14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul: and hidest thou thy face from me?
15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die: even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.
16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me: and the fear of thee hath undone me.
17 They came round about me daily like water: and compa.s.sed me together on every side.
18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me: and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.
DAY 17 EVENING PRAYER
PSALM 89. _Misericordias Domini_.
My song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord: with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever: thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn unto David my servant;
4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever: and set up thy throne from one generation to another.
5 O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works: and thy truth in the congregation of the saints.
6 For who is he among the clouds: that shall be compared unto the Lord?
7 And what is he among the G.o.ds: that shall be like unto the Lord?
8 G.o.d is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints: and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him.
9 O Lord G.o.d of hosts, who is like unto thee: thy truth, most mighty Lord, is on every side.
10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.
11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it: thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm.
12 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is.
13 Thou hast made the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy Name.
14 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
15 Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
16 Blessed is the people, O Lord, that can rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy countenance.
17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name: and in thy righteousness shall they make their boast.
18 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy loving-kindness thou shalt lift up our horns.
19 For the Lord is our defence: the Holy One of Israel is our King.
20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
21 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil have I anointed him.
22 My hand shall hold him fast: and my arm shall strengthen him.
23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the son of wickedness shall not hurt him.
24 I will smite down his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him.
25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him: and in my Name shall his horn be exalted.
26 I will set his dominion also in the sea: and his right hand in the floods.
27 He shall call me, Thou art my Father: my G.o.d, and my strong salvation.
28 And I will make him my first-born: higher than the kings of the earth.
29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore: and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever: and his throne as the days of heaven.
31 But if his children forsake my law: and walk not in my judgements;
32 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges.
33 Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him: nor suffer my truth to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David.
35 His seed shall endure for ever: and his seat is like as the sun before me.
36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon: and as the faithful witness in heaven.
37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine Anointed: and art displeased at him.
38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant: and cast his crown to the ground.
39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges: and broken down his strong holds.
40 All they that go by spoil him: and he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies: and made all his adversaries to rejoice.
42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword: and givest him not victory in the battle.
43 Thou hast put out his glory: and cast his throne down to the ground.