y supplication come before thee: deliver me, according to
thy word.

171 My lips shall speak of thy praise: when thou hast taught me thy
statutes.

172 Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word: for all thy commandments
are righteous.

173 Let thine hand help me: for I have chosen thy commandments.

174 I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord: and in thy law is
my delight.

175 O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee: and thy judgements
shall help me.

176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: O seek thy
servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

DAY 27 MORNING PRAYER

PSALM 120. _Ad Dominum_.

When I was in trouble I called upon the Lord: and he heard me.

2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips: and from a deceitful
tongue.

3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue:
even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech: and to
have my habitation among the tents of Kedar.

5 My soul hath long dwelt among them: that are enemies unto peace.

6 I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof: they make
them ready to battle.

PSALM 121. _Levavi oculos_.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh even from the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee
will not sleep.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy
right hand;

6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the moon by
night

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even he
that shall keep thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in: from
this time forth for evermore.

PSALM 122. _Laetatus sum_.

I was glad when they said unto me: We will go into the house of the
Lord.

2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates: O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is built as a city: that is at unity in itself.

4 For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord: to
testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord.

5 For there is the seat of judgement: even the seat of the house of
David.

6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls: and plenteousness within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions sakes: I wil