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And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The Lord shall laugh at him:

For he seeth that his day is coming.

The wicked have drawn out the sword,

They have bent their bow;

To cast down the poor and needy,

To slay such as be upright in the way:

Their sword shall enter into their own heart,

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again:

But the righteous dealeth graciously, and giveth.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the land;

And they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

A man's goings are established of the LORD;

And he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:

For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

And their bows shall be broken. Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many old;

wicked.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:

But the Lord upholdeth the right

eous.

The LORD knoweth the days of the perfect:

And their inheritance shall be for

ever.

They shall not be ashamed in the time of evil:

And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of the Lord shall be as the excellency of the pas

tures:

They shall consume;

In smoke shall they consume away.

I have been young, and now am

Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.

All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth;

And his seed is blessed. Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell for evermore. For the LORD loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

The righteous shall inherit the land,

And dwell therein for ever.

I have seen the wicked in great power,

And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

But I passed by, and, lo, he was

not:

Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright:

For the latter end of that man is

peace.

SELECTION 18

THE NINTH DAY

EVENING WORSHIP PSALM 39

I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence,

I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire kindled:

Then spake I with my tongue: LORD, make me to know mine. end, and the measure of my days, what it is;

Let me know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days. as handbreadths;

And mine age is as nothing before thee:

Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew:

Surely they are disquieted in vain:

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

And now, Lord, what wait I for?
My hope is in thee.

Deliver me from all my transgressions:

Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

I was dumb,

I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Remove thy stroke away from

me:

I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,

Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity.

Hear my prayer, O LORD,
And give ear unto my cry;
Hold not thy peace at my tears:
For I am a stranger with thee,
A sojourner, as all my fathers

were.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be

no more.

SELECTION 19

THE TENTH DAY

MORNING WORSHIP
PSALM 40: 1-13, 16, 17

I WAITED patiently for the LORD;
And he inclined unto me, and

heard my cry.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:

Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

Blessed is the man that maketh the LORD his trust,

And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done,

And thy thoughts which are to us-ward:

They cannot be set in order unto thee;

If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:

I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD:

Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about,

Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of mine head,

And my heart hath failed me.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver

me:

Make haste to help me, O Lord. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:

Let such as love thy salvation say

Sacrifice and offering thou hast continually, The Lord be magnified.

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My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:

When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day

and night,

While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,

How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and praise, A multitude keeping holyday. Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,

Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

My soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:

All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day-time, And in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?

Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me;

While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,

Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off?

Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me:

Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,

Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

SELECTION 21

THE ELEVENTH DAY

MORNING WORSHIP
PSALM 44: 1-8

WE have heard with our ears, O God,

Our fathers have told us,

What work thou didst in their days,

In the days of old.

Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand,

But them didst thou plant; Thou didst afflict the peoples, But them didst thou spread abroad.

For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword,

Neither did their own arm save them:

But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy counte

nance,

Because thou hadst a favour unto

them.

Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob. Through thee will we push down our adversaries:

Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our adversaries,

And hast put them to shame that hate us.

In God have we made our boast all the day long,

And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever.

PSALM 46

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change,

And though the mountains be moved in the heart of the seas;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,

Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.

There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God,

The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:

God shall help her, and that right early.

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved:

He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Come, behold the works of the LORD,

What desolations he hath made in the earth.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;

He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots in the fire.

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