Take thy plague away from me: I am even consumed by means of thy
heavy hand.
When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his
beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment:
every man therefore is but vanity.
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling:
hold not thy peace at my tears.
For I am a stranger with thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers
were.
O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go
hence, and be no more seen.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world
without end. Amen.
_Domine, refugium_. Psalm xc.
Lord, thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and
the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world
without end.
Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again,
ye children of men.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: seeing
that is past as a watch in the night.
As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep: and
fade away suddenly like the grass.
In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening
it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
For we consume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy
wrathful indignation.
Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins in
the light of thy countenance.
For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our
years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.
The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though
men be so strong, that they come to fourscore years: yet is their
strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and
we are gone.
But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as
a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.
O teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.
Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last: and be gracious unto thy
servants.
O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice
and be glad all the days of our life.
Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us:
and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.
Shew thy servants thy work: and their children thy glory.
And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper
thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handy-work.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world
without end. Amen.
_Then shall follow the Lesson taken out of the fifteenth chapter
of the former Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians_.