stretch out my hand in the night and cease not: my soul refuses to be comforted. I remember God, and am troubled: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times, I call to remembrance my song in the night: 1 commune with mine own heart: and my spirit makes diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies ? And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. Thy way, O God, is holy who is so great a God as our God! Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid the depths also were troubled. : The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only wise God, Be honor and glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever and ever. Amen. THE THIRTY-FIFTH SELECTION (Psalms 68 and 18.) DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL. LET God arise, and his enemies are scattered: and they that hate him flee before him. But the righteous are glad; they rejoice before God: yea, they exceedingly rejoice. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth through the wilderness; Jehovah is his name; rejoice before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families he bringeth to prosperity those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a barren land. O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts from men. Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. I WILL love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of destruction made me afraid. The sorrows of the grave compassed me about: the snares of death overtook me. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He brought me forth into a large place he delivered me, because he loved me. To the merciful thou showest thyself merciful; to an upright man thou showest thyself upright; To the pure thou showest thyself pure; and to the wrathful thou showest thyself wrathful. The ways of God are just and true, his word is pure, tried in the fire: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way plain. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only wise God, Be honor and glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever and ever. Amen. TE DEUM. WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers therein. To thee cherubim and seraphim continually do cry, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory. The glorious company of the apostles praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee. The noble army of martyrs praise thee. The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee, The Father of an infinite majesty ; When thou gavest him to deliver man, it pleased thee that he should be born of a virgin. |