NTO Thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.

2 O my God, in Thee have I trusted,

11 For Thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great.

12 What man is he that feareth Jehovah? Him shall He instruct in the way that He shall choose.

13 His soul shall dwell at ease; And his seed shall inherit the land.

14 The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear Him; And He will show them His covenant.

15 Mine eyes are ever toward Je

3 Yea, none that wait for Thee shall be put to shame: They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously without

cause.

4 Show me Thy ways, O Jehovah : Teach me Thy paths.

5 Guide me in Thy truth, and teach me; For Thou art the God of my salva tion; For Thee do I wait all the day.

6 Remember, O Jehovah, Thy tender mercies and Thy lovingkindnesses: For they have been ever of old.

7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to Thy lovingkindness remember Thou me, for Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

8 Good and upright is Jehovah : Therefore will He instruct sinners in the way.

9 The meek will He guide in judgment: And the meek will He teach His way.

10 All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.

of the net.

16 Turn Thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.

17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring Thou me out of my distresses.

18 Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.

19 Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in Thee.

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for Thee.

22 REDEEM ISRAEL, O GOD, OUT OF

ALL HIS TROUBLES.

PSALM 27.

EHOVAH is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When evil-doers came upon me to

eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

3 Tho a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Tho war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident.

4 One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire in His temple.

5 For in the day of trouble He shall keep me secretly in His pavilion: In the covert of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall lift me up upon a rock.

6 And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me; And I will offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto Jehovah.

cry

7 Hear, O Jehovah, when I with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

8 When Thou saidst, Seek ye My face; my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.

9 Hide not Thy face from me; Put not Thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my sal

vation.

10 For my father and my mother

have forsaken me: But Jehovah will take me up.

11 Teach me Thy way, O Jehovah; And lead me in a plain path, Because of mine enemies.

12 Deliver me not over unto the will

2 Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile.

3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old Thro my roaring all the day long.

4 For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer.

5 I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.

6 For this let every one that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.

7 Thou art my hiding place; Thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance.

8 I will instruct thee and teach thee

in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with Mine eye upon thee.

9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him

about.

11 Be glad in Jehovah; and rejoice, ye righteous: And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

I

PSALM 34.

WILL bless Jehovah at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah: The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.

3 O magnify Jehovah with me, And let us exalt His name together.

4 I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked unto Him, and were lightened: And their faces shall never be confounded.

6 This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear Him, And delivereth them.

8 O taste and see that Jehovah is good: Blessed is the man that taketh refuge in Him.

12 What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.

15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And His ears are open unto their cry.

16 The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the Earth.

17 The righteous cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles.

18 Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.

20 He keepeth all his bones: Not one of them is broken.

21 Evil shall slay the wicked: And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.

22 Jehovah redeemeth the soul of His servants: And none of them that take refuge in Him shall be condemned.

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

3 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 Jehovah,

4 Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

5 Many, O Jehovah 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.

6 Sacrifice and offering Thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast Thou opened: Burnt offering and sin offering hast Thou not required.

7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me:

8 I delight to do Thy will, O my God; Yea, Thy law is within my heart.

9 I have published righteousness in the great congregation; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, Thou knowest.

10 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.

11 Withhold not Thou Thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah: Let Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth continually preserve me.

12 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 my head, and my heart hath failed me.

13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.

14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour That delight in my hurt.

15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, Aha.

16 Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee: Let such as love Thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified.

17 But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me: THOU ART MY HELP AND MY DELIVERER; MAKE NO TARRYING, O MY GOD.

3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

4 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.

5 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 For the help of His

countenance.

6 O 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.

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of Thy waterspouts: All Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.

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

9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me; While they continually say unto me, "Where is thy God?"

11 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 help of my countenance, and my God.

Selection 7.

PSALM 44:1-8.

E have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, What work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.

2 Thou didst drive out the nations with Thy hand, but them Thou didst plant; Thou didst afflict the peoples, but them Thou didst spread abroad.

3 For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arms save them: But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, Because Thou hadst a favour unto them.

4 Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.

5 Thro Thee will we push down our adversaries: Thro Thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

6 For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.

7 But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us.

8 In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever.