9 I will take no bullock out of thine house: nor he-goat out of
thy folds.

10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine: and so are the cattle
upon a thousand hills.

11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains: and the wild beasts
of the field are in my sight.

12 If I be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the whole world is
mine, and all that is therein.

13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls flesh: and drink the blood
of goats?

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving: and pay thy vows unto the most
Highest.

15 And call upon me in the time of trouble: so will I hear thee,
and thou shalt praise me.

16 But unto the ungodly said God: Why dost thou preach my laws,
and takest my covenant in thy mouth;

17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed: and hast cast my words
behind thee?

18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst unto him: and hast
been partaker with the adulterers.

19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness: and with thy tongue
thou hast set forth deceit.

20 Thou satest, and spakest against thy brother: yea, and hast
slandered thine own mother's son.

21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou
thoughtest wickedly, that I am even such a one as thyself: but
I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast
done.

22 O consider this, ye that forget God: lest I pluck you away, and
there be none to deliver you.

23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me: and to him
that ordereth his conversation right will I shew the salvation of
God.

PSALM 51. _Miserere mei, Deus_.

Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to
the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me.

4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:
that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou
art judged.

5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness: and in sin hath my mother
conceived me.

6 But lo, thou requirest truth in the inward parts: and shalt make
me to understand wisdom secretly.

7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou shalt
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness: that the bones which
thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 Turn thy face from my sins: and put out all my misdeeds.

10 Make me a clean heart, O God: