1. O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name; make known his deeds among

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2. O let your fongs be of him, and praise him; tell of all his wondrous works.

3. Glory ye in his holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

4. Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; feek

his face evermore.

5. Remember the marvellous works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth. 6. O ye feed of Abraham his fervant, ye children of Jacob his chofen.

7. He is the Lord our God, his judgments are in all the earth.

8. He remembereth his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thoufand generations.

9. Even the covenant that he made with Abraham, and the oath that he sware unto Ifaac.

10. And appointed the fame unto Jacob for a law, and to Ifrael for an everlasting covenant:

11. Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.

12. When they were yet but few in number; yea, very few, and ftrangers in the land.

13. What time as they went from one nation to another; from one kingdom to another people.

14. He fuffered no man to do them wrong; yea, he reproved kings for their fakes.

15. Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

16. Moreover he called for a famine on the land; and brake the whole ftaff of bread.

17. He fent a man before them, even Jofeph; who was fold to be a flave.

18. Whose feet they hurt with fetters; the iron caufed his foul to faint.

19. Until the time that his faying came to pafs, that the word of the Lord acquitted him.

20. The king fent and loofed him; the ruler of the people let him go free.

21. He made him Lord alfo of his house, and ruler of all his fubftance,

22. To curb his princes after his will; and teach his fenators wifdom.

23. Ifrael alfo came into Egypt, and Jacob fojourned in the land of Ham.

24. And he increafed his people exceedingly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

25. He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his fervants.

26. Then fent he Mofes his fervant, and Aaron whom he had chofen.

27. They fhewed his figns among them, and wonders in the land of Ham,

28. He fent darkness and made it dark, yet they were not obedient to his word.

29. He turned their waters into blood, and flew ther fish.

30. Their land brought forth frogs, yea, even in the chambers of their kings.

31. He fpake and there came divers fort of flies, and lice in all their coasts.

32. He gave them storms of hail, and flaming fire was in their land.

33. He fmote their vines alfo and their fig-trees, and brake the trees that were in their borders.

34. He spake and the locufts came, and caterpillars without number;

35. And they did eat up all the herb in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

36. And he fmote all the first-born in their land, the chief of all their strength.

37. He brought them forth alfo with filver and gold; and there was not one feeble perfon among

their tribes.

38. Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

39. He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season.

40. They asked and he brought quails, and fatisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41. He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; rivers ran in the dry places.

42. For he remembered his holy promife, and Abraham his fervant.

43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chofen with gladness.

44. And gave them the lands of the heathen, and they inherited the labour of the nations.

45. That they might keep his ftatutes and obferve his laws. Hallelujah.

TWENTY-FIRST EVENING.

Evening Prayer.

PSALM CVI.

This Pfalm contains an account of the continued ingratitude and rebellion of the Ifraelites against God, and his great mercy and forbearance, until at length he Juffered them to be carried into captivity; yet that even then they experienced the loving kindness of God. From the 4th, 5th, and 47th verfes we might conjecture that it was written towards the end of the captivity, which is Kennicott's opinion.

1. O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious; for his mercy endureth for ever.

2. Who can exprefs the noble acts of the Lord, or fhew forth all his praife?

3. Bleffed are they that keep judgment, and at all times do that which is right.

4. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people; O vifit me with thy falvation.

5. That I may fee the good of thy chofen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation; and glory with thine inheritance.

6. We have finned with our fathers, we have done amifs and dealt wickedly.

7. Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance, but rebelled when they came up towards the red fea.

8. Nevertheless he faved them for his name's fake; that he might make his power known.

9. He rebuked the red fea alfo, and it was dried up; fo he led them through the deep as through a wilderness.

IÓ. And he faved them from the hand of him that hated them; and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11. And the waters covered their enemies, fo that not one of them remained.

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