Going, they went and wept, cafting their feed. But returning, they shall come with joy, carrying their fheaves. Glory be to the Father, &c. Domine probafti me. LORD, thou haft tried me and haft known me: thou hast known my fitting down and my rising up. Thou haft understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line haft thou fearched out. And thou haft foreseen all my ways: though there is not a word on my tongue. Behold, O Lord, thou haft known all things, new and old thou haft formed me, and haft laid thine hand upon me. Thy knowledge hath become too wonderful for me: it is exalted, and I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy fpirit? and whither fhall I flee from thy face? If I go up into heaven, thou art there if I go down into hell, there thou art. If in the morning I take to myself wings, and dwell in the uttermoft parts of the sea: Even thither shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand fhall hold me. Et dixi: Forfitan tenebræ conculcabunt me: et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis. Quia tenebræ non obfcurabuntur a te, et nox ficut dies illuminabitur: * ficut tenebræ ejus, ita et lumen ejus. Quia tu poffedifti renes meos: fufcepifti me de utero matris meæ. Confitebor tibi, quia terribiliter magnificatus es: * mirabilia opera tua, et anima mea cognofcit nimis. Non eft occultatum os meum a te, quod fecifti in occulto: * et fubftantia mea in inferioribus terræ. Imperfectum meum viderunt oculi tui, et in libro tuo omnes fcribentur: * dies formabuntur, et nemo in eis. Mihi autem nimis honorificati funt amici tui, Deus: nimis confortatus eft principatus eorum. Dinumerabo eos, et fuper arenam multiplicabuntur: * exurrexi, et adhuc fum tecum. Si occideris Deus peccatores: viri fanguinum decli nate a me. Quia dicitis in cogitatione : And I faid: Peradventure darkness may cover me: but night is as a light unto me in my pleasures. For darknefs fhall not be dark unto thee, and night shall be light as the day: even as the darkness, fo alfo is the light. For thou haft known my inmoft parts: thou haft fuftained me from my mother's womb. I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: marvellous are thy works, and my foul knoweth it well. My bones are not hidden from thee, which thou didft form in fecret: nor my fubftance, which thou didst make in the depths of the earth. While as yet imperfect, thine eyes beheld me, and in thy book were all my members written: day by day were they formed, when as yet there were none of them. But with me thy friends, O God, are exceedingly honoured: their dominion is firmly established. I will count them, and they fhall be more in number than the fand: I have risen up, and am ftill with thee. Wilt thou not flay the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me. For ye fay in your thoughts: * Accipient in vanitate civi- They shall take thy cities in The LITTLE CHAPTER and HYMN as in First Vefpers, with the following V. and R. Annuntiaverunt opera Dei. R. Et facta ejus intellexe runt. . They declared the works of God. Ry. And they understood his doings. Common of Martyrs. FIRST VESPERS. As on Sundays. Laft Pfalm, SECOND VESPERS. As on Sundays. Laft Pfalm, Common of Virgins and Holy Women. FIRST AND SECOND VESPERS. As on the Feafts of the Bleed Virgin Mary. Common of a Confeffor not a Bishop. FIRST AND SECOND VESPERS. Laft Pfalm, Laudate Dominum, p. 50. 56 Common of a Confeffor and Bishop. FIRST VESPERS. Laft Pfalm, Laudate Dominum, p. 50. SECOND VESPERS. Laft Pfalm, Memento Domine. Pfalm cxxxi. Memento Domine. EMENTO Domine MR David, * et omnis manfuetudinis ejus : O nefs. LORD, remember David, and all his meek How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed a vow unto the God of Jacob: I will not enter into the tabernacle of my house; I will not go up into my bed; I will not give fleep to my eyes; nor flumber to my eyelids; Nor reft to my temples, until I find a place for the Lord a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. Lo, we heard of it in Ephrata: we found it in the fields of the wood. We will go into his tabernacle: we will worship in the place where his feet have stood. Arise, O Lord, into thy reft thou and the ark of thy holinefs. Let thy priefts be clothed with justice: and let thy faints rejoice. For thy fervant David's fake, turn not away the face of thine Anointed. Quoniam elegit Dominus Sion: elegit eam in habitationem fibi. Hæc requies mea in fæculum fæculi: hic habitabo, quoniam elegi eam. Viduam ejus benedicens bencdicam: pauperes ejus faturabo panibus. Sacerdotes ejus induam falutari et fancti ejus exultatione exultabunt. Illuc producam cornu David: *paravi lucernam Chrifto meo. Inimicos ejus induam confufione: * fuper ipsum autem efflorebit fanctificatio mea. Gloria Patri, &c. E LITTLE CHAPTER. OCCE facerdos magnus, qui in diebus fuis placuit Deo, et inventus eft juf tus: et in tempore iracundiæ factus eft reconciliatio. The Lord hath fworn the truth unto David, and he will not make it void: Of the fruit of thy body I will fet upon thy throne. If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my teftimonies which I will teach them: Their children alfo for ever fhall fit upon thy throne. For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chofen it a dwelling unto himself. This is my reft for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I have chofen it. With bleffing I will bless her widows: I will fatisfy her poor with bread. I will clothe her priests with falvation and her faints fhall rejoice with exceeding joy. There will I bring forth a horn unto David: I have prepared a lamp for mine Anointed. His enemies will I clothe with confufion: but upon himself shall my fanctification flourish. Glory be to the Father, &c. Eccl. xliv. B EHOLD a great priest, who in his days pleased God, and he was found just : and in the time of wrath he became a reconciliation. |