Evening Prayer.
Psalm 108. Paratum cor meum..
O GOD, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; * I will sing, and give praise with the best member that I have.
2 Awake, thou lute and harp; * I myself will awake right early.
3 I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the peoples; * I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is greater than the heavens, * and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
5 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens, * and thy glory above all the earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered: * let thy right hand save them, and hear thou me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; * I will rejoice there-fore, and divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; * Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; * upon Philistia will I triumph.
10 Who will lead me into the strong city? * and who will bring me into Edom?
11 Hast not thou forsaken us, O God? * and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 O help us against the enemy: * for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do great acts; * and it is he that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalm 109. Deus, laudem..
HOLD not thy tongue, O God of my praise; * for the mouth of the ungodly, yea, the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me.
2 And they have spoken against me with false tongues; * they compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
3 For the love that I had unto them, lo, they take now my contrary part; * but I give myself unto prayer.
4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good, * and hatred for my good will.
5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him, * and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
6 When sentence is given upon him, let him be con-demned; * and let his prayer be turned into sin.
7 Let his days be few; * and let another take his office.
8 Let his children be fatherless, * and his wife a widow.
9 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; * let them seek it also out of desolate places.
10 Let the extortioner consume all that he hath; * and let the stranger spoil his labour.
11 Let there be no man to pity him, * nor to have compassion upon his fatherless children.
12 Let his posterity be destroyed; * and in the next generation let his name be clean put out.
13 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remem-brance in the sight of the LORD; * and let not the sin of his mother be done away.
14 Let them alway be before the LORD, * that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;
15 And that, because his mind was not to do good; * but persecuted the poor helpless man, that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart.
16 His delight was in cursing, and it shall happen unto him; * he loved not blessing, therefore shall it be far from him.
17 He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment, * and it shall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
18 Let it be unto him as the cloak that he hath upon him, * and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal.
19 Let it thus happen from the LORD unto mine enemies, * and to those that speak evil against my soul.
20 But deal thou with me, O LORD God, according unto thy Name; * for sweet is thy mercy.
21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor, * and my heart is wounded within me.
22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth, * and am driven away as the grasshopper.
23 My knees are weak through fasting; * my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.
24 I am become also a reproach unto them: * they that look upon me shake their heads.
25 Help me, O LORD my God; * O save me according to thy mercy;
26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand, * and that thou, LORD, hast done it.
27 Though they curse, yet bless thou; * and let them be confounded that rise up against me; but let thy servant rejoice.
28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame; * and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak.
29 As for me, I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth, * and praise him among the multitude;
30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, * to save his soul from unrighteous judges.
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The schedule or “lectionary” for the Psalms and Lessons used in this calendar follow the originally published 1928 Lectionary or Table of Lessons for the Church Year in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Psalms used on this site are found in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Used with permission. Archival copies can be found at The Book of Common Prayer site.
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