out of his throne Our Lord Jesus Christ thy dear Son Lord Jesus Christ shew forth thy might That thou art Lord of lords by right Thy poor afflicted flock defend That we may praise thee without end God holy Ghost our Comforter Be our patron help and succour Give us one minde and perfect peace All gifts of grace in us increase Thou living God in persons three Thy name be prais'd in unitie In all our need so us defend That we may praise thee without end FINIS PRAYERS A form of prayer to be used in private houses every morning and evening Morning prayer ALmighty God and most merciful Father we do not present our selves here before thy Majesty trusting in our own merits or worthiness but in thy manifold mercies which hast promised to hear our prayers and grant our requests which we shall make to thee in the name of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord who also hath commanded us to assemble ourselves together in his name with full assurance that he will not onely be amongst us but also be our Mediatour and Advocate towards thy Majesty that we may obtain all things which shall seem expedient to thy blessed will for our necessities Therefore we beseech thee most merciful Father to turn thy loving countenance towards us and impute not unto us our manifold sins and offences whereby we justly deserve thy wrath and sharp punishment but rather receive us to thy mercy for Jesus Christs sake accepting his death and passion as a just recompence for all our offences in whom thou art well pleased and through whom thou canst not be offended with us And seeing that of thy great mercies we have quietly passed this night grant O heavenly Father that we may bestow this day wholly in thy service so that all our thoughts words and deeds may redound to the glory of thy great name and good example to all men who seeing our good works may glorify thee our heavenly Father And forasmuch as of thy mere favour and love thou hast not onely created us to thine own similitude and likeness but also hast chosen us to be heirs with thy dear Son Jesus Christ of that immortal kingdom which thou preparedst for us from the beginning of the world we beseech thee to increase our faith and knowledge and to lighten our hearts with thy holy Spirit that we may in the mean time live in godly conversation and integrity of life knowing that idolaters adulterers covetous men contentious persons drunkards gluttons and such like shall not inherit the kingdom of God And because thou hast commanded us to pray one for another we do not onely make request O Lord for our selves and for them that thou hast already called to the true understanding of thy heavenly will but for all people and nations of the world who as they know by thy wonderful works that thou art God over all 〈◊〉 they may be instructed by thy holy Spirit to beleeve in thee their onely Saviour and Redeemer But forasmuch as they cannot beleeve except they hear nor cannot hear but by preaching and none can preach except they be sent therefore O Lord raise up faithful distributers of thy mysteries who setting apart all worldly respects may both in their life and doctrine onely seek thy glory Contrarily confound Satan and Antichrist with all hirelings whom thou hast already cast off into a reprobate sense that they may not by sects schisms heresies and errours disquiet thy little flock And because O Lord we be fallen into the latter days and dangerous times wherein ignorance hath gotten the upper hand and Satan by his ministers seeketh by all means to quench the light of thy gospel we beseech thee to maintain thy cause against those ravening wolves and strengthen all thy servants whom they keep in prison and bondage Let not thy long-suffering be an occasion either to increase their tyranny or to discourage thy children neither yet let our sins and wickedness be an hinderance to thy mercies but with speed O Lord consider these great miseries For thy people Israel many times by their sins provoked thine anger and thou punishedst them by thy just judgement yet though their sins were never so grievous if they once returned from their iniquity thou receivedst them to mercy We therefore most wretched sinners bewail our manifold sins and earnestly repent us of our former wickedness and ungodly behaviour towards thee and whereas we cannot of our selves purchase thy pardon yet we humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christs sake to shew thy mercies upon us receive us again to thy favour Grant us dear Father these our requests and all other things necessary for us and thy whole Church according to thy promise in Jesus Christ our Lord In whose name we beseech thee as he hath taught us saying Our Father which art c. Evening prayer O Lord God Father everlasting and full of pity we acknowledge and confess that we be not worthy to lift up our eyes to heaven much less to present our selves before thy Majesty with confidence that thou wilt hear our prayers and grant our requests if we consider our own deservings for our consciences do accuse us and our sins do witness against us and we know that thou art an upright Judge which dost not justify the sinners and wicked men but punishest the faults of all such as transgress thy commandments yet most merciful Father since it hath pleased thee to command us to call on thee in all our troubles and adversities promising even then to help us when we feel our selves as it were swallowed up of death and desperation we utterly renounce all worldly confidence and the to thy sovereign bounty as our onely stay and refuge beseeching thee not to call to remembrance our manifold sins and wickedness whereby we continually provoke thy wrath and indignation against us neither our negligence and unkindness which have neither worthily esteemed nor in our lives sufficiently expressed the sweet comfort of thy gospel revealed unto us but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy Son Jesus Christ who by offering up his body in sacrifice once for all hath made a sufficient recompence for all our sins Have mercy therefore upon us O Lord and forgive us our offences Teach us by thy holy Spirit that we may rightly weigh them and earnestly repent us for the same And so much the rather O Lord because that the reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot praise thee nor call upon thy name but the repenting heart the sorrowful minde the conscience oppressed hungring and thirsting for thy grace shall ever set forth thy praise and glory And albeit we be but worms and dust yet thou art our Creatour and we be the work of thy hands yea thou art our Father and we thy children thou art our Shepherd and we thy flock thou art our Redeemer and we thy people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and
verse 10 By whom the secrets of all hearts are searched and descri'd verse 11 I take my help to come of God in all my pain and smart That doth preserve all those that be of pure and perfect heart verse 12 The just man and the wicked both God judgeth by his power So that he feels his might hand even every day and hour verse 13 Except he change his minde I die for even as he should smite He whets his sword his bowe he bends aiming where he may hit verse 14 And doth prepare his mortal darts his arrows keen and sharp For them that do me persecute whiles he doth mischief warp verse 15 But lo though he in travail be of his devilish forecast And of his mischief once conceiv'd yet brings forth nought at last verse 16 He digs a ditch and delves it deep in hope to hurt his brother But he shall fall into the pit that he dig'd up for other verse 17 Thus wrong returneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred And all the mischief that he wrought shall sall upon his head verse 18 I will give thanks to God therefore that judgeth righteously And with my song will praise the name of him that is most high Domine Deus noster Psal viii T. S. O God our Lord how wonderful are thy works every where Whose fame surmounts in dignity above the heavens clear verse 2 Even by the mouth of sucking babes thou wilt confound they foes For in those babes thy might is seen thy graces they disclose verse 3 And when I see the heavens high the works of thine own hand The Sun the Moon and all the Stars in order as they stand verse 4 What thing is man Lord think I then that thou dost him remember Or what is mans posterity that thou dost it consider verse 5 For thou hast made him little less then Angels in degree And thou hast crowned him also with glory and dignity verse 6 Thou hast prefer'd him to be lord of all thy works of wonder And at his feet hast set all things that he should keep them under verse 7 As sheep and neat and all beasts else that in the fields do feed verse 8 Fowls of the air fish in the sea and all that therein breed verse 9 Therefore must I say once again O God that art our Lord. How famous and how wonderful are thy works through the world Confitebor tibi Domine Psal ix T. S. WIth heart and mouth unto the Lord will I sing laud and praise And speak of all thy wondrous works and them declare always verse 2 I will be glad and much rejoyce in thee O God most high And make my songs extol thy name above the starry skie verse 3 For that my foes are driven back and turned unto flight They fall down flat and are destroy'd by thy great power and might verse 4 Thou hast revenged all my wrong my grief and all my grudge Thou dost with justice hear my cause most like a righteous Judge verse 5 Thou dost rebuke the heathen folk and wicked so confound That afterward the memory of them cannot be found verse 6 My foes thou hast made good dispatch and all their towns destroy'd Thou hast their fame with them defac'd through all the world so wide verse 7 Know thou that he which is above for evermore shall reign And in the seat of equity true judgement will maintain verse 8 With justice he will keep and guide the world and every wight And so will yeeld with equity to every man his right verse 9 He is protectour of the poor what time they be opprest He is mall adversity their refuge and their rest verse 10 And they that know thy holy name therefore shall trust in thee For thou forsakest not their suit in their necessity The second part verse 11 Sing psalms therefore unto the Lord that dwells on Sion hill Publish among all nations his noble acts and will verse 12 For he is mindful of the bloud of those that be opprest For getting not th' afflicted heart that seeks to him for rest verse 13 Have mercy Lord on me poor wretch whole enemies still remain Which from the gates of death are wont to