hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

9 To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that were humbled shall rejoice.

10 Turn away thy face from my sins: and blot out all my iniquities.

II Create in me a clean heart, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

12 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

13 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

14 I will teach the unjust thy ways and the wicked shall be converted unto thee.

15 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

16 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

17 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt-offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

18 The sacrifice of God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humble heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

19 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion: that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

20 Then shalt thou accept the sac-
rifice of justice, oblations, and whole
burnt-offerings: then shall they lay
calves upon thine altars.
Glory, &c.

V.-PSALM CI.-Domine, exaudi.
LORD, hear my prayer: and let
my cry come unto thee.

2 Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thine ear unto me.

3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee: oh, hearken unto me speedily.

4 For my days are vanished like smoke and my bones are dried up like fuel for the fire.

5 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

6 Through the voice of my groan. ing my bones have cleaved to my flesh.

7 I am become like a pelican in the wilderness: I am become like a nightraven in the house.

8 I have watched: and am become like a sparrow that sitteth alone on the house-top.

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Mine enemies reviled me all the

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day long and they that praised me have sworn together against me.

10 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping.

II Because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.

12 My days are gone down like a shadow and I am withered like grass.

13 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Sion: for it is time that thon have mercy upon her, yea, the time is come.

15 For thy servants have delighted in her stones: and they shall have compassion on the earth thereof.

16 The Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord: and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

17 For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

18 He hath had regard unto the prayer of the lowly: and hath not despised their petition.

19 Let these things be written for another generation and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.

20 For he hath looked down from

his high and holy place: out of heaven hath the Lord looked upon the earth.

21 That he might hear the groaning of them that are in fetters: that he might deliver the children of the slain.

22 That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem.

23 When the people assembled together and kings, that they may serve the Lord.

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24 He answered him in the way his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

25 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

26 Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

27 They shall perish, but thou endurest and they all shall grow old as a garment.

28 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

29 The children of thy servants shall continue: and their seed shall be directed for ever.

Glory, &c.

VI.-PSALM CXXIX.-De profundis.

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UT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice.

2 Oh, let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

3 If thou, O Lord, shalt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall abide it?

4 For with thee there is propitiation and because of thy law I have waited for thee, O Lord.

5 My soul hath relied on his word: my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

6 From the morning watch even until night: let Israel hope in the Lord.

7 For with the Lord there is mercy: and with him there is plenteous redemption.

8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Glory, &c.

VII.-PSALM CXLII.-Domine, exaudi.

HEAR my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hearken unto me for thy justice' sake.