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Sing praises unto the Lord with the harp;

With the harp and the voice of melody.

With trumpets and sound of cornet

Make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.

Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof;

The world, and they that dwell therein;

Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy together Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth:

He shall judge the world with righteousness,

And the peoples with equity.

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

Sing forth the honor of his

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For my days are consumed like smoke,

And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

My heart is smitten and withered like grass,

For I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning

My bones cleave to my skin.

But thou, O Lord, shalt endure forever;

And thy remembrance unto all generations.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion;

For it is time to favor her,
Yea, the set time is come.

For thy servants take pleasure in
her stones,

And have pity upon her dust.

So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord,

And all the kings of the earth thy glory.

When the Lord shall build up
Zion;

He shall appear in his glory; He will regard the prayer of the destitute,

And not despise their prayer.

This shall be written for the generation to come;

And the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;

From heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

To hear the groaning of the prisoner;

To loose those that are appointed to death;

To declare the name of the Lord in Zion,

And his praise in Jerusalem;

When the people are gathered together,

And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

He weakened my strength in the

way;

He shortened my days.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth;

And the heavens are the work of thy hands.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure;

Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment;

As a vesture shalt thou change
them, and they shall be changed:

But thou art the same,
And thy years shall have no end.

The children of thy servants
shall continue,

And their seed shall be established before thee.

Evening

Psa. 99; 101. 1-4.

The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble:

He sitteth between the cherubim; let the earth be moved.

The Lord is great in Zion;

And he is high above all the people.

Let them praise thy great and terrible name:

For it is holy.

The king's strength also loveth judgment;

Thou dost establish equity;
Thou executest judgment and
righteousness in Jacob.

Exalt ye the Lord our God,
And worship at his footstool:
For he is holy.

Moses and Aaron among his
priests,

And Samuel among them that call upon his name;

They called upon the Lord, and he answered them.

He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud:

They kept his testimonies,
And the ordinance that he gave
them.

Thou answeredst them, O Lord our
God:

Thou wast a God that forgavest them,

Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.

Exalt the Lord our God,

And worship at his holy hill;
For the Lord our God is holy.

I will sing of mercy and judgment:
Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way:

Oh when wilt thou come unto me?

I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes:

I hate the work of them that turn aside;

It shall not cleave unto me. A froward heart shall depart from

me:

I will know no evil thing.

Thirty-eighth Sunday

Morning

Psa. 103.

Bless the Lord, O my soul;

And all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;

Who crowneth thee with loving

kindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things,

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

The Lord executeth righteous acts,

And judgments for all that are oppressed.

He made known his ways unto Moses,

His acts unto the children of Israel.

The Lord is merciful and gracious,

Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

He will not always chide:

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Neither will he keep his anger for- pleasure.

ever.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins,

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

For as the heaven is high above the earth,

So great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

As far as the east is from the west,

So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Bless the Lord, all his works, In all places of his dominion: Bless the Lord, O my soul.

Evening Psa. 93; 114.

The Lord reigneth; he is clothed with majesty;

The Lord is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

Thy throne is established of old: Thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Lord, The floods have lifted up their voice;

The floods lift up their waves.

More than the voices of many waters,

The mighty billows of the sea,
Is the Lord mighty on high.
Thy testimonies are very sure:
Holiness becometh thy house,
O Lord, for evermore.

When Israel went out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people
of strange language;
Judah became his sanctuary,
And Israel his dominion.

The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, And the little hills like lambs.

What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fileddest?

Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment;

Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters;

Who maketh the clouds his chariot;

Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;

Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers;

Who laid the foundations of the earth,

That it should not be moved forever.

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment;

The waters stood above the mountains.

At thy rebuke they fled;

At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away

(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down)

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.

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Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over;

That they turn not again to cover the earth.

He sendeth forth springs into the valleys;

They run among the hills;

They give drink to every beast of the field;

The wild asses quench their thirst.

By them the fowls of the heaven have their habitation;

They sing among the branches. He watereth the mountains from his chambers:

The earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,

And herb for the service of man;

That he may bring forth food out of the earth,

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man,

And oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.

The trees of the Lord are filled with sap,

The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

The high mountains are for the wild goats;

The rocks are a refuge for the conies.

He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth his going down.

Evening

Psa. 104. I, 20-34.

Bless the Lord, O my soul.

O Lord my God, thou art very great;

Thou art clothed with honor and majesty:

Thou makest darkness, and it is night,

Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

The young lions roar after their prey,

And seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens.

Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.

O Lord, how manifold are thy works!

In wisdom thou hast made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.

Yonder is the sea, great and wide,

Wherein are things creeping innumerable,

Both small and great beasts. There go the ships;

There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.

These wait all upon thee,

That thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

That thou givest unto them, they gather;

Thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled;

Thou takest away their breath, they die,

And return to their dust.

Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created;

And thou renewest the face of the earth.

The glory of the Lord shall endure forever;

The Lord shall rejoice in his works:

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth;

He toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live:

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

My meditation of him shall be

sweet:

I will be glad in the Lord.

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