Day 18 Evening Prayer
Psalm 93
Dominus regnavit
- THE Lord is King, and hath put on glorious apparel : the Lord hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength.
- He hath made the round world so sure : that it cannot be moved.
- Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared : thou art from everlasting.
- The floods are risen, O Lord, the floods have lift up their voice : the floods lift up their waves.
- The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly : but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.
- Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very sure : holiness becometh thine house for ever.
Psalm 94
Deus ultionum
- O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth : thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
- Arise, thou Judge of the world : and reward the proud after their deserving.
- Lord, how long shall the ungodly : how long shall the ungodly triumph?
- How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully : and make such proud boasting?
- They smite down thy people, O Lord : and trouble thine heritage.
- They murder the widow and the stranger : and put the fatherless to death.
- And yet they say, Tush, the Lord shall not see : neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
- Take heed, ye unwise among the people : O ye fools, when will ye understand?
- He that planted the ear, shall he not hear : or he that made the eye, shall he not see?
- Or he that nurtureth the heathen : it is he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he punish?
- The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man : that they are but vain.
- Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord : and teachest him in thy law;
- That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity : until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.
- For the Lord will not fail his people : neither will he forsake his inheritance;
- Until righteousness turn again unto judgement : all such as are true in heart shall follow it.
- Who will rise up with me against the wicked : or who will take my part against the evil-doers?
- If the Lord had not helped me : it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence.
- But when I said, My foot hath slipt : thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
- In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart : thy comforts have refreshed my soul.
- Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness : which imagineth mischief as a law?
- They gather them together against the soul of the righteous : and condemn the innocent blood.
- But the Lord is my refuge : and my God is the strength of my confidence.
- He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice : yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.