O Lord our Governor, how excellent is thy Name in all the world: thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies: that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 For I will consider thy heavens, even the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained. 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him: and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 Thou madest him lower than the angels: to crown him with glory and worship. 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands: and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet; 7 All sheep and oxen: yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. 9 O Lord our Governor: how excellent is thy Name in all the world! DAY 2 MORNING PRAYER PSALM 9. _Confitebor tibi_. I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will speak of all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: yea, my songs will I make of thy Name, O thou most Highest. 3 While mine enemies are driven back: they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause: thou art set in the throne that judgest right. 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly: thou hast put out their name forever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath also prepared his seat for judgement. 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness: and minister true judgement unto the people. 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed: even a refuge in due time of trouble. 10 And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast never failed them that seek thee. 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion: shew the people of his doings. 12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor. 13 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me: thou that liftest me up from the gates of death. 14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the same net which they hid privily, is their foot taken. 16 The Lord is known to execute judgement: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell: and all the people that forget God. 18 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten: the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever. 19 Up, Lord, and let not man have the upper hand: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 20 Put them in fear, O Lord: that the heathen may know themselves to be but men.