Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only wise God,

Be honor and glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever and ever. Amen.

THE THIRTY-THIRD SELECTION.

(Psalms 78, 44, 105, and 80.)

FOR A NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY.

GIVE ear, O my people, to my speech: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old :

What we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

For he established statutes, and appointed a law, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children :

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born: who should declare them to their children :

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his command

ments.

Marvellous things did he in the sight of our fathers.

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

He commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

And rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them of the corn of heaven.

Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

He made his people go forth like sheep, and guid ed them in the wilderness like a flock.

He led them on safely, so that they feared not.

And he brought them to the sacred border, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

He cast out the nations also before them, and di

vided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes to dwell in their tents.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

How thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor unto them.

O, GIVE thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face

evermore.

Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; When our fathers were but a few in number; yea, very few, and strangers in the land.

When they went from one nation to another, fron one kingdom to another people;

He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

And he brought them forth with joy, and his chosen with gladness:

And gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited the labor of the people;

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws.

TURN us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out nations and planted it.

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, and invisi ble, the only wise God,

Be honor and glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever and ever. Amen.

THE THIRTY-FOURTH SELECTION.

(Psalms 30 and 77.)

DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL.

I WILL extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up. O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the tomb.

Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

For his anger endureth but a moment, but his favor for life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

I CRY unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; O that he would hear me !

In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord: I