land of Jordan, and Hermon, and from the hill of Mizar.

7. Deep calleth unto deep with the voice of thy waterspouts; all thy waves and thy billows pass

over me.

8. Yet the Lord will grant his loving kindness in the day time; and in the night feafon I will fing of him, and make my prayer unto the God of my life.

9.

I will say unto the God of my strength, why haft thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppreffion of the enemy?

10. As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me, while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

11. Why art thou caft down, O my foul, and why art thou difquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I fhall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance and my God.

*PSALM XLIII.

12. Judge me O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man.

13. For thou art the God of my ftrength, why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppreffion of the enemy?

14. O fend out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

15. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy, and upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God!

16. Why art thou caft down, O my foul, and why art thou difquieted within me? hope thou in God, for I fhall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance and my God.

NINTH MORNING.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM XLIV.

The fupplication of the Ifraelites to God for his affiftance in fome war, in which they were feverely pressed by their enemies. It is fuppofed by the best critics to relate to the perfecutions of Antiochus, and to have been written juft after the death of Judas Maccabæus.

1. WE have heard with ears, O God, our fathers have told us, the noble works thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

2. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, but didst plant them; how thou didst break the nations, but madeft them shoot forth.

3. For they got not the land in poffeffion through their own fword, neither did their own arm fave them.

4. But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

5. Thou, O my King and my God, art he, who by thy command givest victory unto Jacob.

6. Through thee will we gore our enemies, through thy name will we tread them under, that rife up against us.

7.

For we will not trust in our bow, neither will it be our fword that fhall fave us.

8. For thou haft faved us from our enemies, and haft put to fhame them that hated us.

9. In God we will make our boast all the day, and will praise thy name for ever.

10. But now thou art far off, and putteft us to confufion; and goest not forth with our armies.

II. Thou makeft us to turn back from the enemy, and they that hate us, make us their spoil.

12. Thou haft given us like sheep to be devoured, and hast scattered us among the heathen.

13. Thou felleft thy people for nought, and art not enriched by their price.

14. Thou makeft us a reproach to our neighbours,

a fcorn and derifion to them that are round about

us.

15. Thou makeft us a bye-word among the nations, a fhaking of the head among the people.

16. All the day my confufion is before me, and fhame of countenance hath covered me.

17. At the voice of the reviler and blafphemer; before the face of the enemy and avenger.

18. All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falfely in thy

covenant.

19. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way.

20. Though thou haft crushed us down into the dwelling place of ferpents, and hast covered us with the shadow of death.

21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to any strange God.

22. Shall not God fearch this out? for he knoweth the fecrets of the heart.

23. Yea, for thy fake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the flaughter.

24. Awake, why fleepeft thou, O Lord? Arife, caft us not off for ever.

25. Wherefore hideft thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and our oppreffion?

26. For our foul is bowed down to the duft; our body cleaveth unto the earth.

27. Arife and help us, and deliver us for thy mercy's fake.

PSALM XLV.

Epithalamium on Solomon's marriage with Pharaoth's

daughter. See Kings iii. 1.

See 1 Kings iii. 1. In the Hebrew it is

entitled, A Song of Loves.

1. MY heart hath meditated on a good matter; I will recite my work concerning the King; my tongue shall be the pen of a ready writer.

2. Thou art fairer than the fons of men, grace is poured over thy lips, for God hath bleffed thee for

ever.

3. Gird thy fword upon thy thigh, thou that excelleft in thy glory and thy majesty; bend also thy bow.

4. Ride on profperoufly in the cause of truth, of meekness, and righteousness, and thy right hand fhall fhoot forth terrors.

5. Thine arrows are fharp, people fhall be cast down before thee; the enemies of the King fhall be caft down in their heart.

6. Thy throne, O Prince, is for ever and ever, a fceptre of righteousness is the fceptre of thy kingdom.

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