greeks. — Wednesday evening. 
 
 PSALM XC. Domine, refugiiLin. 
 
 IORD, thou hast been our refuge : from one gene- 
 J ration to another. 
 
 2 Before the mountams were brought forth, or ever 
 the earth and the world were made : thou art God from 
 everlasting, and world without end. 
 
 3 Thou turnest men to desti'uction : again thou 
 sayest, Come again, ye children of men. 
 
 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yester- 
 day : seeing that is past as a watch in the night. 
 
 5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as 
 a sleep : and fade awaj- suddenly like the grass. 
 
 6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up : but 
 in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. 
 
 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure : and are 
 afraid at thy wrathful indignation. 
 
 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee : and our 
 secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 
 
 9 For when thou art angry all oiu- days are gone : 
 we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is 
 told. 
 
 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; 
 and though men be so strong that tliey come to four- 
 score years : yet is their strength then but labour and 
 sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 
 
 1 1 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath : for 
 even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure. 
 
 12 So teach us to number our days : that we may 
 apply our hearts unto wisdom. 
 
 13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last : and be 
 gracious unto thy servants. 
 
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A fornix a Pravcr 
 
 PSALM XC 
 
 Day 1 8 
 
 14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon : so 
 shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. 
 
 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou 
 hast plagued us : and for the years wherein we have 
 suffered adversity. 
 
 16 Show thy servants thj' work : and their children 
 thy glory. 
 
 17 And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be 
 upon us : prosper thou tlie work of our hands upon us, 
 O prosper thou our handy-work. 
 
 This psalm has a double 
 interest for English folk, apart 
 from all its merits. It has 
 been sung or read since 1662 
 over the graves of our fathers, 
 and it will be sung or read over 
 our own. But before Edward 
 VI. 's time our funeral psalms 
 were cxvi. , cxxxix. , and cxlvi. ; 
 and with the Celebration, I'salm 
 xlii. The reason all these 
 burial psalms were abolished 
 by the Reformers of 1552 will 
 be evident to anyone who 
 glances at them. In this con- 
 nection these taught Mass for 
 the dead and Purgatory. But 
 they gave us none instead. 
 Bishop Cosin supplied this 
 "song of Moses" and xxxix. ; 
 the former to propitiate the 
 Puritans ; the latter because 
 Laud used it for burials. 
 
 Dr. Watts's most successful 
 hymn, "O God, our Help in 
 ages past," is a rhymed version 
 of this psalm, and one much 
 delighted in by John Wesley. 
 Contrast his version with the 
 weaker one of the far greater 
 poet Burns, who also delighted 
 in this psalm. 
 
 "Thou givest the word, Thy 
 
 creature man 
 
 Is to existence brought : 
 
 Again thou say'st, ' Ye sons 
 
 of men. 
 
 Return ye into nought.' 
 
 Thou layest them with alt 
 their cares 
 In everlasting sleep. 
 As with a flood thou tak'st 
 them off 
 With overwhelming sweep." 
 
 Charles V. , the most power- 
 ful emperor since Charlemagne's 
 time, who left his throne for 
 tiie cloister at St. Juste, used 
 to declare that he preferred 
 Domine, refiii;iinii /actus es 
 nobis to all other psalms. 
 
 J. H. Newman's Gerontius 
 hears the souls in Purgatory 
 singing this psalm. 
 
 I'erse 10. "So soon passeth 
 it away" — a common sundial 
 motto— St. Matins', Looe ; St. 
 Matthias', Liskeard ; Bidden- 
 den, etc. 
 
 " Yet is their strength then 
 but labour and sorrow." Mr. 
 Ruskin thinks that in com- 
 mentary upon these words 
 Diirer painted his Melancholia, 
 and thus, "Yes," he replies to 
 them, " but labour and sorrow 
 are their strength." 
 
 rerse 12. This was the text 
 which Dr. Rudd chose to preach 
 upon before C^)ueen Elizabeth, 
 when he dwelt upon the infirm- 
 ities of old age, and applied 
 his words to the aged queen. 
 It is needless to say that "he 
 fell out of favour " with her 
 Majesty, who had before re- 
 
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Day i8 PSALM XCI Morning Prayer 
 
 solved to make him an arch- homes at six in the morning, 
 
 bishop. before the people went out to 
 
 Verses i6 dnd 17 were in the tlie labour of the day ; and not 
 
 early Prime office in the Enghsh only from the clergy-houses, 
 
 tongue ; that is to say, they but from the homes of devout 
 
 rose to God from Enghsh lay-folk also. 
 
 Liturf^ical use. — Burial Service. 
 
 Latins. — Thursday at Lauds. 
 
 Greeks. — Wednesday night ; First hour. 
 
 PSALM XCI. Qai habitat. 
 
 WHOSO dwelleth under the defence of the most 
 High : shall abide under the shadow of the 
 Almighty. 
 
 2 I will say unto the Lord, " Thou art my hope, and 
 my strong hold " : my God, in him will I trust. 
 
 3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the 
 hunter : and from the noisome pestilence. 
 
 4 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. 
 
 5 " Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night : 
 nor for the arrow that theth by day ; 
 
 6 " For the pestilence that walketh in darkness : nor 
 for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day. 
 
 7 " A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand 
 at thy right hand : but it shall not come nigh thee. 
 
 8 "Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold : and see 
 the reward of the ungodly." 
 
 9 For thou. Lord, art my hope : thou hast set thine 
 house of defence very high. 
 
 10 " There shall no evil happen unto thee : neither 
 shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 
 
 1 1 " For he shall give his angels charge over thee : 
 to keep thee in all thy w-ays. 
 
 12 "They shall bear thee in their hands : that thou 
 hurt not thy foot against a stone. 
 
 13 " Tliou shalt go upon the lion and adder : the young 
 lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet. 
 
 14 " Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore 
 will I deliver him : I will set him up, because he hath 
 known my Name. 
 
 13S 
 
Morning Prayer 
 
 PSALM XCI 
 
 Day 1 8 
 
 15 " He sliall call upon me, and I will hear him : yea, 
 I am with hiui in trouble ; I will deliver him, and 
 bring him to honour. 
 
 16 " With long life will I satisfy him : and shew him 
 my salvation." 
 
 "My excellent holy mother 
 in law, Mary, widow to my 
 dear father," says Richard 
 Baxter, ' ' was one of the most 
 humble, mortified holy persons 
 that ever I knew, and lived in 
 longing to be with Christ till 
 she was a hundred years old 
 (wanting three or four), in full 
 understanding, and at last re- 
 joicing in the frequent hearing 
 and repeating of Psalm xci." 
 
 Verse 7. This was the verse 
 by which the Bishop of Mar- 
 seilles encouraged his clergy to 
 stick to their duty during the 
 great plague of 1720. 
 
 Verse 11. The devil can 
 quote this Scripture for Iiis 
 purpose. But how much of 
 Christian teaching about the 
 angels begins here ! Spenser 
 thus writes : 
 
 " How oft do they their silver 
 
 bowers leave, 
 To come to succour us, that 
 
 succour want ! 
 How oft do they with golden 
 
 pinions cleave 
 The flitting skies, like flying 
 
 pursuivant. 
 Against fowle fiends to aid 
 
 us militant ! 
 They for us fight, they watch 
 
 and duly ward, 
 
 Latins. 
 
 And their bright squadrons 
 round about us plant ; 
 
 And all for love and nothing 
 for reward : 
 
 Oh ! why should heav'nly God 
 to man have such regard?" 
 
 Similarly Milton and others, 
 and not least that ancient 
 English prayer still taught by 
 simple folk to their children 
 which quiets them by the 
 promise of " four angels round 
 my bed !" 
 
 I'crse 13. In the sixth room 
 of the National Gallery is a 
 picture of St. Michael and the 
 dragon, by Fra Carnovale, 
 which gives the Christian com- 
 ment upon this verse. The 
 spirit of the Church Militant is 
 treading the dragon of sensu- 
 ality and injustice under his 
 feet'. 
 
 In Salisbury Cathedral a 
 " boy-bishop," who died during 
 his brief term of office, is curved 
 trampling upon a monster in 
 allusion to the words Concitl- 
 cabis leonein et draconevi. The 
 boy -bishop reigned from St. 
 Nicholas Day till Childermas, 
 and preached in the catliedral 
 of his see. Dean Colet ordered 
 all his scholars to attend this 
 sermon without fail. 
 
 Daily at Compline [i.e., 9 p.m.); Visitation of the 
 Sick [Sarum for All Saints') ; Dedication of a Church. 
 Greeks. — Last psalm for Wednesday evening ; Sixth hour ; 
 Late Evensong in Lent ; Burial of laymen, monks, and 
 infants. 
 
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Day i8 PSALM XCII Morning Prayer 
 
 PSALM XCII. Bonum est confiteri. 
 
 IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord : and 
 to sing praises unto thy Name, O most Highest ; 
 
 2 To tell of thy loving-kmdness early in the morn- 
 ing : and of thy truth in the night-season ; 
 
 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the 
 lute : upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp. 
 
 4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy 
 works : and I will rejoice in giving praise for the opera- 
 tions of thy hands. 
 
 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works : thy thoughts 
 are very deep. 
 
 6 An iinwise man doth not well consider this : and 
 a fool doth not understand it. 
 
 7 When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when 
 all the workers of wickedness do flourish : then shall 
 they be destroj'ed for ever ; but thou, Lord, art the 
 most Highest for evermore. 
 
 8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, lo, thine enemies 
 shall perish : and all the workers of wickedness shall 
 be destroyed. 
 
 9 But mine horn shall be exalted like the horn of an 
 unicorn : for I am anointed with fresh oil. 
 
 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies : 
 and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that 
 arise up against me. 
 
 1 1 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree : and 
 shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus. 
 
 12 Such as are planted in the house of the Lord : 
 shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. 
 
 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their 
 age : and shall be fat and well-liking. 
 
 14 That they may shew how true the Lord my 
 strength is : and that there is no unrighteousness in hun. 
 
 Dr. George Matheson uses the morning of the world by 
 
 this psalm (with Pss. ii. and Adam, the father of mankind. 
 Ixxii.) to show that the principle Ferse i. Sir C^hristopher 
 
 of survival is as completely Hatton's motto for his Psalter ; 
 
 taught by natural religion as viJe Ps. cviii. 
 it is by modern science. I'erse^. Dante hears Matilda 
 
 The Talniudic tradition says his guide singing in the terres- 
 
 that this psalm was written in trial paradise the psalm Df/e- 
 
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Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM XCllI 
 
 Day 18 
 
 casti {tnc Domine in factura 
 tud, et in opcribus manuum 
 inarum exultabo], vide Purg. , 
 xxviii. 80. 
 
 This Matilda, supposed to 
 be the great counte-s of the 
 eleventh century, "notable 
 equally for her ceaseless ac- 
 tivity, her brilliant political 
 genius, her perfect piety, and 
 her deep reverence for the See 
 of Rome," is standing on tiie 
 other side of Lethe, passing 
 the flowers through her hands. 
 
 She represents the noblest 
 form of "the active life which 
 forms the felicity of earth, and 
 the spirit of Beatrice the con- 
 templative life, which forms the 
 felicity of Heaven." 
 
 Verse 5. Our histoii.m, 
 Matthew Paris, always quotes 
 this verse when he relates 
 some miracle of the saints (of 
 Robert of Lincoln, Thomas of 
 Hertford, etc.). Indeed, it 
 sums up the mediaeval view of 
 God's working in the world. 
 
 Latins. — Saturday Lauds. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning; Mesorioa of first hour. 
 
 PSALM XCIII. Dominus regnacit. 
 
 THE Lord is lung, and hath put on glorious apparel : 
 the Lord hath put on his apparel, and girded 
 himself with strength. 
 
 2 He hath made the round world so sure : that it 
 cannot be moved. 
 
 3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been 
 prepared : thou art from everlasting. 
 
 4 The Hoods are risen, O Lord, the floods have lift 
 up their voice : the floods lift up their waves. 
 
 5 The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage hor- 
 ribly : but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is 
 mightier. 
 
 6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very sure : holiness 
 becometh thine house for ever. 
 
 Edward Irving wrote of the 
 Psalter in a way that seems an 
 echo of a time when the world 
 was yet undrowned by floods 
 of watery criticism. " These 
 Psalms," he says, "are to a 
 Christian what the love of 
 parents and the sweet affec- 
 tions of home, and the cling- 
 ing memories of infant scenes 
 and the generous love of 
 country, are to men of every 
 rank and order and employ- 
 
 ment, of every kindred and 
 tongue and nation." 
 
 Shakespeare has the valiant 
 spirit of the psalm, if not a 
 literal echo, in Queen Mar- 
 garet's speech : 
 
 " 'We will not from the helm, 
 
 to sit and weep ; 
 But keep our course, though 
 
 the rough wind say no 
 From shelves and rocks that 
 
 threaten us with wrack." 
 
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Day \?, PSALM XCIV Evening Prayer 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass on I. Sunday after the 
 
 Ascension. 
 Latins. — Sunday at Lauds. 
 ■ Greeks. — Thursday morning ; Mesorion of first hour. 
 
 PSALM XCIV. Deu.^ uUionum. 
 
 OLOED God, to whom vengeance belongetli : thou 
 God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. 
 
 2 Arise, thou Judge of the world : and reward the 
 proud after their deserving. 
 
 3 Lord, how long shall the ungodly : how long shall 
 the ungodly triumph ? 
 
 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdain- 
 fully : and make such proud boastings '? 
 
 5 The}^ smite down thy people, O Lord : and trouble 
 thine heritage. 
 
 6 They murder the widow, and the stranger : and 
 put the fatherless to death. 
 
 7 And yet they say, " Tush, the Lord shall not see : 
 neither shall the God of Jacob regard it." 
 
 8 Take heed, ye unwise among the people : O ye 
 fools, when will ye understand ? 
 
 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear : or he 
 that made the eye, shall he not see ? 
 
 10 Or he that nurture th the heathen : it is he that 
 teacheth man knowledge, shall not he punish ? 
 
 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man : that 
 they are but vain. 
 
 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O 
 Lord : and teachest him in thy law ; 
 
 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of 
 adversity : until the pit be digged up for the ungodly. 
 
 14 For the Lord will not fail his people : neither will 
 he forsake his inheritance ; 
 
 15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgement : 
 all such as are true in heart shall follow it. 
 
 16 Who will rise up with me against tlic wicked : 
 or will take my part against the evil-doers ? 
 
 17 If the Lord had not helped me : it had not failed 
 but my soul had been put to silence. 
 
 18 i3ut when I said, "My foot hath slipt " : thy 
 mercy, O Lord, held me up. 
 
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Mornino Prayer 
 
 PSALM XCV 
 
 Day 19 
 
 19 In the multitude of the sorrows tliat I had in my 
 heart : thy comforts have refreshed my soul. 
 
 20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of 
 wickedness : which imagineth mischief as a law ? 
 
 21 They gather them together against the soul of 
 the righteous : and condemn the innocent blood. 
 
 22 But the Lord is my refuge : and my God is the 
 strength of my confidence. 
 
 23 He shall recompense them their wickedness, and 
 destroy' them in their own malice : yea, the Lord our 
 God shall destroy them. 
 
 Among the curious misuses 
 of this psalm is one by Sir 
 Henry Parker, Lord Morley, 
 who, in 1534, wrote an " expo- 
 sition" upon it, and dedicated 
 it to the " kyngeshighnes." He 
 was one of the peers who sat 
 in the Parliament of 1530, and 
 signed the ultimatum to Pope 
 Clement VH. Full of fury at 
 the Pope, he applies this psalm 
 to the quarrel, blessing "the 
 chastened" Henry, that " per- 
 fect arke of all princely good- 
 ness und honour," and wishing 
 to his "ennemye the Babyloni- 
 call byshoppe of Rome, re- 
 proufe, shame, and utter mine." 
 He was "' adorned with all 
 kinds of superficial learning," 
 says Wood, and wrote in a 
 style of refreshing liveliness. 
 
 Verse I. Sir John Oldcastle, 
 when tried before Parliament 
 for levying war upon Henry V. , 
 made a defence by appealing 
 to something like the principles 
 which are now called anarchic, 
 for he reminded his judges that, 
 according to this psalm, ven- 
 geance being God's, they must 
 not by punishing him intrench 
 upon the prerogative of the 
 Almighty. He then appealed to 
 his "sovereign King Richard," 
 whom he said was alive and in 
 Scotland. He was ordered to 
 be hanged and burnt for treason 
 and heresy. 
 
 Verse 17. Basil of Seleucia 
 relates an old Christian tradi- 
 tion that Lazarus came from 
 the tomb with these words (and 
 Ps. xl. 2) on his lips. 
 
 Latins. — Friday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM XCV. Vemte emltemus. 
 
 OCOME, let us sing unto the Lord : let us heartily 
 rejoice in the strength of our salvation. 
 
 2 Let us come before his presence with thanks- 
 giving : and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms. 
 
 3 For the Lord is a great God : and a great King 
 above all gods. 
 
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Day jg PSALM XCVI Morning Prayei- 
 
 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 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 To day 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. 
 
 1 1 " Unto whom I sware in my wrath : that they 
 should not enter into my rest." 
 
 This was tlie battle-song of both in the East and West, 
 
 the Knights Templars, for In the Middle Ages it used to 
 
 whom war was an act of wor- be " farsed," as it was called — 
 
 ship. They had the privilege interspersed, as we say — with 
 
 of asserting and proclaiming fragments of other psalms, 
 
 that the hotly-debated Holy called " invitatories." In 1549 
 
 Land was in " His hand." it was ordered to be sung 
 
 It was the first hymn which simply. The Greeks, who seem 
 
 in summer rose from the 20,000 to like cutting and carving the 
 
 religious houses of the West. Psalms, begin their worship 
 
 This psalm has always been with verses i, 3, and 6. 
 among the preludes to worship 
 
 Liturgical use. — Daily at Matins. 
 Latins. — Epiphany ; daily at Matin=. 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM XCVI. Cantate Doinino. 
 
 OSING unto the Lord a new song : sing unto the 
 Lord, all the whole earth. 
 
 2 Sing imto the Lord, and praise his Name : be 
 telling of his sahation from day to day. 
 
 3 Declare his honour unto the heathen : and his 
 wonders unto all people. 
 
 4 For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be 
 praised : he is more to be feared tlian all gods. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM XC VI I Z>fly 19 
 
 5 As for all the gods of the heathen, they are but 
 idols : but it is the Lord that made the heavens. 
 
 6 Glory and worship are before him : power and 
 honour are in his sanctuary. 
 
 7 Ascribe unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the 
 people : ascribe unto the Lord worship and power. 
 
 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his 
 Name : brmg presents, and come into his courts. 
 
 9 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness : let 
 the whole earth stand in awe of him. 
 
 10 Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is 
 King : and that it is he who hath made the round 
 world so fast that it cannot be moved ; and how that 
 he shall judge the people righteously. 
 
 1 1 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad : 
 let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is, 
 
 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it : then 
 shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord. 
 
 13 For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: 
 and with righteousness to judge the world, and the 
 people with his truth. 
 
 This psalm and the next were equivalent [a Ugno), therefore 
 the songs of triumph and deft- became a kind of banner motto 
 ance used by the Christians, against Jews, Arians, and other 
 when in Julian's reign they bore oppugnersof our Lord's royalty, 
 away the body of the martyr This is the meaning of the third 
 Babylas from the Orontes. verse of that hymn of Fortu- 
 
 Verse 10. St. Justin Martyr natus, Vexilla Regis prodeunt, 
 accuses the Jews of purposely (which Dr. Neale translated 
 leaving out the words (XTTo ?('>\oy " The Royal Banners forward 
 (from the tree) from their manu- go"), "Our God is reigning 
 scripts of the LXX. Bible, from the tree." 
 These words, or their Latin 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Epiphany Mass (e). 
 
 Latins. — Friday Matins ; Christmas ; Circumcision ; Epi- 
 phany ; Trinity Sunday ; Dedication of a Church ; Feasts 
 of Our Lady ; St. Michael. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM XCVII. Domimts regnavit. 
 
 THE Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof : 
 yea, the multitude of the isles may be glad thereof. 
 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him : 
 righteousness and judgement are the habitation of his 
 seat. 
 
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Day ig PSALM XCVIII Evening Prayer 
 
 3 There shall go a fire before him : and burn up his 
 enemies on every side. 
 
 4 His lightnings gave shine unto the world : the 
 earth saw it, and was afraid. 
 
 5 The hills melted hke wax at the presence of the 
 Lord : at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 
 
 6 The heavens have declared his righteousness : and 
 all the people have seen his glory. 
 
 7 Confounded be all they that worship carved 
 images, and that delight in vain gods : worship him, 
 all ye gods. 
 
 8 Sion heard of it, and rejoiced : and the daughters 
 of Judah were glad, because of thy judgements, O Lord. 
 
 9 For thou. Lord, art higher than all that are in the 
 earth : thou art exalted far above all gods. 
 
 10 O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the 
 thing which is evil : the Lord preserveth the souls of 
 his saints ; he shall deliver them from the hand of the 
 ungodly. 
 
 1 1 There is sprung up a Ught for the righteous ; and 
 joyful gladness for such as are true-hearted. 
 
 12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous : and give 
 thanks for a remembrance of his holiness. 
 
 This psalm has been a great greatest opponents, who never 
 favourite with the Calvinist suppose that it teaches things 
 writers, who use it to teach inconsistent with the tradition 
 their chief tenets, the Sove- of the Church Catholic, 
 reignty of God, the danger of l^erse 3. Perhaps this verse 
 idolatry, Election and Repro- (with Pss. xi. 6 and xcvi. 13) 
 bation, and the right of the helped to make up the witness 
 saints to rule the world. It is of David in the Dies IrcB (see 
 no less of a favourite with their Ps. cii. 25 and 26). 
 
 Latins. — Friday Matins ; Circumcision; Epiphany; Ascension- 
 tide ; Trinity Sunday ; Apostles and Evangelists ; Festi- 
 vals of Our Lady ; St. Michael ; All Saints. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM XCVIII. Cantate Domino. 
 
 OSING unto the Lord a new song : for he hath done 
 marvellous things. 
 2 With his own right hand, and with his holy arm : 
 hath he gotten himself the victory. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM XCIX Day \() 
 
 3 The Lord declared his salvation : his righteousness 
 hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen. 
 
 4 He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward 
 the house of Israel : and all the ends of the world have 
 seen the salvation of our God. 
 
 5 Shew yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands : 
 sing, rejoice, and give thanks. 
 
 6 Pi'aise the Lord upon the harp : sing to the harp 
 with a psalm of thanksgivmg. 
 
 7 With trumpets also, and shawms : shew your- 
 selves joyful before the Lord the King. 
 
 8 Let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is : 
 the round world, and they that dwell therein. 
 
 9 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be 
 joyful together before the Lord : for he is come to 
 judge the earth. 
 
 10 With righteousness shall he judge the world : and 
 the people with equity. 
 
 This psalm was allowed at proportion, the Psalms have 
 Evensong as an alternative to towered over every other 
 the Magnificat in 1552, in order vehicle of general devotion." 
 that the extreme Protestants " We have a conspicuous illus- 
 should not be forced to use the tration of their office in the 
 triumph song of the Blessed fact that, of two hundred and 
 Virgin Mary. This was a forty-three citations from the 
 kindly act of inclusion. Old Testament found in the 
 
 " The Psalms have dwelt in pages of the New, no less than 
 the Christian heart and in the one hundred and si.\teen are 
 centre of that heart : and from the single Book of Psalms, 
 wherever the pursuits of the and that a similar proportion 
 inner life have been most holds with most of the early 
 largely conceived and culti- Fathers " (.l/r. Gladstone). 
 vated, there, and in the same 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Christ Mass (e) ; alternative to 
 the Magnificat in the daily Evensong. 
 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins ; Christmas ; Circumcision ; Trinity 
 Sunday ; Feasts of Our Lady. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM XCIX. Lominus regnavit. 
 
 THE Lord is King, be the people never so impatient : 
 he sitteth between the cherubims, be the earth 
 never so unquiet. 
 
 2 The Lord is great in Sion : and high above all 
 people. 
 
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Day 19 PSALM C Evening Prayer 
 
 3 They shall give thanks unto thy Name : which is 
 great, wonderful, and holy. 
 
 4 The King's power loveth judgement ; thou hast 
 prepared equity : thou hast executed judgement and 
 righteousness in Jacob. 
 
 5 O magnify the Lord our God : and fall down before 
 his footstool, for he is holy. 
 
 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel 
 among such as call upon his Name : these called upon 
 the Lord, and he heard them. 
 
 7 He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar : for 
 they kept his testimonies, and the law that he gave 
 them. 
 
 8 Thou heardest them, O Lord our Lord : thou for- 
 gavest them, O God, and punishedst their own inven- 
 tions. 
 
 9 O magnify the Lord our God, and worship him 
 upon his holy hill : for the Lord om' God is holy. 
 
 This psalm was much used The Lord that doth in Sion 
 by the Puritan party in the dwell 
 Civil Wars, and by the Cove- Is high and wondrous 
 nanters. The version autho- great : 
 rized by the Kirk of Scotland Above all folk He doth excell, 
 in 1641 thus paraphrases the And He aloft is set." 
 °"S>nal: Southey tells us that the 
 "The Lord doth reigne, al- change from the Old Version to 
 though at it the New Version created a great 
 The people rage full sore bitterness and outcry in North- 
 Yea, He on Cherubins doth ern parishes, possibly as great 
 sit, as when the colour of the gowns 
 Though all the world doth is changed, or stoles are used 
 roar. instead of scarves. 
 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins; Circumcision; Ascension-tide; 
 
 Apostles and Evangelists ; Dedication Feast. 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM C. JuUlate Deo. 
 
 OBE joyful in the Lord, aU ye lands : serve the 
 Lord with gladness, and come before his presence 
 with a song. 
 
 2 Be ye sure that the Lord he is God : it is he that 
 hath made us, and not we ourselves ; we are his people, 
 and the sheep of his pasture. 
 
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 3 O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, 
 and into his courts with praise : be thankful unto him, 
 and speak good of his name. 
 
 4 For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting : 
 and his truth endureth from generation to genera- 
 tion. 
 
 This psalm was placed in version Mrs. Ford (in " Merry 
 
 our daily Morning office to Wives ") has in mind when she 
 
 satisfy objections in 1552, and says the hundredth psalm will 
 
 to avoid repetition. It is not, not keep place together with the 
 
 of course, used unless the tune of "Green sleeves"; and 
 
 Benedictus comes in other Longfellow alludes to the same 
 
 parts of the service. version in his hexameter — 
 
 The hymn "All people that 
 
 on earth do dwell," was by "Singing the hundredth psalm, 
 
 William Kethe, a Puritan that grand old Puritan 
 
 friend of Knox's, and the " Old anthem." 
 Hundredth " tune is from the 
 
 Psalter of 1580 A.D. — a tra- The Talmud says that Psalms 
 
 ditional chorale, some say, by xc. to c. , except Ps. xcii. , were 
 
 Luther. It is probably this composed by Moses. 
 
 Liturgical use. — At the daily Matins, if Benedictus comes in 
 the Gospel or Lesson ; Introit to Mass on Whit Monday (e). 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Lauds. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM CI. Misericordiam et judicium. 
 
 MY song shall be of mercy and judgement : unto 
 thee, O Lord, will I sing. 
 
 2 let me have understanding : in the way of 
 godliness. 
 
 3 When %vilt thou come tmto me : I will walk in my 
 house with a perfect heart. 
 
 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand ; I hate the 
 sins of unfaithfuhiess : there shall no such cleave unto 
 me. 
 
 5 A froward heart shall depart from me : I will not 
 know a wicked person. 
 
 6 Whoso privUy slandereth his neighbour : him will 
 I destroy. 
 
 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach : 
 I will not suffer him. 
 
 8 Mine eyes look upon such as are faithful in the 
 land : that they may dwell with me. 
 
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 PSALM CII 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life : he shall be my ser- 
 vant. 
 
 10 There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house : 
 he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. 
 
 1 1 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in 
 the land : that I may root all the wicked doers from 
 the city of the Lord. 
 
 This psalm and the next were 
 sunsT at the death of Monica 
 by St. Augustine and his son 
 Adeodatus, with Euodius, and 
 the household. 
 
 Bacon recommended George 
 Villiers to make a study of this 
 psalm, and to be ruled by it 
 when he promoted the cour- 
 tiers. 
 
 Verse i. The opening words 
 of this psalm were the expres- 
 sion of poor Cowper's joy, on 
 his recovery from the deep 
 melancholy which caused him 
 to be put under the care of Dr. 
 Cotton. When at last the 
 light broke in upon him, he 
 
 '■ felt it almost waste of time to 
 sleep, he was so happy." Then 
 he wrote the song of Mercy 
 and Judgment which begins, 
 " Lord, I love the habitation." 
 
 " Me through waves of deep 
 affliction, 
 
 Dearest Saviour, Thou hast 
 brought ; 
 
 Fiery deeps of sharp convic- 
 tion, 
 
 Hard to bear and passing 
 thought. 
 
 Sweet the sound of grace 
 Divine, 
 
 Sweet the grace which makes 
 me Thine." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Mass on Whit Tuesday (e) ; 
 
 Queen's Accession. 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning ; First hour. 
 
 PSALM CII. Do/nine, exaiidi. 
 
 HEAR my prayer, O Lord : and let my crying come 
 imto thee. 
 
 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my 
 trouble : incline thine ear unto me when I call ; 
 hear me, and that right soon. 
 
 3 For my days are consumed away like smoke : and 
 my bones are burnt up as it were a fire-brand. 
 
 4 My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass : 
 so that I forget to eat my bread. 
 
 5 For the voice of my groaning : my bones will 
 scarce cleave to my flesh. 
 
Moniitig Prayer PSALM CII Dayia 
 
 6 I am become like a pelican in the wilderness : and 
 like an owl that is in the desert. 
 
 7 I have watched, and am even as it were a sparrow : 
 that sitteth alone upon the house-top. 
 
 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long : and 
 they that are mad upon me are sworn together 
 against me. 
 
 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread : and 
 mingled my drink with weeping ; 
 
 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath : 
 for thou hast taken me up, and cast me down. 
 
 1 1 My days are gone like a shadow : and I am 
 withered like grass. 
 
 12 But, thou, Lord, shalt endm-e for ever : and 
 thy remembrance throughout all generations. 
 
 13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion : 
 for it is time that thou have mercy upon her, yea, 
 the time is come. 
 
 14 And why? thy servants think upon her stones : 
 and it pitieth them to see her in the dust. 
 
 15 The heathen shall fear thy Name, Lord : and 
 all the kings of the earth thy Majesty ; 
 
 16 When the Lord shall bmld up Sion : and when 
 his glory shall appear ; 
 
 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the 
 poor destitute : and despiseth not their desire. 
 
 18 This shall be written for those that come after : 
 and the people which shall be born shall praise the 
 Lord. 
 
 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary : out 
 of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth ; 
 
 20 That he might hear the mournings of such as are 
 in captivity : and dehver the children appointed unto 
 death ; 
 
 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in 
 Sion : and his worship at Jerusalem ; 
 
 22 When the people are gathered together : and the 
 kingdoms also, to serve the Lord. 
 
 23 He brought down my strength in my journey : 
 and shortened my days. 
 
 24 But I said, my God, take me not away in the 
 midst of mine age : as for thy years, they endure 
 throughout aU generations. 
 
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Day ao 
 
 PSALM CI I 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 25 Thou, Lord, in the begmning hast laid the 
 foundation of the earth : and the heavens are the 
 work of thy hands. 
 
 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure : they 
 all shall wax old as doth a garment ; 
 
 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and 
 they shall be changed : but thou art the same, and thy 
 years shall not fail. 
 
 28 The children of thy servants shall continue : and 
 their seed shall stand fast in thy sight. 
 
 Tliis is the fifth penitential As dooth the smoke vanish 
 psalm. These are Pss. vi., 
 XXX., xxxviii. , li., cii., cxxx., 
 cxliii. {vide Ps. vi.) It is the 
 antidote to Avarice. 
 
 The Emperor Charles V. had 
 these seven psalms read again 
 and again to him in his last 
 sickness at St. Juste (Sept., 
 1568). 
 
 Verse i. These are the words 
 which in so many services usher 
 in the Collect or Summary of 
 all that is prayed for. They 
 are used thus not only in our 
 Litany, for instance, but in that 
 ancient service at which, from 
 Edward the Confessor's time 
 onwards, English monarchs 
 have touched for the King's 
 Evil. 
 
 Verse 5. William Hunnis, 
 Queen Elizabeth's choirmaster 
 at the Chapel Royal, was 
 among the earlier authors who 
 "reduced into meeter" the 
 seven psalms. His book is 
 rather a commentary upon than 
 a translation of the original 
 (1583). It is exquisitely bound, 
 and has tunes to it. It is called 
 "Seven sobs of a sorrowfuU 
 soule for sinne. " This is his 
 comment to this verse : 
 
 " Age overtaketh youth, I see, 
 and youth by stealth dooth 
 flie, 
 
 awaie 
 aloft vnder the skie. [so 
 
 Yea, manie times it chanceth 
 ere age come us upon, 
 That death by stroke such 
 
 wound doth make, 
 that life with speed is gone. 
 Thus passeth foorth my time 
 
 of life 
 more swifter, I may sale, 
 Than is the ship good under 
 
 saile, 
 or eagle after praie." 
 
 Verse 6. This gave to Chris- 
 tian art the pelican as the 
 symbol of our Lord, as in 
 St. Thomas Aquinas' hymn 
 " Adoro te " (312 A. and M.) : 
 
 " Pie Pellicane, Jesu Domine / 
 Me itnmundum munda Tuo 
 sanguine." 
 
 Verse 10. Quoted by Origen 
 in his bitter lament for his 
 apostasy [vide Ps. 1.). 
 
 Verse II. " My days are gone 
 like a shadow that declineth " 
 is the Arbroath dial motto. 
 Dies mei sicut umbra declina- 
 verunt, is the dial motto of St. 
 Michele, near Venice. 
 
 Verses 25 and 26. St. Augus- 
 tine assigns these verses as the 
 witness of David to the Dooms- 
 day alluded to in the "anvil 
 hymn " of the Dies Irce, see 
 xcvii. 3. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM CI II Day 2.0 
 
 Liturgical use. — Ash Wednesday evening. 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning ; late Evensong in Lent ; Visita- 
 tion of the Sick ; Confession ; For the dying. 
 
 PSALM cm. Benedic, anima mea. 
 
 PRAISE the Lord, O my soul : and all that is 
 withua me praise his holy Name. 
 
 2 Praise the Lord, my soul : and forget not all his 
 benefits ; 
 
 3 Who forgiveth all thy sins : and healeth all thine 
 infirmities ; 
 
 4 Who saveth thy life from destruction : and 
 crowneth thee with mercy and loving-kindness ; 
 
 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things : 
 making thee young and lusty as an eagle. 
 
 6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgement : 
 for all them that are oppressed with wrong. 
 
 7 He shewed his waj's unto Moses : his works unto 
 the cMldren of Israel. 
 
 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy : long- 
 suffering, and of great goodness. 
 
 9 He will not alway be chiding : neither keepeth he 
 his anger for ever. 
 
 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins : nor 
 rewarded us according to our wickednesses. 
 
 1 1 For look how high the heaven is in comparison 
 of the earth ; so great is his mercy also toward them 
 that fear him. 
 
 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west : 
 so far hath he set our sins from us. 
 
 13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children : 
 even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. 
 
 14 For he knoweth whereof we are made : he 
 remembereth that we are but dust. 
 
 1 5 The days of man are but as grass : for he flour- 
 isheth as a flower of the field. 
 
 16 For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone : 
 and the place thereof shall know it no more. 
 
 17 But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth 
 for ever and ever upon them that fear him : and his 
 righteousness upon children's children. 
 
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 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant : and think 
 upon his commandments to do them. 
 
 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven : and 
 his kingdom ruleth over all. 
 
 20 O praise the Lord, ye angels of his, ye that excel 
 in strength : ye that fulfil his commandment, and 
 hearken unto the voice of his words. 
 
 21 O praise the Lord, aU ye his hosts : ye servants 
 of his that do his pleasure. 
 
 22 O speak good of the Lord, all ye works of his, in 
 all places of his dominion : praise thou the Lord, 
 my soul. 
 
 The followers of John Knox near his end " he did often say 
 
 sang this as a Eucharistic the 103rd psalm to himself, 
 
 psalm. and 'My heart is fixed' (Ps. 
 
 Dr. Robert Saunderson, in Ivii. 8)." 
 his last sickness, always re- The first five verses of this 
 peated, as he was wont, the psalm were said in the Anglo- 
 psalms for the day both morn- Saxon vernacular Prime, 
 ing and evening. As he drew 
 
 Liturgical use. — Rogation psalm. 
 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins; Ascension - tide ; St. Michael 
 
 (Sarum, All Saints). 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning ; Dawn. 
 
 PSALM CIV, Benedic, anima mea. 
 
 PRAISE the Lord, my soul : Lord my God, thou 
 art become exceeding glorious ; thou art clothed 
 with majesty and honour. 
 
 2 Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a 
 garment : and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain. 
 
 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the 
 waters : and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh 
 upon the wings of the wind. 
 
 4 He maketh his angels spirits : and his ministers a 
 flaming fire. 
 
 5 He laid the foundations of the earth : that it never 
 should move at any time. 
 
 6 Thou coveredst it vnih. the deep like as with a 
 garment : the waters stand in the hills. 
 
 7 At thy rebuke they flee : at the voice of thy 
 hunder they are afraid. 
 
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 8 They go up as high as the hills, and down to the 
 valleys beneath : even unto the place which thou hast 
 appointed for them. 
 
 9 Thou hast set thena their bounds which they shall 
 not pass : neither turn again to cover the earth. 
 
 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers : which 
 run among the hills. 
 
 1 1 All beasts of the field drink thereof : and the wild 
 asses quench their thirst. 
 
 12 Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their 
 habitation : and sing among the branches. 
 
 13 He watereth the hills from above : the earth is 
 filled with the fruit of thy works. 
 
 1 4 He bringeth forth grass for the cattle : and green 
 herb for the service of men ; 
 
 15 That he may bring food out of the earth, and 
 wine that maketh glad the heart of man : and oil 
 to make him a cheerful countenance, and bread to 
 strengthen man's heart. 
 
 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap : even 
 the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted ; 
 
 17 Wherein the birds make their nests : and the 
 fir-trees are a dwelling for the stork. 
 
 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats : 
 and so are the stony rocks for the conies. 
 
 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons : and 
 the sun knoweth his going down. 
 
 20 Thou makest darkness that it may be night : 
 wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 
 
 2 1 The lions roaring after their pray : do seek their 
 meat from God. 
 
 22 The sun ariseth, and they get them away to- 
 gether : and lay them down in their dens. 
 
 23 Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour : 
 imtil the evening. 
 
 24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works : in wisdom 
 hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy 
 riches. 
 
 25 So is the great and wide sea also : wherem are 
 things creeping innumerable, both small and great 
 beasts. 
 
 26 There go the ships, and there is that Leviathan : 
 whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein. 
 
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 PSALM CIV 
 
 Evening Prayer 
 
 27 These wait all upon thee : that thou mayest give 
 them meat in due season. 
 
 28 When thou givest it them they gather it : and 
 when thou openest thy hand they are filled with good. 
 
 29 When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : 
 when thou takest away their breath they die, and are 
 turned again to their dust. 
 
 30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall 
 be made : and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. 
 
 31 The glorious Majesty of the Lord shall endure for 
 ever : the Lord shall rejoice in his works. 
 
 32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him : if he 
 do but touch the hills, they shall smoke. 
 
 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will 
 praise my God while I have my being. 
 
 34 And so shall my words please him : my joy shall 
 be in the Lord. 
 
 35 As for sinners, they shall be consumed out of the 
 earth, and the ungodly shall come to an end : praise 
 thou the Lord, O my soul, praise the Lord. 
 
 On the Monday, Tuesday, 
 and Wednesday before Ascen- 
 sion day (Rogation days) the 
 parish bounds were beaten 
 (called "ganging" in the 
 North), and Litanies were 
 chanted to entreat for the 
 kindly fruits of the earth in due 
 season. The psalms used then 
 were ciii. and civ. 
 
 This psalm was a favourite 
 with Henry Vaughan, Bacon, 
 and Alexander von Humboldt. 
 Bacon translated it into metre, 
 and showed thereby that his 
 description of himself as a 
 "concealed poet" was not 
 quite an empty boast. 
 
 His book is Certaine Psalmes 
 written by him in sickness, 
 1624, and dedicated to his very 
 good friend George Herbert. 
 
 "The sappy cedars tall like 
 stalely tow'rs 
 High flying birds do harbour 
 in their bow'rs, 
 
 The holy storks, that are the 
 
 travellers, 
 Choose for to dwell and build 
 
 within the firs ; 
 The climbing goats hang on 
 
 steep mountain side. 
 The digging conies in the 
 
 rocks do bide." 
 
 V^erse 23. This was the text 
 of John Henry Newman's first 
 sermon, and also of his last 
 sermon as an English priest, 
 September 25th, 1843. 
 
 Verse 24. St. Athanasius may 
 almost be said to have com- 
 posed his great orations against 
 the Arians as sermons upon 
 this verse, so often does he 
 quote it. 
 
 Bauhinus the botanist (1541- 
 1613) chose it as a motto for 
 his Historia Plantarum. 
 
 Verse 30. St. Wilfrid of 
 York, in 709 A.D. , died at St. 
 Andrew's, Oundle, leaning back 
 his head upon the pillow, with- 
 
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Morning Prayer- PSALM CV Day 21 
 
 out groan or murinur, just as soul into the hands of his 
 
 from the minster choir rose Creator, and thus entered into 
 
 the chant of Kmitte spirituin the everlasting banquet of 
 
 tiium ei renovabisfaciem terrce. God's Lamb." 
 And " he happily resigned his 
 
 Liturgical use. — Whit-Sunday evening ; Rogation psalm. 
 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins ; Whitsuntide. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning ; Preface to Evensong. 
 
 PSALM CV. Confitemini Domii\o. 
 
 OGIVE thanks rnito the Lord, and call upon his 
 Name : tell the people what things lie hath done. 
 
 2 let your songs be of him, and praise him : and 
 let your talking be of all his wondrous works. 
 
 3 Rejoice in his holy Name : let the heart of them 
 rejoice that seek the Lord. 
 
 4 Seek the Lord and his strength : seek his face 
 evermore. 
 
 5 Remember the marvellous works that he hath 
 done : his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth, 
 
 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant : ye children of 
 Jacob his chosen. 
 
 7 He is the Lord our God : his judgements are in all 
 the world. 
 
 8 He hath been alway mindful of his covenant and 
 promise : that he made to a thousand generations ; 
 
 9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham ; 
 and the oath that he sware irnto Isaac ; 
 
 10 And appointed the same unto Jacob for a law : 
 and to Israel for an everlasting testament ; 
 
 1 1 Saying, " Unto thee wiU I give the land of 
 Canaan : the lot of your inheritance ;" 
 
 12 When there were yet but a few of them : and 
 they strangers in the land ; 
 
 13 What tune as they went from one nation to 
 another : from one kingdom to another people ; 
 
 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong : but 
 reproved even kings for their sakes ; 
 
 15 " Touch not mine Anointed : and do my prophets 
 no harm." 
 
 16 Moreover, he called for a dearth upon the land : 
 and destroyed aU the provision of bread. 
 
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Day 21 PSALM CV Morning Prayer 
 
 17 But he had sent a man before them : even Joseph, 
 who was sold to be a bond-servant ; 
 
 18 Whose feet they hurt in the stocks : the iron 
 entered into his soul ; 
 
 19 UntU the time came that his cause was known : 
 the word of the Lord tried him. 
 
 20 The king sent, and dehvered him : the prince of 
 the people let him go free. 
 
 2 1 He made him lord also of his house : and ruler of 
 all his substance ; 
 
 22 That he might inform his princes after his will : 
 and teach his senators wisdom. 
 
 23 Israel also came into Egypt : and Jacob was a 
 stranger in the land of Ham. 
 
 24 And he increased his people exceedingly : and 
 made them stronger than their enemies ; 
 
 25 Whose heart turned so that they hated his 
 people : and dealt untruly with his servants. 
 
 26 Then sent he Moses his servant : and Aaron whom 
 he had chosen. 
 
 27 And these shewed his tokens among them : and 
 wonders in the land of Ham. 
 
 28 He sent darkness, and it was dark : and they 
 were not obedient unto his word. 
 
 29 He turned their waters into blood : and slew 
 their fish. 
 
 30 Their land brought forth frogs : yea, even in their 
 kings' chambers. 
 
 31 He spake the word, and there came all manner of 
 flies : and lice in all their quarters. 
 
 32 He gave them hail-stones for rain : and flames of 
 fire in their land. 
 
 'if'^ He smote their vines also and fig-trees : and 
 destroj'ed the trees that were in theu' coasts. 
 
 34 He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, 
 and caterpillars innumerable : and did eat up all the 
 grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their 
 ground. 
 
 35 He smote all the first-born in their land : even 
 the chief of all their strength. 
 
 36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold : 
 there was not one feeble person among their tribes. 
 
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 PSALM CV 
 
 Day 21 
 
 27 Egypt was glad at their departing : for they were 
 afraid of them. 
 
 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering : and fire 
 to give light in the night-season. 
 
 39 At their desu'e he brought quails : and he filled 
 them with the bread of heaven. 
 
 40 He opened the rock of stone, and the waters 
 flowed out : so that rivers ran in the dry places. 
 
 4 1 For why ? he remembered his holy promise : and 
 Abraham his servant. 
 
 42 And he brought forth his people with joy : and 
 his chosen with gladness. 
 
 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen : and 
 they took the labours of the people in possession ; 
 
 44 That they might keep his statutes : and observe 
 his laws. 
 
 Verse 14. The first Papal 
 legates, who came over to 
 England to claim Papal supre- 
 macy (from Pope Adrian, A.n. 
 785), used this verse as an in- 
 stance of the superiority of the 
 ecclesiastical over the civil juris- 
 diction. It has often done duly 
 for the same purpose since. 
 
 Verse 15. It is needless to 
 say that this was constantly in 
 the mouths of loyal Church- 
 men during the civil wars, 
 plots, and revolutions of the 
 seventeenth century ; and the 
 application was nothing new 
 then, for Thomas Merks, the 
 Bishop of Carlisle, pointed it 
 out to Henry IV., in a vigorous 
 and manful speech he made in 
 defence of Richard II. The 
 bishop was promptly lodged in 
 the dungeon of St. Albans 
 Abbey for his boldness of 
 utterance. 
 
 In the letter of Edmund Ver- 
 ney to his brother Ralph (they 
 were both sons of Charles I. 's 
 standard-bearer) we find this 
 remonstrance : " It greeves my 
 
 hearte to think that my father 
 already and I who soe dearly 
 love and esteemeyou should be 
 bound in consequence (because 
 of our duty to our King) to be 
 your enemy. I heare tis a great 
 greefe to my father. I beseech 
 you consider that majesty is 
 sacred ; God sayth Touch not 
 myne anointed ; it troubled 
 Davyd that he cutt but the 
 lapp of Saul's garment." 
 
 Verse 28. Dr. Reynolds, at 
 the Hampton Court Confer- 
 ence, proposed that ' ' disobedi- 
 ent " be put for "obedient," 
 as the Nonconformists felt this 
 mistranslation to be a stumb- 
 ling-block. The Revisers, both 
 then and of our time, followed 
 the Nonconformists here with- 
 out dispute, and translate, 
 " And they rebelled not against 
 his words." 
 
 Dr. Sparks had a contro- 
 versy with Whitgift on this 
 very verse in 1589, from which 
 armoury the weapons for the 
 later dispute were mostly 
 drawn. 
 
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Day 21 PSALM CVI Evening Prayer 
 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins. 
 
 Greeks. — Last psalm for Thursday Matins. 
 
 PSALM CVI. Confitemini Domino. 
 
 OGIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious : 
 and his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 2 Who can express the noble acts of the Lord : or 
 shew forth all his praise ? 
 
 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgement : and 
 do righteousness. 
 
 4 Remember me, Lord, according to the favour 
 that thou bearest unto thy people : O visit me with 
 thy salvation. 
 
 5 That I may see the felicity of thy chosen : and 
 rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks 
 with thine inheritance. 
 
 6 We have sinned with our fathers : we have done 
 amiss, and dealt wickedly. 
 
 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, 
 neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance : 
 but were disobedient at the sea, even at the Red sea. 
 
 8 Nevertheless, he helped them for his Name's 
 sake : that he might make his power to be known. 
 
 9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried 
 up : so he led them through the deep, as through a 
 wilderness. 
 
 10 And he saved them from the adversary's hand : 
 and delivered them from the hand of the onemy. 
 
 11 As for those that troubled them, llie waters 
 overwhelmed them : there was not one ct' i. > ni left. 
 
 12 Then believed they his words : and sang praise 
 unto him. 
 
 13 But within a while they forgat his works : and 
 would not abide his counsel. 
 
 14 But lust came upon them in the wilderness : and 
 they tempted God in the desert. 
 
 15 And he gave them their desire : and sent lean- 
 ness withal into their soul. 
 
 16 They angered Moses also in the tents : and 
 Aaron the saint of the Lord. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM CVl D.iy 21 
 
 17 So the earth opened, and swallowed up Dathan : 
 and covered tlie congref]jation of Abirani. 
 
 18 And the fire was kindled in their company : the 
 Hanie burnt up the un<,'odly. 
 
 19 They made a calf in Horeb : and worshipped the 
 molten image. 
 
 20 Thus they turned their glory : into the similitude 
 of a calf that eateth hay. 
 
 21 And they forgat God their Sa\iour : who had 
 done so great things in Egypt ; 
 
 22 ^Yondrous woi'ks in the land of Ham : and fearful 
 tilings by the Red sea. 
 
 23 So he said, he would have destroyed them, had 
 not Moses his chosen stood before hun in the gap : to 
 turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should 
 destroy them. 
 
 24 Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land : 
 and gave no credence unto his word ; 
 
 25 But murmured in their tents : and hearkened 
 not unto the voice of the Lord. 
 
 26 Then lift he up his hand against them : to over- 
 throw them in the wilderness ; 
 
 27 To cast out their seed among the nations : and to 
 scatter them in the lands. 
 
 28 The}- joined themselves unto Baal-peor : and ate 
 the otfermgs of the dead. 
 
 29 Thus they provoked him to anger -with their own 
 inventions : and the plague was great among them. 
 
 30 Then stood up Phinees and prayed : and so the 
 plague ceased. 
 
 31 And that was counted unto him for righteous- 
 ness : among all posterities for evermore. 
 
 32 The}' angered him also at the waters of strife : so 
 that he punished Moses for their sakes ; 
 
 33 Because the}' provoked his spirit : so that he 
 spake unadvisedly with his lips. 
 
 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen ; as the Lord 
 commanded them ; 
 
 35 But were mingled among the heathen : and 
 learned their works. 
 
 36 Insomuch that the}' worshipped their idols, which 
 turned to their own decay : yea, they offered their sons 
 and their daughters unto devils ; 
 
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Day 2.x PSALM C VI Evening Prayer 
 
 2,7 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their 
 sons and of their daughters : whom they offered unto 
 the idols of Canaan ; and the land was defiled with 
 blood. 
 
 38 Thus were they stained with their own works : 
 and went a whoring with their own inventions. 
 
 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled 
 against his people : insomuch that he abhorred his own 
 inheritance. 
 
 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the 
 heathen : and they that hated them were lords over 
 them. 
 
 41 Their enemies oppressed them : and had them in 
 subjection. 
 
 42 Many a time did he deliver them : but they 
 rebelled against him with their own inventions, and 
 were brought down in their wickedness. 
 
 43 Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity : he 
 heard their complaint. 
 
 44 He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, 
 according unto the multitude of his mercies : yea, he 
 made all those that led them away captive to pity 
 them. 
 
 45 Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from 
 among the heathen : that we may give thanks unto thy 
 holy Name, and make our boast of thy praise. 
 
 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from ever- 
 lasting, and world without end : and let all the people 
 say, Amen. 
 
 Fox tells us that William but Bishop Haro, Theocritean 
 Wolsey, a constable, and Thomas Edwards, George Fen- 
 Robert Pygot, a painter, were wick, and Bishop George 
 burnt at Ely (October, 1555) Home of Norwich, were among 
 for Protestantism. They died the chief. Doddridge gives the 
 reciting Psalm cvi., and clasp- palm of metrical translations to 
 ing New Testaments to their James Merrick, Fellow of 
 breasts. Trinity College, Oxford — a 
 
 It is a curious thing to notice man very hard to admire, 
 how many commentators there Verse 11. The Utrecht 
 
 were on the Psalter in the Psalter, that most interesting 
 
 eighteenth century. Zachary and puzzling manuscript, which 
 
 Mudge (Dr. Johnson's friend the critics assign alternately to 
 
 and Reynolds' admired each of the centuries from the 
 
 "study ") was the first leader ; fourth to the ninth, has spirited 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM C VII Day 23 
 
 illustrations of this verse, and the translations whicli the 
 
 some others in this psHJm and Puritans so inveighed again'st 
 
 the next one. The Red Sea is at the Hampton Court Confer- 
 
 overwhelming the Egyptians ; ence. Dr. Reynolds proposed 
 
 there are ploughmen at work, " executed judgement," but the 
 
 felons in the stocks, vinedressers words were retained in the 
 
 and planters, men going down Prayer-Book, though altered in 
 
 to the sea in the queerest ships, the Bible. 
 
 and others building cities. I'crse ■^9. This is the second 
 
 There are also, among other motto of Father Parsons' work 
 
 delights, two great chairs on the English persecution, 
 
 which are the seats of the elders and summed up the Romanist 
 
 (Ps. cvii. verse 32). charge against our people of 
 
 Verse 30. '1 his was one of "will-worship." 
 
 f. a tins. — Saturday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Thursday evening. 
 
 PSALM CVII. Confiteniiiii Domino. 
 
 OGIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious : 
 and his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 2 Let tliem give thanks whom the Lord hatli re- 
 deemed : and delivered from the hand of tlie enemy ; 
 
 3 And gatliered them out of the lands, from the 
 east, and from the west : from the north, and from the 
 south. 
 
 4 They went astray in the wilderness out of the 
 way : and found no city to dwell in ; 
 
 5 Hungry and thirsty : their soul fainted in them. 
 
 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble : and 
 he delivered them from their distress. 
 
 7 He led them forth by the right ^\ay : that they 
 might go to the city where they dwelt. 
 
 8 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for 
 his goodness : and declare the wonders that he doeth 
 for the children of men. 
 
 9 For he satisfieth the empty soul : and iilleth the 
 hungry soul with goodness. 
 
 10 Such as sit in darkness, and in the shadow of 
 death : being fast bound in misery and iron ; 
 
 1 1 Because they rebelled against the words of the 
 Loi-d : and lightly regarded the counsel of the most 
 Highest ; 
 
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Day 22 PSALM C VI I Morning Prayer 
 
 1 2 He also brought down their heart through hea^d- 
 ness : they fell down, and there was none to help them. 
 
 1 3 So when they cried unto the Lord in then trouble : 
 he delivered them out of their distress. 
 
 14 For he brought them out of darkness, and out 
 of tlie shadow of death : and brake their bonds in sunder. 
 
 1 5 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for 
 his goodness : and declare the wonders that he doeth 
 for the children of men ! 
 
 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass : and 
 smitten the bars of iron in sunder. 
 
 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence : and 
 because of their wickedness. 
 
 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat : and 
 they were even hard at death's door. 
 
 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their 
 trouble : he delivered them out of their distress. 
 
 20 He sent his word, and healed them : and they 
 were saved from their destruction. 
 
 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for 
 his goodness : and declare the wonders that he doeth 
 for the children of men ! 
 
 22 That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of 
 thanksgiving : and tell out his works with gladness ! 
 
 23 They that go down to the sea in ships : and 
 occupy their business in great waters ; 
 
 24 These men see the works of the Lord : and his 
 wonders in the deep. 
 
 25 For at his word the stormy wind ariseth : which 
 lifteth up the waves thereof. 
 
 26 They are carried up to the heaven, and down 
 again to the deep : their soul melteth away because of 
 the trouble. 
 
 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken 
 man : and are at their wit's end. 
 
 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble : 
 he delivereth them out of their distress. 
 
 29 For he maketh the storm to cease : so that the 
 waves thereof are still. 
 
 30 Then are they glad, because they are at rest : 
 and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they 
 would be. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM CVII Day 22 
 
 31 that men would therefore praise the Lord for 
 liis p^oodness : and dechxre the wonders that he doeth 
 for the chikh-en of men I 
 
 32 That they would exalt him also in the congre- 
 gation of the people : and praise him in the seat of the 
 elders ! 
 
 33 "Who turneth the floods into a wilderness : and 
 drieth up the water-springs. 
 
 34 A fruitful land maketh he barren : for the wicked- 
 ness of them that dwell therein. 
 
 35 Again, he maketh the wilderness a standuig 
 water : and water-springs of a dry ground. 
 
 36 And there he setteth the hungry : that they may 
 build them a city to dwell in ; 
 
 37 That they may sow their land, and plant vine- 
 yards : to yield them fruits of increase. 
 
 38 He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceed- 
 ingly : and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 
 
 39 And again, when they are minished, and brought 
 low : through oppression, through anj^ plague or 
 trouble ; 
 
 40 Though he suffer them to be evil treated through 
 t^i'ants : and let them wander out of the way in the 
 wilderness ; 
 
 41 Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery : and 
 maketh him households like a flock of sheep. 
 
 43 The righteous will consider this, and rejoice : and 
 the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped. 
 
 43 Whoso is wise will ponder these things : and they 
 shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. 
 
 This was the favourite psalm men would praise the Lord for 
 
 of William Romaine, the Rec- His goodness 1" Thus, these 
 
 tor of St. .Ann's, Blackfriars, verses may be said to be what 
 
 and of his friend (and Dr. war, regarded in the ages of 
 
 Johnson's acquaintance), Dr. sorrow as the epitome of the 
 
 Benjamin Wheeler, the profes- whole Psalter, viz., its tone of 
 
 sor of poetry at Oxford. triumph Hnd thanksgiving. 
 
 Verses i-^ and 16. In the har- Verse yi. This was quoted 
 
 rowing of Hell (z'Zi/tr Ps. xxiv.), by "Little Bilney," Latimer's 
 
 the divine prophet David cries teacher, on his way to the 
 
 aloud in the darkness, " Did stake. It is the epitaph set up 
 
 not I truly prophesy, while I in Beechey Island for Sir John 
 
 was on earth, saying, O that Franklin and his companions. 
 
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Day 22 PSALM evil I Evemug Prayer 
 
 Verse 42. Gaufridus, St. Ber- the awe of the wicked, that this 
 nard's secretary, and the author verse seemed aptly made for 
 of that saint's life, with these him, for in his presence holi- 
 words sums up his master's ness wholly rejoiced, froward- 
 earthly life : " For he was both ness was curbed, and hardness 
 tlie glory of all the good and grew penitent." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Thanksgiving after a Storm at Sea. 
 
 Latins. — Saturday Matins. 
 
 Greeks. — Thursday morning. 
 
 PSALM CYIII. Paratum cor meum. 
 
 OGOD, my heart is ready, my heart is ready : I 
 will sing and give praise with the best member 
 that I have. 
 
 2 Awake, thou lute, smd harp : I myself will awake 
 right early. 
 
 3 I will give thanks unto thee, Lord, among the 
 people : I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. 
 
 4 For thy mercy is greater tlian the heavens : and 
 thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. 
 
 5 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens : and thy 
 glory above all the earth. 
 
 6 That thy beloved may be dehvered : let thy right 
 hand save them, and hear thou me. 
 
 7 God hath spoken in his holiness : I will rejoice 
 therefore, and divide Sichem, and mete out the valley 
 of Succoth. 
 
 8 Gilead is mine, and ^lauasses is mine : Ephraim 
 :xlso is the strength of my head. 
 
 9 Judah is my law-giver, ]\Ioab is my wash-pot : 
 over Edom will I cast out my shoe ; over Philistia will 
 I triumph. 
 
 10 "\Mio will lead me into the strong city : and who 
 will bring me into Edom ? 
 
 1 1 Hast not thou forsaken us, God : and wilt not 
 thou. God, go forth with our hosts ? 
 
 1 2 O help us agamst the enemy : for vain is the help 
 of man. 
 
 13 Through God we shall do great acts : and it is he 
 that shall tread down our enemies. 
 
 This psalm was a favourite Christopher Hatton, the good 
 with that "person highly friend both to Dugdale and to 
 affected to antiquities," Sir Jeremy Taylor. He calls it in 
 
 l66 
 
Evening Prayer I'SALM CIX Dtiy 2Z 
 
 his Psalter "A prayer for victory which he suffered in a high 
 agiiinst our I'^nemies." He was degree." ("harles II., " in con- 
 controller of Charles l.'s house- sideration of his vast sufferings 
 hold, " being then accounted a and eminent Loyalty," made 
 friend of all that loved the King him Privy Councillor and 
 and Church of England, for Governour of Guernsey. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Ascension Day evening. 
 Z.a//«i. —Saturday Matins. 
 Greeks. — Thursday evening. 
 
 PSALM CIX. Deu& laudum. 
 
 HOLD not thy tongue, God of my praise : for the 
 mouth of the imgodly, yea, the mouth of the 
 deceitful is opened upon me. 
 
 2 And they have spoken against me with false 
 tongues : they compassed me about also with words 
 of hati-ed, and fought against me without a cause. 
 
 3 For the love that I had unto them, lo, they take 
 now my contrary part : but I give myself unto prayer. 
 
 4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good : and 
 liatred for my good will. 
 
 5 " Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him : 
 and let Satan stand at his right hand. 
 
 6 " When sentence is given upon him, let him be 
 condemned : and let his prayer be turned into sin. 
 
 7 " Let his days be few : and let another take his 
 oflice. 
 
 8 " Let his cliildren be fatherless : and his wife a 
 widow. 
 
 9 " Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their 
 bread : let them seek it also out of desolate places. 
 
 10 " Let the extortioner consume all that he hath : 
 and let the stranger spoil his labour. 
 
 11 " Let there be no man to pity him : nor to have 
 compassion upon his fatherless children. 
 
 12 " Let his posterity be destroyed : and in the next 
 generation let his name be clean put out. 
 
 13 " Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in re- 
 membrance in the sight of the Lord : and let not the 
 sin of his mother be done away. 
 
 14 " Let them alway be before the Lord : that he may 
 root out the memorial of them from off the earth ; 
 
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Ekiyi'^ PSALM CI X Evening Prayer 
 
 15 " And that, because his mind was not to do good : 
 but persecuted the poor helpless man, that he might 
 slay him that was vexed at the heart. 
 
 16 " His delight was in cursing, and it shall happeii^ 
 unto him : he loved not blessing, therefore shall it b3. 
 far from him, 
 
 17 " He clothed himself with cursing, like as with a 
 raiment : and it shall come into his bowels like water, 
 and like oil into his bones. 
 
 18 " Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon 
 him : and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal." 
 
 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine 
 enemies : and to those that speak evil against my soul. 
 
 20 But deal thou with me, Lord God, according 
 unto thy Name : for sweet is thy mere}'. 
 
 21 deliver me, for I am helpless and poor : and my 
 heart is wounded within me. 
 
 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth : and 
 am driven away as the grasshopper. 
 
 23 My knees are weak through fasting : my flesh is 
 dried up for want of fatness. 
 
 24 I became also a reproach unto them : they that 
 looked upon me shaked their heads. 
 
 25 Help me, O Lord my God : save me, according to 
 thy mercy ; 
 
 26 And they shall know, how that this is thy hand : 
 and that thou. Lord, hast done it. 
 
 27 Though they curse, yet bless thou : and let them 
 be confounded that rise up against me ; but let thy 
 servant rejoice. 
 
 28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame : and 
 let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as 
 with a cloke. 
 
 29 As for me, I will give great thanks unto the Lord 
 with my mouth : and praise him among the multitude ; 
 
 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor : 
 to save his soul from unrighteous judges. 
 
 Fuller quaintly glances at F2ngland"). "Lord, when in 
 
 the seventeenth-century uses of my daily sehvice I read David's 
 
 this psalm, and at those who psalms, give me to alter the 
 
 cited it copiously to justify accent of my soul according to 
 
 their own deeds and spirit their several subjects. In such 
 
 \cf. Milton's " Reformation in psalms, wherein he confesseth 
 
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Morning Prayer 
 
 PSALM CX 
 
 Day 23' 
 
 his sins or requesteth thy 
 pardon, or praiseih for former, 
 or prayeth for future favours, 
 in all these give me to raise my 
 soul to as high a pitch as may 
 be. But when I come to such 
 psalms wherein he curseth his 
 enemies, O tliere let me bring 
 down my soul to a lower note. 
 For those words were made 
 only to fit David's mouth. I 
 have the like breath, but not the 
 same spirit to pronounce them. 
 Nor let me flatter myself that 
 it is lawful for me, with David, 
 
 Latins. — Saturday 
 Greeks. — Last psal 
 
 to curse thine enemies, lest my- 
 deceitful heart entitle all mine 
 enemies to be thine, and so' 
 what was religion in David 
 prove malice in me, whilst I 
 act revenge under pretence of 
 piety." 
 
 Verse 19. The Hebrew, Greek 
 and I^atin all give a better 
 sense to this verse. "This is 
 the reward." The LXX. and 
 Vulgate say, " This is the work 
 of those who slander me to the 
 Lord," which alters the whole 
 character of the psalm. 
 
 Matins, 
 m on Thursday evening. 
 
 PSALM CX. Dixit Dommm. 
 
 rpHE Lord said unto luy Lord : "Sit thou on my right 
 I hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstooh" 
 
 2 The Lord shaU send the rod of thy power out of 
 Sion : "be thou ruler, even in the midst among thine 
 enemies." 
 
 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee 
 free-will offerings with an holy worship : the dew of 
 thy birth is of the womb of the morning. 
 
 4 The Lord sware, and will not repent : " Thou art 
 a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech." 
 
 5 The Lord upon thy right hand : shall wound even 
 kings in the day of his wrath. 
 
 6 He shall judge among the heathen ; he shall fill 
 the places with the dead bodies : and smite in sunder 
 the heads over divers countries. 
 
 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way : therefore 
 shall he lift up his head. 
 
 This is one of the psalms 
 quoted by Christ Himself (St. 
 Matt. xxii. 43). The Talmud- 
 ists assign the psalm to Mel- 
 chizedeck. 
 
 This psalm has been a great 
 favourite always in the Western 
 
 Church. It is an introit for St. 
 Agnes, and she was perhaps 
 the best-loved Virgin Martyr. 
 It was also popular with the 
 Arians, who used it against St. 
 Athanasius. The storm which 
 arose lately, about Lux Mundi 
 
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Day 23 PSALM CXI Morning Prayer 
 
 raged most fiercely in con- dred and eight translations into 
 
 troversies connected with its English are recorded. The line 
 
 origin. Teste David et Sibilla perhaps 
 
 Verse 5. This, perhaps, is refers to this verse, 
 
 one of the passages alluded to Verse 7. A common Easter 
 
 in that most wonderful of Day text in mediasval sermons, 
 
 hymns, Dies irce, by Thomas the brook being the River of 
 
 of Celano, of which some hun- Death. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Christmas Day evening. 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Vespers ; Christmas ; Circumcision ; Epiph- 
 any ; Easter Day ; .Apostles and Evangelists ; Martyrs ; 
 Dedication of a church ; Feasts of Our Lady ; St. 
 Michael and All Angels ; All Saints. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday Matins. 
 
 PSALM CXI. Confitebor tibi 
 
 I WILL give thanks unto the Lord with my whole 
 heart : secretly among the faithful, and in the 
 congregation. 
 
 2 The works of the Lord are great : sought out of 
 all them that have pleasure therein. 
 
 3 His work is worthy to be praised, and had in 
 honour : and his righteousness endureth for ever. 
 
 4 The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done his 
 marvellous works : that they ought to be had in re- 
 membrance. 
 
 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him : he 
 shall ever be mindful of his covenant. 
 
 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works : 
 that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. 
 
 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgement : 
 all his connuandments are true. 
 
 8 They stand fast for ever and ever : and are done 
 in truth and equity. 
 
 9 He sent redemption unto his people : he hath com- 
 manded his covenant for ever ; holy and reverend is 
 his Name. 
 
 10 The fear of the Lord is the beguming of wisdom : 
 a good understanding have all they that do thereafter ; 
 the praise of it endureth for ever. 
 
 This psalm is one of the are Pss. ex. , cxvi. from verse to, 
 great Eucharistic psalms of the cxxviii., and cxlvii. 
 Western Church. The others Verses 4 and 5. The daunt- 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM CXI I Day^i 
 
 less statesman and devout been accomplished by her wiser 
 
 monk, St. Dunstan, not least rulers. 
 
 among the makers of England, Verse lo. In the Beauchamp 
 
 died with these words on his Tower is written this legend, 
 
 lips in A.D. 989. When St. by a "naked and torn" pri- 
 
 Dunstan's strong force was soner who was once emissary 
 
 withdrawn, a deluge of misery of the Queen of Scots : Princi- 
 
 fell upon England. Ethelred's piiim sapieniicB timor Domini 
 
 weakness and the Danish in- I. H. S. X. P. S. Be frend to 
 
 vasions seemed for a time to one, be ennemye to none, 
 
 undo all the good that had ever Anno D. 1571." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Easter Matins. 
 
 Latins. — Sunday Vespers ; Christmas ; Epiphany ; Easter ; 
 
 Corpus Christi ; ^iarlyrs ; Dedication Feast ; St. Michael ; 
 
 All Saints. 
 Greeks. — Saturday Matins. 
 
 PSALM CXir. Beatus vir. 
 
 BLESSED is the man that feareth the Lord : he 
 hath gi'eat dehght in his commandments. 
 
 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth : the genera- 
 tion of the faithful shall he blessed. 
 
 3 Riches and plenteousness sha'll be in his house : 
 and his righteousness endureth for ever. 
 
 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the dark- 
 ness : he is merciful, lo\'ing, and righteous. 
 
 5 A good man is merciful, and lendeth : and will 
 guide his words with discretion. 
 
 6 For he shall never be moved : and the righteous 
 shall be had in everlasting remembrance. 
 
 7 He will not be afraid of any evil tidings : for his 
 heart standeth fast, and believeth in the Lord. 
 
 8 His heart is established, and will not shrink : until 
 he see his desire upon his enemies. 
 
 9 He hath dispersed abroad, and given to the poor : 
 and his righteousness remaineth for ever ; his horn 
 shall be exalted with honour. 
 
 10 The ungodly shall see it, and it shall grieve him : 
 he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away ; the 
 desire of the ungodly shall perish. 
 
 Piers Ploughman tells us that cite his Be.itus vir. The fifth 
 Sloth knows better how to find verse is his antidote to avarice, 
 a hare in the furrow than to re- Verse 4. The motto in Lyra 
 
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Day -zy PSALM CXIII Morning Prayer- 
 
 Apostolica chosen by John was so impressed with the force 
 
 Henry Newman for "Lead, of this verse that he gave away' 
 
 kindly Light." everything he possesse I to the- 
 
 Verse 6. " The just shall be poor, so that when he died 
 
 had in everlasting remem- he left not a halfpenny behind 
 
 brance." This was the motto him. It is a verse often used 
 
 Dean Stanley chose for his on saints' days, but to none does 
 
 funeral sermon on George it better apply than to St. Anno. 
 
 Grote, whom he pi-aised as King Edward III. put the 
 
 the most impartial among his- last words of this verse on the 
 
 torians. English half-florin, Exaltabitur 
 
 Fifr,f«9. St. Anno, an eleventh in gloria, thus recalling the 
 
 century Bishop of Cologne, like whole verse to men as they 
 
 many others before and since, moved " through busiest mart." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass I. Sunday after Easter, 
 
 Low Sunday (e). 
 Latins. — Sunday Vespers ; Christmas ; Epiphany ; Easter ; 
 
 Martyrs ; Dedication Feast ; St. Michael ; All Saints. 
 Greeks. — Saturday Matins. 
 
 PSALM CXIII. Laudate, pueri 
 
 PKAISE the Lord, ye servants : praise the Name 
 of the Lord. 
 
 2 Blessed be the Name of the Lord : from this time 
 forth for evermore. 
 
 3 The Lord's Name is praised : from the rising up 
 of tlie sun unto the going down of the same. 
 
 4 The Lord is high above all heathen : and his glory 
 above the heavens. 
 
 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, that hath his 
 dwelling so high : and yet humbleth himself to behold 
 the things that are in heaven and earth ? 
 
 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust : and 
 lifteth the poor out of the mire ; 
 
 7 That he may set him with the princes : even with 
 the princes of his people. 
 
 S He maketh the barren woman to keep house : and 
 to be a joyful naother of children. 
 
 This psalm begins the Hallel, sung, and Ps. cxviii at the end 
 
 sung at the Jewish Passover, of the rite. 
 This and the ne.vt were sung A favourite psalm of the 
 
 before the discourse. Then the Ven. Bede, whose version of 
 
 cup was blessed, and Psalms it, Laudate Altithronum, was 
 
 cxv., c.wi. , and cxvii. , were sung for many ages. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM CXIV Day 2;^ 
 
 This was the last ps;ilm read as it were, and rallying cry of 
 to Wordsworlli the poet, who so many Japanese martyrs " ; 
 used to heir or read regularly but the singer's voice "faltered 
 the daily psalms. He died on in the mediation of that verse, 
 October 23, 1850. 'That He may set him with 
 
 In the persecution of the princes,' and the last clause 
 Church in Western Japan, 1624, was sung, if sung at all, among 
 four martyrs were being burned the true ' Princes of the People ' 
 — three men and a woman, in Heaven." 
 They were concealed by the Verse 3. A solis ortu usque 
 
 smoke, when " out of tlie midst ad oecas/an—lhe graveyard 
 of the fire rose that psalm dial motto on tlie wall ot St. 
 Laudate,pueri, the watchword, Gervais, Savo)'. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Easter Day evening ; Introit to the Easter 
 
 Tuesday Mass, and of St. Michael and all Angels (e). 
 Latins. — Sunday Vespers ; Christmas ; Circumcision; Epiph- 
 any ; Easter ; Apostles and Evangelists ; Martyrs ; Dedi- 
 cation Festival ; Feast of Our Lady ; St. Michael ; All 
 Saints ; Burial of Children. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; Mesorion of Ninth hour. 
 
 PSALM CXIV. In exitu Israel. 
 
 WHEN Israel came out of Egypt : and the house 
 of Jacob from among the strange people, 
 
 2 Judah was his sanctuary : and Israel his dominion. 
 
 3 The sea saw that, and fled : Jordan was driven 
 back. 
 
 4 The mountains skipped like rams : and the little 
 hiUs like young sheep. 
 
 5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest : 
 and thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back ? 
 
 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams : and ye 
 little hills, like young sheep ? 
 
 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord : 
 at the presence of the God of Jacob ; 
 
 8 Who turned the hard rock into a standing water : 
 and the flint-stone into a springing well. 
 
 This psalm and the next Apostate, a certain yoimg 
 
 form one in the Vulgate. Christian named Theodotus 
 
 This is in the Paschal Hallel, was racked for the faith and 
 
 and was therefore sung at the defied his tormentors. He 
 
 l^st Supper. chanted, the whole time, this 
 
 In the reign of Julian the psalm, as if he felt no pain. 
 
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Day, 22 PSALM CXV Evening Prayer 
 
 When the torture was over he Peregrinus was probably the 
 
 told his friends that as he was tune used, 
 
 being racked he beheld a man St. Francis Xavier travelled 
 
 in white sprinkling him with through the long desert of 
 
 water from a vessel, which Amanguchi to the Japanese 
 
 eased his torments. city of Meaco, and found the 
 
 This is the psalm which city in a state of siege. He 
 
 Dante heard the souls singing turned back again into the 
 
 as they were wafted into Pur- dreadful desert, singing, In 
 
 gatory in the angels' boat exitii. 
 
 [Purg. II.). The Duke of Gandia, when 
 
 It was the chant of triumph he joined the early Jesuits, left 
 
 of the victors at Bannockburn all his state and his great castle 
 
 (1314). of Gandia, singing the same 
 
 It was sung upon the field of psalm, adding, " Our bonds 
 Agincourt (1415), by order of are broken and we are de- 
 Henry v., when the victory livered !" 
 
 was won. When they reached Milton, at fifteen years of 
 
 the verse Noii 7iobis (Ps. cxv. age, turned this psalm into 
 
 in our translation) the whole rhymed verse (1624). 
 
 host fell upon their knees in It was a favourite of Sir 
 
 the mud, and the wounded Walter Scott, who also versi- 
 
 joined the song. The Tonus fied it. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Easter Day Evening. 
 Latins. — Sunday Vespers ; Easter. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXV. Non nobis, Domine. 
 
 NOT unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy 
 Name give the praise : for thy loving mercy, and 
 for thy truth's sake. 
 
 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say : Where is now 
 their God ? 
 
 3 As for our God, he is in heaven : he hath done 
 whatsoever pleased him. 
 
 4 Their idols are silver and gold : even the work of 
 men's hands. 
 
 5 They have mouths, and speak not : eyes liave they, 
 and see not. 
 
 6 They have ears, and hear not : noses have they, 
 and smell not. 
 
 7 They have hands, and handle not ; feet have they, 
 and walk not : neither speak they through their throat. 
 
 8 They that make them are like unto tliem : and so 
 are all such as put their trust in thpm. 
 
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Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM CXV 
 
 Day 23 
 
 9 But thou, house of Israel, trust thou in the Lord : 
 he is their succour and defence. 
 
 10 Ye house of Aaron, put your trust in the Lord : 
 he is their helper and defender. 
 
 1 1 Ye that fear the Lord, put your trust in the 
 Lord : he is their helper and defender. 
 
 12 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and he shall 
 bless us : even he shall bless the house of Israel, he 
 shall bless the house of Aaron. 
 
 13 He shall bless them that fear the Lord : both 
 small and great. 
 
 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more : you 
 and your children. 
 
 1 5 Y"e are the blessed of the Lord : who made heaven 
 and earth. 
 
 16 All the whole heavens are the Lord's : the earth 
 hath he given to the children of men. 
 
 17 The dead praise not thee, O Lord : neither all 
 they that go down into silence. 
 
 18 But we will praise the Lord : from this time forth 
 for evermore. Praise the Lord. 
 
 Part of the Hallel of the Pass- 
 over, and therefore sung by 
 our Lord at the Last Supper. 
 At the siege of Oran in Africa, 
 Cardinal Xinienes, in his ponti- 
 ficals, led the troops. He rode 
 on a war-horse, and his crosier 
 was carried before him by a 
 monk. As the town was taken 
 he advanced singing Non nobis, 
 Domine. 
 
 Verse i. Henry IV. gave this 
 motto to his son, when he 
 elevaied him to a share in the 
 government. 
 
 I'erse 3 played an important 
 part in converting men from 
 Paganism. Pontius, the Roman 
 senator's son (257 A.d. ), is one 
 instance out ot many. He 
 embraced the Cliristian Faith, 
 because of the spiritual con- 
 ception of God here revealed 
 to him. 
 
 I 
 
 Verses 4 and 5 were used by 
 Publia against Julian the Apos- 
 tate (z'/</6' Ps. Ixviii. ). Tiieyseem 
 to have been part of the recog- 
 nised defiance of the early 
 Christian Martyrs, when or- 
 dered to sacrifice to Ca;sar {i.e., 
 to swear allegiance to society). 
 Almost wherever one turns one 
 finds them thus used. Ruinart's 
 Acta Siricera notes many such 
 instances, Petrus Balsamus 
 {311 A.D.) for example. 
 
 I 'erse 16. On Easter Tuesday, 
 1517, Dr. Bell preached from 
 this a Spital sermon against 
 foreigners in London, and said, 
 "That as birds defend their 
 nestes so ought Englishmen 
 to maintaine themselves and to 
 hurt and grieue alians for re- 
 spect of their commonwealth." 
 The result was a serious riot : and 
 Bell was lodged in the Tower. 
 
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Day 2^ PSALM CXVI Morning Prayer 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Mass of St. Bartholomew (e). 
 Latins. — As part of Psalm cxiv. ((/. v.). 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXVI. Dilexi, quoniam. 
 
 I AM well pleased : that the Lord hath heard the 
 voice of my prayer ; 
 
 2 That he hath mcliiied his ear unto me : therefore 
 will I call upon him as long as I live. 
 
 3 The snares of death compassed me round about : 
 and the pains of hell gat hold upon me. 
 
 4 I shall find trouble and heaviness, and I will call 
 upon the name of the Lord : " O Lord, I beseech thee, 
 deliver my soul." 
 
 5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous : yea, our God 
 is merciful. 
 
 6 The Lord preserveth the simple : I was in miser}-, 
 and he helped me. 
 
 7 Turn again then unto thy rest, my soul : for the 
 Lord hath rewarded thee. 
 
 8 And why ? thou hast delivered my soul from 
 death : mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 
 
 9 I will walk before the Lord : in the land of the 
 living. 
 
 10 I beheved, and therefore will I speak ; Lut I 
 was sore troubled : I said in my haste, " All men are 
 liars." 
 
 1 1 What reward shall I give unto the Lord : for all 
 the benefits that he hath done unto me ? 
 
 12 I will receive the cup of salvation : and call upon 
 the Name of the Lord. 
 
 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all 
 his people : riglat dear in the sight of the Lord is tlie 
 death of his saints. 
 
 14 Behold, O Lord, how that I am thy servant : I 
 am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid ; thou 
 hast broken my bonds in sunder. 
 
 1 5 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving : 
 and will call upon the name of the Lord. 
 
 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of 
 
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Morning Pravcr 
 
 PSALM CXVI 
 
 Day 24 
 
 all his people : in the courts of the Lord's house, even 
 ill the midst of thee, Jerusalem. Praise the Lord. 
 
 This is the first psalm in the 
 Dirge [vide Ps. v.). 
 
 Our Lord and His Apostles 
 sang this before they went to 
 the Mount of Olives. It was 
 in the second part of the 
 Paschal Hallel, Psalms cxvi. 
 and cxvii. 
 
 On May 10, 1509, John, 
 Bishop of Rochester, preached 
 a most notable sermon at the 
 funeral of Henry VH., and 
 "perused the psalme [dilexi) 
 in the persone of this noble 
 man." By order of the king's 
 granddame it was printed by 
 Wynkyn de Worde. 
 
 In 1625-31 William Gouge, 
 the Blackfriars minister, wish- 
 ing to give God thanl<s for tlie 
 abatement of the plague, where- 
 of 54,265 persons had died in 
 London and the nine suburbs, 
 wrote a book on this psalm 
 called the "Saint's Sacrifice." 
 He added, as additional reasons 
 for praise, that Charles (II.) 
 was born, the Huguenots were 
 tolerated, the Dutch Protes- 
 tants had triumphed, Gustavus 
 Adolphus had won Leipsic, and 
 Protestantism was triumphant 
 in Germany. 
 
 Verse 7. St. Chrysostom says 
 it was an old custom among 
 Christians to repeat this verse 
 over their dead, at funerals. 
 
 Verse 8. This is what the 
 biographer of the learned Dr. 
 Thomas Jackson quaintly calls 
 his " cygnean cantion." He 
 was a friend of Laud, and 
 the president of Corpus Christi 
 College, O.xford, till 1640, and 
 died so poor that he left nothing 
 but his papers. 
 
 Verse 9. Placebo Domino in 
 
 rcgione vivorum was and is the 
 Latin antiphon for the funeral 
 psalms : and this is why so 
 iTiany Jesuits and others re- 
 cited it at their death sentences, 
 during the Protestant counter- 
 persecutions. 
 
 Verse 11. It is significant of 
 the mediaeval reverence with 
 which men undertook their 
 work, that when Richard de 
 Bury finished his book Philo- 
 biblon (January 24, 1345), he 
 wrote on the MSS. , Quid re- 
 tribuam Domino pro omnibus 
 qua retribuit mi hi f 
 
 Verses 11 and 12. These are 
 the words the priest says to 
 himself before he receives the 
 sacrament of Our Lord's Blood. 
 
 Verse 12. Calicem salutis 
 accipiam. This is a usual 
 motto for the Communion 
 chalice. It was engraved, for 
 instance, upon John Paston's 
 gold chalice of 1464. 
 
 Verse 13, second part. The 
 Church's comment upon many 
 of her saints. These words 
 were in the Anglo-Saxon Prime, 
 and our fathers thus faced each 
 of the days of their life with 
 them. St. Bernard exhorted 
 the Knights Templars to the 
 Crusade with the same. 
 
 Verses 14 to 16. With these 
 words St. Augustine resolved 
 upon the nevv life : and not a 
 few of God's great servants 
 could inscribe Hie incipit vita 
 nova as a rubric to these 
 verses. 
 
 I'erse 10 to end. De Thou 
 the younger (son of the his- 
 torian and composer of the 
 Edict of Nantes), recited the 
 psalm Credidi at his execii- 
 
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 N 
 
Day 24 PSALM CXVIII Moriiitig Prayer 
 
 tion, kneeling and shouting the fully, and paraphrasing them 
 words aloud fervently and joy- in French [vide Ps. cxviii. 21). 
 
 Liturgical use. — Churching of Women, before a Celebration. 
 Latins. — (Divide this after 9th verse) ; Monday Vespers ; 
 
 Apostles and Evangelists ; Martyrs ; All Saints. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXVII. Laudate Dominum. 
 
 PRAISE the Lord, all ye heathen : praise him, 
 all ye nations. 
 2 For his merciful kindness is ever more and more 
 towards us : and the truth of the Lord endureth for 
 ever. Pi-aise the Lord. 
 
 In the second part of the General " (Cromwell) " made a 
 
 Paschal Hallel, and therefore halt and sang Psalm cxvii., 
 
 sung at the I-ast Supper. till our horse could gather for 
 
 " At the foot of Doon Hill" the chase." The Puritans called 
 
 (after Dunbar battle) " the Lord it the Dunbar psalm. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass of St. Matthew (e). 
 
 Lati?is. — Monday Vespers ; Christmas; Ascension-tide; Whit- 
 suntide ; Apostles and Evangelists ; St. Michael and All 
 .\ngete; All Saints. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning; Evensong. 
 
 PSALM CXVIII. Conjitemini Domino. 
 
 OGIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious : 
 because his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 2 Let Israel now confess, that he is gracious : and 
 that his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 3 Let the house of Aaron now confess : that his 
 mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 4 Yea, let them now that fear the Lord confess : that 
 his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble : and the Lord 
 heard me at large. 
 
 6 The Lord is on my side : I will not fear what man 
 doeth unto me. 
 
 7 The Lord taketh m3'part with them that help me : 
 therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies. 
 
 8 It is better to trust in the Lord : than to put any 
 confidence in man. 
 
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}fornin<r Prayer I'SALM C'.W'III /An' 24 
 
 9 It is better to trust in the Lord : than to put any 
 contidence in princes. 
 
 10 All nations compassed me round about : but in 
 the Name of the Lord will I destroy them. 
 
 1 1 They kept me in on every side, they kept me in, 
 I say, on every side : but in the Name of the Lord will 
 I destro}' them. 
 
 12 They came about me like bees, and are extinct 
 even as the fire among the thorns : for in the Name of 
 the Lord I will destroy them. 
 
 1 3 Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall : but 
 the Lord was my help. 
 
 14 The Lord is my strength, and my song : and is 
 become my salvation. 
 
 15 The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of 
 the righteous : the right hand of the Lord bringetli 
 mighty things to pass. 
 
 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the pre-eminence : 
 the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to 
 pass. 
 
 17 I shall not die, but live : and declare the works 
 of the Lord. 
 
 1 8 The Lord hath chastened and coi'rected me : but 
 he hath not given me over unto death. 
 
 19 " Open me the gates of righteousness : that I may 
 go into them, and give thanks unto the Lord." 
 
 20 " This is the gate of the Lord : the righteous shall 
 enter into it." 
 
 21 I will thank thee, for thou hast heard me : and 
 art become my salvation. 
 
 22 The same stone which the builders refused : is 
 become the head-stone of the corner. 
 
 23 This is the Lord's doing : and it is marvellous in 
 our eyes. 
 
 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made : we 
 will rejoice and be glad in it. 
 
 25 Help me now, O Lord : O Lord, send us no^\' 
 prosperity. 
 
 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the Name of the 
 liOrd : we have wished you good luck, ye that are of 
 the house of the Lord. 
 
 27 God is the Lord who hath shewed us light : bind 
 
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Day 24 
 
 PSALM C XVI II 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 the sacrifice with cords, yea, even unto the horns of 
 the altar. 
 
 28 Thon art my God, and I will thank thee : thon 
 art my God, and I will praise thee. 
 
 29 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious : 
 and his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 This psalm was the thanks- heartened by the words, " The 
 
 giving or recessional hymn Lord knoweth them that are 
 
 after the Passover, and was His," the former, "with a far 
 
 therefore sung by Christ and deeper insight," says Neale, by 
 
 the Apostles at the end of the this verse. 
 
 Last Supper. It is most pro- 
 bably the hymn they sang on 
 the way to the Mount of Olives, 
 and our Lord no doubt pre- 
 cented it by singing the first 
 half-verse alone. 
 
 This was Charles V.'s favour- 
 ite psalm, as he told Marot. 
 
 Verse 6. St. Gordius sang 
 this verse under torture, with 
 Psalm .xxiii. ; and many other 
 martyrs with it on their lips, 
 
 Verse 12. The war cry of 
 the Huguenots at tlie battle of 
 Coutras, October 20, 1581, 
 when they won their first vic- 
 tory after twenty-five years' 
 fighting. Love of the psalms 
 was traditional among these 
 men, for, in the reigns of 
 Francis I. and Henry II., they 
 were gagged at the stake to 
 prevent them singing psalms, 
 but the fire often burnt the gags 
 
 by faith stopped the mouths of and they chanted with charred 
 
 lions, quenched the violence 
 of the fire, and subdued king- 
 doms. 
 
 On St. Martin's journey into 
 Italy, the Devil, in likeness 
 of a fellow traveller, pointed 
 out to him that he was bring- 
 ing upon himself the enmity 
 of all the lords of Hell. The 
 saint wheeled round upon him 
 and put him to flight with this 
 verse. 
 
 This verse comforted poor 
 William Cowper, and was his 
 " first religious impression," 
 when he was a much-bullied 
 little boy at Market Street 
 School, 1737. 
 
 Verse 10. St. Bernard and 
 Henry Martyn were each of 
 them in his sickness troubled 
 by doubts lest God should not 
 recognise them amid such a 
 multitude of souls coming up 
 for judgment. The latter was 
 
 lips, this and other favourites. 
 It was found safer to cut their 
 tongues out, before burning 
 them. 
 
 Whitfield mourned that this 
 was his imprecation upon his 
 schoolfellows who teased him. 
 He lived at the Bell Inn then 
 in Gloucester, but had not yet 
 become a tapster or an evan- 
 gelist. 
 
 Verse 18. " O Lord my God ! 
 such need is there of chasten- 
 ing and correcting with Thy 
 holy Grace, that if it please 
 Thy mercy that I may be 
 removed from the turmoil of 
 this life, I have remained long 
 enough with thisarmy." Bald- 
 win, the crusading Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, was overheard 
 praying in these words, fifteen 
 days before he died heart- 
 broken at the coarseness of the 
 Crusading army. 
 
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Even i 11^^ Prayer PSALM CXIX Dayis, 
 
 I'erse 22,- Queen Elizabeth's I'erse 24. This is the old 
 
 exclamation when she heard liaster Antiphon. It was cited 
 
 that Queen Waxy was dead, by "blessed" William Tluir- 
 
 and her fears were removed, keld when sentence of death 
 
 She quoted the coin motto of was passed upon liim, 1579. 
 the sovereigns of that time. 
 
 I.itur_i;ical use. — liastcr Day evening. 
 
 Latins. — Sunday at Prime; Commendation of the dying. ] 
 
 (}reeks. — Saturday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXIX. Beati immaculati. 
 
 BLESSED are those that are undefiled in the way : 
 ami walk in the law of the Lord. 
 
 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies : and 
 seek him with their whole heart. 
 
 3 For they who do no wickedness : 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 judgements of thy righteous- 
 ness. 
 
 8 I will keep thy ceremonies : O forsake me not 
 utterly. 
 
 Psalm cxix. is said to have glimpses of the Heavenly Jeru- 
 
 been composed for the use salem on their journey, 
 
 of Jewish caravans on the way .\ sick man, who recited 
 
 to the feasts at Jerusalem, and Beati immaeiilati, and said 
 
 the gradual psalms which im- Our Father six times, was, by 
 
 mediately follow it, were for the English Canons of 963 A. D., 
 
 the ascent to the Temple. It loosed from one day's fast, 
 
 is a beautiful thought and an One or two writers have 
 
 allegory, to picture the devout thought this psalm to be too 
 
 and dusty travellers, when they legal in its constant dwelling 
 
 caught sight of the Holy City, upon the idea of Duty ; but 
 
 breaking out into this great Duty is the flywheel of the 
 
 song. It has been used by spiritual machinery. It does 
 
 many travellers to the " Mother not inspire the noble life, it 
 
 of us all," the Urts Si>n regulates it ; and the psalm is 
 
 inclyta, as they, too, caught for the use of those who have 
 
Z?,7/24 PSALM CXIX Evening Prayer 
 
 already received inspiration I'erse '-^. The motto of Pope 
 
 from the sight of the City of Pius \ . 
 
 God. 
 
 Liturgical me. — Introit to Mass for I. Sunday after Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Prime ; Christmas Prime ; Commendation 
 
 of a dying scul ; Ciiild's funeral, on the way to Church. 
 Gi-eeks. — Saturday morning ; Daily Nocturns ; Burial of lay- 
 men, monks, and infants ; and also of priests. 
 
 In quo corriget ? 
 
 WHEREWITHAL shall a young man cleanse his 
 way : even by ruling himself after thy word. 
 
 10 AVith my whole heart have I sought thee : O let 
 me not go wrong out of thy conmiandments. 
 
 1 1 Thy words 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 
 judgements of thy mouth. 
 
 14 I have had as great delight in the way of thy 
 testimonies : as in all manner of riches. 
 
 1 5 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. 
 
 Among the people who learnt When Sir William Wallace 
 this Psalm cxix. by heart were was hung and drawn at Smith- 
 William Wilberforce, the phil- field, he desired a priest who 
 anthropist, who found it of was standing by to take his 
 much comfort ; Mr. Ruskin, Psalter, in which he much de- 
 who began by thinking it the lighted, and to hold it before 
 most repulsive, and ended by his eyes ; which was done until 
 thinking it the most precious, he died under the executioner's 
 of all the psalms his mother hand. The priest would be 
 taught him ; and Henry Mar- almost sure to open it at the 
 tyn, the missionary, who trans- Commendatorypsalms (August 
 lated it, with the rest of the 23, 1305). 
 Prayer-book, into Hindustani. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to Mass for H. Sunday after Trinity 
 
 .(e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Prime; Christmas Prime; Commendation 
 
 of the dyin^ ; at a child's funeral, on the way to C'hurcl). 
 Greeks. — .Saturday morning; daily Nocturns; all funerals, 
 
 clerical and lay. 
 
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Evening Prayer FSALM CXIX Day 2^ 
 
 Eetribue servo tuo. 
 
 ODO well unto thy servant : that I may live ainl 
 keep thy word. 
 18 Open thou mine eyes : that I may see the 
 wondrous thinf,'s of thy law. 
 
 iq I am a stranger upon earth : O hide not thy com- 
 mandments from me. 
 
 20 My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire : 
 that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 
 
 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : and cursed are 
 the}' 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. 
 
 Verse 17. St. Luxorius's altar to St. Stephen. .\mid an 
 verse (vide Ix.xxvi. 9). immense throng of people he 
 
 Verse 23. When St. Thomas began the Mass for St. Stephen, 
 of Canterbury c.ime to an open Etenim sederunt Friitcifies,\\'\\\\ 
 rupture with Henry II., and his strong clear voice. The 
 there was an evident conspiracy sobs and tears of the worship- 
 to insult and perhaps to kill pers showed that they applied 
 him at the .\ssize of North- the svords to their own ."^rch- 
 ampton, he had to dedicate an bishop (October 12, 1164). 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Mass on III. Sunday after Trinity 
 .(e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Prime ; Christmas ; Commendation of the 
 dying ; funeral of a child, on the way to Church. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 A dha'sit pavi men to. 
 
 MY soul cleaveth to the dust : O quicken thou me, 
 according to thy word. 
 
 26 I have acknowledged ni}' ways, and thou heardest 
 me : teach lue thy statutes. 
 
 27 Make me to understand the way of thy com- 
 mandments : and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. 
 
 28 My soul melteth away for very heaviness : com- 
 fort thou me according unto thy word. 
 
 29 Take from me the way of lying : and cause thou 
 me to make much of thy law. 
 
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A/j'25 PSALM CXIX Monnng Prayer 
 
 30 I have chosen the way of truth : and thy judge- 
 ments have I laid-before me. 
 
 31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies : O Lord, con- 
 found me not. 
 
 32 I will run the way of thy conniiandments : when 
 tliou hast set my heart at liberty. 
 
 When Theodosius the Em- had promised that all military 
 
 peror had, in violation of his executions should henceforth 
 
 promise, massacred 7,000 of be delayed for thirty days, lest 
 
 the rebellious people of Thes- they might be done out of haste 
 
 salonica, St. Ambrose refused and tyranny. The whole psalm 
 
 to admit him to the Holy Com- was a great favourite with St. 
 
 munion at Milan. For eight Ambrose, who said of it that 
 
 months he remained e.xcom- David shone here in his noon- 
 
 inunicate. At Christmas (390 day light, without the imper- 
 
 A.D. ) he came, without his fections of sunrise or abatement 
 
 royal robes, and lay prostrate of sunset. 
 
 on the church floor, plucking Adhcrsit pavimento aiiima 
 
 out his hair and shedding tears, mea : with this " spiritual jave- 
 
 and repeating, AdIuTsit pavi- lin " St. Hugh of Lincoln over- 
 
 mento. St. Ambrose gave him came a fierce temptation of the 
 
 .Absolution, but not before he flesh. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass on IV. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Prime; Christmas; Commendation of the 
 
 dying ; funeral of a child, on the way to Church. 
 G;rc/J^.— Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Legem pone. 
 
 TEACH me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes : and I 
 shall keep it unto the end. 
 
 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law : 
 yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart. 
 
 35 Make me to go in the path of thy command- 
 ments : for therein is my desire. 
 
 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies : and not 
 to covetousness. 
 
 37 O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity : 
 and quicken thou me in thy way. 
 
 38 stablish thy word in thy servant : that I may 
 fear thee. 
 
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Morning I'niycr PSALM CXI X Day i'^ 
 
 39 Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of : for 
 thy ju(l<,'('ments are good. 
 
 40 Ik'liold, my delight is in thy commandments : (> 
 (juickcn nae in thy righteousness. 
 
 St. Augustine had so great a it, because of its marvellous 
 reverence for Psalni cxi.x. , that depth and apparent utter sim- 
 he hesitated to comment on plicity. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Mass of V. Sunday after Trinity 
 
 (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Tierce (9 o'clock) ; funeral of a child, on 
 
 the way to Church. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Et veniat super me. 
 
 LET thy loving mercy come also unto me, O Lord, 
 even thy salvation, according unto thy word. 
 
 42 So shall I make answer unto my blasphemers : 
 for my trust is in thy word. 
 
 43 O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of 
 my mouth : for my hope is in thy judgements. 
 
 44 So shall I alway keep thj' law : yea, for e\ev and 
 ever. 
 
 45 And I will walk at liberty : for I seek thy com- 
 mandments. 
 
 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also, even before 
 kings : and will not be ashamed. 
 
 47 And my delight shall be in thj' conmiandments : 
 which I have loved. 
 
 48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy command- 
 ments, which I have loved : and my study shall be in 
 thy statutes. 
 
 Among the most pathetic of not take to his doggerel instead 
 
 metrical versions is the very bald of their own , for he had left out 
 
 one of James Maxwell. Hedied all mention of " brutal sacrifices 
 
 in great poverty in 1800, much and of instrumental music," and 
 
 disappointed and astonished he hoped this would endear his 
 
 that the Scotch Kirk men would book to all Scottish hearts. 
 
 Liturgical 7ise. — Introit for the Mass on VI. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Tierce; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 G;-tv^5.— Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns; all funerals. 
 
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Dayzi, PSALM CXIX Morning Prayer 
 
 Memor edo servi tui. 
 
 THINK upon thy servant, as concerning thy 
 word : wherein thou hast caused nie to put my 
 trust. 
 
 50 The same is my comfort in my trouble : for thy 
 word hath quickened me. 
 
 5 1 The proud have had me exceedingly in derision : 
 yet have I not shrinked from thy law. 
 
 52 For I remembered thine everlasting judgements, 
 O Lord : and received comfort. 
 
 53 I am horribly afraid : for the ungodly that for- 
 sake the law. 
 
 54 Thy statutes have been my songs : in the house 
 of my pilgrimage. 
 
 55 I have thought upon thy Name, O Lord, in the 
 night-season : and have kept thy law. 
 
 56 This I had : because I kept thy commandments. 
 
 Verse c^^. From this verse tlie Pilgrimage," and Bunyan's 
 
 term "pilgrimage," used for "Pilgrim's Progress" itself, 
 
 " life," has passed into common refer ultimately to this, and to 
 
 life. Othello, for insiance, the use which St. Peter made 
 
 "all his pilgrimage" dilates; of it (i Peter ii. 11). 
 Raleigh's poem, called "His 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass on VII. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity. 
 Latins. — Daily at Tierce; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Portio niea, Doni'me. 
 
 THOU art my portion, O Lord : I have promised to 
 keep thy law. 
 
 58 I made my humble petition in thy presence witli 
 my whole heart : O be merciful unto me, according to 
 thy word. 
 
 59 I called mine own ways to remembrance : and 
 turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 
 
 60 I made haste, and prolonged not tlie time : to 
 keep thy commandments. 
 
 61 The congregations of the ungodly liave robbetl 
 me : but I lia\e not forgotten thy law. 
 
 186 
 
Morning Praya- PSALM CXIX Day 2-, 
 
 62 At iiiiclni;L,'lit I will rise to give thanks unto thee : 
 because of thy righteous judf,'enients. 
 
 63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee : anil 
 keep thy connnandments. 
 
 64 Tlie earth, Lord, is full of thy mercy : teach 
 me thy statutes. 
 
 Verse 59. Pascal, who de- Christ rose; (2) Matins at 
 
 clared that the whole psalm 6 a.m., when the Jews offered 
 
 summed up the Christian vir- the morning sacrifices, and the 
 
 tues, s.iid that this verse gives women heard from Angels that 
 
 the turning-point to a man's Christ was risen ; (3) Tierce at 
 
 character and career. 9 a.m., when Christ was con- 
 
 Verse 62. This is the origin demned and scourged ; (^) Sext 
 of the midnight Hour being at noon, when Our Lord was 
 kept with prayer and praise, crucified, and the Sun was 
 It is in all the midnight offices darkened; (5) A'onc at 3 p.m., 
 of both East and West. The when He gave up the ghost ; 
 Benedictine rule, which wasnext (6) Vespers, the time of the even- 
 ancient in England tothe Saxon mg sacrifice, when Christ was 
 (vide verse 164), and was the taken from the cross ; (7) Com- 
 loundation of all others, divided pline at 7 p.m., when the agony 
 the hours thus : (ij Cock-crow in the garden began, 
 or Xoctiirns at 2 a.m., when 
 
 Liturgical jise. — Introit for the Mass on \'ni. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity. 
 Latins. — Daily at Tierce ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 BonUalemfecidi. 
 
 OLORIX thou hast dealt gracioush- with thy servant : 
 according unto thy word. 
 
 66 learn me true understanding and knowledge : 
 for I have believed thy commandments. 
 
 67 Before I was troubled, I went wrong : but now 
 liave I kept thy word. 
 
 68 Thou art good and gracious : teach me thy 
 statutes. 
 
 69 The proud have imagined a lie against me : but 
 I will keep thy commandments with my whole heart. 
 
 70 Their heart is as fat as brawn : but my delight 
 hath been in thy law. 
 
 71 It is good for me that I have been in trouble : 
 that I may learn thy statutes, 
 
 187 
 
Day 2$ PSALM CXIX Evening Prayer 
 
 J 2 The law of thy mouth is dearer unto nie : than 
 thousands of gold and silver. 
 
 Verseji. PVancisI. of France of the Certosa, where the choir 
 was taken prisoner at Pavia, were singing this psalm. He 
 1525, and taken to the Ciiurch joined in loudly at this verse. 
 
 Liturgical i/sc. — Introit for IX. Sunday after Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Tierce ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 Church. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 T' 
 
 Mamis tuce fecerunt me. 
 
 IHY hands have made me and fashioned me : O 
 J_ give me understanding, that I may learn thy 
 commandments. 
 
 74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see 
 me : because I have put my trust in thy word. 
 
 75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgements are right : 
 and that thou of very faithfulness hast caused me to 
 be troubled. 
 
 76 O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort : 
 according to thy word unto thy servant. 
 
 JJ O let thy loving mercies come unto me, that I 
 may live : for thy law is my delight. 
 
 78 Let the proud be confounded, for they go 
 wickedly about to destroy me : but I will be occupied 
 in thy commandments. 
 
 79 Let such as fear thee, and have known thy testi- 
 monies : be turned unto me. 
 
 80 O let my heart be sound in thy statutes : that I 
 be not ashamed. 
 
 yerse 78. Confundantiir sii- screwing his neck about very 
 perbi. When Charlemagne queerly, until theothers laughed 
 was hearing Mass, an outland aloud. The Emperor in aloud 
 monk came who had not yet voice stopped the Mass, sent 
 learnt to sing. The choir-mns- for the strange monk, and 
 ter, seeing him silent, smote thanked him for the pains he 
 him with a staff and bade him had taken to sing, and gave 
 join in the praises of God, him money for his melody, 
 which he did, out of tune. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for X. Sunday after Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Tierce; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 Church. 
 
 <^7;w^j.— Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 188 
 
F.vcnirii; Prayer PSALM CX IX /->"/ 25 
 
 iJefedt anlma iiiea. 
 
 MY soul hath longed for thy salvation : and I have 
 a good hope because of thj' word. 
 
 82 Mine eyes long sore for thv word : saying, O 
 when wilt thou comfort me ? 
 
 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke : yet 
 do I not forget thy statutes. 
 
 84 How many are the days of thy servant : when 
 wilt thou be avenged of them that persecute me '? 
 
 85 The proud have digged pits for me : which are 
 not after thy law. 
 
 86 All thy commandments are true : they persecute 
 me falsely ; O be thou my help. 
 
 87 They had almost made an end of me upon earth : 
 but I forsook not thy connnandments. 
 
 88 O quicken me after thy loving-kindness : and so 
 shall I keep the testimonies of th}- mouth. 
 
 Dr. Johnson thus defended to help the memory and delight 
 
 the prose version of the PsaUer the ear, and for these purposes 
 
 against the fashionable metri- it may be very useful, but it 
 
 cal translators : " Of sentiments supplies nothing to the mind, 
 
 purely religious, it will be found The ideas of Christian theology 
 
 that the most simple e.xpression are too simple for eloquence 
 
 is the most sublime. Poetry and too majestic for ornament ; 
 
 loses its lustre and its power to recommend them by tropes 
 
 because it is applied to some- and figures is to magnify by a 
 
 thing more excellent than itself, concave mirror the sidereal 
 
 All that pious verse can do is hemisphere." 
 
 I.ituri;ical use. — Introit for the Mass on XI. .Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Sext ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 In aif'nuim, Domine. 
 
 OLOPiD, thy word : endureth for ever in heaven. 
 90 Thy truth also reinaineth from one genera- 
 tion to another : thou hast laid the foundation of the 
 earth, and it abideth. 
 
 91 They continue this day according to thine ordin- 
 ance : for all things serve thee. 
 
 92 If my delight had not been in th}- law : I should 
 have perished in my trouble. 
 
 189 
 
Day 2^ PSALM CXI X Eveniu^^ Prayer 
 
 93 I will never forget thj- coramandnients : for with 
 them thou hast quickened nie. 
 
 94 I am thine, save me : for I have sought thy 
 commandments. 
 
 95 The ungodlj' laid wait for me to destroy me : but 
 I will consider thy testimonies. 
 
 96 I see that all things come to an end : but thy 
 commandment is exceeding broad. 
 
 Verse 92. The verse Luther the power of the earth. I 
 
 selected as his motto for his would not exchange it for the 
 
 own Bible, which is now in tlie whole earth if I could." 
 
 museum at Berlin. He wrote I'erse 93. St. Theodore {a 
 
 to the Abbot of Nuremberg .t//^ii'/t)), who died in 826, begged 
 
 thus about the whole psahn : his friends to sing him Beati 
 
 " I have more especial'y at- imniaculati, and died at this 
 
 tached myself to this psalm, verse while they were doing so. 
 
 and have in truth a sort of ]'ersc f)'^. This is beautifully 
 
 right to call it my own. It has chosen as the introit to the Mass 
 
 deserved well of me: it has both for the holy St. Agnes and 
 
 saved me from many a diffi- also for St. Mary Magdalen's 
 
 culty whence neither the em- Day, in the Latin use. 
 
 peror nor king nor wise men Verse 96. Dean Stanley's 
 
 nor saints could have extricated favourite verse. It is the 
 
 me. It is, my friend, dearer to epitaph above his wife's grave 
 
 me than all the honours, all and his own. 
 
 Litu7-gical vse. — Introit for XII. Sunday after Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Sext ; fimeral of a child, on the way to 
 Church. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Xocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Quomodo il'dexi ! 
 
 LORD, what love have I unto thy law : all the day 
 long is my study in it. 
 
 98 Thou through th}' commandments hast made me 
 wiser than mine enemies : for they are ever with me. 
 
 99 I have more understanding than my teachers : 
 for thy testimonies are my study. 
 
 100 I am wiser than the aged : because I keep thy 
 commandments. 
 
 loi I have refrained my feet from every evil way : 
 that I may keep thy word. 
 
 102 I have not shrunk from tliy judgements : for 
 thou teachest me. 
 
 103 how sweet are thy words unto my throat : 
 yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth. 
 
 190 
 
Morning; Prayer I'SALM CXIX Dayib 
 
 104 Through thy commanduients I get miderstand- 
 ing : therefore I hate all evil ways. 
 
 (>//(3;//()rt'6'rt'//tM7 was a passage into Hindustani and Persian, 
 particularly loved by Henry but died shortly afterwards 
 Martyn, the Indian missionary. (1781-1812). 
 He was a Cornishman, born at I'crse 103 is David's scroll- 
 Truro, and became Fellow and motto in the title-page of Cover- 
 Tutor at St. John's College, dale's Bible (1535) " O how 
 Cambridge. Tlie influence of swete are thy vvordes vnto my 
 Charles Simeon sent him out to throte : ye more then hony," 
 India, where he translated the etc. This liible was the pre- 
 Psalter and the New Testament cursor of all English Bibles. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass on XIII, Sunday after 
 Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Sext ; funeral of a child, on the way to Church. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Lucerna pedibus nieis. 
 
 n^HY word is a lantern imto my feet : and a liglit 
 _L unto my paths. 
 
 106 I have sworn, and am steadfastly purposed : to 
 keep thy righteous judgements. 
 
 107 I am troubled above measure : (quicken me, O 
 Lord, according to thy word. 
 
 108 Let the free-will oti'erings of my mouth please 
 thee, O Lord : and teach me thy judgements. 
 
 109 ^ly soul is alway in my hand : yet do I not 
 forget thy law. 
 
 1 10 The ungodly have laid a snare for me : but yet 
 I swerved not from thy connuandments. 
 
 1 1 1 Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage 
 for ever : and why '? they are the very joy of my heart. 
 
 1 1 2 I have applied my heart to fulfil thy statutes 
 alway : even unto the end. 
 
 J'erse 105. The coin motto Bible in the English Church, 
 for the half-sovereigns of but also the hope that the 
 Edward VI. is Lucerna pcdi- nation had passed its troubles, 
 bus mcis vcrbum Tuutn. This and would be quickened 
 represented not only the new- " according to Thy word." 
 found delight in the use of the 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass on XIV. Sunday after 
 Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Se.xt ; funeral of a child, on the way to Church. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 191 
 
Day 26 PSALM CXIX Morning Prayer 
 
 Iniquos odio Jiabui. 
 
 I HATE tliem that imagine evil things : but thy 
 law do I love. 
 
 114 Thou art my defence and shield : and my trust 
 is in thy word. 
 
 1 1 5 Away from me, ye wicked : I will keep the com- 
 mandments of my God. 
 
 1 16 stablish me according to thy word, that I may 
 live : and let me not be disappointed of my hope. 
 
 1 17 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe : yea, my 
 delight shall be ever in thy statutes. 
 
 118 Thou hast trodden down all them that depart 
 from thy statutes : for they imagine but deceit. 
 
 119 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth 
 like dross : therefore I love thy testimonies. 
 
 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee : and I am 
 afraid of thy judgements. 
 
 I'erse 116. " Receive me ac- Vermondes and Tournay, who 
 cording to Tiny loving-icind- died November 30tl:, 659 A.D. 
 ness, and let me not be disap- His name is known to Englisii 
 pointed of my liope." Tliese folk ciiiefly because of Chaucer's 
 were the last words of St. NonnePrioresse, whose heaviest 
 Eligius, the Bishop of Noyou, oatii was " but, by Saint Eloy." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass on XV. Sunday after 
 Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Sext ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 Church. 
 
 Greeks. — .Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Fad jadiciuin. 
 
 IDEAL with the thing that is lawful and right : O 
 give me not over to mine oppressors. 
 
 122 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which 
 is good : that the proud do me no wrong. 
 
 123 Mine eyes are wasted awaj' with looking for 
 thy health : and for the word of thy righteousness. 
 
 124 O deal with thy servant according unto thy 
 loving mercy : and teach me thy statutes. 
 
 125 I am thy servant, O grant me understanding : 
 that I may know thy testimonies. 
 
 126 It is time for thee. Lord, to lay to thine hand : 
 for they have destroyed thy law. 
 
 192 
 
Morning Prayer PSALM CXI X Dayit 
 
 r27 For I love thy commandments : above gold and 
 precious stone. 
 
 128 Therefore hold I straight all thy command- 
 ments : and all false ways I utterly abhor. 
 
 Verse 125. This verse ex- dilating and thorough under- 
 pressed the aspirations of the standing of one single verse 
 Oxford Reformers of 1498, only will profit more," says 
 whose great plea was for Erasmus, " than the being able 
 thorough understanding rather to repeat the whole book of 
 than mechanical repetition of Psalms, but without knowing the 
 holy words. " The careful me- meaning of one word thereof." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass on XVI. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Sext ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Mirahxlia. 
 
 THY testimonies are wonderful : therefore doth my 
 sonl keep them. 
 
 1 30 When \X\\ word goeth forth : it giveth light and 
 understanding unto the shnple. 
 
 131 I opened my mouth, and drew in my breath : 
 for my delight was in thy commandments. 
 
 1 32 look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me : 
 as thou usest to do unto those that love thy Name. 
 
 133 Order my steps in thy word : and so shall no 
 wickedness have dominion over me. 
 
 134 O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of 
 men : and so sliall I keep thj- commandments. 
 
 135 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy 
 servant : and teach me thy statutes. 
 
 136 Mine eyes gush out with water : because men 
 keep not thy law. 
 
 In 1632 George Wither pub- And (being assured my labour 
 
 lished a double metrical version shal not all be lost) I will sing 
 
 of the Psalms, encouraged by and be Merry by myselfe, in 
 
 the late king, and dedicated the use of this Translation, un- 
 
 with zealous loyalty to Eliza- till others please to sing it with 
 
 beth, Queen of Bohemia. He mee ; or untill a more exact 
 
 closes his preface thus : " If I Version shall be produced and 
 
 have pleased my Readers I am allowed." He added to each 
 
 glad : if not ; Yet I am glad I psalm a pious meditation of 
 
 have honestly endeavoured it. his own. This is his comment 
 
 193 O 
 
Day 26 PSALM CXIX Morning Prayer 
 
 on Mirabilia: " Sweet Jesus, are in danger to partake thy 
 
 though we desire to seeme wise ; suffrings. O look upon us 
 
 wee are very simple in the best therefor, with such an aspect, 
 
 knowledge : Oh encrease our as thou didst cast on thy Apostle 
 
 understandings. Though wee St. Peter, that weeping bitterly 
 
 professe great Affection to thee for our Sinnsand unkindnesses, 
 
 and thy Lawe ; yet wee soone as he did ; we may obtaine the 
 
 deny (yea forswear) both, if we same forgiveness." Amen. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass on XVII. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Nones (3 o'clock afternoon) ; the funeral of 
 
 a child, on the way to Church. 
 (;r^^/Jj.— Saturday morning; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Justus es, Domine. 
 
 RIGHTEOUS art thou, Lord : and true is thy 
 judgement. 
 
 138 The testinaonies that thou hast commanded : 
 are exceeding righteous and true. 
 
 1 39 My zeal hath even consumed me : because luine 
 enemies have forgotten thy words. 
 
 140 Thy word is tried to the uttermost : and thy 
 servant loveth it. 
 
 141 I am small, and of no reputation : yet do I not 
 forget thy commandments. 
 
 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteous- 
 ness : and thy law is the truth. 
 
 143 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon 
 me : yet is my delight in thy commandments. 
 
 144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlast- 
 ing : grant me understanding, and I shall live. 
 
 Justus es Domine et rectum captives, broken in mind, body, 
 
 yVc^Z/V/ww /w/^w was the frequent and faith, serving the enemy in 
 
 meditation of St. .A.ugustine and evil and harsh fashion. Of the 
 
 his friends during the great many thousand churches only 
 
 siege of Hippo, during which three remained standing, 
 he died: having lived to see I'erse J27- The Emperor 
 
 the cities of his diocese over- Maurice, whose five sons were 
 
 whelmed in ruin with their first slain before his face, died 
 
 builders, the inhabitants cither with these words on his lips 
 
 fled, dead or scattered, the (602 A. n.). 
 churches without priest or Verse 140. Ignilum eloqttium 
 
 minister, the monks and nuns tuum vchementer. Scripture 
 
 all dispersed; of the people itself "is like an apothecary's 
 
 some killed with tortures, some shop, wherein are all remedies 
 
 slain by the sword, and some for all infirmities of mind, pur- 
 
Kvcniiijf Pniycr PSALM CXIX Day 26 
 
 galives, cordials, alteratives, ignilutn colloquium ; Origen, a 
 corroboratives, lenitives, etc. charm. And therefore Hieroin 
 ' Every disease of the soul,' prescribes kusticus the monk 
 saiih Austin, 'hath a peculiar continuilly to read the Scrip- 
 medicine in Scripture : this only ture and to meditate on that 
 is required, that the sick man which he hatli read : 'for as 
 take the potion which God mastication is to meat, so is 
 hath already tempered.' Gre- meditation on that which we 
 gfory calls it a glass wherein read ' " (Z/z/rA';;). 
 we may see all our infirmities, 
 
 Lifiirvical use. — Introit to the Mass on X\'III. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e). 
 La/ins. — Daily at Nones ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Clamavi in toto corde meo. 
 
 rCALL with my whole heart : hear me, Lord, I 
 will keep thy statutes. 
 
 146 Yea, even unto thee do I call : help me and I 
 shall keep thy testimonies. 
 
 147 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee : for 
 in thy word is my trust. 
 
 148 Mine eyes prevent the night-watches : that I 
 might be occupied in thy words. 
 
 149 Hear my voice, O Lord, according unto thy 
 lo\iug-kindness : quicken me, according as thou art 
 wont. 
 
 1 50 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me : 
 and are far from thy law. 
 
 151 Be thou nigh at hand, Lord : for all tliy com- 
 mandments are true. 
 
 152 As concerning thy testimonies, I have known 
 long since : that thou hast grounded them for ever. 
 
 Dr. Richard Holdsworth, the and yet quautillum Scripturtr, 
 
 lllizabethan Bishop of Bristol, how little of the word of (jod, 
 
 made this meditation, when they had in that age, — the 
 
 near to his "patient death." Pentateuch, the book of Job 
 
 " I admire, " said he, "at David's and some of the Hagiography ! 
 
 gracious heart, who so often in How much have we now thereof 
 
 Scripture (but especially in the since the accession of the Pro- 
 
 iio Psalm) e.xtolleth the worth phets, but especially of the New 
 
 and value of the word of God ; Testament ! And yet, alas ! 
 
 195 
 
Day 26 PSALM CXIX Evening Prayer 
 
 the more we have of the word retained an ardent love for the 
 of God the less it is generally psalms all his days, and used to 
 regarded." say in his latest days that he 
 
 The late Bishop Medley, was just beginning to compre- 
 when he was a child of six, hend something of their depth 
 learned the whole of Psalm and beauty. 
 cxix. at his mother's knee. He 
 
 Liturgical rise. — Introit to the Mass on XIX. Sunday after 
 Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Nones ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 Church. 
 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 Vide hximilitateiii. 
 
 CONSIDER mine adversity, and deliver lue : for 
 I do not forget thy law. 
 
 154 Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me : ([uicken 
 me, according to thy word. 
 
 155 Health is far from the imgodly : for they regard 
 not thy statutes. 
 
 156 Great is thy mercy, O Lord : quicken me, as 
 thou art wont. 
 
 157 Many there are that trouble me, and persecute 
 me : yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies. 
 
 158 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors : 
 because they keep not thy law. 
 
 159 Consider, O Lord, how I love thy connuand- 
 ments : O quicken me, according to thy loving-kind- 
 ness. 
 
 160 Thy word is true from everlasting : all the 
 judgements of thy righteousness endure for evermore. 
 
 "In theinnersanctuary,"says have here accomplished there 
 Mr. Gladstone, writing of the is no parallel on earth." 
 Mosaic system, "provided for I'erse \6o. This was a strong- 
 
 the most capable human souls, hold of orthodox people against 
 was reared the strong spiritual the .Arians. " Thy Word," of 
 life, which appears to have course, was used as meaning 
 developed itself pre-eminently Christ, and rightly to under- 
 in the depth, richness, tender- stand the liturgical use of this 
 ness and comprehensiveness of psalm one must bear this con- 
 the Psalms. To the work they siantly in mind. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass on the XX. Sunday 
 after Trinity (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Nones ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 ("hurch. 
 
 <7/Y^/t5.— Saturday morning ; daily Xoctnrns ; all funerals. 
 
 196 
 
F.ve ui, I i; Prayer I'SALM CXIX Dayoh 
 
 Fr'mcipes persecuti sunf. 
 
 PRINCES have persecuted me without a cause : but 
 iny heai't standeth in awe of thy word. 
 
 162 I ain as glad of thy word : as one that findeth 
 jjfreat spoils. 
 
 163 As for lies, I hate and abhor them : but thy law 
 do I love. 
 
 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee : because of 
 thy righteous judgements. 
 
 165 Great is the peace that they have who love thy 
 law : and they are not offended at it. 
 
 166 Lord, I have looked for thy saving health : and 
 done after thy commandments. 
 
 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies : and loved 
 them exceedingly. 
 
 168 I have kept thy commandments and testi- 
 monies : for all my ways ai*e before thee. 
 
 I'ei'se 164. This verse gave when Christ died, and the day 
 
 the seven-fold division of the declines and men begin to tire, 
 
 day into the canonical hours. Nones is due, and we ask for 
 
 The seven gifts of the Holy Strength. At 6 p.m. the day is 
 
 (jhost were implored, one at full old, Cotnpline comes, and 
 
 each of tliese hours, and the we ask for Knowledge. At 
 
 choice is beautiful and appro- 9 p.m. is the Evensong, and 
 
 priate. At 6 a.m., when Prime we ask for the Piety which 
 
 is said, we should implore beautifies old age. At mid- 
 
 tiie Spirit of Wisdom, as we night is Nightsong, and all 
 
 enter upon the kingship of evil things are abroad. Then 
 
 another day. At 9 a.m., when we ask for Holy Fear (see 
 
 Tierce (Undern, the English verse 62). The Roman hours 
 
 called it) is said, as the light are Matins (Lauds), Prime, 
 
 grows, we ask for Understand- Tierce, Se.\t, Nones, Vespers, 
 
 ing. At noon, when Sext is said, and Compline. 
 
 and men meet for dinner, we rerse 16^. This is the sundial 
 
 nsk for Counsel. At 3 o'clock, motto of the cathedral at Padua. 
 
 f.ittir^^ical use. — Introit to the Mass on XXI. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Nones ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 (ireeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 197 
 
Day 27 PSALM CXX Moniiiig Prayer 
 
 A'ppropinq net deprecatio. 
 
 LET my complaint come before thee, Lord : give 
 me understanding, according to thy word. 
 
 170 Let my supphcation come before thee : dehver 
 me, according to thy word. 
 
 171 My Hps shall speak of thy praise : when thou 
 hast taught me thj' statutes. 
 
 172 Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word : for all 
 thy commandments are righteous. 
 
 173 Let thine hand help me : for I have chosen thy 
 commandments. 
 
 174 I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord : 
 and in thy law is my delight. 
 
 175 O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee : and 
 thy judgements shall help me. 
 
 176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost : 
 O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy command- 
 ments. 
 
 A famous book in its day cated his book to David 
 
 was William Cowper's " Holy (Murray), Lord Scone. He 
 
 .Alphabet for Sion's Scholars," contends, with St. Ambrose, 
 
 a dissertation upon this psalm, that this psalm is subdivided 
 
 The author was Bishop of in order to be applied to 
 
 Galloway, and in 1613 dedi- different periods of man's life. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass for the XXII. Sunday 
 
 after Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Daily at Nones ; funeral of a child, on the way to 
 
 Church. 
 Greeks. — Saturday morning ; daily Nocturns ; all funerals. 
 
 PSALM CXX. Ad Domimm. 
 
 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 tliee, 
 thou false tongue : even mighty and sharp arrows, with 
 hot burning coals. 
 
 4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with 
 Mesech : and to have my habitation among the tents 
 of Kedar. 
 
 198 
 
Moniiii^ Prayer PSALM CXXI Z?.// 27 
 
 5 My soul hath long dwelt among them : that are 
 enemies unto peace. 
 
 6 I labour for peace, but when I speak imto them 
 thereof : they make them ready to battle. 
 
 This is the first of the fifteen rest. O I^ord, and lighten them 
 
 gradual psalms, or songs of de- with everlasting light." The first 
 
 grees, which prepared the wor- five are said without Gloria, 
 shippers for the sacrifice. They I'crse 4. Isaac Walton uses 
 
 are divided into three flights of this of Joan Churchman (Mrs. 
 
 five psalms each. Richard Hooker), who, like 
 
 If Psalm cxix. was com- Solomon's dripping house, 
 posed for the Jewish caravans, caused her husband to say 
 as they converged upon the with the holy Prophet, "Woe 
 Holy City, the songs of degrees is me, that I am constrained to 
 (Pss. cxx.-cxxxiv. ) were for the have my habitation in the tents 
 ascent up to the Temple, from of Kedar. " 
 the valleys to the summit. The This verse was quoted by 
 Temple was said in the Middle "Blessed" Richard Kirkman, 
 Ages to have had fifteen steps who was hung at Tyburn for 
 up to it, as one may see in saying Roman Mass, and re- 
 Titian's " Presentation of the fusing the oath of supremacy, 
 Virgin Mary," for instance, 1579. 
 
 and these fifteen or gradual I'crse S. M it I tit in in cola fait 
 
 psalms were a preparation for aniina mea — a verse often in 
 
 Sacrifice. They are said by the the mouth of Lord Bacon, e._^., 
 
 Latins in Lent on Wednesdays, in the Essay of "Nature and 
 
 with the antiphon Requiem Man " ; the letter to Bodley, 
 
 ctternam, etc. — "Grant them etc. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass on the II. Sunday in 
 Advent (e). 
 
 Latins. — Monday Vespers ; Maundy Thursday. 
 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXI. Levavi oculos. 
 
 I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills : from 
 whence cometh my help. 
 
 2 Mj' help cometh even from the Lord : who hath 
 made heaven and earth. 
 
 3 He will not sutfer thy foot to be moved : and he 
 that keepeth thee will not sleep. 
 
 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel : shall neitlier 
 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. 
 
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^'y 27 PSALM CXXII Morning Prayer 
 
 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 eAermore. 
 
 This second gradual psalm Unseen both heaven and 
 
 has been called the Traveller's earth." 
 
 psalm; and Hooper, the Puri- ,>,• r> . •• j- • ■ 
 
 tan Bishop of Gloucester, was ^^''^ Rossetti s meditation in 
 
 accustomed, like many others, °"'' more subjective time upon 
 
 to use it when he set out upon ^^^ ^^"^'^ '^^g'"^ ' 
 
 a journey. Livingstone read it "I am pale with sick desire, 
 
 to his family before he left for For my heart is far away 
 
 Africa. From this world's fitful fire, 
 
 Henry Vaughan, the Silurist, And this world's waning 
 
 loved this psalm, and meditated day. " 
 
 unonh in Si/ex Scinfi/lans: t i i- 
 
 " Up to those bright and glad- Domino — a motto chosen by 
 
 some hills, Edward the Black Prince for 
 
 Whence flowes my weal the English coins of 1362. 
 
 and mirth, Verse 4. Non dortnit qui 
 
 I look and sigh for Him, who cnsiodit is the motto of the 
 
 fills Coghill family. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass on the Sunday after 
 
 Christmas Day (e). 
 Latins. — Monday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening ; daily Nocturns. 
 
 PSALM CXXII. Lcetuiussum. 
 
 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 citj- : 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 judgement : 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. 
 
.]/or>iini; Prayer 
 
 I'SALM CXXIll 
 
 Day "irj 
 
 8 For my brethren and companions' sakes : I \\\\\ 
 wish thee prosperity. 
 
 9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God : I 
 will seek to do thee good. 
 
 A gradual psalm (vide cxx. ). 
 
 I'crsc \. When St. Richard, 
 the liishop of Lincoln, was told 
 by the physicians that his end 
 was near, he cried out these 
 words. They asked him if he 
 needed anything, and he an- 
 swered with St. Philip, "Show 
 us the Father, and it sufficeth 
 us." \Miercupon they showed 
 him the crucifi.v, which he de- 
 voutly kissed, and presently 
 died. This use of the psalm 
 was not uncommon. 
 
 Dean Stanley when he 
 preached the funeral sermon 
 of Sir G. Gilbert Scott, chose 
 this as the motto for his 
 sermon, which was upon the 
 religious aspect of Gothic 
 Arcliitecture. 
 
 Verse 7. Fiat pax in virlute 
 tua (Peace be in thy strength) 
 is the legend on English coins 
 of 1.^22, when baby Henry VI. 
 was crowned in Paris King of 
 England and France. 
 
 f.iturgical use. — Introit to the Mass for the Circumcision (e). 
 
 Coronation Service. 
 Latins. — Tuesday Vespers ; Circumcision ; Festivals o( our 
 
 I^ady, 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXIII. Ad te levavi ocidos meos. 
 
 UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes : thou that 
 dwellest in the heavens. 
 
 2 Behold, eveia 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. 
 
 A gradual psalm (vide c.\x. ). 
 
 This psalm was the last said 
 at the gallows by "the blessed " 
 William Hart, one of tlie many 
 Romanist victims of Elizabeth's 
 reign, who was hung at York, 
 1583, for denying the supre- 
 macy, and suspected treason. 
 
 Latins. — Tuesday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 It was not uncommonly used 
 as an antidote to death. Vicars 
 (vide l.\iv. ) paraphrased it, on 
 the other hand, as a psalm of 
 " thanksgiving for the great 
 deliverance from the Popish 
 Powder Plot." 
 
Day^^ PSALM CXXV Morning Prayer 
 
 PSAliM QXXIV. Nki qiiia Dominus. 
 
 IF the Lord himself had not been on our side, now 
 may Israel say : if the Lord himself had not been 
 on our side, when men rose up against us ; 
 
 2 They had swallowed us up quick : when they were 
 so wrathfully displeased at us. 
 
 3 Yea, the waters had drowned us : and the stream 
 had gone over our soul. 
 
 4 The deep waters of the proud : had gone even over 
 oirr soul. 
 
 5 But praised be the Lord : who hath not given us 
 over for a prey unto their teeth. 
 
 6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the 
 snare of the fowler : the snare is broken, and we are 
 delivered. 
 
 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who 
 hath made heaven and earth. 
 
 This is the psalm of English I'erse 6. The words with 
 
 Victory at Sea, and so almost which the Dutce of Gandia 
 
 the psalm of England herself, gave up his great possession 
 
 It ends the first division of the to join the Society of Jesus 
 
 gradual psalms (see cxx. ). (see Ps. cxiv ) ; and the dying 
 
 The proper psalms for the words of McCheyne, the Scotch 
 
 Restoration of Charles II. were Divine, 
 cxxiv. , cxxvi. , cxxix. , and cxviii. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass on XXIII. Sunday after 
 
 Trinity (e) ; Thanksgiving for a Naval Victory. 
 Latins. — Tuesday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXV. Qui confidunt. 
 
 THEY that put their trust in the Lord shall be even 
 as the mount Sion : which may not be removed, 
 but standeth fast for ever. 
 
 2 The hills stand about Jerusalem : even so standeth 
 the Lord round about his people, from this time fortli 
 for evermore. 
 
 3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the 
 lot of the righteous : lest tlie righteous put their hand 
 unto wickedness. 
 
Fveniiig Prayer PSALM CXXVI Day 27 
 
 4 Do well, O Lord : unto those that are good and 
 true of heart. 
 
 5 As for such as turn l)ack unto tlieir own wicked- 
 ness : the Lord shall load them forth with the evil- 
 doers ; but peace shall be upon Israel. 
 
 A gradual psalm [vide cxx. ). "Of vertuys thereof this is the 
 
 In those old dramas, Coven- pygth. 
 
 try mysteries, the Blessed Vir- It mayketh sowles fayr, that 
 
 gin Mary enters and says the doth it say : 
 
 gradual psalms, with this pre- Angelys besteryd to help us 
 
 face : therwith ; 
 
 ., vT T J r^ J J It lytenyth therknenesse, and 
 
 Now Lord (jod, dysspose n fi j- i 
 
 ' ■' ^ pullyth divelys away, 
 
 me to prayour f j : } 
 
 Tliat I may sey the holy In these dramas the gradual 
 
 psalmes of Davyth psalms are recommended to be 
 
 Wheche book is clepyd the said in memory of the maid 
 
 Sawtere ; Mary, and then Maria is the 
 
 That I may preyse the, my antiphon. 
 God, therwith. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass for the XXIV. Sunday 
 
 after Trinity (e). 
 Latins. — Tuesday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXVI. In convertendo. 
 
 WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of 
 Sion : then were we like unto them that dream. 
 
 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter : and our 
 tongue with joj'. 
 
 3 Then said they among the heathen : The Lord 
 hath done great things for them. 
 
 4 Yea, the Lord hath done great things for us 
 already : whereof we rejoice. 
 
 5 Turn our captivitj-, Lord : as the rivers in the 
 south. 
 
 6 They that sow in tears : shall reap in joy. 
 
 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping, and 
 beareth forth good seed : shall doubtless come again 
 with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. 
 
 A gradual psalm (see cxx.). fire into a repository which 
 
 In 1653 Jeremy Taylor wrote might help to re-enkindle the 
 
 his " Life of Christ," " desirous Incense when it shall please 
 
 to put a portion of the holy God Religion shall return and 
 
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Day 2 J 
 
 PSALM CXXVII 
 
 Evt'iiifis Pi aver 
 
 all his servants shall sing In 
 convertendo captivitatem Sioii 
 with a voice of eucharist." 
 
 This psalm vifas a favourite 
 with thi Abolitionists. Sir 
 Thomas Fowell Buxton, the 
 philanthropic brewer, quoted 
 
 Latins. — Tuesday Vespers ; Apostles and Evangelists. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 the second verse when he heard 
 that the slaves were freed and 
 the work accomplished. 
 
 Perhaps a favourite of Tliack- 
 eray's {vide "Esmond," ii., 
 chap. 6). 
 
 PSALM CXXVII. Nisi Dominm. 
 
 EXCEPT the Loi'd 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 conieth 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. 
 
 A gradual psalm {vide cxx.). 
 
 This was the psalm which 
 Clement III. used in his exhor- 
 tation to the English Bishops 
 to succour the Holy Land. 
 Upon this our Richard Cceur 
 de Lion took the cross. 
 
 .Yisi Dominies friistra is the 
 motto of several noble families, 
 e.g.. Baron Rawdon and the 
 ^loira family and of the Comp- 
 tons. It is also a very common 
 old house motto, e.g., it is 
 over the Cameronian Meeting 
 House in Edinburgh. It is the 
 motto of that city itself. It is 
 the legend over the chaplain's 
 door to the Tower Chapel dedi- 
 cated to St. Peter ad Vincula. 
 It is also a common ring and 
 trencher motto. 
 
 When Ferdinand II. fled 
 from his kingdom of Naples, 
 he chanted this psalm again 
 and again across the bay, and 
 continued it until he came to 
 Ischia. 
 
 Verse 3. Mrs. Browning's 
 favourite verse. 
 
 "Of all the thoughts of God 
 
 that are 
 Home inward into souls 
 
 afar, 
 .Along the Psalmist's music 
 
 deep, 
 Now tell me, if that any is 
 For gift or grace surpassing 
 
 this— 
 ' He giveth His beloved 
 
 sleep ']>" 
 
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Evening J'njytr PSALM CXXVIII J >,iy 27 
 
 l.ittirgical use. — Introit for the Mass on the XXV. Sunday 
 after Trinity (e). The Churching of Women. 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday Vespers ; Circumcision ; Feasts of Our 
 Lady. 
 
 ^7/rf,{'j-.— Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXVIII. Ihatl omnes. 
 
 BLESSED are all they that fear the Lord : and 
 walk ill his ways. 
 
 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands : O 
 widl is thee, and happy shalt thon be. 
 
 3 Tliy 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. 
 
 A gradual psalm (vide cxx. ). to scour the saucepans when it 
 
 rerse 2. Piers Ploughman was his work to cook for the 
 
 quotes this to the idle classes brethren. St. Bernard called 
 
 to show that God means all to him up, and gave him a tre- 
 
 work ; "in dyking or delving mendous rebuke, not only on 
 
 or travailling in prayers, con- the dangerous and outrageous 
 
 templative life or active, Christ sin of pride, but upon the 
 
 would men wrought. The absolute necessity of living by 
 
 ' freke ' (or manly fellow) that labour, enjoined upon all 
 
 feedeth himself with his faith- Christian men ; and pointed 
 
 ful labour, he is blessed by the out this verse to him, as an 
 
 hook in body and soul." evidence that it was a law, even 
 
 A certain monk, of good before the Word took our flesh 
 
 birth, thought it beneath him to serve us. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass on St. Thomas's Day (e) ; 
 
 a Marriage psalm. 
 Latins. — Wednesday Vespers. 
 (ireeks. — Friday evening ; Marriages. 
 
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Day 27 PSALM CXXX Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM CXXIX. Smj^e, expugnaverunt. 
 
 MANY a time have they fought against me from my 
 youth up : may Israel now say. 
 
 2 Yea, many a time have tliey 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 growing upon the 
 house-tops : which withereth afore it be plucked up ; 
 
 7 Whereof the mower fiUeth not his hand : neither 
 he that bizideth 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. 
 
 In the legends of the Holy the gradual psalms. There 
 
 Rood, the mediaeval poets told they grew into one great tree, 
 
 how the History of Christ is under which he wrote .l/zATtw 
 
 the story of mankind. The and all the " sawter buke " ; 
 
 Rood sprang from three seeds and would have built there the 
 
 Adain brought with him from temple, had not God forbidden 
 
 Paradise. Moses planted the it. But he circled the tree with 
 
 little trees in Tabor, and David silver, and saw it wax very great 
 
 brought them with joy and in his day. 
 melody into Jerusalem, singing 
 
 Liturgical use. — Iniroit for St. Andrew's Day (e). 
 Latins. — Wednesday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXX. Deprofundis. 
 
 OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord : 
 Lord, hear my voice. 
 
 2 O let thine ears consider well : the Aoice of my 
 complaint. 
 
 3 If tiiou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is 
 done amiss : O Lord, who may abide it ? 
 
 4 For there is mercy with thee : therefore shall thou 
 be feared. 
 
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Evciiin^^ Prayer 
 
 PSALM CXXXI 
 
 Day 27 
 
 5 I look for the Lord ; my soul doth wait for him : 
 in his word is my tryst. 
 
 6 My soul rieeth unto the Lord : before the morning 
 watch, I say, before the morning watch. 
 
 7 Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord 
 there is mercy : and with him is plenteous redemption. 
 
 8 And he shall redeem Israel : from all his sins. 
 
 Tliis is the sixth penitential 
 psahii — these are Nos. vi. , 
 xxxii. , xx'xviii., \\., cii., cxxx., 
 and cxUii. — and is the antidote 
 to the deadly sin of Envy. 
 
 It is also a gradual psalm 
 (see cxx.). 
 
 This is the last psalm of 
 Mary Queen of Scots, of 
 "Blessed" John Nelson, the 
 Romanist, at Tyburn in 1578, 
 and is also among the last 
 words of the judicious Richard 
 Hooker, the author of the 
 " Ecclesiastical Polity." 
 
 Phineas Fletcher's (1581- 
 1650) translation of (or rather 
 meditation upon) this psalm is 
 one of the best of that author's 
 shorter pieces : 
 
 "As a watchman waits for 
 day, 
 And looks for light and 
 looks again. 
 When the night grows old 
 and gray. 
 To be relieved he calls 
 amain ; 
 So look, so wait, so long 
 
 mine eyes. 
 To see my Lord, my Sun 
 arise." 
 
 Jeremy Taylor quotes it as 
 the psalm of psalms for the 
 sick. His " Holy Dying " was 
 the book which was read 
 to the poet Keats in his last 
 days. ■ 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for the Mass on H. Sunday in 
 
 Lent (e) ; Ash Wednesday evening. 
 Latins. — Wednesday Vespers ; going and returning from 
 
 funerals ; 2nd Vespers for Christmas. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening ; daily Evensong. 
 
 PSALM CXXXI. Domine, -non est. 
 
 LORD, I am not high-minded : I have no proud 
 looks. 
 
 2 I do not exercise myself in great matters : which 
 are too high for me. 
 
 3 But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a 
 child that is weaned from his mother : yea, my soul is 
 e\en as a weaned child. 
 
 4 O Israel, trust in the Lord : from this time forth 
 for evermore. 
 
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Day2& PSALM CXXXII Morning Prayer 
 
 A gradual psalm (see cxx.). Witlier notes it thus: " Dod 
 
 Verse 2. In 1625, a pious but the silkman's late ridiculous 
 unpoetical silk merchant named translation of the Psalms was, 
 Dod was forcibly reminded of by authority, worthily con- 
 this verse by the authorities, damned to the fire." 
 
 Liturgical use. — The Introit to the Mass on Lady Day (e). 
 
 Latins. — Wednesday Vespers. 
 
 Greeks. — Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXXII. Memento, Domine. 
 
 LORD, reniembei' 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 eye- 
 lids 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 Ephrata : 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 
 presence of thine Anointed. 
 
 1 1 The Lord hath made a faithful oath unto David : 
 and he shall not shrink from it ; 
 
 1 2 Of the fruit of thy body : shall I set upon thy seat. 
 
 13 If thy children will keep mj' covenant, and my 
 testimonies that I sliall learn them : their children also 
 shall sit upon thy seat for evermore. 
 
 14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion to be an habita- 
 tion for himself : he hath longed for her. 
 
 1 5 Tiiis 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 witli bread. 
 
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Mom in^' Prayer PSALM CXXXIII D.iy 2^ 
 
 \y I will deck her priests with liealth : 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. 
 
 A gradual psalm (see cxx.). Christo ineo. I have ordained 
 
 I'erses ^ <7iid ^. The epitaph a lantern for my Clirist. These 
 
 over good Bishop Hacket of were the last words of Cyril of 
 
 Lichfield. Alexandria, whose warts Kings- 
 
 / tv'.ffi5. St.ThomisAquinas ley has drawn in strong relief 
 
 was seized with a fever at Castle in " Hypatia," rather adding 
 
 Maganza, but would not be to them than otherwise, and 
 
 stayed, and pushed on to Fossa hardly even outlining the 
 
 Xuova, a Cistercian Abbey, brave rugged face which they 
 
 near Terracina, to die there, blemished. Perhaps St. Cyril 
 
 As he was carried in he repeated used the words because they 
 
 these words with rapture. He were a common motto then and 
 
 mused also much upon St. since, for St. John the Baptist. 
 Augustine's words: "Then Verse 19. Inimicos eius in- 
 
 shall I truly live, when I shall duam confiisione. These words 
 
 be fulfilled with Thy love : now were engraved on the English 
 
 I am a burden to myself, be- shilling of King Edward VL, 
 
 cause. Lord, I am not full of minted in 1549. See in con- 
 
 Thee." He died on the floor trast (Psalm lii. 7) Edward HL's 
 
 on ashes, March 7, 1274. motto. 
 
 Verse 18. Paravi lucernam 
 
 Liturgical use. — Christmas evening. 
 
 Latins. — Thursday Vespers. 
 
 Greeks. — Last psalm for Friday evening. 
 
 PSALM CXXXIII. Ecce quam, bonum ! 
 
 BEHOLD, how good and joyful a thing it is : brethren, 
 to dwell together in unity. 
 
 2 It is like the precious ointment 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 h's blessing : and life 
 for evermore. 
 
 A gradual psalm (see cxx.). wrote his Song to David in 
 Christopher -Smart, who a madhouse, and printed it 
 
 209 P 
 
Day 2S PSALM CXXXV Morning Prayer 
 
 with a key on the panels of the Sweet is the lily's silver bell, 
 wall (1754-6), thus alludes to And sweet the wakeful tapers' 
 this psalm : smell 
 
 That watch for early prayer." 
 
 " Sweet is the dew that falls This is the psalm which the 
 
 betimes commander of the Greely Ex- 
 
 And drops upon the leafy pedition read to his men, when 
 
 limes, they wintered in the dark Arctic 
 
 Sweet, Hermon's fr,)grant regions for a night which lasted 
 
 air : twenty weeks. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass of SS. Philip and James (e) . 
 
 Latins. — Thursday Vespers. 
 
 Greeks. — Friday morning; 
 
 PSALM CXXXIV. Ecce nunc. 
 
 BEHOLD now, praise the Lord : all ye servants of 
 the Lord ; 
 
 2 Ye that by night stand in the lioiise 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. 
 
 This is the last of the gradual Archbishop of York, washed 
 psalms. The pilgrims have now the feet of the poor and recited 
 reached the Temple, and hear the gradual psalms. As they 
 the Levites intoning the praises rose to thank him and while he 
 of God. was still saying the Gloria, he 
 
 On the morning of his death fell dead at the altar, his last 
 (February 28, 992), St. Oswald, word being Sancto. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass for the l^urification (e). 
 
 Latins. — The last psalm in daily Compline. 
 
 Greeks. — Friday morning ; daily Nocturns. 
 
 PSALM CXXXV. Laudate Nomen. 
 
 PRAISE the Lord, laud ye the Name of the Lord : 
 
 praise it, O ye servants of the Lord ; 
 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord : in the 
 courts of the house of our God. 
 
 3 O praise the Lord, for the Lord is gracious : O sing 
 praises unto his Name, for it is lovely. 
 
 4 For why '? tlie Lord hath chosen Jacob unto him- 
 self : and Israel for his own possession. 
 
 5 For I know that the Lord is great : and that our 
 Lord is above all gods. 
 
 
 
A/or/tinx J'myer I'-SALM CXXXV Air 28 
 
 6 Whatsoover the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, 
 and in eartli : and in the sea, and in all deep places. 
 
 7 He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the 
 world : and sendeth forth liglitnings with the rain, 
 bringing the winds out of his treasures. 
 
 8 He smote the first-born of Egypt : both of man 
 and beast. 
 
 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst 
 of thee, O thou land of Egypt : upon Pharaoh, and all 
 his servants. 
 
 10 He smote di\ ers nations : and slew mighty kings ; 
 
 1 1 Selion king of the Amorites, and Og the king of 
 IJasan : and all the kingdoms of Canaan ; 
 
 12 And gave their land to be an heritage : even an 
 heritage unto Israel his people. 
 
 13 Thj- Name, O liord, endureth for ever : so doth 
 thy memorial. O Lord, from one generation to another. 
 
 14 For the Lord will avenge his people : and be 
 gracious unto his servants. 
 
 15 As for the images of the heathen, they are but 
 silver and gold : the work of men's hands. 
 
 16 They have mouths, and speak not : eyes have 
 they, but they see not. 
 
 17 They have ears, and yet they hear not : neither 
 is there any breath in their mouths. 
 
 1 8 They that make them are like unto them : and 
 so are all they that put their trust in them. 
 
