COLLECTS

Be Thou our portion,* O LORD: grant that we may keep Thy law, to the end that Thou mayest be our heritage, and Thyself possess us without end. (1.)

O GOD,* Who hast willed to be the portion of them that keep Thy commandments, grant that we may not be entangled with the cords of sinners, but bound in the bonds of Thy statutes. (1.)