raise me up again verse 14 In Sion that I might set forth thy praise with heart and voice And that in thy salvation Lord my soul might still rejoyce verse 15 The heathen stick fast in the pit that they themselves prepar'd And in the net that they did set their own feet fast are snar'd verse 16 God shews his judgements which were good for every man to mark When as you see the wicked man ly trapt in his own wark verse 17 The wicked and deceitful men go down to hell for ever And all the people of the world that will not God remember verse 18 But sure the Lord will not forget the poor mans grief and pain The patient people never look for help of God in vain verse 19 O Lord arise lest men prevail that he of wordly might And set the heathen solk receive their judgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord strike such terrour fear and dread into the hearts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mottal men Vt quid Domine Psal x. T. S. WHat is the cause that thou O Lord art now so far from thine And keepest close thy countenance from us this troublous time verse 2 The poor do perish by the proud and wicked men desire Let them be taken in the craft that they themselves conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his own heart th' ungodly doth delight So doth the wicked praise himself and doth the Lord dâ—spight verse 4 He is so proud that right and wrong he setteth all apart Nay nay there is no God saith he for thus he thinks in heart verse 5 Because his ways do prosper still he doth thy laws neglect And with a blast doth puff against such as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saith he I have no dread lest mine estate should change And why for all adversity to him is very strange verse 7 His mouth is full of cursedness of fraud deceit and guile Under his tongue doth mischief sit and travel all the while verse 8 He lieth hid in ways and holes to slay the innocent Against the poor that pass him by his cruel eyes are bent verse 9 And like a lion privily lies lurking in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoil poor simple men verse 10 And for the nonce full craftily he croucheth down I say verse 11 So are great heaps of poor men made by his strong power his prey The second part verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this saith he therefore I may be bold His countenance is cast aside he doth it not behold verse 13 Arise O Lord O God in whom the poor mans hope doth rest Lift up thy hand forget not Lord the poor that be opprest verse
The third part verse 20 He is the God from whom alone salvation cometh plain He is the God by whom we scape all dangers death and pain verse 21 Thus God will wound his enemies head and break the hairy scalp Of those that in their wickedness continually do walk verse 22 From Basan will I bring said he my people and my sheep And all mine own as I have done from dangers of the deep verse 23 And make them dip their seet in bloud of those that hate my Name And dogs shall have their tongues embrew'd with licking of the same verse 24 All men may see how thou O God thine enemies dost deface And how thou goest as God and King into thine holy place verse 25 The singers go before with joy the minstrels follow after And in the midst the damsels play with timbrel and with taber verse 26 Now in the congregation O Israel praise the Lord And Jacobs whole posterity give thanks with one accord verse 27 Their chief was little Benjamin but Judah made their host With Zabulon and Nephthalim which dwelt about their coast verse 28 As God hath given power to thee so Lord make firm and sure The thing that thou hast wrought in us for ever to endure verse 29 And in thy temple gifts will we give unto thee O Lord For thine unto Jerusalem sure promise made by word The fourth part Yea and strange kings to us subdu'd shall do like in those days I mean to thee they shall present their gifts of laud and praise verse 30 He shall destroy the spear-mens ranks the calves and bulls of might And cause them tribute pay and daunt all such as love to sight verse 31 Then shall the lords of Egypt come and presents with them bring The Moors most black shall stretch their hands unto their Lord and King verse 32 Therefore ye kingdoms of the earth give praise unto the Lord Sing psalms to God with one consent thereto let all accord verse 33 Who though he ride and ever hath above the heavens bright Yet by the fearful thunder-claps men may well know his might verse 34 Therefore the strength of Israel ascribe to God on high Whose might and power doth far extend above the cloudy sky verse 35 O God thy holiness and power is dread for evermore The God of Israel gives us strength praised be God therefore Salvum me fac Psal lxix J. H. SAve me O God and that with speed the waters flow full fast So nigh my soul do they proceed that I am sore agast verse 2 I stick full deep in mire and clay Whereas I feel no ground fall into such flouds I say that I am like be drown'd verse 3 With crying oft I faint and quail my throat is hoarse and dry With looking up my sight doth fail for help to God on high verse 4 My foes that guiltless do oppress my soul with hate are led In number sure they are no less then hairs are on my head verse 5 Though for no cause they vex me fore they prosper and are glad They do compel me to restore the things I never had verse 6 What I have done for want of wit thou Lord all times canst tell And all the faults that I commit to thee are known full well verse 7 O God of hosts defend and stay all those that trust in thee Let no man doubt or shrink away for ought that chanceth me verse 8 It is for thee and for thy sake that I do bear this blame In spite of thee they would me make to hide my face for shame verse 9 My mothers sons my brethren all forsake me on a row And as a stranger they me call my face they will not know verse 10 Unto thy house such zeal I bear that it doth pine me much Their checks and taunts at thee to hear my very heart doth grutch The second part verse 11 Though I do fast my flesh to chast Yea if I weep and mone Yet in my teeth this gear is cast they pass not thereupon verse 12 If I for grief and pain of heart in sack cloth use to walk Then they anon will it pervert thereof they jest and talk verse 13 Both high and low and all the throng that sit within the gate They have me ever in their tongue of me they talk and prate verse 14 The drunkards which in wine delight it is their chief pastime To seek which way to work me spite of me they sing and rhyme verse 15 But thee the while O Lord I pray that when it pleaseth thee For thy great truth thou wilt alway send down thine aid to me verse 16 Pluck thou my feet out of the mire from drowning do me keep From such as ow me wrath and ire and from the waters deep verse 17 Lest with the waves I should be drown'd and depth my soul devour And that the pit should me confound and shut me in her power verse 18 O Lord of hosts to me give ear as thou art good and kinde And as thy mercy is most dear Lord have me in thy minde verse 19 And do not from thy servant hide nor turn thy face away I am opprest on every side in haste give ear I say verse 20 O Lord unto my soul draw nigh the same with aid repose Because of their great tyranny acquit me from my soes The third part verse 21 That I abide rebuke and shame thou know'st and thou canst tell For those that seek and work the same thou seest them all full well verse 22 When they with brags do break my heart I seek for help anon But finde no friends to ease my smart to comfort me not one verse 23 But in my meat they gave me gall too cruel for to think And gave me in my thirst withall strong vineger to drink verse 24 Lord turn their table to a snare to take themselves therein And when they think full well to sate then trap them in the gin verse 25 And let their eyes be dark and blinde that they may nothing see Bow down their backs and do them binde in thraldom for to be verse 26 Pour out thy wrath as hot as fire that it on them may fall Let thy displeasure in thine ire take hold upon them all verse 27 As deserts dry their house disgrace their off spring eke expel That none thereof possess their place nor in their tents do dwell verse 28 If thou dost strike the man to tame on him they lay full sore And if that thou do wound the same they seek to hurt him more verse 29 Then let them heap up mischief still sith they are all pervert That of thy favour and good will they never have a part verse 30 And rase them clean out of thy book of life of hope of trust That for their names they never look in number of the just The fourth part verse 31 Though I O Lord with wo and grief have been full sore
and be not slack to give thy foes a rap The second part verse 13 O God thou art our King and Lord and evermore hast been Yea thy good grace throughout the world for our good help hath seen verse 14 The seas that are so deep and dead thy might did make them dry And thou didst break the serpents head that he therein did die verse 15 Yea thou didst break the heads so great of whales that are so fell And gav'st them to the folk to eat that in the deserts dwell verse 16 Thou mad'st a spring with streams to rise from rock both hard and high And eke thy hand hath made likewise deep rivers to be dry verse 17 Both day and eke the night are thine by thee they were begun Thou sett'st to serve us with their shine the light and eke the sun verse 18 Thou didst appoint the ends and coasts of all the earth about Both summer-heats and winter-frosts thy hand hath found them out verse 19 Think on O Lord no time forget thy foes that thee defame And how the foolish folk are set to rail upon thy Name verse 20 O let no cruel beasts devour thy turtle that is true Forget not always in thy power the poor that much do rue verse 21 Regard thy covenant and behold thy foes possess the land All sad and dark forworn and old our realm as now doth stand verse 22 Let not the simple go away nor yet return with shame But let the poor and needy ay give praise unto thy Name verse 23 Rise Lord let be by thee maintain'd the cause that is thine own Remember how that thou blasphem'd art by the foolish one verse 24 The voice forget not of thy foes for the presumption high Is more and more in creast of those that hate thee spitefully Confitebimur tibi Psal lxxv J. H. UNto thee God will we give thanks we will give thanks to thee Sith thy Name is so near declare thy wondrous works will we verse 2 I will uprightly judge when get convenient time I may The earth is weak and all therein but I her pillars stay verse 3 I did to the mad people