Day 9 Morning Prayer
Psalm 44
Deus, auribus
- WE HAVE heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us: what thou hast done in their time of old;
- How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them in: how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.
- For they gat not the land in possession through their own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them;
- But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou hadst a favour unto them.
- Thou art my King, O God: send help unto Jacob.
- Through thee will we overthrow our enemies: and in thy Name will we tread them under, that rise up against us.
- For I will not trust in my bow: it is not my sword that shall help me;
- But it is thou that savest us from our enemies: and puttest them to confusion that hate us.
- We make our boast of God all day long: and will praise thy Name for ever.
- But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion: and goest not forth with our armies.
- Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies: so that they which hate us spoil our goods.
- Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep: and hast scattered us among the heathen.
- Thou sellest thy people for nought: and takest no money for them.
- Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours: to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us.
- Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen: and that the people shake their heads at us.
- My confusion is daily before me: and the shame of my face hath covered me;
- For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer: for the enemy and avenger.
- And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee: nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant.
- Our heart is not turned back: neither our steps gone out of thy way;
- No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons: and covered us with the shadow of death.
- If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange god: shall not God search it out? for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.
- For thy sake also are we killed all the day long: and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
- Up, Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not absent from us for ever.
- Wherefore hidest thou thy face: and forgettest our misery and trouble?
- For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the ground.
- Arise, and help us: and deliver us for thy mercy's sake.
Psalm 45
Eructavit cor meum
- MY HEART is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.
- My tongue is the pen: of a ready writer.
- Thou art fairer than the children of men: full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.
- Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most Mighty: according to thy worship and renown.
- Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on, because of the word of truth , of meekness, and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
- Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee: even in the midst among the King's enemies.
- Thy seat, O God, endureth for ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
- Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
- All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
- Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours.
- Hearken, O daughter, and consider, incline thine ear ; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.
- So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty: for he is thy Lord God, and worship thou him.
- And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee.
- The King's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
- She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work: the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee.
- With joy and gladness shall they be brought: and shall enter into the King's palace.
- Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children: whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.
- I will remember thy Name from one generation to another: therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.
Psalm 46
Deus noster refugium
- GOD is our hope and strength: a very present help in trouble.
- Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved: and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea;
- Though the waters thereof rage and swell: and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.
- The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Highest.
- God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed: God shall help her, and that right early.
- The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved: but God hath shewed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.
- The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.
- O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what destruction he hath brought upon the earth.
- He maketh wars to cease in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire.
- Be still then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.
- The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.