063. 142. During a Famine.

142. During a Famine.

Ant. If there be famine in the land, what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all Thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands towards this house: then hear Thou from heaven Thy dwelling-place and forgive, and do and give to every man according to his ways.

Thou openest Thine hand: And fillest all things living with plenteousness.

O GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all, spare us while we cry out unto Thee; provide ua with the food needful for our life in the world; enable us to look to Thee for the Bread of immor tality; quicken the liberality of the rich, that they may help the poor in their distress; strengthen the faith of the poor, that they fall not into sin through their necessity; pardon us all, and withdraw Thine anger; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.