say Deal not so furiously And unto the ungodly ones Set not your horns on high verse 4 I said unto them Set not up your raised horns on high And see that you do with stiff neck not speak presumptuously verse 5 For neither from the eastern parts nor from the western side Nor from forsaken wilderness promotion doth proceed verse 6 For why the Lord our God he is the righteous Judge alone He putteth down the one and sets another in the throne verse 7 For why a cup of mighty wine is in the hand of God And all the mighty wine therein himself doth pour abroad verse 8 As for the lees and filthy dregs that do remain of it The wicked of the earth shall drink and suck them every whit verse 9 But I will talk of God I say of Jacobs God therefore And will not cease to celebrate his praise for evermore verse 10 In sunder break the horns of all ungodly men will I But then the horns of righteous men shall be exalted high Gloria patri To Father Son and holy Ghost all glory be therefore As in beginning was is now and shall be evermore In Judea Psal lxxvi J. H. TO all that now in Jewry dwell the Lord is clearly known His Name is great in Israel a people of his own verse 2 At Salem he his tents hath pight to tarry there a space In Sion eke he hath delight to make his dwelling-place verse 3 And there he brake both shaft and bowe the sword the spear and shield And brake the ray to overthrow in battel on the field verse 4 Thou art more worthy honour Lord more might in thee doth lie Then in the strongest of the world that rob on mountains high verse 5 But now the proud are spoil'd through thee and they are faln on sleep Through men of war no help can he themselves they could not keep verse 6 At thy rebuke O Jacobs God when thou didst them reprove As half on sleep their chariots stood no hors-men once did move verse 7 For thou art dreadful Lord indeed what man the courage hath To bide thy sight and doth not dread when thou art in thy wrath verse 8 When thou dost make thy judgments heard from heaven throught the ground Then all the earth full sore afraid in silence shall be found verse 9 And that when thou O God dost stand in judgement for to speak To save th' afflicted of the land on earth that are full weak verse 10 The fury that in man doth reign shall turn unto thy praise Hereafter Lord do thou restrain their wrath and threats always verse 11 Make vows and pay them to our God ye folk that nigh him be Bring gifts all ye that dwell abroad for dreadful sure is he verse 12 For he doth take both life and might from princes great of birth And full of terrour is his sight to all the kings on earth Voce mea Psal lxxvii J. H. I With my voice to God do cry with heart and hearty cheer My voice to God I lift on high and he my suit doth hear verse 2 In time of grief I sought to God by night no rest I took But stretcht my hands to him abroad my soul comfort forsook verse 3 When I to think on God intend my trouble then is more I spake but could not make an end my breath was stopt so sore verse 4 Thou hold'st mine eyes always from rest that I always awake With fear I am so sore opprest my speech doth me forsake verse 5 The days of old in minde I cast and oft did think upon The times and ages that are past full many years agone verse 6 By night my songs I call to minde once made thy praise to show And with my heart much talle I finde my spirits do search to know verse 7 Will God said I at once for all cast off his people thus So that henceforth no time he shall be friendly unto us verse 8 What is his goodness clean decay'd for ever and a day Or is his promise now delay'd and doth his truth decay verse 9 And will the Lord our God forget his mercies manifold Or shall his wrath increase so hot his mercies to withhold verse 10 At last I said My weakness is the cause of this mistrust Gods mighty hand can help all this and change it when he lust The second part verse 11 I will regard and think upon the working of the Lord Of all his wonders past and gone I gladly will record verse 12 Yea all his works I will declare and what he did devise To tell his facts I will not spare and eke his counsel wise verse 13 Thy works O Lord are all upright and holy all abroad What one hath strength to match the might of thee O Lord our God verse
fares with us Broke are their nets and we have scaped thus verse 8 God that made heaven and earth is our help then His Name hath sav'd us from these wicked men Qui confidunt Psal cxxv W. K. SUch as in God the Lord do trust As mount Sion shall firmly stand And be removed at no hand The Lord will count them right and just So that they shall be sure For ever to endure verse 2 As mighty mountains huge and great Jerusalem about do close So will the Lord do unto those Who on his godly will do wait Such are to him so dear They never need to fear verse 3 For though the righteous try doth he By making wicked men his rod Lest they through grief forsake their God It shall not as their lot still be verse 4 Give Lord to us thy light Whose hearts are true and right verse 5 But as for such as turn aside By crooked ways which they out sought The Lord will surely bring to nought With workers vile they shall abide But peace with Israel For evermore shall dwell Another of the same by R. W. THose that do put their confidence Upon the Lord our God onely And flee to him for their defence In all their need and misery Their faith is sure still to endure Grounded on Christ the corner-stone Mov'd with none ill but standeth full Stedfast like to the mount Sion And as about Jerusalem The mighty hills do it compass So that no enemies come to them To hurt that town in any case So God indeed in every need His faithful people doth defend Standing them by assuredly From this time forth world without end Right wise and good is our Lord God And will not suffer certainly The sinners and ungodlies rod To tarry upon his family Lest they also from God should go Falling to sin and wickedness O Lord defend world without end Thy Christian flock through thy goodness O Lord do good to Christians all That stedfast in thy word abide Such as willingly from God fall And to false doctrine daily slide Such will the Lord scatter abroad With hypocrites thrown down to hell God will them send pains without end But Lord grant peace to Israel Glory to God the Father of might And to the Son our Saviour And to the holy Ghost whose light Shine in our hearts and us succour That the right way from day to day We may walk and him glorifie With heates desire all that are here Worship the Lord and say Amen In convertendo Psal cxxvi W. W. WHen that the Lord again his Sion had forth brought From bondage great and also servitude extreme His work was such as did surmount mans heart thought So that we were much like to them that use to dream verse 2 Our mouths were with laughter filled then And eke our tongues did shew us joyful men The heathen folk were forced then this to confess How that the Lord for them also great things had done verse 3 But much more we and therefore can confess no less Wherefore to joy we have good cause as we begun verse 4 O Lord go forth thou canst our bondage end As to deserts the flowing rivers send verse 5 Full true it is that they which sow in tears indeed A time will come when they shall reap in mirth and joy verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of their precious seed For that their foes full often times did them annoy But their return with joy they shall sure see Their sheaves home bring and not empaired be Nisi Dom. Psal cxxvii W. W. EXcept the Lord the house doth make And thereunto doth set his hand What men do build it cannot stand Likewise in vain men undertake Cities and holds to watch and ward Except the Lord be their safeguard verse 2 Though ye rise early in the morn And so at night go late to bed Feeding full hardly with brown bread Yet were your labour lost and worn But they whom God doth love and keep Receive all things with quiet sleep verse 3 Therefore mark well when-ever you see That men have heirs t' enjoy their land It is the gift of Gods own hand For God himself doth multiply Of his great liberality The blessing of posterity verse 4 And when the children come to age They grow in strength and activeness In person and in comeliness So that a shaft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arm Flies not so swift nor doth like harm verse 5 Oh well is he that hath his quiver Furnisht with such artillerie For when in peril he shall be Such one shall never shake nor shiver When that he pleads before the judge Against his foes that bear him grudge Beati omnes Psal cxxviii T. S. BLessed art thou that fearest God and walkest in his way verse 2 For of thy labour thou shalt eat happy art thou I say verse 3 Like fruitful vines on thy house side so doth thy wife spring out Thy children stand like olive-plants thy table round about verse 4 Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shall let thee see verse 5 The promised Jerusalem and her felicitie verse 6 Thou shalt thy childrens children see to thy great joys increase And likewise grace on Israel prosperity and peace Sape expugnaverunt Psal cxxix N. OFt they now Israel may say me from my youth assail'd verse 2 Oft they assail'd me from my youth yet never they prevail'd verse 3 Upon my back the plowers plow'd and furrows long did cast verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut the cords of wicked foes at last verse 5 They that hate me shall be asham'd and turned back also verse 6 And made as grass upon the house which with reth ere it grow verse 7 Whereof the mower cannot finde enough to fill his hand Nor can he fill his lap that goeth to glean upon the land verse 8 Nor passers by pray God on them to let his blessing fall Nor say We bless you in the Name of God the Lord at all De profundis Psal cxxx W. W. LOrd to thee I make my moan when dangers me oppress I call I sigh plain and groan trusting to fiâ—de release verse 2 Hear now O Lord my request for it is full due time And let thine ears ay be prest unto this prayer mine verse 3 O Lord our God if thou weigh our sins and them peruse Who shall then escape and say I can my self excuse verse 4 But Lord thou art merciful and turn'st to us thy grace That we with hearts most careful should fear before thy face verse 5 In God I put my whole trust my soul waits on his will For his promise is most just and I hope therein still verse 6 My soul to God hath regard wishing for him alway More then they that watch and ward to see the dawning day verse 7 Let Israel then boldly in the Lord put his trust He is that God of mercy that his deliver