MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm cv. Confitemini Domino.

Give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his Name; tell the people what things he hath done.

2 O let your fongs be of him, and praise him: and let your talking be of all his wondrous works.

3 Rejoice in his holy Name: let the heart of them rejoice that feek the Lord.

4 Seek the Lord and his ftrength: feek his face evermore. 5 Remember the marvellous works that he hath done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

6 O ye feed of Abraham his fervant: ye children of Jacob his chofen.

7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the world.

8 He hath been alway mindful of his covenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations;

9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham: and the oath that he fware unto Ifaac;

10 And appointed the fame unto Jacob for a law: and to Ifrael for an everlasting teftament;

11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance;

12 When there were yet but a few of them: and they ftrangers in the land;

13 What time as they went from one nation to another: from one kingdom to another people;

14 He fuffered no man to do them wrong: but reproved even kings for their fakes.

15 Touch not mine Anointed: and do my prophets no harm.

Pfalm cv.] The former part of this pfalm was compofed by David, and probably the latter part alfo. It contains a rehearsal of God's mercies to the Jewish nation, from the time of Abraham to their fettlement in the promifed land. It is the firft of the three pfalms which David delivered to Afaph and his brethren, (1 Chron. xvi. 8) to be used in the daily miniftry before the ark.

4 Strength Perhaps the ftrength of the Lord is here ufed for the Lord himfelf, according to an idiom familiar to the ancient writers, as was before obferved. Pfalm xcix. 4.

16 Moreover, he called for a dearth upon the land and deftroyed all the provifion of bread.

17 But he had fent a man before them: even Jofeph, who was fold to be a bond-fervant;

18 Whofe feet they hurt in the ftocks: the iron entered into his foul;

19 Until the time came that his caufe was known: the word of the Lord tried him.

20 The king fent, and delivered him: the prince of the people let him go free.

21 He made him lord alfo of his houfe: and ruler of all his substance;

22 That he might inform his princes after his will : and teach his fenators wifdom.

23 Ifrael alfo came into Egypt: and Jacob was a ftranger in the land of Ham.

24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and made them ftronger than their enemies;

25 Whole heart turned fo that they hated his people: and dealt untruly with his fervants.

26 Then fent he Mofes his fervant: and Aaron whom he had chofen.

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27 And these fhewed his tokens among them and wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He fent darknefs, and it was dark: and they were not obedient unto his word.

29 Heturned their waters into blood: and flew their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs: yea, even in their king's chambers.

31 He fpake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters.

32 He gave them hail ftones for rain: and flames of fire in their land.

33 He fmote their vines alfo and fig-trees: and deftroyed the trees that were in their coafts.

34 He fpake the word, and the grafhoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable: and did eat up all the grafs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

35 He fmote all the firft-born in their land: even the chief of all their strength.

36 He brought them forth alfo with filver and gold: there was not one feeble perfon among their tribes.

37 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were afraid of them.

38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night-feafon.

39 At their defire he brought quails: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

40 He opened the rock of ftone, and the waters flowed out fo that rivers ran in the dry places.

41 For why? he remembered his holy promife: and Abraham his fervant.

42 And he brought forth his people with joy and his chofen with gladness;

43 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they took the labours of the people in poffeffion;

44 That they might keep his ftatutes: and obferve

his laws.

EVENING PRAYER.

Pfalm cvi. Confitemini Domino.

Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever.

2 Who can exprefs the noble acts of the Lord: or fhew forth all his praife?

3 Bleffed are they that alway keep judgment: and do righteousness.

4 Remember me, O Lord, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O vifit me with thy falvation

5 That I may fee the felicity of thy chofen: and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance.

Pfalm cvi.] This pfalm, entitled Hallelujah, is chiefly taken up in confefling the fins and provocations of the children of Ifrael; but begins and concludes with praifing and magnifying God's mercies. By the commencement and the termination of it, which are found in 1 Chron. xvi. 34, 35, 36, it appears to be one of the pfalms, which David delivered to Alaph and his brethren, to rehearse in their daily miniftering before the ark.

6 We have finned with our fathers: we have done amifs, and dealt wickedly.

7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance: but were difobedient at the fea, even at the Red sea.

8 Nevertheless, he helped them for his Name's fake: that he might make his power to be known.

9 He rebuked the Red fea alfo, and it was dried up: fo he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness. 10 And he faved them from the adverfary's hand: and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

II As for thofe that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them: there was not one of them left.

12 Then believed they his words and fang praise unto him.

13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counfel.

14 But luft came upon them in the wilderness: and they tempted God in the defert.

15 And he gave them their defire: and fent leannels withal into their foul.

16 They angered Mofes alfo in the tents: and Aaron the faint of the Lord.

17 So the earth opened, and fwallowed up Dathan : and covered the congregation of Abiram.

18 And the fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt up the ungodly.

19 They made a calf in Horeb : and worshipped the molten image.

20 Thus they turned their glory into the fimilitude of a calf that eateth hay;

21 And they forgat God their Saviour: who had done fo great things in Egypt;

22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham: and fearful things by the Red sea.

23 So he faid, he would have destroyed them, had not Mofes his chofen stood before him in the gap: to turn away his wrathful indignation, left he should deftroy them.

24 Yea, they thought fcorn of that pleasant land: and gave no credence unto his word;

23] Exodus xxxii. 11.

25 Bút murmured in their tents: and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

26 Then lift he up his hand against them: to overthrow them in the wilderness;

27 To caft out their feed among the nations and to fcatter them in the lands.

28 They joined themselves unto Baal-peor and ate the offerings of the dead.

29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions: and the plague was great among them.

30 Then ftood up Phinees, and prayed: and fo the plague ceafed.

31 And that was counted unto him for righteoufnefs: among all pofterities for evermore.

32 They angered him alfo at the waters of ftrife: fo that he punished Mofes for their fakes;

33 Because they provoked his fpirit: fo that he fpake unadvisedly with his lips.

34 Neither destroyed they the heathen: as the Lord commanded them.

35 But were mingled among the heathen: and learned their works.

36 Infomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay: yea, they offered their fons and their daughters unto devils;

37 And fhed innocent blood, even the blood of their fons and of their daughters: whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood.

38 Thus were they stained with their own works: and went a whoring with their own inventions.

39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people: infomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

28 Dead] Lowth understands by these offerings, facrifices offered to deities that were only dead men.

30 Prayed] "Executed judgment;" (Bib. tranfl.) which Lowth thinks much more agreeable to the common meaning of the word, and to the hiftory. He took a javelin, and killed an Ifraelitish man and a Midianitish woman. It is probable that as he was the fon of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron, he was one of the judges of Ifrael; and if fo, he had received authority from Mofes for what he did. He had "faid to the judges of Ifrael, Slay ye every one his man, that were joined to Baal-peor." Numb. xxv. 5.