at are wounded, and lie
in the grave: who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from
thy hand.

5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in a place of darkness,
and in the deep.

6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me: and thou hast vexed me
with all thy storms.

7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me: and made me
to be abhorred of them.

8 I am so fast in prison: that I cannot get forth.

9 My sight faileth for very trouble: Lord, I have called daily
upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.

10 Dost thou shew wonders among the dead: or shall the dead rise
up again, and praise thee?

11 Shall thy loving-kindness be shewed in the grave: or thy
faithfulness in destruction?

12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark: and thy
righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?

13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord: and early shall my prayer come
before thee.

14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul: and hidest thou thy face
from me?

15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die:
even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled
mind.

16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me: and the fear of thee
hath undone me.

17 They came round about me daily like water: and compassed me
together on every side.

18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me: and hid
mine acquaintance out of my sight.

DAY 17 EVENING PRAYER

PSALM 89. _Misericordias Domini_.

My song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of the Lord: with
my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to
another.

2 For I have said, Mercy shall be set up for ever: thy truth
shalt thou stablish in the heavens.

3 I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn unto David
my servant;

4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever: and set up thy throne from
one generation to another.

5 O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works: and
thy truth in the congregation of the saints.

6 For who is he among the clouds: that shall be compared unto
the Lord?

7 And what is he among the gods: that shall be like unto the Lord?

8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints:
and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him.

9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee: thy truth, most
mighty Lord, is on every side.

10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: thou stillest the waves
thereof when they arise.

11 Thou ha