So teach us to number our days,

That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Return, O Lord, how long?

And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy;

That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,

And the years wherein we have seen evil.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants,

And thy glory unto their children.

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon

us:

And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

LXXXVI

HE THAT DWELLETH IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH

Psalm xci.

E that dwelleth in the secret place of
the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, He is my

refuge and my fortress:

My God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the

fowler,

And from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers,

And under his wings shalt thou trust:

His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;

Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side,

And ten thousand at thy right hand;

But it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold

And see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my

refuge,

Even the Most High, thy habitation;

There shall no evil befall thee,

Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee,
To keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands,

Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:

The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him:

I will set him on high, because he hath known my

name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him:

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him, and honour him.

With long life will I satisfy him,

And shew him my salvation.

LXXXVII

IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS

Psalm xcii.

T is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,

And to sing praises unto thy name,

O Most High:

To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,

And thy faithfulness every night,

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery;

Upon the harp with a solemn sound.

For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work:

I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

O Lord, how great are thy works!

And thy thoughts are very deep.

A brutish man knoweth not;

Neither doth a fool understand this.

When the wicked spring as the grass,

And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;
It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.
For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord,

For, lo, thine enemies shall perish;

All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn:

I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, And mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree:
He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Those that be planted in the house of the Lord
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
They shall be fat and flourishing;

To shew that the Lord is upright:

He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

LXXXVIII

THE LORD REIGNETH

Psalm xciii.

THE Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty;

The Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded him

self:

The world also is stablished, that it

cannot be moved.

Thy throne is established of old:

Thou art from everlasting.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,

The floods have lifted up their voice;

The floods lift up their waves.

The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of

many waters,

Yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Thy testimonies are very sure:

Holiness becometh thine house,

O Lord, for ever.

LXXXIX

O SING UNTO THE LORD

Psalm xcvi.

SING unto the Lord a new song:
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name ;
Shew forth his salvation from day to
day.

Declare his glory among the heathen,

His wonders among all people.

For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods.

For all the gods of the nations are idols:

But the Lord made the heavens.

Honour and majesty are before him:

Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people,
Give unto the Lord glory and strength.

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name:
Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness:
Fear before him, all the earth.

Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved:

He shall judge the people righteously.

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein:
Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Before the Lord: for he cometh,

For he cometh to judge the earth:

He shall judge the world with righteousness,
And the people with his truth.