Join us
all together in love and kindness to each other, and
teach us, O God!
all together in love and kindness to each other, and
teach us, O God!
Childrens - Psalm-Book
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>>8. 17 He casteth forth His ice like morsels: who
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"* 'can stand before His cold? 18 He sendeth out
His word, and melteth them: He causeth His wind
to blow, and the waters flow. 19 He sheweth His
word unto Jacob, His statutes and His judgments
unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any
nation: and as for His judgments, they have not
known them. Praise ye the Lord.
IRote on This Psalm calls on us all to give thanks
JP8j to God for the blessings He has showered on us;
'and to learn by the marvels of Nature around us
how great is the Divine love that orders the world,
with all its wonders and its beauties.
The Psalmist reminds the Israelites that they are
the Messengers of God, to tell and teach His laws
to the whole world. "He sheweth his word unto
Jacob, His statutes and His judgments unto Israel. "
The Israelites are the Messengers, but God's
Message is to every human being. It tells all man-
PSALM CXLVIII.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from
the heavens: praise Him in the heights. 2 Praise
ye Him, all His angels: praise ye Him, all His
hosts. 3 Praise ye Him, sun and moon: praise
Him, all ye stars of light. 4 Praise Him, ye
heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above
the heavens. 5 Let them praise the name of
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kind that the Lord taketh pleasure in all who try mote on
their utmost to obey His laws, and who humbly Ps*
hope for His mercy. For He is infinitely merciful, CXLVI1-
and infinitely powerful. The Psalmist expresses and
reiterates the thought in the series of beautiful word-
pictures beginning: "The Lord doth build up Jeru-
salem," and continuing to the end of the 18th verse.
In joy and in sorrow whatever may happen to us,
let us always turn to Him, "Who taketh pleasure in
those that fear Him, in those that hope for His
mercy. "
CXLVIII. iT2p
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is. the Lord: for He commanded, and they were
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'created. 6 He hath also stablished them for ever
and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not
pass. 7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye
dragons, and all deeps. 8 Fire, and hail; snow,
and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling His word:
9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all
cedars: io Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things,
and flying fowl: n Kings of the earth, and all
people; princes, and all judges of the earth: 12
Both young men, and maidens; old men, and
children: 13 Let them praise the name of the
Lord: for His name alone is excellent; His glory
is above the earth and heaven. 14 He also exalteth
the horn of his people, the praise of all His saints;
even of the children of Israel, a people near unto
Him. Praise ye the Lord.
flore on The 148th Psalm is a song of praise, which, like
CXLVIII manY others, has a more beautiful sound in Hebrew
'than even in English.
The writer (like our English poet Coleridge) feels
how " Earth with her thousand voices praises God,"
and pours out a glowing expression of the thought,
which leads him to realize the high privilege of
Israel, the people to whom was given the sacred
task of teaching the world through all time the great
truth that God is the Almighty Creator of all.
Note for Older Children. --The vividness with
which the Psalmist realized this great truth seems in
itself little short of a miracle, if we consider how far
ahead he was of all contemporary ideas about the
origin of all the wonders of nature. The phenomena
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of the heavens had been an object of human study 3? ote on
from the remotest ages*--for light and darkness are cxlVIII.
the primeval time-keepers, and the luminaries are, as
it were, the hands of the clock of Nature. But the
study of the heavens got mixed up with the occult
imaginings of astrology, and was only disentangled
and brought into the realms of exact science in the
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesf--while
the scientific study of the earth's surface is a growth
* There are Chinese astronomical records which date back
approximately to the time of Abraham, and the temples of Egypt
give evidence of accurate astronomical observations thousands
of years earlier still.
T Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton may be looked on
as the fathers of the science of Astronomy. Copernicus was boi n
in 1473, and Newton, the latest of the four, was born in 1642.
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mote on of the last two hundred years. When the revelations
CXLVIII of these sciences of Nature burst on the world, men's
'minds were at first startled by the destruction of some
time-honoured grooves of thought, but gradually these
revelations led to an ever-truer and wider perception
PSALM CL.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in His sanc-
tuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power.
2 Praise Him for His mighty acts: praise Him
according to His excellent greatness. 3 Praise Him
with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the
psaltery and harp. 4 Praise Him with the timbrel
and dance: praise Him with stringed instruments
and organs. 5 Praise Him upon the loud cymbals:
praise. Him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let
every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord.
mote on Here we are told to praise God, not only in
J>8. CL- every way, but in every place; to praise Him
in the sanctuary, in the synagogue, and in the
"firmament of His power," which means the whole
world.
"Everything that hath breath," every living
creature, does praise the Lord, for the perfection of
the work praises the Great Worker, and Maker of
all. The fast galloping horse, the strong lion, the
huge elephant, the tiny mouse, the birds flying
through the air, the fish living under the sea, every
insect with the powers of life and movement in its
wee body--God made them all.
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of the vastness of the Divine wisdom manifest in mote on
Nature heralded as it was thousands of years before JxLviII
by the Psalmist, who perceived the truth by reason of
his true understanding of the infinite power of God--
though he could not prove it scientifically.
CL. 2p
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vnf^n 3 :taa ana vfl&n vrtaa in^n 2
: -* 1 :-. :- at :?
t)ha in^n 4 nipi ^aja in^n nsitr ypna
iw'an Va e :nyvin ^^sa ^niSSn w
it :1- t *>>? -;
prPl
When we think of this, we know the wonder of mote on
His work, and how perfect it all is. IPs,
This Psalm, like many others, ends with the
words, "Praise ye the Lord," iTl^n (Halleluiah),
reminding us that every one of us should praise our
Maker, by always trying our utmost to please Him.
With the closing words of the Psalms in our
minds let us ever be striving to praise (which means
to do honour to) God by seeking in all our thoughts
and acts to be just and kind, and to mirror in our
hearts and in our lives the goodness and the loving-
kindness of God.
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Almighty God! we humbly thank Thee for Thy
never-ceasing care of us.
We pray Thee to grant us Thy help and guidance
and Thy merciful forgiveness of our sins. Strengthen
us, O God! to resist bad thoughts and bad wishes,
and to keep ourselves from doing what we know to
be wrong. Help us, O Lord! to try always to do
our duty, to be obedient to our Parents and our
Teachers, and to be industrious in all our work.
Grant Thy blessings, O God! to us and to our
dear Parents and Relations and Friends.
Join us
all together in love and kindness to each other, and
teach us, O God! how to help and cheer all those
who are in trouble. Amen!
Note. --The prayer for those we love is not only for the living.
We pray also for the blessing of God--Who delivers "their
soul from death "--on the loved ones who are no longer with us
in this life.
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Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the
universe, who removest sleep from mine eyes, and
slumber from mine eyelids.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the
universe, who hast given us the Law of truth, and
hast planted everlasting life in our midst.
Moses commanded us the Law as an inheritance
of the congregation of Jacob.
O my God, guard my tongue from evil, and my
lips from speaking guile.
Open my heart to thy Law, and let my soul
pursue Thy commandments.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable before Thee, O Lord, my
Rock and my Redeemer.
Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
(Blessed be His name, whose glorious kingdom is
for ever and ever. )
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.
And these words which I command thee this day
shall be in thy heart. And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children. And thou shalt speak
of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when
thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down and
when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for
a sign upon thy hands and they shall be as frontlets
between thine eyes, and thou shalt write them on
the doorposts of thy house and upon thy gates.
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: - t t --: u: - t
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:^pai ^33t? 31 wfep 'PTO
: ^w':n sjn/3 nina Sy onnn^ :y^S?
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{It is suggested that one of these Psalms should be read
daily after Morning Prayers)
PAGE
PAGE
PSALM
I.
2
PSALM XCIV. .
134
tt
IV. .
4
XCV. .
138
>>
VIII .
6
XCVI.
140
ft
XV. .
8
XCVII.
144
ft
XXIII.
18
XCVIII.
146
ft
XXV. .
22
XCIX. .
148
M
XXXII.
28
c. . .
152
M
XLII. .
46
? cm. .
154
M
XLIII. .
48
CIV. .
158
ft
XLVI. .
50
CVIII. .
76
M
XLVII.
54
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212
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60
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LX. .
74
cxx. .
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Zhc 3nfant psalter
Tlie twelve simplest Psalms, arranged in order of
simplicity.
PAGE PAGE PAGE
CXVII. . 204 XCIII. . . 134 XCVIII. . 146
C. . . i52] VIII. . . 61 CXXXIII. . 258
CXXXIV. . 2601 XCVI. . . i401 CXXVI. . 252
XXIII. . iS: CL. . . 278, CXLVIII. . 274
NIGHT PRAYERS
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is
One. (Blessed be His name, whose glorious kingdom
is for ever and ever. ) And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and
with all thy might. *
I thank Thee, O God! for Thy merciful care of
me this day, and for all the blessings I have enjoyed.
I pray Thee, O God! to forgive me for all I have
done wrong this day, and to help me to try more and
more earnestly to do right.
Pray, God, watch over and bless me, and all those
who are dear to me, this night. Amen.
"Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither
slumber nor sleep. "
"To Him my spirit I commend at morn and eve
with faith sincere,
"My spirit, and its mortal frame--the Lord with me
I will not fear. "
"I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep:
for Thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. "--
Atnen!
* Older Children, add the rest of the yJ2V, p. 284.
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My God! the soul which Thou hast given me is pure.
Thou didst create it, form it, and breathe it into me;
Thou preservest it within me, and Thou wilt here-
after take it from me, to restore it unto me in futurity.
As long as my soul continueth within me, I will
acknowledge before Thee, O Lord my God, and
the God of my fathers, that Thou art the Sovereign
of all creatures and Lord of all souls. Blessed art
Thou, O Lord! Who restorest the souls unto the
dead.
May it be Thy will, O Lord our God and God of
our fathers, to make us familiar with Thy Law and
to make us cleave to Thy commandments. O lead
us not into the power of sin, trangression, wrong
doing, temptation or scorn: let not evil thoughts
have sway over us: keep us far from bad people and
bad companions: make us cleave to good thoughts
and good deeds and bend our thoughts to striving to
serve Thee, and grant us this day and every day,
grace, favour and mercy in Thine eyes, and in the eyes
of all who behold us; and bestow gracious favours
upon us. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who bestowest
gracious favours upon thy people Israel.
(On Sabbaths add:)
Our God and God of our fathers, accept our rest;
sanctify us by Thy commandments, and grant our
portion in Thy Law; satisfy us with Thy goodness,
and gladden us with Thy salvation; purify our hearts
to serve Thee in truth; and in Thy love and favour, 0
Lord our God, let us inherit Thy holy Sabbath; and
may Israel, who hallow Thy name, rest thereon.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who hallowest the Sabbath.
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j" jt lt|: ? / ? ? t ? . : a- t 1 - t : -i
nirr tfiajf mtya 6 nana px irfoanS' na-ani
at: ^? t-e* j**r: it ; ? I j" t i :? - a -;
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>>8. 17 He casteth forth His ice like morsels: who
r yrr'
"* 'can stand before His cold? 18 He sendeth out
His word, and melteth them: He causeth His wind
to blow, and the waters flow. 19 He sheweth His
word unto Jacob, His statutes and His judgments
unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any
nation: and as for His judgments, they have not
known them. Praise ye the Lord.
IRote on This Psalm calls on us all to give thanks
JP8j to God for the blessings He has showered on us;
'and to learn by the marvels of Nature around us
how great is the Divine love that orders the world,
with all its wonders and its beauties.
The Psalmist reminds the Israelites that they are
the Messengers of God, to tell and teach His laws
to the whole world. "He sheweth his word unto
Jacob, His statutes and His judgments unto Israel. "
The Israelites are the Messengers, but God's
Message is to every human being. It tells all man-
PSALM CXLVIII.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from
the heavens: praise Him in the heights. 2 Praise
ye Him, all His angels: praise ye Him, all His
hosts. 3 Praise ye Him, sun and moon: praise
Him, all ye stars of light. 4 Praise Him, ye
heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above
the heavens. 5 Let them praise the name of
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: btrterh van npy^ hn tso 19 j dns
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kind that the Lord taketh pleasure in all who try mote on
their utmost to obey His laws, and who humbly Ps*
hope for His mercy. For He is infinitely merciful, CXLVI1-
and infinitely powerful. The Psalmist expresses and
reiterates the thought in the series of beautiful word-
pictures beginning: "The Lord doth build up Jeru-
salem," and continuing to the end of the 18th verse.
In joy and in sorrow whatever may happen to us,
let us always turn to Him, "Who taketh pleasure in
those that fear Him, in those that hope for His
mercy. "
CXLVIII. iT2p
vtffch Dwn-p nirrnx bbn I vr^hn
- :- <<v t - I ? t :t v j : - t :>>~
itt: t :- att:~ t 0 : 1- i*:
1 **; >> t ;- -a? ? t; vjv ;i
: Dwn Sya I nata D*sm' d<<cbti vrW? n 4
*it t - - ** v ? ~ ~: 'att - j": :l
it: *: jt ? 1 at: j" v ;* ;i
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is. the Lord: for He commanded, and they were
XLVIII
'created. 6 He hath also stablished them for ever
and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not
pass. 7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye
dragons, and all deeps. 8 Fire, and hail; snow,
and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling His word:
9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all
cedars: io Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things,
and flying fowl: n Kings of the earth, and all
people; princes, and all judges of the earth: 12
Both young men, and maidens; old men, and
children: 13 Let them praise the name of the
Lord: for His name alone is excellent; His glory
is above the earth and heaven. 14 He also exalteth
the horn of his people, the praise of all His saints;
even of the children of Israel, a people near unto
Him. Praise ye the Lord.
flore on The 148th Psalm is a song of praise, which, like
CXLVIII manY others, has a more beautiful sound in Hebrew
'than even in English.
The writer (like our English poet Coleridge) feels
how " Earth with her thousand voices praises God,"
and pours out a glowing expression of the thought,
which leads him to realize the high privilege of
Israel, the people to whom was given the sacred
task of teaching the world through all time the great
truth that God is the Almighty Creator of all.
Note for Older Children. --The vividness with
which the Psalmist realized this great truth seems in
itself little short of a miracle, if we consider how far
ahead he was of all contemporary ideas about the
origin of all the wonders of nature. The phenomena
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of the heavens had been an object of human study 3? ote on
from the remotest ages*--for light and darkness are cxlVIII.
the primeval time-keepers, and the luminaries are, as
it were, the hands of the clock of Nature. But the
study of the heavens got mixed up with the occult
imaginings of astrology, and was only disentangled
and brought into the realms of exact science in the
fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesf--while
the scientific study of the earth's surface is a growth
* There are Chinese astronomical records which date back
approximately to the time of Abraham, and the temples of Egypt
give evidence of accurate astronomical observations thousands
of years earlier still.
T Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton may be looked on
as the fathers of the science of Astronomy. Copernicus was boi n
in 1473, and Newton, the latest of the four, was born in 1642.
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mote on of the last two hundred years. When the revelations
CXLVIII of these sciences of Nature burst on the world, men's
'minds were at first startled by the destruction of some
time-honoured grooves of thought, but gradually these
revelations led to an ever-truer and wider perception
PSALM CL.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in His sanc-
tuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power.
2 Praise Him for His mighty acts: praise Him
according to His excellent greatness. 3 Praise Him
with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the
psaltery and harp. 4 Praise Him with the timbrel
and dance: praise Him with stringed instruments
and organs. 5 Praise Him upon the loud cymbals:
praise. Him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let
every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord.
mote on Here we are told to praise God, not only in
J>8. CL- every way, but in every place; to praise Him
in the sanctuary, in the synagogue, and in the
"firmament of His power," which means the whole
world.
"Everything that hath breath," every living
creature, does praise the Lord, for the perfection of
the work praises the Great Worker, and Maker of
all. The fast galloping horse, the strong lion, the
huge elephant, the tiny mouse, the birds flying
through the air, the fish living under the sea, every
insect with the powers of life and movement in its
wee body--God made them all.
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of the vastness of the Divine wisdom manifest in mote on
Nature heralded as it was thousands of years before JxLviII
by the Psalmist, who perceived the truth by reason of
his true understanding of the infinite power of God--
though he could not prove it scientifically.
CL. 2p
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vnf^n 3 :taa ana vfl&n vrtaa in^n 2
: -* 1 :-. :- at :?
t)ha in^n 4 nipi ^aja in^n nsitr ypna
iw'an Va e :nyvin ^^sa ^niSSn w
it :1- t *>>? -;
prPl
When we think of this, we know the wonder of mote on
His work, and how perfect it all is. IPs,
This Psalm, like many others, ends with the
words, "Praise ye the Lord," iTl^n (Halleluiah),
reminding us that every one of us should praise our
Maker, by always trying our utmost to please Him.
With the closing words of the Psalms in our
minds let us ever be striving to praise (which means
to do honour to) God by seeking in all our thoughts
and acts to be just and kind, and to mirror in our
hearts and in our lives the goodness and the loving-
kindness of God.
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PRAYERS FOR HOME USE
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Almighty God! we humbly thank Thee for Thy
never-ceasing care of us.
We pray Thee to grant us Thy help and guidance
and Thy merciful forgiveness of our sins. Strengthen
us, O God! to resist bad thoughts and bad wishes,
and to keep ourselves from doing what we know to
be wrong. Help us, O Lord! to try always to do
our duty, to be obedient to our Parents and our
Teachers, and to be industrious in all our work.
Grant Thy blessings, O God! to us and to our
dear Parents and Relations and Friends.
Join us
all together in love and kindness to each other, and
teach us, O God! how to help and cheer all those
who are in trouble. Amen!
Note. --The prayer for those we love is not only for the living.
We pray also for the blessing of God--Who delivers "their
soul from death "--on the loved ones who are no longer with us
in this life.
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Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the
universe, who removest sleep from mine eyes, and
slumber from mine eyelids.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the
universe, who hast given us the Law of truth, and
hast planted everlasting life in our midst.
Moses commanded us the Law as an inheritance
of the congregation of Jacob.
O my God, guard my tongue from evil, and my
lips from speaking guile.
Open my heart to thy Law, and let my soul
pursue Thy commandments.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable before Thee, O Lord, my
Rock and my Redeemer.
Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
(Blessed be His name, whose glorious kingdom is
for ever and ever. )
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.
And these words which I command thee this day
shall be in thy heart. And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children. And thou shalt speak
of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when
thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down and
when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for
a sign upon thy hands and they shall be as frontlets
between thine eyes, and thou shalt write them on
the doorposts of thy house and upon thy gates.
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t - : -- t : - is n t. .
: upina yau D^iy *'m ? nax min uS
: - t t --: u: - t
I -:- - ? I: t t V t t- t
: nana naia *nsbn yna ^tpS 'vita
j; . sp#f? jvarji nas jta^ vrr.
t im << wrfot ** bxnb>> yatr
t v t; ? ? . v: t; ? ? t ; ? -:
-Sy Dvn sp? n^n nWn onyp vm
^3^3 D3 rn:3-n sp^1? upjiHpj :^33^
:^pai ^33t? 31 wfep 'PTO
: ^w':n sjn/3 nina Sy onnn^ :y^S?
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{It is suggested that one of these Psalms should be read
daily after Morning Prayers)
PAGE
PAGE
PSALM
I.
2
PSALM XCIV. .
134
tt
IV. .
4
XCV. .
138
>>
VIII .
6
XCVI.
140
ft
XV. .
8
XCVII.
144
ft
XXIII.
18
XCVIII.
146
ft
XXV. .
22
XCIX. .
148
M
XXXII.
28
c. . .
152
M
XLII. .
46
? cm. .
154
M
XLIII. .
48
CIV. .
158
ft
XLVI. .
50
CVIII. .
76
M
XLVII.
54
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212
tl
L.
60
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214
>l
LX. .
74
cxx. .
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Zhc 3nfant psalter
Tlie twelve simplest Psalms, arranged in order of
simplicity.
PAGE PAGE PAGE
CXVII. . 204 XCIII. . . 134 XCVIII. . 146
C. . . i52] VIII. . . 61 CXXXIII. . 258
CXXXIV. . 2601 XCVI. . . i401 CXXVI. . 252
XXIII. . iS: CL. . . 278, CXLVIII. . 274
NIGHT PRAYERS
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is
One. (Blessed be His name, whose glorious kingdom
is for ever and ever. ) And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and
with all thy might. *
I thank Thee, O God! for Thy merciful care of
me this day, and for all the blessings I have enjoyed.
I pray Thee, O God! to forgive me for all I have
done wrong this day, and to help me to try more and
more earnestly to do right.
Pray, God, watch over and bless me, and all those
who are dear to me, this night. Amen.
"Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither
slumber nor sleep. "
"To Him my spirit I commend at morn and eve
with faith sincere,
"My spirit, and its mortal frame--the Lord with me
I will not fear. "
"I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep:
for Thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. "--
Atnen!
* Older Children, add the rest of the yJ2V, p. 284.
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My God! the soul which Thou hast given me is pure.
Thou didst create it, form it, and breathe it into me;
Thou preservest it within me, and Thou wilt here-
after take it from me, to restore it unto me in futurity.
As long as my soul continueth within me, I will
acknowledge before Thee, O Lord my God, and
the God of my fathers, that Thou art the Sovereign
of all creatures and Lord of all souls. Blessed art
Thou, O Lord! Who restorest the souls unto the
dead.
May it be Thy will, O Lord our God and God of
our fathers, to make us familiar with Thy Law and
to make us cleave to Thy commandments. O lead
us not into the power of sin, trangression, wrong
doing, temptation or scorn: let not evil thoughts
have sway over us: keep us far from bad people and
bad companions: make us cleave to good thoughts
and good deeds and bend our thoughts to striving to
serve Thee, and grant us this day and every day,
grace, favour and mercy in Thine eyes, and in the eyes
of all who behold us; and bestow gracious favours
upon us. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who bestowest
gracious favours upon thy people Israel.
(On Sabbaths add:)
Our God and God of our fathers, accept our rest;
sanctify us by Thy commandments, and grant our
portion in Thy Law; satisfy us with Thy goodness,
and gladden us with Thy salvation; purify our hearts
to serve Thee in truth; and in Thy love and favour, 0
Lord our God, let us inherit Thy holy Sabbath; and
may Israel, who hallow Thy name, rest thereon.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who hallowest the Sabbath.
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