A Devotee’s Prayer. ( Compited from the Holy Bibte,) By J. N. Chaudhuri, B.A, B. L. 1 Have mescy upon me, O Lord, fort am week. O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed. Pyeverve me, O God, for in thee doT put my trust, ‘Thou wilt show me the path of life, ip thy presence is faluess of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasurea for Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. Lhave called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God; inoline thine ear unto me, nd hear my speech. Show thy marvellous loving kind- ness, O thon that savest by thy right hand thes which put their trast in thee from ‘those that rise up against them. Keep ma asthe apple of the eye; bide me under the shadow of thy wings, £ will love thee, © Lora, my strengun. With the mevcifal, thon wilt show thyeclf merciful; with an upright man, tmen wilt euow thyself upright, ‘With the pure, thou wilt show thy- seit pure, and with the froward thou wilt show thyself troward, Cleanea thon me from searet fault, Keep back thy servant alec from Presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then ahail I be up- right, und I shall be innocent from the great transgression, ‘Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, 0 Lord, my strength, and my redeomer. I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother’ ‘belly, Be not far trom me; for trouble is near, for thero is none to help.Be not far from me, O Lord; 0 my strength, baste thes to help me. ‘Unto thee, O Lord, do T1ift up my soul. ‘Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon ms; forL um desolate and aiflicted. ‘Whe troubles of my heart are enlarged: Q bring thou me out of my dietresses. Seok upon mine affiction and my pain, and forgive all my eins. Hear, O Lora. when T ory with my voices; have meroy also upon me, and answer me. Hilde not thy face far from me; gut not tay servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave m= not, neither for- kake me, © God of my salvation, ‘Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me ia plain path ‘Unto thee will I ery, O Lord, my rock be not silent to me. lest, if thou be silent to me, Lbecome like them that go down into the pit. Tear the voiee of my suppliontions when I ory unto thee. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver: in thy vightcousness Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily; be thou my strong rock, for am house of defence to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress; thorefore, for thy name's sake, lead me, and guide me. Pull we out of the net that they have laid privily for mo; for thon art my srength. nto thine hand Ioommit my spirit, © Lord God of truth, Have meroy spon me, O Lord, tori amin trouble; ming eye in constraed with Brief, yea, my Soul and my belly. Tam forgotten ata dead man, Tam Like @ broken vessel. ‘My times'are in thy hand. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me for thy mereiem sake. ‘Thou art my hiding place; thon sasit preserve me from troubi¢ compass me gbont with songs of de- Liverance. ora, how tong wilt shou look om P resoue my soul from destruction. © Tord, be not far from me. ‘How excellent ia thy loving kindzess, © God; therefore, the childven of mer put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. bia ‘With thee is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see Hight. ‘Tdelight to do thy will, O my Goa; yes, thy law is within my heart. “Wituhold not thou thy tender meroies from me, O Lord: let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve sae. For innumerable evils have compassed me about; mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, 10 that I am not able to yhey axe more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to belp me, ‘Have mercy upon me, 0 God, acoord- ing to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot cout my transgressions, ‘Wash me throughly from mine in- sgnity, and cleanse me from my sin. ‘For Lackonwledge my transgrestions; and my sin is ever before me. Create in me a.ciean heart, © God; and venew aright spirit within me, Cant me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy ssvation; and deliver me from bloodguilt- inege, O God, thon God of my salvation; aud my tongue shall ving aloud of thy vighteoumes:© Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shell shew forth thy praise. For thou desizest not sucrifiog; lee would give it: thon delightest not in burnt offering. ‘Save me, O God, by thy name. Se mereiful unto me, © God, be meroi~ fal unto me: for my soul trasteth in thee; yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I moke my refuge. My heart is fixed, 0 God, my heart tt fixed; I will sing and give praise. I will praise theo, O Lord, among the people: Twill sing unto thee among the nations. Be thou exalted, 0 God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. . Give us help from troubl the helpot man. Heer my ery, 0 God, attend unto my prayer, From the end of the earth will Tory unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed. for vain is I will abide in thy tabernacle tor ever: I will trast in the covert of thy wings. 0 Goa, thon art my Goa; eatly will T seok thee: may sonl thirsteth for thee, my feth longeth for thee. ‘Beosnse thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thea, © Goa, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thes. Heer me, O Lord; for thy loving ‘kindness is Gooa: tarn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, And hide not thy face from thy servant. ‘Maxe haste, O God, to deliver me maake haste to help me, O Lord. am poor end needy: make haste unto me, 0 God: shou art my help and my Aeliverer, O Lord, meke notarrying. _ nthe, 0 Lord, do put my trast; let me never be put to confusion. Deliver mein thy righteousness, and ‘aude me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, snd save me, Be thou my strong habitation, where- unte I may continually resort. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise ond with thy honour ali the day. Catt me not offin the time of old age; forsake ine not when my strenght faileth. © God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. Thou, which host shewed me great andsore troubles, shalt qnieken me again, amd shalt beng me up again from the depths of the earth. ‘My lips shall greatly rejoice when I ing unto thee. My tonguz also shall talk of thy xighteousnoss ull the day long. ‘There is none upon earth that I desire pesides thee. sso © Goa, why hast thon cast me off forever Help me, 0 God of my salvation, tor ‘he glory of thy name, and deliver me and punge awuy my rine for thy nome's sake. Preserve my soul. © thou my God, save thy servant that trosteth in thee, Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cay unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, O Lord, de I lift up my soul. For thon, Lend, art good. and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that oall upon thee. Give ear,O Lord, uate my prayer; and attena to the voice of my supplications, Among the gods there is nome like unto thee, O Lord: neither are there any works Like unto thy works. All nations whom thou hast made shall come aud wormip before thee, © Lord; and shail glority thy name.For thou art great, and doast won- drous things; thou art God alone. ‘Teach ms thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to tear thy name. Twill praise thee, 0 Lord wy God, ‘with oll my heart: amd I will glorify thy. name for evermore. Otmmn unto me, amd have meray upon mo; give thy strength unto thy servant. Lora Ged of my salvation, I have ovied day and night before thee. Let my prayer come before thee, inoline thine ear unto my ory. For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. Lam counted with them that go down into the pit: Tames o man that hath no strength. My days are like a shadow that eclixeth; aud Tam withered like grasa. But thou, O Lord, dalt endure for ‘ever, ond thy remomberanoe unto all gono- rations, OLord, tly Lam thy servent, I am thy servant. 1 will offer to thes the snorifice of thankegiving and will call apon thy name Deal bountitully with thy servant, thet Imay live, and keep thy word. @ Open thou mine eyes, tat x may ‘behold wonderous things out of thy law. Remove trom me the way of lyin, and grant me thy law graciously. Inave chosen the way of truth. ‘The earth, O Lora, ie full of thy moroy- Bis good for me that I have been afflicted; that Lmigntiearn thy statnt ‘Tam thine, save me; for Thave sought ‘thy precepts, Thou ort my hiding placo and my shield. Hola thou me up, and I whali be safe, ‘Tam thy servant; give me under- standing, that I may know thy testimontes.. ‘Look thou por me, and be meretfal unto me, as thou uxest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my etepsin thy word; axa iet not any iniguity have dominion over me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes. Rivers of waters run down mine cyes, ‘ecanse they keep not thy tnw. Bighteous art thon, 0 Lord, upright are thy judgments. and Consider mine affliction, and deliver Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to thom that aro upright in thoix hearts, Out of the depths have I oried unto thee, Lord. Lord, haar my voles: det ‘thine ears be attentive to the voice of my. eapplications, It thou, Lord, shouldat mark in- iguitiee, O Lord, who shall stand » But there is forgiveness with thee, ‘that thou mayest be feared. Iwill praise thes with my whole heart; before the gods will I sing praise unto tbes. I will worship toward thy holy temple, ard praise thy name for thy Jeving Kindness ond for thy ‘oth, for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy namo. © Lord, thon hest searched ma, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising: thou understandest my thought afar off ‘Thou compassest my path and my dying down, and art aequsinted with al wy ways, For there is not a word buh Jo, 0 ‘Lord, thou kmowest it altogether. ‘Thou hast eset mebehind and betore, and Isid thine hand upon me.Such knowledge is tao wonderfal for ane; {tis high; I cannot atta ante it, ‘Whither shall I go from thy spirit D Or whither shall I flee fromhy presence: ? iL ascend ap into heaven, thon art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art thore I£T take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermoss parts of the sea even there sheJl thy hand lead me, and thy Tight hand éhsll ho:d me. It I say, surciy the éarkncss eholl cover me; tven the night shall be Nght about ane. ‘Yea, the darkness hideth not fromthe: but the night shineth as the day: the dark- nese and the light are both alice to thee, For thon hast possessed my reins; thou hast covered me in my mother's Womb, I will praiae thee; for T am fearfully gnd wonderfally made; marvellous are Shy works; aud that my soul KeoweLn right well. How precivur alto are thy thoughts unto mp, O God! how great {s the sum of the! TT should count thew), they are mere in muniber than the sands! when Tawuke, Tam evil with thee. Search me, O God, and know my heart: tay me, and mow my’ thoaghts. And sae if there be any wicked way ‘4m mo, and lead me inthe way everlasting. Ww. Deliver me, O Lord, trom the evil man; praserva me from the violent man. Lord, Lory anto thee: makehssteanto me; give ear unto my voice, when Lory unto thee. Abet my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands asthe evening sacrifice. Seta wateh, © Lord, before my mouth: keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked worke with men that ‘work iniquity: and let me uot eat of their dainties. Let the righteons smite mo; it shall be 8 kindnass: and lot him reprove me; it shall bean excellent oi}, which shall not break my head. Mine eyes a8 ante thee, 0 God the Lond: in thee Im my trast; ieave Rot my soul destitnts. Thou art my refage and, yrtion in waa land of the Uvangs ST PO Attend unto for Tam st yo nme et WG LEE Bring my soul owt of prison, that I may praise thy name; the righteous shail pass me about; tar thon ekait deal bountifully with me. ‘Tear my prayer, © Lord, give car to pay eupplicutions And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall bo mah living be justified. L meditate on all thy works; f muze on the work of thy hands. Lstretoh forth my handa unto thee: m1 soul thirstethafter thee, a8 atuiraty land. ‘Hear me speedily, O Lord; my apinit fuileth: hide not thy iuco trom me, lest be like unto them thal go down into the pit. Oause mo bear thy loving kindness in the moming; for in thee do E trust; caus moc to Imom the way wherin f showld ‘walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. Tesch me to do thy-will; for thou art my God; thy spirit is good; lend me into the land of uprightne Quioken me, O Lord, for thy namers sake: for thy righteousness sake, bring my goul out of trouble Sard, what is man, that thon takest knowledge of him ! or the sonof man, that thou maxest secountof him! ‘Man is like to vanity: his days are as” a shadow that passeth away, Bow thy heavens, © Lord, and come down. I will extol thea, my Goa, and Iwill bless thy uame for ever and over. One generation shall praise thy works WPanotier, and shalt déelare shy mighty acts, ‘I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works, = aeen eS They shall memory of thy sing of the ¥ All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall bless Whee. Thoy shall speak of the glory of kingdom, oud inlkeof tay powers 2 eT ‘Tay kingdom is on everlasting king- dom, ahd tay dominion endureth though oat ait generations abundantiy utter the {S988 goodnées, and sali