faithful witness in heaven.

37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine Anointed: and art
displeased at him.

38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant: and cast his
crown to the ground.

39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges: and broken down his strong
holds.

40 All they that go by spoil him: and he is become a reproach to
his neighbours.

41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies: and made all
his adversaries to rejoice.

42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword: and givest him not
victory in the battle.

43 Thou hast put out his glory: and cast his throne down to the
ground.

44 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: and covered him
with dishonour.

45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, for ever: and shall
thy wrath burn like fire?

46 O remember how short my time is: where fore hast thou made
all men for nought?

47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death: and shall
he deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

48 Lord, where are thy old loving-kindnesses: which thou swarest
unto David in thy truth?

49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy servants have: and how I
do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people;

50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, and slandered
the footsteps of thine Anointed: Praised be the Lord for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.

DAY 18 MORNING PRAYER

PSALM 90. _Domine, refugium_.

Lord, thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and
the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world
without end.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again,
ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: seeing
that is past as a watch in the night.

5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep: and
fade away suddenly like the grass.

6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening
it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

7 For we consume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy
wrathful indignation.

8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins
in the light of thy countenance.

9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone: we bring our
years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though
men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their
strength then but