Day 9. Evening Prayer. Psalm 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite O CLAP your hands together, all ye people : O sing unto God with the voice of melody. 2. For the Lord is high, and to be feared : he is the great King upon all the earth. 3. He shall subdue the people under us : and the nations under our feet. 4. He shall choose out an heritage for us : even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. 5. God is gone up with a merry noise : and the Lord with the sound of the trump. 6. O sing praises, sing praises unto our God : O sing praises, sing praises unto our King. 7. For God is the King of all the earth : sing ye praises with understanding. 8. God reigneth over the heathen : God sitteth upon his holy seat. 9. The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham: for God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a shield. Psalm 48. Magnus Dominus GREAT is the Lord, and highly to be praised : in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill. 2. The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth : upon the north-side lieth the city of the great King; God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge. 3. For lo, the kings of the earth : are gathered, and gone by together. 4. They marvelled to see such things : they were astonished, and suddenly cast down. 5. Fear came there upon them, and sorrow : as upon a woman in her travail. 6. Thou shalt break the ships of the sea : through the east-wind. 7. Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God : God upholdeth the same for ever. 8. We wait for thy loving-kindness, O God : in the midst of thy temple. 9. O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise unto the worlds end : thy right hand is full of righteousness. 10. Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Judah be glad : because of thy judgements. 11. Walk about Sion, and go round about her : and tell the towers thereof. 12. Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses : that ye may tell them that come after. 13. For this God is our God for ever and ever : he shall be our guide unto death. Psalm 49. Audite haec, omnes O HEAR ye this, all ye people : ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world; 2. High and low, rich and poor : one with another. 3. My mouth shall speak of wisdom : and my heart shall muse of understanding. 4. I will incline mine ear to the parable : and shew my dark speech upon the harp. 5. Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness : and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth me round about? 6. There be some that put their trust in their goods : and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. 7. But no man may deliver his brother : nor make agreement unto God for him; 8. For it cost more to redeem their souls : so that he must let that alone for ever; 9. Yea, though he live long : and see not the grave. 10. For he seeth that wise men also die, and perish together : as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other. 11. And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever : and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names. 12. Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour : seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them. 13. This is their foolishness : and their posterity praise their saying. 14. They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning : their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling. 15. But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell : for he shall receive me. 16. Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich : or if the glory of his house be increased; 17. For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth : neither shall his pomp follow him. 18. For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man : and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee. 19. He shall follow the generation of his fathers : and shall never see light. 20. Man being in honour hath no understanding : but is compared unto the beasts that perish.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:24:37 +0000