 19 Praise the Lord, ye house of Israel : praise the 
 Lord, ye house of Aaron. 
 
 20 Praise the Lord, ye house of Levi : ye that fear 
 the Lord, praise the Lord. 
 
 21 Praised be the Lord out of Sion : who dwelleth 
 at Jerusalem. 
 
 On October 28. 1704, John with, "Cease now," and sud- 
 Locke, the philosopher, died denly died, 
 at Oates, in Essex, while the This psalm and the next form 
 psiilms for the day were being the Great Hallel of Jewish wor- 
 read to him, which had been ship, as opposed to the (Mizric) 
 done throughout his sickness. Egyptian Hallel. Both are re- 
 He interrupted Lady Masham, cited on the Passover evenings, 
 who was reading them to him, 
 
 Latins. — Thursday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday morn i n g. 
 
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DayzZ PSALM CXXXVI liven i n^: Prayer 
 
 PSALM CXXXVI. Confitemlni. 
 
 OGIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious : 
 and his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 2 O give thanks unto tlie God of all gods : for his 
 mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 3 O thank the Lord of all lords : for his mercy en- 
 dureth for ever. 
 
 4 Who only doeth great wonders : for his mercy 
 endureth for ever. 
 
 5 Who by his excellent wisdom made the heavens : 
 for his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 6 Who laid out the earth above the waters : for his 
 mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 7 Who hath made great lights : for his mercy en- 
 dureth for ever ; 
 
 8 The sun to rule the day : for his mercy enduretli 
 for ever ; 
 
 9 The moon and the stars to govern the night : for 
 his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 10 Who smote Egypt with their first-born : for his 
 mercy endureth for ever ; 
 
 1 1 And brought out Israel from among them : for 
 his mercy endureth for ever ; 
 
 12 With a mighty hand, and stretched out arm : for 
 his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 13 Who divided the Red sea in two parts : for his 
 mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it : 
 for his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew 
 them in the Red sea : for his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 16 Who led his people through the wilderness : for 
 his mercy endureth for e^•er. 
 
 17 Who smote great kings : for his merc^' endureth 
 for ever ; 
 
 18 Yea, and slew mighty kings : for his mercj' en- 
 dureth for ever ; 
 
 19 Sehon king of the Amorites : for his mercy 
 endureth for ever ; 
 
 20 And Og tlie king of Basan : for his mercy en- 
 dureth for ever ; 
 
livening Prayer PSALMCXXXVII DayiA 
 
 21 And gave away their land for an lieritage : for 
 liis mercy enduretli for ever ; 
 
 22 Even for an heritage unto Israel his servant : for 
 his mercy enduretli for ever. 
 
 23 Who remembered us when we were in trouble : 
 for his mercy enduretli for ever ; 
 
 24 And hath delivered us from our enemies : for his 
 mercy enduretli for e\er. 
 
 25 Who giveth food to all Hesh : for his mercy en- 
 duretli for ever. 
 
 26 C) give thanks luito the God of heaven : for his 
 mercy enduretli for ever. 
 
 27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords : for his 
 mercy enduretli for ever. 
 
 On Febru.iry 8, 358, .15 .St. Draw near tliem, then, in 
 
 Atlianasius was at Ma^s in tiie being merciful ; 
 
 C'liurch of St. Thomas, at Sweet mercy is nobiHty's true 
 
 .\lexandria, the .\rians bnrst badge." 
 in. He ordered this psalm to 
 
 be sung, but before it was over How magnificently Milton, 
 
 the soldiers had begun a mas- when a lad of only fifteen years, 
 
 sacre, and with difficulty the paraphrased this psalm into 
 
 saint was rescued by the clergy his hymn, "Let us with a 
 
 and escaped to the desert and gladsome mind" ! (1624). 
 
 its monks. Verse 27. The French Psalter 
 
 Perhaps Shakespeare h.nd this is the only other one which 
 
 psalm in mind when he wrote : contains this ve:se. It is not 
 found, for instance, in the 
 
 "Wilt thou draw near the .Authorized Version. 
 nature of the gods ? 
 
 Latins. — Thuisday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXXXVII. Super Jiumimi. 
 
 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 tlierein. 
 
 3 For they that led us away captive required of us 
 then a song, and melod}-, in our heaviness : " Sing us 
 one of the songs of Sion." 
 
 4 " How shall we sing the Lord's song : in a strange 
 land?" 
 
Day2& PSALM CXXXVIII F.vcnius; Praya 
 
 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 : j'ea, if T prefer not Jeru- 
 salem in my mirth. 
 
 7 liemember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the 
 day of Jerusalem : how they said, "Down with it, down 
 with it, even to the ground." 
 
 8 O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery : yea, 
 happy shall he be tliat rewardeth thee, as thou hast 
 served us. 
 
 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children : and 
 throweth them against the stones. 
 
 This was the favourite psahii Bristol, who lost his estate and 
 
 of Camoens, of Ciashaw, and his country when he sided with 
 
 of Sir Walter Scott. the king, died an exile in 1653, 
 
 In 1606, St. Vincent de Paul and was buried in a Paris cab- 
 was a slave to the Turks, bage-garden. This psalm was 
 captured and bought by an a favourite of his — as it was 
 apostate. The Turkish wife with many pious royalists in 
 of his master asked him to sing their exile — and he turned it 
 the praises of his God, and, into verses beginning : 
 " being a man full of the spirit 
 
 of the psalms," he sang with "Sitting by y streams that glide 
 
 tears Super Jlumiiia and Salve Down by Babell's towering 
 
 Regina. The woman was so wall." 
 touched that she upbraided her 
 
 husband with his apostasy, who This was set to music, and pub- 
 
 not only set St. Vincent free, lished. after the Restoration, in 
 
 but embarked with him for Clifford's Services, among the 
 
 Aigues-Mortes. " .Antliems usually sung in 
 
 Sir John Digby, Earl of Cathedrals." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for St. Luke's Mass (e). 
 Latins. — Thursday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXXXVIII. Confdehnr tibi. 
 
 I WILL give thanks unto thee, Lord, with my 
 whole heart : even before the gods will I sing 
 praise unto thee. 
 
 2 I will worship toward tliy lioly temple, and praise 
 thy Name, because of thy loving-kindness and trutli : 
 for thou hast magnified tliy Name, and thy Word, 
 above all things. 
 
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Morning Prayer PSALM CXXXIX Day i^ 
 
 3 When I called upon thee, thou heardest nio : and 
 enduedst my soul with much strength. 
 
 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, 
 Lord : for they liave heard tlie words of tliy mouth. 
 
 5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord : that 
 great is the glory of the Lord. 
 
 6 For though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect 
 unto the lowly : as for the proud, he beholdeth them 
 afar otl'. 
 
 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, yet slialt 
 thou refresh me : thou shalt stretch forth thy hand 
 upon the furiousness of mine enemies, and thy right 
 hand shall save me. 
 
 8 The Lord shall make good his loving-kindness 
 toward me : yea, thy mercy, O Lord, eudureth for 
 ever ; despise not then the works of thine own hands. 
 
 In Antioch of Syria there was interruption by relays of these 
 
 an order of monks, in tlie days moni<s. At the end of the 
 
 of Eusebius, who were founded fourth century Corbilla, a 
 
 to keep up the laiis pcrennis of Syrian monk, probably one of 
 
 ceaseless psalmody. Day and them, founded a similar monns- 
 
 night throughout the year the tery on Psalmody Island, in the 
 
 Psalms were chanted without diocese of Nismes. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass of the Conversion of St. 
 
 Paul (e). 
 Latins. — Friday at Vespers ; St. Michael and .Ml .A.ngels. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXXXIX. Domine, probasti. 
 
 OLORD, 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 
 spiest out all my ways. 
 
 3 For lo, there is not a word in my tongue : but 
 thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether. 
 
 4 Thou hast fashioned 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 ? 
 
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Dayzg PSAI.M CXXXIX Morning Prayer 
 
 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. 
 
 1 2 For my reins are thine : thou hast covered me in 
 my mother's womb. 
 
 13 I will gi\e 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 im- 
 perfect : and in thy book were all my members written ; 
 
 16 ^Yhich daj- by day were fashioned : when as yet 
 there was none of them. 
 
 17 How dear are thy counsels unto me, 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, Lord, that hate thee : and 
 am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee ? 
 
 22 Yea, I hate them riglit sore : even as though 
 they were mine enemies. 
 
 23 Try me, 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. 
 
 In many parts of the country great -grandniotliers were no 
 
 tlit-re is a good and ancient doubt strengthened and calmed 
 
 custom among the old wives, of by its words in their hours of 
 
 reading this psalm to women in need and peril, 
 
 labour. Our grandmothers and It was a favourite psalm of 
 
 21^ 
 
Moniing Prayer I'SALM CXI. Day 2g 
 
 the great Emperor Charle- flections oa God's omniscience 
 luagne, who had, like m;iny nnd omnipresence, which are 
 other soltliers, a special devo- celebrated in as noble strains 
 tion to the Holy Ghost. Both of poetry as any other I ever 
 tiie collect, "Almighty God, met with, either sacred or pro- 
 unto whoMi all hearts be fane. The other kind of hypo- 
 opened," and the great hymn, crisy, whereby a man deceives 
 I'cni Creator ("Come, Holy himself, is intimated in the two 
 Ghost, our souls inspire "), are last verses, where the Psalmist 
 said to have been made by him. addresses himself to the great 
 They both echo this psalm. Searcher of hearts in that 
 " I shall conclude my essay" emphatical petition, ' Try me,' 
 (says Addison , in the Spectator, etc. " 
 
 June 7, 1712) "with observing So the C?(5j^;tr/'(6o) :" Where 
 
 that the two kinds of hypocrisy can we meet a more touching 
 
 I have here spoken of, namely, description of God's omnipre- 
 
 that of deceiving the world and sence and providence than the 
 
 that of imposing on ourselves, 139th Psalm ?" 
 
 are touched with wonderful I'erseg. A favourite verse of 
 
 beauty in the 139th psalm. The the poor missionary Captain 
 
 folly of the first kind of hypo- Gardiner (vii/e Ps. xvii. ). 
 crisy is there set forth by re- 
 
 Latins, — Friday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXL. Eripe me, Domine. 
 
 DELIVEE me, Lord, from the evil man : and 
 preserve me from the wicked man. 
 
 2 Who imat^fine mischief in their hearts : and stir 
 up strife all the da^- long. 
 
 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent : 
 adder's poison is under their lips. 
 
 4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the ungodly : 
 preserve me from the wicked men, who are purposed 
 to overthrow my goings. 
 
 5 The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a 
 net abroad with cords : yea, and set traps in my way. 
 
 6 I said unto the Lord, "Thou art my God" : hear 
 the voice of my prayers, O Lord. 
 
 7 Lord God, thou strength of my health : thou 
 hast covered my head in the day of battle. 
 
 8 Let not the ungodly have his desire, O Lord : let 
 not his mischievous imagination prosper, lest they be 
 too proud. 
 
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Diiy 29 PSALM CXLI MorniiiiJ Prayer 
 
 9 Let the mischief of their own hps fall upon the 
 head of them : that compass me about. 
 
 10 Let hot burning coals fall upon them : let them 
 be cast into the lire, and into the pit, that they never 
 rise up again. 
 
 1 1 A man full of words shall not prosper upon the 
 earth : evil shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow 
 him. 
 
 12 Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the poor : 
 and maintain the cause of the helpless. 
 
 13 The righteous also shall give thanks unto thy 
 Name : and the just shall continue in thy sight. 
 
 " The Nicolaitans, Gnostics, who thinks it a question more 
 and Manichseans," says I'hilo- curiousthaninipoitant, whether 
 stratus, "denied David alto- David had a hand in any of 
 gether to be a proph:;t ; and the Psahns, is yet "unable to 
 Paul of Saniosata suppressed fit in any with iiis life" ; but 
 the Psahns and those hymns Professor Kirkpatrick, in his 
 which the Christians sang in summary of critical work, ap- 
 praise of Christ. He wished plauded by Dr. Salmond in the 
 to substitute poems in his own Crifical Revietv, still assigns 
 honour, it was said." " tiie foundation of the Psalter 
 
 Professor Robertson Smith, to David." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass for .St. Matthew's Day 
 
 (e). 
 Z,a/j«/.— Friday Vespers; Maundy Thursday. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning ; Mesorion of the Ninth hour. 
 
 PSALM CXLT, Doinine, damavL 
 
 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 tlie 
 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, lest I eat of such tilings as please 
 them. 
 
 5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly : and 
 reprove me. 
 
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Evening Prayer I'SALM CXLU Z?(Z,i' 29 
 
 6 But let not their precious balius break uiy head : 
 yea, I will pray yet afi;ainst their wickedness. 
 
 7 Let their judges be o\erthrown in stony places : 
 that they may hear my words, for tliey are sweet. 
 
 8 Our bones lie scattered before tlie pit : like as when 
 one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth. 
 
 9 But mine eyes look unto thee, O Lord God : in 
 thee is my trust, O cast not out my soul. 
 
 10 Keep me from the snare that they have laid for 
 me : and from the traps of the wicked doers. 
 
 1 1 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together : 
 and let me ever escape them. 
 
 This lias been called the combs, where sweet gums had 
 
 Evening hymn of Early Chris- to be burnt, as disinfectants, 
 tendom. It seems to have been I'erse ->,■ This was and is the 
 
 in daily use in the African last verse of the last service of 
 
 Church. the day (Compline) for the 
 
 Verses 2, 3, and 4. The Benedictine monks, after which 
 
 words used for censing the silence is straitly enjoined upon 
 
 altar. The Christian use of all. 
 incense dates from the cata- 
 
 I.iturgieal use. — Introit for St. Mark's Mass (e). 
 Latins. — Friday Vespers ; Maundy Thursday. 
 O'nr/^j-.— Friday morning ; daily Evensong. 
 
 PSALM CXLII. Voce mea ad Domhium. 
 
 I CRIED unto the Lord with my voice : yea, even 
 unto the Lord did I make mj' supplication. 
 
 2 I poured out my complaints before him : and 
 shewed him of my trouble. 
 
 3 When my spirit was in heaviness thou knewest 
 my path : in the way wherein I walked have they 
 privily laid a snare for me. 
 
 4 I looked also upon mj' right hand : and saw there 
 was no man that would know me. 
 
 5 I had no place to flee unto : and no man cared for 
 my soul. 
 
 6 I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said: "Thou art 
 my hope, and my portion in the land of the living. 
 
 7 " Consider my complaint : for I am brought very 
 low. 
 
 2ig 
 
Day 2g PSALM C'X LI 1 1 Evening Prayer 
 
 8 " O deliver me from my persecutors : for they are 
 too strong for me. 
 
 9 " Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give 
 thanks unto thy Name " : which thing if thou wilt grant 
 me, then shall the righteous resort unto my company. 
 
 On October 4, 1226 A.D. , the same, he began to 
 
 St. Francis of Assisi was die !" 
 
 dying, naked, upon the bare (Sont/t English Legendary.) 
 earth. 
 
 J'erse 9. In 1548 the learned 
 
 " At last, though Death he Protestant Beza (Theodore) 
 
 saw and felt him full was sick with a sore disease, 
 
 strong, which his conscience told him 
 
 Voce tned he began, one was a punishment come upon 
 
 psalm of evensong ; him for having "privately 
 
 .•^nd said forth the same all married" his wife. He prayed 
 
 out, and held up his hands this prayer to God, and was 
 
 on high, restored. He then honourably 
 
 And with the last word of and openly married her. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to St. Barnaby's Mass (e). 
 Latins. — Friday Vespers ; Maundy Tiiursday. 
 Greeks, — Friday morning ; daily Evensong. 
 
 PSALM CXLIII. Boirdae, examli. 
 
 HEAR my prayer, O Lord, and consider my desire : 
 hearken unto me for thy truth and righteous- 
 ness' sake. 
 
 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant : 
 for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 
 
 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul ; he hath 
 smitten my life down to the ground : he hath laid me 
 in the darkness, as the men that have been long dead. 
 
 4 Therefore is my spirit vexed within me : and my 
 heart within me is desolate. 
 
 5 Yet do I remember the time past ; I muse upon 
 all thy works : yea, I exercise myself in the works of 
 thy hands. 
 
 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee : my soul 
 gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. 
 
 7 Hear me, O Lord, and that soon, for my spirit 
 waxeth faint : hide not thy face from me, lest I be like 
 unto them that go down into the pit. 
 
 8 O let me liear thy loving-kindness betimes in tlie 
 morning, for in thee is mv trust : shew thou nic thf 
 
\fonii,ig Prayer PSALM CXLIV Day 30 
 
 way that I .should walk in, for I lift up my soul unto 
 tlice. 
 
 9 Deliver me, Lord, from mine enemies : for I tiee 
 unto thee to hide me. 
 
 10 Teach me to do the thing that pleasetli thee, for 
 thou art my God : let thy loving Spirit lead me forth 
 into the land of righteousness. 
 
 1 1 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy Name's sake : and 
 for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. 
 
 12 And of thy goodness slay mine enemies : and 
 destroj' all them that vex my soul ; for I am thy 
 servant. 
 
 This is the sevenih peniten- me, O l^ord, that this seven- 
 
 li-il psalm (these are vi., fold group of penitential psalms 
 
 xxxii., xxxviii., li. , cii., cxxx. , may be a remedy against the 
 
 md cxliii.), and an antidote sevenfold group of deadly sins, 
 
 to the deadly sin of Sloth or and help to the sevenfold group 
 
 Indifference. of the principal virtues, and the 
 
 Charles the Good, Count of sevenfold group of spiritual 
 
 Flanders, was slain at the Lady gifts, to the sevenfold beati- 
 
 Altar, as he recited this psalm tudes, and to the seven peti- 
 
 March 2, 1127. tions contained in the Lord's 
 
 One of Gerson's prayers con- Prayer" (oii'. 1429). 
 tains this sentence : " Grant 
 
 I.Uurgical ttse. — Introit for the Mass on the Nativity of St. 
 
 John Baptist (e) ; Ash Wednesday. 
 /.(7////.f. — Friday Lauds. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning; Dawn; the late Evensong; and 
 
 also in Lent. 
 
 P8ALM CXLIV. Benedidas Dominus. 
 
 BLESSED be the Lord my strength : who teacheth 
 my hands to war, and my fingers to fight ; 
 
 2 ]\Iy 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 thev shall smoke. 
 
Dayio PSALM CXLIV Morning Prayer 
 
 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 
 strange children ; 
 
 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 frona the peril of the sword. 
 
 1 1 Save me, and deliver me from the hand of strange 
 children : whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their 
 right hand is a light hand of iniquity. 
 
 12 Tliat 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 streets. 
 
 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour, that 
 there be no decay : no leading into captivity, and no 
 complaining in our streets. 
 
 1 5 Happy are the people that are in such a case : yea, 
 blessed are the people who ■ have the Lord for their 
 God. 
 
 Benedict us Dominvs Dens est semblable a la vanitt? : ses 
 
 mens. A not uncommon sword- jours sont comme line ombre 
 
 motto, alluding to the whole qui passe." 
 
 psalm, which is one of the war Verse 7. This was the text of 
 
 psalms. St. Bernard made courteous Bishop Bedell's last 
 
 much use of it, when he sermon. He had just been 
 
 preached the Crusades. released from captivity by the 
 
 I'erse 3. Richard Ba.xter on Irish rebels of 1641. He trans- 
 
 his death - bed admired the lated our Prayer-book into 
 
 Divine condescension to us, Italian, and had it translated 
 
 often saying: "Lord, what is into Irish. He was a great 
 
 man? What am I, vile worm, reformer of the Irish Church, 
 
 to the Great God ?" and that not only in his see of 
 
 / 'erse 4. The dial motto of St. Kilmore. 
 Brelade, Jersey, is " L'homme ^ 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to .St. Peter's Mass (e). 
 Latins. — -Saturday \'espers. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
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Morning Prayer I'SALM CXL\' Day 30 
 
 PSALM CXL\'. Exaltaho fe, 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 thj- 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 mar- 
 vellous acts : and I will also tell of thy greatness. 
 
 7 The memorial of thine abundant kindness shall be 
 shewed : 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 merc\' 
 is over all his works. 
 
 10 All thy works praise thee, O Lord : and thy 
 samts give thanks unto thee. 
 
 1 1 They shew the glory of thy kingdom : and talk 
 of thy power ; 
 
 1 2 That th^■ 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 : 
 lie also will hear their cry, and will help them. 
 
 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him : but 
 scattereth abroad all the ungodlv. 
 
Daj' so PSALM CXLVI Morning Prayer 
 
 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord : 
 and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy Name for 
 ever and ever. 
 
 This psalm must have been Still overcoming evil, and by 
 
 in Milton's mind when he wrote small 
 
 the last speech of Adam, the Accomplishing great things, 
 
 exile, in " Paradise Lost" : by things deemed weak 
 
 Subverting worldly strong, 
 
 "Henceforth I learn, that to and worldly wise 
 
 obey is best. By simply meek ; that suffer- 
 
 And love with fear the only ing for iruiii's sake 
 
 God, to walk Is fortitude to highest victory, 
 
 As in His presence, ever to And to the faithful Death the 
 
 observe Gate of Life : 
 
 His providence and on Him Taught this by His example, 
 
 sole depend, whom I now 
 
 Merciful over all His works. Acknowledge my Redeemer 
 
 with good ever blest." 
 
 Liturgical use. — Whit-Sunday evening. 
 Latins. — Saturday at Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXLVL Lauda, anima mea. 
 
 PKAISE 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 hungrj-. 
 
 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 tlie righteous. 
 
 9 The Lord careth for the strangers ; he defendeth 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM CXLVII Day 2.0 
 
 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 tlirougliout all generations. 
 
 A dirge psalm (see Ps. v.). Verse 2. Aptly quoted by 
 
 In 1621 the Protestant leader, Strafford, when he heard that 
 
 Andrew Willet, of Cambridge his master. King Charles I., 
 
 and Ely, was thrown from his had thrown him to the wolves, 
 
 horse and broke his leg. He by signing the Bill of At- 
 
 was carried to a bone-setter's tainder. 
 
 and had it attended to. When Verse 7. The motto of the 
 
 it was set he leaned on his staft" Trinitarian friars of Motting- 
 
 and repeated " this most sweet den, Kent, who raised money 
 
 psalm," dwelling especially on to ransom Christian captives 
 
 the eighth verse ; then suddenly from the Saracens, 
 fainted away and died. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for St. Mary Magdalen's Mass (e). 
 Latins. — Saturday Vespers. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXLVII. Laudate Duminum. 
 
 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 out-casts 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 : jea, 
 and his wisdom is infinite. 
 
 6 Tlie Lord settetli up the meek : and briiigeth the 
 ungodly down to the ground. 
 
 7 sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving : sing 
 praises upon the harp unto our God ; 
 
 8 Who covereth the heaven witli clouds, and pre- 
 pareth 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. 
 
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Day 10 PSALM CXLVIII Evening Prayer 
 
 10 He liath no pleasure in the strength of an horse : 
 neither dehghteth he in any man's legs. 
 
 1 1 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, 
 Sion. 
 
 13 For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates : 
 and hath blessed thy children within thee. 
 
 14 He niaketh peace in thy borders : and filleth thee 
 with the Hour 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 shewed his word unto Jacob : his statutes 
 and ordinances unto Israel. 
 
 20 He hath not dealt so with anj- nation : neither 
 have the heathen knowledge of his laws. 
 
 Verse 4. A favourite verse of pines, and we may perhaps 
 
 Sir 'I homas Browne, the author know the meaning of those 
 
 of " Religio Medici." quiet words of the 147th Psahn, 
 
 Vcne 8. " Look up to the ' He maki.th the giass to grow 
 
 higher hihs, where the waves of upon the mountains'" (Rhs- 
 
 green roll silently into long in- kin). 
 lets among the shadow of the 
 
 Latins. — Saturday at Vespers ; Dedication of a Church (verses 
 
 12-20) ; Feasts of Our Lady. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning. 
 
 PSALM CXLVIII. Lamlab' Dominvm. 
 
 PRAISE the Lord of lieaven : praise him in the 
 height. 
 
 2 Praise him, all ye angels of his : praise him, all 
 his host. 
 
 3 Praise him, sun and moon : praise him, all ye 
 stars and li,ulit. 
 
 4 Praise him, all ye heavens : and ye waters that 
 are above the heavens. 
 
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Evening Prayer PSALM CXLVHI Day zo 
 
 5 Let them praise the Name of the Lord : for he 
 spiike the word, and they were made ; he coiiunanded, 
 and they were created. 
 
 6 He hath made them fast for ever and ever : he 
 hath given them a kiw which shall not be broken. 
 
 7 Praise the Lord upon earth : ye dragons, and all 
 deeps ; 
 
 8 Fire and hail, snow and vapours : wind and storm, 
 fulfilling his word ; 
 
 9 ^Mountains and all hills : fruitful trees and all 
 cedars. 
 
 10 Beasts and all cattle : worms and feathered fowls ; 
 
 1 1 Kings of the earth and all people : princes and 
 all judges of the world ; 
 
 1 2 Young men and maidens, old men and children, 
 praise the Name of the Lord : for his Name only is 
 excellent, and his praise above heaven and earth. 
 
 13 He shall exalt the horn of his people ; all his 
 saints shall praise him : even the children of Israel, 
 even the people that serveth him. 
 
 Perhaps St. Francis derived Ferj^ 2. The "Angel Psalms" 
 
 his hymn of all creatures from are viii., xxxiv. , xxxv. , Ixviii., 
 
 this psalm. In it he calls all Ixxviii., xci., ciii., civ., and this 
 
 creation to bless God (propter one. The Angelicals are di- 
 
 lionombilem fratrcm nos!nim vided into three choirs and 
 
 w/e/«) for our noble brother the nine orders. The Contempla- 
 
 Sun, etc. live Choir is made up of Sera- 
 
 I'l-rses X arid 2. St. Bernard's phim, wlio behold ; Cherubim, 
 brother Gerard died with these who veil with wings ; and 
 words of triumph. "At that Thrones, who upbear God in 
 moment, my brother, day his glory. The Middle Choir 
 dawned on thee, though it was consists of Dominations, who 
 night for us. Just as I reached order the stars; Virtues, who 
 his side I heard him utter aloud uphold qualities ; and Powers, 
 those words of Christ, Pater in who hold evil spirits in leashes. 
 vianfis tuas. Then repeating Below these are Principalities, 
 the verse over again, and rest- who keep us human ; Arch- 
 ing on the word ' Father ! angels, who guard our nation- 
 Father !' he turned to me and, ality and our Church ; and 
 smiling, said, ' O how gracious Angels, who maintain our in- 
 of God to be the Fatiier of dividuality, and set our soul's 
 men, and what an honour for food before us, and bring us at 
 men to be His children 1' " last to the judgement. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for St. James's Mass (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Lauds ; at burial of children, on the way to 
 Church and to the grave. 
 
 Greeks. — Friday morning ; Dawn ; burial of priests. 
 
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Day iQ PSALM CXLIX Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM CXLIX. Caniate Domino. 
 
 OSING unto the Lord a new song : let the con- 
 gregation of saints praise him. 
 
 2 Let Israel rejoice in him tliat made him : and let 
 the children of Sion be joyful in their King. 
 
 3 Let tliem praise his name in the dance : let them 
 sing praises unto him with tabret and harp. 
 
 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people : and 
 helpeth the meek-hearted. 
 
 5 Let the saints be joyful with glory : let them 
 rejoice in their beds. 
 
 6 Let the praises of God be in their mouth : and a 
 two-edged sword in their hands ; 
 
 7 To be avenged of tlie heathen : and to rebvike tlie 
 people ; 
 
 8 To bind their kings in chains : and their nobles 
 with links of iron. 
 
 9 That tliey may be avenged of them, as it is 
 written : such honour have all his saints. 
 
 This war psalm was used by If this were mere superstition, 
 
 Caspar Sciopius to rouse the at least it was not as harmful 
 
 Romanist Princes to the thirty as the superstitious use made 
 
 years' war, as it had been by of this psalm by the fanatics 
 
 Thomas Munzer to rouse the of the xvi. and xvii. centuries, 
 peasants in the great German J'erse-,. This verse suggested 
 
 Jacquerie, wiiich followed in to Richard Baxter and Mar- 
 
 the wake of the Reformation. garet, his wife, their habit of 
 
 Verses 5 a /id 6. A curious singing psalms in bed the last 
 
 use of these verses, and the thing at night and the first in 
 
 next psalm, is given by Alex- the morning. They probably 
 
 ander Neckan, a mediaeval used Baxter's own "far from 
 
 medical writer. They are a contemptible version " ; but at 
 
 charm against the flying and the last were driven out of the 
 
 travelling evil, or, as we should practice by the derision of the 
 
 say, contagion and epidemics, neighbouring wags. 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit for Hallowmas (e). 
 
 Latins. — Daily at Lauds; burial of children, between the 
 
 house and Church, and the Church and grave. 
 Greeks. — Friday morning ; Dawn ; burial of prii;sts. 
 
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Evening Prayer 
 
 PSALM CL 
 
 Day 30 
 
 PSALM CL. Lawlatc Doiainum. 
 
 PRAISE God in his holiness : praise him in the 
 firmament of his power. 
 
 2 Praise him in his noble acts : praise him according 
 to his excellent greatness. 
 
 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet : praise 
 him upon the lute and harp. 
 
 4 Praise him in the cj-mbals and dances : praise him 
 upon the strings and pipe. 
 
 5 Praise him upon the well-tuned cymbals : praise 
 him upon the loud C3'mbals. 
 
 6 Let every thing that hath breath : praise the Lord. 
 It is thanks to this psalm fore the altar in the Cathedral in 
 
 above others that the use of 
 instrumental music has been 
 continuously preserved in the 
 Church, although some of the 
 severer Fathers looked upon it 
 with distrust. It is one of the 
 psalms in which not only 
 Christian musicians, but artists 
 of all sorts, delight. Fra 
 Angelico, for instance, so often 
 refers to it that we may call it 
 his favourite psalm. His well- 
 known Angels of the Taber- 
 nacle, the dances of the blessed, 
 in the " Day of Judgment," .md 
 the musical instruments in the 
 Uffizzi Madonna, are instances. 
 Orcagna's " Day of Judgment," 
 Raphael's "St. Cecilia," and 
 countless other pictures, illus- 
 trate the same. To this dav in 
 
 direct reference to t'«'j^ 4. The 
 word " pipe" in the same verse is 
 in the Latin and Greek versions 
 "organ, "and the organ was used 
 even in the Catacomb services, 
 and in St. Augustine's time, 
 though perhaps not North of 
 the Alps till the eighth century. 
 
 Clement of Alexandria once 
 tried to explain away this 
 psalm into an allegory of the 
 human body : the tongue being 
 the lute, the face the harp, the 
 lips cymbals, and so on. He 
 could not bear to think of the 
 Church using what had excited 
 the heathen to lust or war. 
 
 yerse 6. Oninis spiritus 
 latidet Dorninum is the sundial 
 motto of Great Smeaton 
 Church, Yorks. 
 
 Seville ten little boys dance be- 
 
 Liturgical use. — Introit to the Mass for SS. Simon and Jude 
 
 (e). 
 Z^<7//«j. — Daily at Lauds ; burial of children, on the road to 
 
 Church, and from Church to the grave. 
 Greeks. — Friday evening ; late Evensong ; burial of priests. 
 
 iiOixxs ®eo. 
 229 
 
I N DEX 
 
 The numbers refer to the Psalms. 
 
 Abolitionists, io 
 
 Abraham, 89 
 
 Adam, 92 
 
 Addison, 19, 23, 139 
 
 Adhelm, 68 
 
 Agincourt, 114 
 
 St. Agnes, no 
 
 Albertus Magnus, 28, 58 
 
 Alfred, 72 
 
 St. Ambrose, 6. 7, 43, 44, 64, 
 
 78, 119 (p. 184) 
 Anastasius IV., 17 
 Andrewes, 82, 85 
 Angelo, 148 
 Angelico, Fra, 150 
 St. Anno, 112 
 St. Anselm, 27, 53 
 St. Anthony, 9, 20, 68 
 St. Thomas Aquinas, 53, 59, 
 
 84, I02, 132 
 Argyle, 74 
 
 Arians, 45, 48, 119 (p. 196) 
 Armada, 3, 76 
 Arnold, M., 49, 77 
 Arnold, T. , 51 
 Arthur, King, 31 
 Arundel, Lady, 46 
 Ascension psalms, 8, 11, 15, 
 
 19, 21, 24, 30, 47, 93, 97. 99, 
 
 103 ic8, 117 
 Ash Wednesday: see " Penilen- 
 
 tial" 
 Askc, R., 74 
 
 Asperges, 51 
 
 St. Athanasius, 2, 5, 45, 62, 79, 
 
 89, 104, 116, 126 
 St. Augustine H., 4, 12, 32, 33, 
 
 79,87, loi, 119 (pp. 185, 194) 
 St. Augustine C. , 84 
 
 St. Babylas, 96 
 
 Bacon, 14, loi, 104, 120 
 
 Baker, H., 23 
 
 Baldwin, 118 
 
 Balsamus, 27, 115 
 
 St. Basil, the Great, 15, 31 
 
 Bauhinus, 104 
 
 Baxter, 2, 91, 144, 149 
 
 Beauchamp, 16 
 
 Bede, 24, 42, 113 
 
 Bedell, 144 
 
 Bell, 115 
 
 St. Benedict A., 37 
 
 St. Benedict Bis. , 83 
 
 Berkeley, 8 
 
 St. Bernard, 12, 13, 51, 107, 
 
 116, 118, 128 
 De BeruUe, 9 
 Beza, 64, T42 
 Blackmore, 64 
 Black Prince, 7, 28, 121 
 Blake, 85 
 
 St. Bonaventura, 17, 76 
 St. Boniface, 6, 69 
 Bosanquet, M., 27 
 Boy-bishop, 91 
 
 231 
 
INDEX 
 
 Brian, 51 
 
 Bristol, Ld., 137 
 
 Browne, T. , 2, 147 
 
 Browning, E. B. , 127 
 
 Browning, R., 39, 55, 68 
 
 Bunyan, 119 (p. 186) 
 
 Burial psalms, 23, 24, 39, 51, 
 84, 90, 91, 113, 116, 119, 130, 
 139, 146, 148, 149, 150 
 
 Burleigh, Ld., 55 
 
 Burnet, 22 
 
 Burns, 90 
 
 Burton, R. , i, 119 (p. 195) 
 
 Butchers' Company, 8 
 
 Buxton, 126 
 
 Byrom, 23 
 
 Byzantine wars, 20 
 
 Caird, 53 
 
 Calmet, 64 
 
 Calvin, 6, 13, 39 
 
 Calvinists, 97 
 
 Campion, 31 
 
 Canterbury, St. Thomas of, 37, 
 
 119 (p. 183) 
 Capgrave, 7, 45. 5^ 
 Caravans, 119, (p. i8i) 
 Carlyle, J., 6 
 Carlyle, Th., 21, 72, 84 
 Carn ovale, Fra, 91 
 Catherine de Mt;dici, 6 
 Cealchythe, 15 
 St. Chad, 18 
 Chalice motto, 116 
 Ciiarlemagne, 4, 26, 68, 119 
 
 (p. 189), 139 
 Charles the Bad, 11 
 Charles I., 9, 52, 56, 83 
 Charles V., 90, 102, 118 
 Charles VIII., 65 
 Chaucer, 81, 119 (p. 192) 
 C^hrist, 82, no, 118 
 Christmas psalms, 2, 8, 19, 45, 
 
 48, 72, 85, 89, 96, 98, no, 
 
 in, 112, 113, 117, 132 
 St. Chrysostom, 24, 61, 62, n6 
 Circumcision, 12 
 Clement Alex., 150 
 Cloveshoo, I 
 Clovis, 18, 29 
 Coenobite^, 55 
 
 Colet, 51 
 
 St. Coluniba, 34, 45, 78, 84 
 
 Columbus, 19, 31 
 
 Commendation, 12, 118, 119 
 (p. 182) 
 
 Commentators, eighteenth cen- 
 tury, 105 
 
 Composite psalm, 71 
 
 Constantine, 82 
 
 Contrition, 51 
 
 Corbilla, 138 
 
 Cosin, 90 
 
 Cottam, 71 
 
 Coutras, 118 
 
 Coverdale, 119 (p. 191) 
 
 Covvper, Bp. , 119 (p. 198) 
 
 Cowper, W. , loi, 118 
 
 Cranmer, 44, 51 
 
 Crashaw, 137 
 
 St. Crispin, 79 
 
 Cromwell, 68, 117 
 
 Cuthbert, 60 
 
 St. Cyprian, 6 
 
 .St. Cyril, 132 
 
 Dante, 9, 51, 92, 114 
 
 Darnley, 55 
 
 David, 140 
 
 De Civitate Dei, 87 
 
 Defensor, Bp., 8 
 
 Descartes, 53 
 
 Dial mottoes, 74, 80, 8g, 90, 
 
 102, n3, n9 (p. 197), 150 
 Didymus, 88 
 
 Dies Inc, 19, 97, 102, no 
 Digby, E., of Bristol, 137 
 Dionysius. Ar. , 24 
 Dirge, 5, 27, 30, 41, 42, 71, 116, 
 
 146 
 Dod, 131 
 Donatists, 26 
 Drumclog, 76 
 Dunbar, 68, 117 
 Duns Scoius, 53 
 Dunstan, 51, 68, in 
 Diirer, 90 
 
 Durham University, i>j 
 Duty, 119 (p. 181) 
 
 Easter psalms, 2, 57, 62, in, 
 112, 113, 114, 117, 118 
 
 232 
 
INDEX 
 
 Easter text, no 
 
 St. Edmund, 72 
 
 Edward HI., 6, 52, 112 
 
 Edward VI., 119 (p. 191), 132 
 
 Elfric, 25, 26, 51 
 
 St. Eligius, 119 (p. 192) 
 
 Eliot, G., 85 
 
 Elizabeth, 14, 90, 118 
 
 Elohists, 53 
 
 St. Elphege, 3 
 
 England, 125 
 
 St. Epi]5hanius, 31 
 
 Epiphany, 29, 46, 47, 66, 72, 
 
 86, 87, 95, 96, 97 
 Erasmus, i, 15, 119 (p. 193) 
 Essex, 55 
 Ethelbert, 29 
 Evelyn, 14 
 
 Fabricius, 12 
 
 Fifth Monarchy, 7 
 
 Filbie, 51 
 
 Fisher, 6, 34, 71, 116 
 
 Fletcher, Ph., 130 
 
 Forrest, 62 
 
 Fortunatus, 96 
 
 Fox, 106 
 
 Francis I., 119 (p. 188) 
 
 St. Francis S., 40 
 
 St. Francis A., 23, 142, 148 
 
 Franklin, 107 
 
 Fuller, T. , 8, 37, 52, 109 
 
 Gandia, Duke, 114, 124 
 
 Ganging, 103, 104 
 
 Gardiner, Allen, 17, 139 
 
 Gaudfridus, 106 
 
 Gentleman, 15 
 
 Gerard, 148 
 
 Gerson, 143 
 
 Giraldus, C, 55 
 
 Gladstone, Mr. , 98, 119 (p. 196) 
 
 Gnostics, 140 
 
 Good Friday, 2, 22, 27, 38, 40, 
 
 54. 59. 69, 88, 94 
 St. Gordius, 118 
 St. Gorgonia, 4 
 Gradual, 120-134 
 Gregory Dec, 13 
 St. Gregory Gt., r, 33, 69, 72 
 St. Gregory N., 4, 49 
 
 Grote, 112 
 Guardian, 40 
 Gunpowder plot, 64, 123 
 
 Habington, 19 
 
 Hacket, 24, 41, 132 
 
 Hall, J., 60, 79 
 
 Hallel, 113-118, 135 
 
 Hampton, C. C, 106 
 
 Handel, 24 
 
 Hare, 17 
 I Harrington, 7, 38 
 
 " Harrowing of Hell," 24, 107 
 i Hart, the, 42 
 
 Hart, 123 
 
 Hatton, 92, 108 
 I Heine, 23 
 j Helmore, 47 
 
 Henry II., 6 
 
 Henry III., 85 
 ' Henry V., 51, 114 
 
 Henry VI., 122 
 
 Henry VII., 43 
 
 Heraldry, 127 
 
 Herbert, G., i, 11, 23. 29, 31, 
 
 38,71 
 St. Hilarion, 20 
 Hildebrand, 45 
 Hobbs, Ab., 79 
 Holdsworth, 119 (p. 195) 
 Holland, 64 
 Hooker, 35, 55 
 Hooper, 77, 88, 121 
 Home, 106 
 
 Hours, 119, (pp. 187, 197) 
 House motto, 127 
 Howard, P., 8 
 
 St. Hugh, 10, 58, 68, 119 (p. 184) 
 Humboldt, 19, 104 
 " Hundredth, Old," 100 
 Hunnis, 6, 102 
 Huss, 31 
 
 Incense, 141 
 Innocent VIII., 26 
 Invitatory, 95 
 I^cariot, 41 
 St. Isidore, 39 
 
 Jackson, T. , 116 
 James I., 68, 83 
 
 "-11 
 
INDEX 
 
 Japan, 113, 114 
 St. Jerome, i, 17, 55 
 Jerusalem, Siege of, 2 
 Jewel, 71 
 Jewish lament, 79 
 Jocelyn, 84 
 St. John Baptist, 132 
 John VIII., 67 
 St. John Evangelist, 69 
 Johnson, R. , 51 
 Johnson, S., Dr., 119 (p. 1S9) 
 fulian Ap., 68, 96, 115 
 Justinianus, 19 
 Justin Martyr, 96 
 
 Keble, 39, 51, 86 
 Ken, 8 
 Kethe, 100 
 King, H., 80 
 Kingsley, 76 
 King's psalm, 20 
 King's evil, 102 
 Kirkman, 120 
 Kirkpatrick, Pro., 140 
 Knox, 31, 51, 103 
 Kyrie, 51 
 
 Lamb, i 
 
 Laud, 9, 21, 90 
 
 La7ts peretinis, 138 
 
 Lawrence, Lady, 27 
 
 Lazarus, 94 
 
 Leicester, jTi 
 
 Leighton, 39 
 
 Le Long, 64 
 
 Lightfoot, 78 
 
 Lincoln Coll., 80 
 
 Lincoln, Pres., 11 
 
 Livingstone, 37, 121 
 
 Locke, J., 135 
 
 Lok, 49 
 
 Longfellow, 100 
 
 St. Louis, 25, 32 
 
 Luther, 2, 31, 46, ico, 119 
 
 (p. 190) 
 1.7IX M unci I, no 
 Luxorius, 86, 119 (p. 183) 
 Lyte, 84 
 
 McCheyne, 124 
 Magic, 50 
 
 Maine, C. , 31 
 
 Manoel, 37 
 
 Margaret of Scotland, i 
 
 Margaret of Richmond, 6 
 
 Marriage psalms, 67, 128 
 
 Marseilles, Bp. of, 91 
 
 St. Martin, 8, 118 
 
 Martyn, H., 118, 119 (p. 191) 
 
 Martyrs, 115 
 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, 8, 19, 24, 
 
 45, 46, 87, 96, 97, 98, no, 
 
 113, 122, 127, 131, 147 
 Mary Queen of Scots, 18, 71, 
 
 130 
 Maiheson, 92 
 Matilda, 92 
 Maundy Thursday, 69, 70, 71, 
 
 72, 73. 74. 75. 76, 77~ "6, 
 
 120, 140, 141, 142 
 St. Maur, 42 
 
 Maurice, Emp. , 119 (p. 194) 
 Maxwell, 119 (p. 185) 
 Medley, Bp. , 119 (p. 196) 
 Melchizedek, no 
 Merks, 105 
 Methodius, 67 
 Midnight hour, 119 (pp. 187, 
 
 197) 
 Midwife's psalm, 139 
 Milman, 25 
 
 Milton, 19, 114, 136, 145 
 Molinos, 18 
 Monica, loi 
 
 Monkish vows forbidden, 54 
 Montanists, 26 
 More, T., 51 
 Morley, Ld., 94 
 Moses, 100 
 Munzer, 149 
 Musical psalms, 30 
 Mutiny, Indian, 79 
 Mysteries, Coventry, 125 
 Mystics, 18 
 
 Xaseby, 47 
 Neale, 96 
 Neckan, 149 
 Necromancy, 50 
 Nelson, ]n., 31, 130 
 Newman, 90, 104, 112 
 Newton, 21 
 
 234 
 
INDEX 
 
 Xicene Creed, 36 
 Nicholas III., 57 
 Nicholson, Bp. , 70 
 Norris, Jn. , 18 
 Northernmost grave, 51 
 Notker, 22 
 
 Observer, 139 
 Oldcasile, 94 
 Oratorians, 9 
 Organ, 150 
 
 Origen, 50, 65, So, 102 
 Oswald, Hp., 16, 134 
 Oxford University, 27 
 
 St. Pambo, 39 
 
 Paris, M., 92 
 
 Parker, Arch., 47 
 
 Pascal, 119 (p. 187) 
 
 Paula, 84 
 
 Pauline psalms, 32 
 
 Pelican, 102 
 
 Penitential psalms, 6, 32, 
 
 51, 102, 130, 143 
 Philostratus, 140 
 Piano, 33 
 
 Pico della Mirandola, i(j, 2 
 Pierson, 87 
 Piers Ploughman, 32, 36, 
 
 112, 128 
 Pilgrimage of Grace, 74 
 Pius v., 119 (p. 182) 
 St. Polycarp, 31 
 St. Pontius, 115 
 Pope, Alex., 18, 64 
 Porphyrius, 52, 78 
 Prime, A. -S., 71, 80, 85, 88 
 Publia, 68, 115 
 Pygot, 106 
 
 Raleigh. W., 75 
 Restoration, 124 
 Reynolds, Dr., 105, 106 
 Reynolds, R., 27 
 Richard 1., 22, 127 
 St. Richard, 122 
 Richard de Bury, 116 
 Romaine, 107 
 Rood, 129 
 Rossetti, Miss, T21 
 Rudd, 90 
 
 38. 
 
 Ruskin, iq, 23, 36, 147 
 Russell, W., 42 
 
 Salniond, 142 
 
 .Sancroft, 32 
 
 Sandys, 80 
 
 Saunderson, R., 57, 103 
 
 Savonarola, 2, 51, 66, 68 
 
 Sciopius, C. , 149 
 
 Scott, G. , 122 
 
 Scott, W. , 16, 114, 137 
 
 Sccreia, 43 
 
 Shakespeare, 18, 19,22,89,93, 
 
 100 
 Shallow, 89 
 Sidney, P., 10 
 Small books, 40 
 Smart, C. , 133 
 Smart, P., 31 
 Smith, R. , 140 
 Socrates S., 39 
 Sparkes, Dr., 105 
 Spenser, 37, 91 
 Stanley, A., 78, 112, 119 (p. 
 
 190), 122 
 Strafford, 25, 146 
 Strathniore, 31 
 Sundial : see '' Dial " 
 Supremacy, Papal, 105 
 Swedenborg, 74 
 Sword motto, 144 
 Syllogism, false, 66 
 
 Tait, 17 
 Talmud, 100 
 Tasso, 31 
 
 Tate and Brady, 10, 34 
 Taylor, J., 126 
 Taylor, R. , 51 
 Templars, 95 
 Tennyson, 86 
 Thackeray, 37, 126 
 Theodolf, 51 
 
 St. Theodore, 119 (p. 190) 
 St. Theodore Mop., 18, 79 
 St. Theodore M., 34 
 Theodoret, 78 
 Theodosius, 119 (p. 183) 
 St. Thomas a Kempis, 85 
 St. Thomas of Canterbury, 2,7 1 
 119 (p. 183) 
 
 'J3 
 
INDEX 
 
 Thomson, 19 
 De Thou, 116, 118 
 Thring, 78 
 Thurkeld, 118 
 Titian, 120 
 Torqueinada, 35 
 Traveller's psalm, 121 
 Trench, 86 
 Trinitarian friars, 146 
 Trinity psalms, 8, 19, 24, 47, 
 48, 67, 72, 96, 97, 98 
 
 Utrecht Psalter, 106 
 
 Vane, Sir H., 7 
 Van Mildert, 87 
 Vaughan, H., 61;, 104, 121 
 Verney, E. , 105 
 Vicars, 64, 123 
 St. Vincent de P., 137 
 Vincentius L. , 46 
 Viiidicatio, 59 
 
 Vindictive psalms, 59, 69, 79, 
 109 
 
 Visconti, B. , 51 
 Visitation of Sick, 6, 23, 27, 32, 
 51, 55, 61, 71, 102 
 
 Waddell, 10 
 
 Wallace, 119 (p. 182) 
 
 Walton, I., 2, 32, 120 
 
 Watts, 90 
 
 Wesley, C, 72 
 
 Wesley, J., 38 
 
 White, K., 18 
 
 Whitfield, 118 
 
 Whitgift, 105 
 
 Whitsuntide, 33, 48, 68, 100, 
 
 loi, 104, 117, 145 
 Wilberforce, 119 (p. 182) 
 Wilfred of York, 104 
 Willet, A., 146 
 Wither, 119 (p. 193) 
 Wolsey, W. , 106 
 Wordsworth, 19, 88, 113 
 
 Xavier, 31, 114 
 Ximenes, 115 
 
 THt; F.ND. 
 
 Elliot Stock, Paternoster Row, London.