Shout unto God with the voice of north, the city of the great King. And the nations under our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for us, The excellency of Jacob whom he loved. God is gone up with a shout, The Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises: Sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the nations: God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge. For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together. They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hasted away. Trembling took hold of them there; Pain, as of a woman in travail. With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tarshish. As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. As is thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: Thy right hand is full of right eousness. Let mount Zion be glad, joice, because of thy judgements. Walk about Zion, And go round about her: Number the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, That ye may tell it to the generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death. SELECTION 23 THE TWELFTH DAY MORNING WORSHIP PSALM 49 HEAR this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: Both low and high, Rich and poor together. My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about? They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him: (For the redemption of their soul is costly, And must be let alone for ever:) tion. For he seeth that wise men die, The fool and the brutish together perish, And leave their wealth to others. Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever. And their dwelling places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. But man abideth not in honour: He is like the beasts that perish. This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it. But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: For he shall receive me. Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased: For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. Though while he lived he blessed his soul, (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,) He shall go to the generation of his fathers; Which never more see the light. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish. SELECTION 24 THE TWELFTH DAY EVENING WORSHIP PSALM 50 GOD, even God the LORD, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: A fire shall devour before him, round about him. He shall call to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people: Gather my saints together unto me; Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt offerings are continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: And the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver: Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way aright will I shew the salvation of God. SELECTION 25 THE THIRTEENTH DAY MORNING WORSHIP HAVE mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: And my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight: That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and glad ness; That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy pres ence; And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation: And uphold me with a free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. SELECTION 26 THE THIRTEENTH DAY EVENING WORSHIP GIVE ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan; Because of the voice of the en emy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest. As for me, I will call upon God; And the Lord shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan: And he shall hear my voice. He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that that was against me: For they were many that strove with me. Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. PSALM 56:3, 9, 11-13 WHAT time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee. |