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Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird?
Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens ?

Shall the companions make a banquet of him?
Shall they part him among the merchants?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons ?
Or his head with fish spears?

Lay thine hand upon him,

Remember the battle, do no more.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain :

Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

None is so fierce that dare stir him up:

Who then is able to stand before me?

Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him?

Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
I will not conceal his parts,

Nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Who can discover the face of his garment?

Or who can come to him with his double bridle?
Who can open the doors of his face?

His teeth are terrible round about.
His scales are his pride,

Shut up together as with a close seal.

One is so near to another,

That no air can come between them.

They are joined one to another,

They stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

By his neesings a light doth shine,

And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lamps,

And sparks of fire leap out.

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke,
As out of a seething pot or caldron.
His breath kindleth coals,

And a flame goeth out of his mouth.

In his neck remaineth strength,

And sorrow is turned into joy before him.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together:

They are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

His heart is as firm as a stone;

Yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid : By reason of breakings they purify themselves. The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold:

The spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

He esteemeth iron as straw,

And brass as rotten wood.

The arrow cannot make him flee:

Slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Darts are counted as stubble:

He laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

Sharp stones are under him:

He spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot:

He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
He maketh a path to shine after him;
One would think the deep to be hoary.
Upon earth there is not his like,
Who is made without fear.

He beholdeth all high things:

He is a king over all the children of pride.

LVII

BLESSED IS THE MAN

Psalm i.

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LESSED is the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly,

Nor standeth in the way of sinners,
Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the
Lord;

And in his law doth he meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of

water,

That bringeth forth his fruit in his season;

His leaf also shall not wither;

And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so:

But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,

Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

LVIII

LORD, HOW ARE THEY INCREASED

Psalm iii.

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JORD, how are they increased that trouble me!

Many are they that rise up against

me.

Many there be which say of my soul,

There is no help for him in God.

But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me;

My glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

I cried unto the Lord with my voice,

And he heard me out of his holy hill.

I laid me down and slept;

I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, That have set themselves against me round about. Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God:

For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone;

Thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Salvation belongeth unto the Lord:

Thy blessing is upon thy people.

LIX

O LORD OUR LORD, HOW EXCELLENT Psalm viii.

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LORD our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the

earth!

Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength Because of thine enemies,

That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,

And hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

Thou hast put all things under his feet:
All sheep and oxen,

Yea, and the beasts of the field;

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,

And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the

seas.

O Lord our Lord,

How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

LX

LORD, WHO SHALL ABIDE

Psalm xv.

ORD, who shall abide in thy taber-
nacle?

Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
He that walketh uprightly, and work-
eth righteousness,

And speaketh the truth in his heart.

He that backbiteth not with his tongue,
Nor doeth evil to his neighbour,

Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned;

But he honoureth them that fear the Lord.

He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

He that putteth not out his money to usury,

Nor taketh reward against the innocent.

He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

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