5 ΤΟ 15 20 Preserve my soul; for I am holy : O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. Be merciful unto me, O Lord: For I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant: For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; And attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: thee. Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; Neither are there. any works like unto thy works. All nations whom thou hast made Shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. For thou art great, And doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: Unite my heart to fear thy name. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: And I will glorify thy name for evermore. For 25 great is thy mercy toward me: And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. O God, the proud are risen against me, And the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. But thou, O Lord, Art a God full of compassion, and gracious, And save the son of thine handmaid. Shew me a token for good; That they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: Because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. PSALM LXXXVII His foundation is in the holy mountains. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her : And the highest himself shall establish her. As well the singers As the players on instruments shall be there : the people, ΤΟ IS 20 25 5 PSALM LXXXVIII O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: For my soul is full of troubles: And my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit : Free among the dead, 10 Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the deeps. 15 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me ; am shut I I have stretched out my hands unto thee. 25 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? And in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. Why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: They came round about me daily like water; Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, PSALM LXXXIX I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: Thy faithfulness to all generations. heavens. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. ΤΟ 15 20 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: 5 ΤΟ 15 20 25 Psalm 89; Ver. 7-19. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, And to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? Or to thy faithfulness round about thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea : When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. As for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm: Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: Mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound : They shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: And in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. And in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. For the LORD is our defence: And the Holy One of Israel is our king. To thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; |