TWENTYFOURTH MORNING.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM CXVI.

This is a thanksgiving Pfalm for deliverance either from fickness, or fome other dangerous calamity. This and the 118th Pfalm used to be fung after the eating of the Paffover. These therefore were the hymns which the Difciples fung the night that Chrift was betrayed by Judas. See Mat. xxvi. 30,

Hallelujah.

1. I AM well pleased, because the Lord hath heard the voice of my fupplications.

2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me; therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

3. The fnares of death encompassed me, and the cords of the grave gat hold upon him me; I found trouble and forrow.

4. Then called I upon the name of the Lord, "O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my foul."

5. Gracious is the Lord and righteous, yea our God is merciful.

6. The Lord preferveth the fimple; I was brought low and he helped me

7. Return unto thy reft, O my foul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

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6. For thou haft delivered my foul from death, from tears, eyes and my feet from falling. 9. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

10. I believed that I was undone, I was fore troubled.

11. I faid in my fear, all hope in man is deceitful.

12. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me?

13. I will take the cup of falvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

14. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, now in the presence of all his people.

15. Right dear in the fight of the Lord is the death of his faints.

16. O Lord, truly I am thy fervant, and the son of thy handmaid; thou haft broken my bonds in funder.

17. I will offer to thee the facrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

18. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, now in the presence of all his people.

19. In the courts of the Lord's houfe, in the midst of thee, O Jerufalem. Hallelujah.

PSALM CXVII.

This is an exhortation to all the nations of the earth to celebrate the Lord Jehovah. Its brevity has induced fome perfons to conjecture, that it was fung when the people were difmiffed at the conclufion of their religious ceremonies in the temple.

I. O PRAISE the Lord all ye nations, praise him all ye people.

2. For his merciful kindness is great towards us; and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.

PSALM CXVIII.

This Pfalm appears to be an Ode compofed on occafion of fome public thanksgiving for a victory, and to have been fung by the priest and people.

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

2. Let the house of Ifrael, now fay, that his mercy endureth for ever.

3. Let the house of Aaron now fay, that his mercy endureth for ever.

4. Let them that fear the Lord now say that his mercy endureth for ever.

5. I called upon the Lord in my streights; and the Lord answered me with enlargement.

6. The Lord is my chief aid; I will not fear what can man do unto me.

7. The Lord is my chief aid; therefore shall I fee my defire upon them that hate me.

8. It is better to truft in the Lord, than to put confidence in man.

9. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes.

10. All the heathen compaffed me about, but in the name of the Lord did I destroy them.

11. They compaffed me about, yea they compaffed me about; but in the name of the Lord I did destroy them.

12. They compaffed me about like bees; they were quenched as the fire of thorns, for in the name of the Lord I did destroy them.

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I was thrust at fore, that I might fall; but the Lord was my help.

14. The Lord is my strength and my fong, and is become my falvation.

15. The voice of joy and falvation is in the tabernacle of the righteous; the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.

16. The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.

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I fhall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

18. The Lord hath chaftened me fore; but he hath not given me over unto death.

19. Open to me the gates of righteoufnefs; I will go into them and give thanks unto the Lord.

20. This is the gate of the Lord, the righteous fhall enter into it.

21. I will give thanks unto thee, for thou hast heard me, and art become my falvation.

22. The stone which the builders refused, is become the head stone of the corner.

23. This is the Lord's doing, 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. Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, fend now profperity.

26. Bleffed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord; we have bleffed you out of the house of the Lord.

27. God is the Lord who hath fhewed us light; bind the victim with cords, unto the horns of the altar.

28. Thou art my God and I will praife thee; thou art my God, I will exalt thee.

29. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever.