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Psalms","Category: Poetry","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF PSALMS\n\nThe psalms are called by the Hebrews TEHILLIM, that is, Hymns of Praise.\nThe author, of a great part of them at least, was king David: but many\nare of opinion that some of them were made by Asaph, and others whose\nnames are prefixed in the titles.\n\n\nPsalms Chapter 1\n\nBeatus vir.\n\nThe happiness of the just and the evil state of the wicked.\n\n1:1. Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the\nungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of\npestilence:\n\n1:2. But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall\nmeditate day and night.\n\n1:3. And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running\nwaters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf\nshall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.\n\n1:4. Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind\ndriveth from the face of the earth.\n\n1:5. Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners\nin the council of the just.\n\n1:6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked\nshall perish.\n\nPsalms Chapter 2\n\nQuare fremuerunt.\n\nThe vain efforts of persecutors against Christ and his church.\n\n2:1. Why have the Gentiles raged, and the prople devised vain things?\n\n2:2. The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together,\nagainst the Lord, and against his Christ.\n\n2:3. Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke\nfrom us.\n\n2:4. He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall\nderide them.\n\n2:5. Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his\nrage.\n\n2:6. But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain,\npreahing his comandment.\n\n2:7. The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten\nthee.\n\n2:8. Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance,\nand the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.\n\n2:9. Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in\npieces like a potter's vessel.\n\n2:10. And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that\njudge the earth.\n\n2:11. Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.\n\n2:12. Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you\nperish from the just way.\n\n2:13. When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all\nthey that trust in him.\n\nPsalms Chapter 3\n\nDomine, quid multiplicati.\n\nThe prophet's danger and delivery from his son Absalom: mystically, the\npassion and resurrection of Christ.\n\n3:1. The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom.\n\n3:2 Why, O Lord, are they multipied that affict me? many are they who\nrise up against me.\n\n3:3 Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.\n\n3:4. But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of\nmy head.\n\n3:5. I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from\nhis holy hill.\n\n3:6. I have slept and have taken my rest: and I have risen up, because\nthe Lord hath protected me.\n\n3:7. I will not fear thousands of the people surrounding me: arise, O\nLord; save me, O my God.\n\n3:8. For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause:\nthou hast broken the teeth of sinners.\n\n3:9. Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people.\n\nPsalms Chapter 4\n\nCum invocarem.\n\nThe prophet teacheth us to flee to God in tribulation, with confidence\nin him.\n\n4:1. Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.\n\nUnto the end... Or, as St. Jerome renders it, victori, to him that\novercometh: which some understand of the chief musician; to whom they\nsuppose the psalms, which bear that title, were given to be sung: we\nrather understand the psalms thus inscribed to refer to Christ, who is\nthe end of the law, and the great conqueror of death and hell, and to\nthe New Testament.-Ibid. In verses, in carminibus... In the Hebrew, it\nis neghinoth, supposed by some to be a musical instrument, with which\nthis psalm was to be sung.-Ibid. For David, or to David... That is,\ninspired to David himself, or to be sung.\n\n4:2. When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was\nin distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my\nprayer.\n\n4:3. O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you\nlove vanity, and seek after lying?\n\n4:4. Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the\nLord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.\n\n4:5. Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be\nsorry for them upon your beds.\n\n4:6. Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say,\nWho sheweth us good things?\n\n4:7. The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast\ngiven gladness in my heart.\n\n4:8. By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they rest:\n\n4:9. In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I will rest:\n\n4:10. For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope.\n\nPsalms Chapter 5\n\nVerba mea auribul.\n\nA prayer to God against the iniquities of men.\n\n5:1. Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for\nDavid.\n\nFor her that obtaineth the inheritance... That is, for the church of\nChrist.\n\n5:2. Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.\n\n5:3. Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.\n\n5:4. For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my\nvoice.\n\n5:5. In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because\nthou art not a God that willest iniquity.\n\n5:6. Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust\nabide before thy eyes.\n\n5:7. Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that\nspeak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor.\n\n5:8. But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy\nhouse; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.\n\n5:9. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct\nmy way in thy sight.\n\n5:10. For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.\n\n5:11. Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with\ntheir tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices:\naccording to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they\nhave provoked thee, O Lord.\n\n5:12. But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice for\never, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name\nshall glory in thee.\n\n5:13. For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as\nwith a shield of thy good will.\n\nPsalms Chapter 6\n\nDomine, ne in furore.\n\nA prayer of a penitent sinner, under the scourge of God. The first\npenitential psalm.\n\n6:1. Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave.\n\nFor the octave... That is, to be sung on an instrument of eight strings.\nSt. Augustine understands it mystically, of the last resurrection, and\nthe world to come; which is, as it were, the octave, or eighth day,\nafter the seven days of this mortal life: and for this octave, sinners\nmust dispose themselves, like David, by bewailing their sins, whilst\nthey are here upon earth.\n\n6:2. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy\nwrath.\n\n6:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my\nbones are troubled.\n\n6:4. And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but thou, O Lord, how long?\n\n6:5. Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's\nsake.\n\n5:5. For there is no one indeath, that is mindful of thee: and who shall\nconfess to thee in hell?\n\n6:7. I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I\nwill water my couch with my tears.\n\n6:8. My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst\nall my enemies.\n\n6:9. Depart from em, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard\nthe voice of my weeping.\n\n6:10. The Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my\nprayer.\n\n6:11. Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them\nbe turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.\n\nPsalms Chapter 7\n\nDomine, Deus meus.\n\nDavid, trusting in the justice of his cause, prayeth for God's help\nagainst his enemies.\n\n7:1. The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of\nChusi, the son of Jemini.\n\n7:2. O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; same me from all them\nthat persecute me, and deliver me.\n\n7:3. Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is\nno one to redeem me, nor to save.\n\n7:4. O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in\nmy hands:\n\n7:5. If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly\nfall empty before my enemies.\n\n7:6. Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life,\non the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.\n\n7:7. Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders\nof my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast\ncommanded:\n\n7:8. And a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their\nsakes return thou on high.\n\n7:9. The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my\njustice, and according to my innocence in me.\n\n7:10. The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought; and thou\nshalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.\n\n7:11. Just is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart.\n\n7:12. God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?\n\n7:13. Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath\nbent his bow, and made it ready.\n\n7:14. And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made\nready his arrows for them that burn.\n\nFor them that burn... That is, against the persecutors of his saints.\n\n7:15. Behold he hath been in labour iwht injustice: he hath conceived\nsorrow, and brought forth iniquity.\n\n7:16. He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he\nmade.\n\n7:17. His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall\ncome down upon his crown.\n\n7:18. I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will\nsing to the name of the Lord the most high.\n\nPsalms Chapter 8\n\nDomine, Dominus noster.\n\nGod is wonderful in his works; especially in mankind, singularly exalted\nby the incarnation of Christ.\n\n8:1. Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.\n\nThe presses... In Hebrew, Gittith, supposed to be a musical instrument.\n\n8:2. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For\nthy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.\n\n8:3. Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected\npraise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and\nthe avenger.\n\n8:4. For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon\nand the stars which thou hast founded.\n\n8:5. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that\nthou visitest him?\n\n8:6. Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned\nhim with glory and honour:\n\n8:7. And hast set him over the works of thy hands.\n\n8:8. Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen:\nmoreover, the beasts also of the fields.\n\n8:9. The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through\nthe paths of the sea.\n\n8:10. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!\n\nPsalms Chapter 9\n\nConfitebor tibi, Domine. The church praiseth God for his protection\nagainst her enemies.\n\n9:1. Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.\n\nThe hidden things of the Son... The humility and sufferings of Christ,\nthe Son of God; and of good Christians, who are his sons by adoption;\nare called hidden things, with regard to the children of this world, who\nknow not the value and merit of them.\n\n9:2. I will give lpraise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will\nrelate all thy wonders.\n\n9:3. I will be glad, and rejoice inthee: I will sing to thy name, O thou\nmost high.\n\n9:4. When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and\nperish before thy face.\n\n9:5. For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on\nthe throne, who judgest justice.\n\n9:6. Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished;\nthou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.\n\n9:7. The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities\nthou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:\n\n9:8. But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in\njudgment:\n\n9:9. And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the lpeople\nin justice.\n\n9:10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time\nin tribulation.\n\n9:11. And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not\nforsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.\n\n9:12. Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among\nthe Gentiles:\n\n9:13. For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not\nforgotten the cry of the poor.\n\n9:14. Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from\nmy enemies.\n\n9:15. Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may\ndeclare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.\n\n9:16. I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in\nthe destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the\nvery snare which they hid.\n\n9:17. The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner\nhath been caught in the works of his own hands.\n\n9:18. The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget\nGod.\n\n9:19. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience\nof the poor shall not perish for ever.\n\n9:20. Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be\njudged in thy sight.\n\n9:21. Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know\nthemselves to be but men.\n\nHere the late Hebrew doctors divide this psalm into two, making ver. 22\nthe beginning of psalm 10. And again they join Psalms 146 and 147 into\none, in order that the whole number of psalms should not exceed 150. And\nin this manner the psalms are numbered in the Protestant Bible.\n\n(Psalm Chapter 10 according to the Hebrews.)\n\n9:1. Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in\nour wants, in the time of trouble?\n\n9:2. Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are\ncaught in the counsels which they devise.\n\n9:3. For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the\nunjust man is blessed.\n\n9:4. The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of\nhis wrath, he will not seek him:\n\n9:5. God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy\njudgments are removed form his sight: he shall rule over all his\nenemies.\n\n9:6. For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation\nto generation, and shall be without evil.\n\n9:7. His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deciet:\nunder his tongue are labour and sorrow.\n\n9:8. He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may\nkill the innocent.\n\n9:9. His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in wait, in secret, like a\nlion in his den. He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: so\ncatch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.\n\n9:10. In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when\nhe shall have power over the poor.\n\n9:11. For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned\naway his face, not to see to the end.\n\n9:12. Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor.\n\n9:13. Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his\nheart: He will not require it.\n\n9:14. Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou\nmayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou\nwilt be a helper to the orphan.\n\n9:15. Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin\nshall be sought, and shall not be found.\n\n9:16. The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye\nGentiles shall perish from his land.\n\n9:17. The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the\npreparatgion of their heart.\n\n9:18. To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no\nmore presume to magnify himself upon earth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 10\n\nIn Domino confido.\n\nThe just man's confidence in God in the midst of persecutions.\n\n10:1. Unto the end. A psalm to David.\n\n10:2. In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get\nthee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.\n\n10:3. For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their\narows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.\n\n10:4. For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what\nhas the just man done?\n\n10:5. The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven.\nHis eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.\n\n10:6. The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth\niniquity, hateth his own soul.\n\n10:7. He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms\nof winds, shall be the portion of their cup.\n\n10:8. For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath\nbeheld righteousness.\n\nPsalms Chapter 11\n\nSalvum me fac.\n\nThe prophet calls for God's help against the wicked.\n\n11:1. Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David.\n\n11:2. Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed\nfrom among the children of men.\n\n11:3. They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with\ndeceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.\n\n11:4. May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that\nspeaketh proud things.\n\n11:5. Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own:\nwho is Lord over us?\n\n11:6. By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor,\nnow will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal\nconfidently in his regard.\n\n11:7. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire,\npurged from the earth, refined seven times.\n\n11:8. Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation\nfor ever.\n\n11:9. The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast\nmultiplied the children of men.\n\nPsalms Chapter 12\n\nUsquequo, Domine.\n\nA prayer in tribulation.\n\n12:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou\nforget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?\n\n12:2. How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all\nthe day?\n\n12:3. How long shall my enemy be exalted over Me?\n\n12:4. Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I\nnever sleep in death:\n\n12:5. Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They\nthat trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:\n\n12:6. But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy\nsalvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea, I\nwill sing to the name of the Lord, the most high.\n\nPsalms Chapter 13\n\nDixit insipiens. 1.\n\nThe general corruption of man before our redemption by Christ.\n\n13:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart:\nThere is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their\nways: there is none that doth good, no not one.\n\n13:2. The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to\nsee if there be any that understand and seek God.\n\n13:3. They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together:\nthere is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open\nsepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of asps\nis under their lips.  Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;\ntheir feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their\nways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God\nbefore their eyes.\n\n13:4. Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people\nas they eat bread?\n\n13:5. They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for\nfear, where there was no fear.\n\n13:6. For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the\ncounsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.\n\n13:7. Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord\nshall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice,\nand Israel shall be glad.\n\nPsalms Chapter 14\n\nDomine, quis habitabit.\n\nWhat kind of men shall dwell in the heavenly Sion.\n\n14:1. A psalm for David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who\nshall rest in thy holy hill?\n\n14:2. He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:\n\n14:3. He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in\nhis tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach\nagainst his neighbours.\n\n14:4. In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he\nglorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour,\nand deceiveth not;\n\n14:5. He that hath not put out his money to usury, nortaken bribes\nagainst the innocent: He that doth these things, chall not be moved for\never.\n\nPsalms Chapter 15\n\nConserva me, Domine.\n\nChrist's future victory and triumph over the world and death.\n\n15:1. The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord,\nfor I have put my trust in thee.\n\nThe inscription of a title... That is, of a pillar or monument,\nstaylographia: which is as much as to say, that this psalm is most\nworthy to be engraved on an everlasting monument.\n\n15:2. I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of\nmy goods.\n\n15:3. To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my\ndesires in them.\n\n15:4. Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I\nwill not gather together their meetings for bloodofferings: nor will I\nbe mindful of their names by my lips.\n\n15:5. The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is\nthou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.\n\n15:6. The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance\nis goodly to me.\n\n15:7. I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover,\nmy reins also have corrected me even till night.\n\n15:8. I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand,\nthat I be not moved.\n\n15:9. Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced:\nmoreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope.\n\n15:10. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give\nthy holy one to see corruption.\n\n15:11. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me\nwith joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to\nthe end.\n\nPsalms Chapter 16\n\nExaudi, Domine, justitiam.\n\nA just man's prayer in tribulation against the malice of his enemy.\n\n16:1. The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my\nsupplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from\ndeceitful lips.\n\n16:2. Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes\nbehold the things that are equitable.\n\n16:3. Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast\ntried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.\n\n16:4. That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the\nwords of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.\n\n16:5. Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not\nmoved.\n\n16:6. I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline\nthy ear unto me, and hear my words.\n\n16:7. Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust\nin thee.\n\n16:8. From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy\neye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.\n\n16:9. From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have\nsurrounded my soul:\n\n16:10. They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.\n\nTheir fat... That is, their bowels of compassion: for they have none for\nme.\n\n16:11. They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they\nhave set their eyes bowing down to the earth.\n\n16:12. They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a\nyoung lion dwelling in secret places.\n\n16:13. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul\nfrom the wicked one; thy sword\n\n16:14. From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of\nthe earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores.\nThey are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the\nrest of their substance.\n\nDivide them from the few, etc... That is, cut them off from the earth,\nand the few trifling things thereof; which they are so proud of, or\ndivide them from the few; that is, from thy elect, who are but few; that\nthey may no longer have it in their power to oppress them. It is not\nmeant by way of a curse or imprecation; but, as many other the like\npassages in the psalms, by way of a prediction, or prophecy of what\nshould come upon them, in punishment of their wickedness. Ibid. Thy\nhidden stores... Thy secret treasures, out of which thou furnishest\nthose earthly goods, which, with a bountiful hand thou hast distributed\nboth to the good and the bad.\n\n16:15. But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I shall\nbe satisfied when thy glory shall appear.\n\nPsalms Chapter 17\n\nDiligam te, Domine.\n\nDavid's thanks to God for his delivery from all his enemies.\n\n17:1. Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the\nLord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him\nfrom the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he\nsaid:\n\n17:2. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:\n\n17:3. The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is\nmy helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of\nmy salvation, and my support.\n\n17:4. Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my\nenemies.\n\n17:5. The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity\ntroubled me.\n\n17:6. The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death\nprevented me.\n\n17:7. In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God:\nAnd he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came\ninto his ears.\n\n17:8. The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains\nwere troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.\n\n17:9. There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his\nface: coals were kindled by it.\n\n17:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his\nfeet.\n\n17:11. And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the\nwings of the winds.\n\n17:12. And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him:\ndark waters in the clouds of the air.\n\n17:13. At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and\ncoals of fire.\n\n17:14. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his\nvoice: hail and coals of fire.\n\n17:15. And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he\nmultiplied lightnings, and troubled them.\n\n17:16. Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the\nworld were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit\nof thy wrath.\n\n17:17. He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many\nwaters.\n\n17:18. He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that\nhated me: for they were too strong for me.\n\n17:19. They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord\nbecame my rotector.\n\n17:20. And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because\nhe was well pleased with me.\n\n17:21. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will\nrepay me according to the cleanness of my hands:\n\n17:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done\nwickedly against my God.\n\n17:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have\nnot put away from me.\n\n17:24. And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my\niniquity.\n\n17:25. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and\naccording to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.\n\n17:26. With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou\nwilt be innocent:\n\n17:27. And withe the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse\nthou wilt be perverted.\n\n17:28. For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the\neyes of the proud.\n\n17:29. For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my\ndarkness.\n\n17:30. For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my\nGod I shall go over a wall.\n\n17:31. As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are\nfire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.\n\n17:32. For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?\n\n17:33. God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.\n\n17:34. Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me\nupon high places.\n\n17:35. Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a\nbrazen bow.\n\n17:36. And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy\nright hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto\nthe end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.\n\n17:37. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not\nweakened.\n\n17:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not\nturn again till they are consumed.\n\n17:39. I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they\nshall fall under my feet.\n\n17:40. And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast\nsubdued under me them that rose up against me.\n\n17:41. And thou hast made my enemies furn their back upon me, and hast\ndestroyed them that hated me.\n\n17:42. They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he\nheard them not.\n\n17:43. And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I\nshall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.\n\n17:44. Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou\nwilt make me head of the Gentiles.\n\n17:45. A people which I knew not, hath seerved me: at the hearing of the\near they have obeyed me.\n\n17:46. The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children\nhave faded away, and have halted from their paths.\n\n17:47. The Lord liveth, and blessed by my God, and let the God of my\nsalvation be exalted.\n\n17:48. O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my\ndeliverer from my enraged enemies.\n\n17:49. And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from\nthe unjust man thou wilt deliver me.\n\n17:50. Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations,\nand I will sing a psalm to thy name.\n\n17:51. Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David,\nhis anointed: and to his seed for ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 18\n\nCoeli enarrant.\n\nThe works of God shew forth his glory: his law is greatly to be esteemed\nand loved.\n\n18:1. Unto the end. APsalm Chapter for David.\n\n18:2. The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament\ndeclareth the work of his hands.\n\n18:3. Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.\n\n18:4. There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not\nheard.\n\n18:5. Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words\nunto the ends of the world.\n\n18:6. He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he as a bridegroom\ncoming out of his bridechamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:\n\n18:7. His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to\nthe end thereof: and ther is no one that can hide himself from his heat.\n\n18:8. The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony\nof the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.\n\n18:9. The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the\ncommandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.\n\n18:10. The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the\njudgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.\n\n18:11. More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and\nsweeter than honey and the honeycomb.\n\n18:12. For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a\ngreat reward.\n\n18:13. Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:\n\n18:14. And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no\ndominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed\nform the greatest sin.\n\n18:15. And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the\nmeditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my\nRedeemer.\n\nPsalms Chapter 19\n\nExaudiat te Dominus.\n\nA prayer for the king.\n\n19:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David.\n\n19:2. May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of\nthe God of Jacob protect thee.\n\n19:3. May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee outof\nSion.\n\n19:4. May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole\nburntoffering be made fat.\n\n19:5. May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy\ncounsels.\n\n19:6. We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we\nshall be exalted.\n\n19:7. The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord\nhath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the\nsalvation of his right hand is in powers.\n\nThe salvation of his right hand is in powers... That is, in strength.\nHis right hand is strong and mighty to save them that trust in him.\n\n19:8. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon\nthe name of the Lord, our God.\n\n19:9. They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set\nupright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall\ncall upon thee.\n\nPsalms Chapter 20\n\nDomine, in virtute.\n\nPraise to God for Christ's exaltation after his passion.\n\n20:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David.\n\n20:2. In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation\nhe shall rejoice exceedingly.\n\n20:3. Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and hast not withholden\nfrom him the will of his lips.\n\n20:4. For thou hast prevented him with belssings of sweetness: thou hast\nset on his head a crown of precious stones.\n\n20:5. He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for\never and ever.\n\n20:6. His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt\nthou lay upon hom.\n\n20:7. For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou\nshalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.\n\n20:8. For the king hopeth in the Lord: andthrough the mercy of the most\nHigh he whall not be moved.\n\n20:9. Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find\nout all them that hate thee.\n\n20:10. Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy\nanger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour\nthem.\n\n20:11. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed\nfrom among the children of men.\n\n20:12. For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised\ncounsels which they have not been able to establish.\n\n20:13. For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou\nshalt prepare their face.\n\nIn thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face... Or thou shalt set thy\nremnants against their faces. That is, thou shalt make them see what\npunishments remain for them hereafter from thy justice. Instead of\nremnants, St. Jerome renders it funes, that is, cords or strings, viz.,\nof the bow of divine justice, from which God directs his arrows against\nthe faces of his enemies.\n\n20:14. Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and\npraise thy power.\n\nPsalms Chapter 21\n\nDeus Deus meus.\n\nChrist's passion: and the conversion of the Gentiles.\n\n21:1. Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.\n\n21:2. O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my\nsalvation are the words of my sins.\n\nThe words of my sins... That is, the sins of the world, which I have\ntaken upon myself, cry out against me, and are the cause of all my\nsufferings.\n\n21:3. O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by\nnight, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.\n\n21:4. But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.\n\n21:5. In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast\ndelivered them.\n\n21:6. They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and\nwere not confounded.\n\n21:7. Bukt I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast\nof the prople.\n\n21:8. All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken\nwith the lips, and wagged the head.\n\n21:9. He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him,\nseeing he delighteth in him.\n\n21:10. For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from\nthe breasts of my mother.\n\n21:11. I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou\nart my God,\n\n21:12. Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is\nnone to help me.\n\n21:13. Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.\n\n21:14. They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and\nroaring.\n\n21:15. I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My\nheart is become like wax melting in the midast of my bowels.\n\n21:16. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath\ncleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of\ndeath.\n\n21:17. For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant\nhath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.\n\n21:18. They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared\nupon me.\n\n21:19. They lparted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they\ncast lots.\n\n21:20. But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look\ntowards my defence.\n\n21:21. Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand\nof the dog.\n\n21:22. Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of\nthe unicorns.\n\n21:23. I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the\nchurch will I praise thee.\n\n21:24. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob,\nglorify him.\n\n21:25. Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted\nnor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned\naway his face form me: and when I cried to him he heard me.\n\n21:26. With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in\nthe sight of them that fear him.\n\n21:27. The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the\nLord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.\n\n21:28. All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted\nto the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his\nsight.\n\n21:29. For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over\nthe nations.\n\n21:30. All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all\nthey that go down to the earth shall fall before him.\n\n21:31. And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.\n\n21:32. There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the\nheavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born,\nwhich the Lord hath made.\n\nPsalms Chapter 22\n\nDominus regit me.\n\nGod's spiritual benefits to faithful souls.\n\n22:1. A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.\n\nRuleth me... In Hebrew, Is my shepherd, viz., to feed, guide, and govern\nme.\n\n22:2. He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on\nthe water of refreshment:\n\n22:3. He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice,\nfor his own name's sake.\n\n22:4. For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I\nwill fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they\nhave comforted me.\n\n22:5. Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me.\nThou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth\nme, how goodly is it!\n\n22:6. And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I\nmay dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.\n\nPsalms Chapter 23\n\nDomini est terra.\n\nWho are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ's triumphant ascension\nthither.\n\n23:1. On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the\nLord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell\ntherein.\n\n23:2. For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon\nthe rivers.\n\n23:3. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand\nin his holy place?\n\n23:4. The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his\nsoul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.\n\n23:5. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his\nSaviour.\n\n23:6. This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek\nthe face of the God of Jacob.\n\n23:7. Lift up your gates, O ye lprinces, and be ye lifted up, O eternal\ngates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.\n\n23:8. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the\nLord mighty in battle.\n\n23:9. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal\ngates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.\n\n23:10. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of\nGlory.\n\nPsalms Chapter 24\n\nAd te, Domine, levavi.\n\nA prayer for grace, mercy, and protection against our enemies.\n\n24:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up\nmy soul.\n\n24:2. In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.\n\n24:3. Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on\nthee shall be confounded.\n\n24:4. Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause.\nShew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.\n\n24:5. Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour;\nand on thee have I waited all the day long.\n\n24:6. Remember, O Lor, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that\nare from the beginning of the world.\n\n24:7. The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According\nto thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.\n\n24:8. The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to\nsinners in the way.\n\n24:9. He will guide themild in judgment: he will teach the meek his\nways.\n\n24:10. All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek\nafter his covenant and his testimonies.\n\n24:11. For thy name's sake, O Lrod, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is\ngreat.\n\n24:12. Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law\nin the way he hath chosen.\n\n24:13. His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit\nthe land.\n\n24:14. The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant\nshall be made manifest to them.\n\n24:15. My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out\nof the snare.\n\n24:16. Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.\n\n24:17. The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my\nnecessities.\n\n24:18. See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.\n\n24:19. Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me\nwith an unjust hatred.\n\n24:20. Deep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I\nhave hoped in thee.\n\n24:21. The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have\nwaited on thee.\n\n24:22. Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.\n\nPsalms Chapter 25\n\nJudica me, Domine.\n\nDavid's prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered, that he may come\nto worship him in his tabernacle.\n\n25:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have\nwalked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall\nnot be weakened.\n\n25:2. Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.\n\n25:3. For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy\ntruth.\n\n25:4. I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in\nwith the doers of unjust things.\n\n25:5. I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I\nwill not sit.\n\n25:6. I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy\naltar, O Lord:\n\n25:7. That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy\nwondrous works.\n\n25:8. I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where\nthy glory dwelleth.\n\n25:9. Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with\nbloody men:\n\n25:10. In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with\ngifts.\n\n25:11. But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have\nmercy on me.\n\n25:12. My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will\nbless thee, O Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 26\n\nDominus illuminatio.\n\nDavid's faith and hope in God.\n\n26:1. The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light\nand my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my\nlife: of whom shall I be afraid?\n\n26:2. Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My\nenemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.\n\n26:3. If armies in camp should stand to gether against me, my heart\nshall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be\nconfident.\n\n26:4. One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I\nmay dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may\nsee the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.\n\n26:5. For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he\nhath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.\n\n26:6. He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head\nabove my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his\ntabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to\nthe Lord.\n\n26:7. Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have\nmercy on me and hear me.\n\n26:8. My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O\nLord, will I still seek.\n\n26:9. Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy\nservant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O\nGod my Saviour.\n\n26:10. For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken\nme up.\n\n26:11. Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path,\nbecause of my enemies.\n\n26:12. Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for\nunjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to\nitself.\n\n26:13. I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the\nliving.\n\n26:14. Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and\nwait thou for the Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 27\n\nAd te, Domine, clamabo.\n\nDavid's prayer that his enemies may not prevail over him.\n\n27:1. A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God,\nbe not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like\nthem that go down into the pit.\n\n27:2. Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee;\nwhen I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.\n\n27:3. Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of\niniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils\nare in their hearts.\n\n27:4. Give them according to their works, and according to the\nwickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands\ngive thou to them: render to them their reward.\n\n27:5. Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the\noperations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build\nthem up.\n\n27:6. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my\nsupplication.\n\n27:7. The Lord is my helper andmy protector: in him hath my heart\nconfided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again,\nand with my will I will give praise to him.\n\n27:8. The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the\nsalvation of his anointed.\n\n27:9. Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them\nand exalt them for ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 28\n\nAfferte Domino.\n\nAn invitation to glorify God, with a commemoration of his mighty works.\n\n28:1. A psalm for David, at the finishing of the tabernacle. Bring to\nthe Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of rams.\n\n28:2. Bring to the Lord glory and honour: bring to the Lord glory to his\nname: adore ye the Lord in his holy court.\n\n28:3. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath\nthundered, The Lord is upon many waters.\n\n28:4. The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in\nmagnificence.\n\n28:5. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall\nbreak the cedars of Libanus.\n\n28:6. And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the\nbeloved son of unicorns.\n\nShall reduce them to pieces, etc... In Hebrew, shall make them to skip\nlike a calf. The psalmist here describes the effects of thunder (which\nhe calls the voice of the Lord) which sometimes breaks down the tallest\nand strongest trees; and makes their broken branches skip, etc. All this\nis to be understood mystically of the powerful voice of God's word in\nhis church; which has broken the pride of the great ones of this world,\nand brought many of them meekly and joyfully to submit their necks to\nthe sweet yoke of Christ.\n\n28:7. The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire:\n\n28:8. The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake\nthe desert of Cades.\n\n28:9. The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover\nthe thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory.\n\n28:10. The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: and the Lord shall sit king\nfor ever. The Lord will give strength to his people: the Lord will bless\nhis people with peace.\n\nPsalms Chapter 29\n\nExaltabo te, Domine.\n\nDavid praiseth God for his deliverance, and his merciful dealings with\nhim.\n\n29:1. A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David's house.\n\n29:2. I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not\nmade my enemies to rejoice over me.\n\n29:3. O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and thou hast healed me.\n\n29:4. Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast\nsaved me from them that go down into the pit.\n\n29:5. Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give praise to the memory\nof his holiness.\n\n29:6. For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the\nevening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.\n\n29:7. And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved.\n\n29:8. O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou\nturnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.\n\n29:9. To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my\nGod.\n\n29:10. What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption?\nShall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?\n\n29:11. The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my\nhelper.\n\n29:12. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my\nsackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:\n\n29:13. To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret:\nO Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 30\n\nIn te, Domine, speravi.\n\nA prayer of a just man under affliction.\n\n30:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.\n\n30:2. In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver\nme in thy justice.\n\n30:3. Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me\na God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.\n\n30:4. For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake\nthou wilt lead me, and nourish me.\n\n30:5. Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for\nme: for thou art my protector.\n\n30:6. Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord,\nthe God of truth.\n\n30:7. Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I\nhave hoped in the Lord:\n\n30:8. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my\nhumility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.\n\n30:9. And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast\nset my feet in a spacious place.\n\n30:10. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled\nwith wrath, my soul, and my belly:\n\n30:11. For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My\nstrength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.\n\n30:12. I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my\nneighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled\nfrom me.\n\n30:13. I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a\nvessel that is destroyed.\n\n30:14. For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While\nthey assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.\n\n30:15. But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.\n\n30:16. My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my\nenemies; and from them that persecute me.\n\n30:17. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.\n\n30:18. Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee.\nLet the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.\n\n30:19. Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the\njust, with pride and abuse.\n\n30:20. O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou\nhast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrougth for them\nthat hope inthee, in the sight of the sons of men.\n\n30:21. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the\ndisturbance of men. Thoushalt protect them in thy tabernacle form the\ncontradiction of tongues.\n\n30:22. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me\nin a fortified city.\n\n30:23. But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before\nthy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried\nto thee.\n\n30:24. O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require\ntruth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.\n\n30:25. Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that\nhope in the Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 31\n\nBeati quorum.\n\nThe second penitential psalm.\n\n31:1. To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities\nare forgiven, and whose sins are covered.\n\n31:2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not inputed sin, and in\nwhose spirit there is no guile.\n\n31:3. Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the\nday long.\n\nBecause I was silent, etc... That is, whilst I kept silence, by\nconcealing, or refusing to confess my sins, thy hand was heavy upon me,\netc.\n\n31:4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my\nanguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.\n\nI am turned, etc... That is, I turn and roll about in my bed to seek for\nease in my pain whilst the thorn of thy justice pierces my flesh, and\nsticks fast in me. Or, I am turned: that is, I am converted to thee, my\nGod, by being brought to a better understanding by thy chastisements. In\nthe Hebrew it is, my moisture is turned into the droughts of the summer.\n\n31:5. I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not\nconcealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the\nLord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.\n\n31:6. For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable\ntime. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto\nhim.\n\n31:7. Thou art my fefuge from the trouble which hath eencompassed me: my\njoy, deliver me from them that surround me.\n\n31:8. I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this\nway, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.\n\n31:9. Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no\nunderstanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not\nnear unto thee.\n\n31:10. Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass\nhim that hopeth in the Lord.\n\n31:11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye\nright of heart.\n\nPsalms Chapter 32\n\nExultate, justi.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God, and to trust in him.\n\n32:1. A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh\nthe upright.\n\n32:2. Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the\npsaltery, the instrument of ten strings.\n\n32:3. Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.\n\n32:4. For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with\nfaithfulness.\n\n32:5. He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of\nthe Lord.\n\n32:6. By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the\npower of them by the spirit of his mouth:\n\n32:7. Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying\nup the depths in storehouses.\n\n32:8. Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of\nthe world be in awe of him.\n\n32:9. For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were\ncreated.\n\n32:10. The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he\nrejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of\nprinces.\n\n32:11. But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of\nhis heart to all generations.\n\n32:12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he\nhath chosen for his inheritance.\n\n32:13. The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of\nmen.\n\n32:14. From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon\nall that dwell on the earth.\n\n32:15. He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who\nunderstandeth all their works.\n\n32:16. The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be\nsaved by his own great strength.\n\n32:17. Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the\nabundance of his strength.\n\n32:18. Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on\nthem that hope in his mercy.\n\n32:19. To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.\n\n32:20. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and\nprotector.\n\n32:21. For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in his holy name we have\ntrusted.\n\n32:22. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hooped in thee.\n\nPsalms Chapter 33\n\nBenedicam Dominum.\n\nAn exhortation to the praise, and service of God.\n\n33:1. For David, when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who\ndismissed him, and he went his way. [1 Kings 21.]\n\n33:2. I will belss the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in\nmy mouth.\n\n33:3. In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and\nrejoice.\n\n33:4. O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together.\n\n33:5. I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all\nmy troubles.\n\n33:6. Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be\nconfounded.\n\n33:7. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of\nall his troubles.\n\n33:8. The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him:\nand shall deliver them.\n\n33:9. O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that\nhopeth in him.\n\n33:10. Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them\nthat fear him.\n\n33:11. The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that\nseek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.\n\n33:12. Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the\nLord.\n\n33:13. Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?\n\n33:14. Keep thy tongue form evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.\n\n33:15. Tkurn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.\n\n33:16. The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their\nprayers.\n\n33:17. But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil\nthings: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.\n\n33:18. The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out\nof all their troubles.\n\n33:19. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he\nwill save the humble of spirit.\n\n33:20. Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will\nthe Lord deliver them.\n\n33:21. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he\nwill save the humble of spirit.\n\n33:22. The death of the wicked is very evil: and they that hate the just\nshall be guilty.\n\n33:23. The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of them\nthat trust in him shall offend.\n\nPsalms Chapter 34\n\nJudica, Domine, nocentes me.\n\nDavid, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors:\nprophetecally foreshewing the punishments that shall fall upon them.\n\n34:1. For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me:\noverthrow them that fight against me.\n\n34:2. Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.\n\n34:3. Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that\npersecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation.\n\n34:4. Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let\nthem be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.\n\n34:5. Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the\nLord straiten them.\n\n34:6. Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the\nLord pursue them.\n\n34:7. For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto\ndestruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.\n\n34:8. Let the snae which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net\nwhich he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.\n\n34:9. But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in\nhis salvation.\n\n34:10. All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest\nthe poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and\nthe poor from them that strip him.\n\n34:11. Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.\n\n34:12. They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.\n\n34:13. But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed\nwith haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be\nturned into my bosom.\n\n34:14. As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one\nmourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.\n\n34:15. But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were\ngathered together upon me, and I knew not.\n\n34:16. They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they\nscoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed ukpon me with their teeth.\n\n34:17. Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue thou my soul from their\nmalice: my only one from the lions.\n\n34:18. I will give thanks to thee in a great church; I will praise thee\nin a strong people.\n\n34:19. Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who\nhave hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.\n\n34:20. For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger\nof the earth they devised guile.\n\n34:21. And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well\ndone, well done, our eyes have seen it.\n\n34:22. Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not\nfrom me.\n\n34:23. Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: to my cause, my God, and\nmy Lord.\n\n34:24. Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them\nnot rejoice over me.\n\n34:25. Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our\nmind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.\n\n34:26. Let them blush: and be ashamed to gether, who rejoice at my\nevils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great\nthings against me.\n\n34:27. Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my\njustice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in\nthe peace of his servant.\n\n34:28. And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day\nlong.\n\nPsalms Chapter 35\n\nDixit injustus.\n\nThe malice of sinners, and the goodness of God.\n\n35:1. Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself.\n\n35:2. The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is\nno fear of God before his eyes.\n\n35:3. For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may\nbe found unto hatred.\n\nUnto hatred... That is, hateful to God.\n\n35:4. The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not\nunderstand that he might do well.\n\n35:5. He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every\nway that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.\n\n35:6. O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the\nclouds.\n\n35:7. Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great\ndeep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:\n\n35:8. O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of\nmen shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.\n\n35:9. They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou\nshalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.\n\n35:10. For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall\nsee light.\n\n35:11. Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them\nthat are right in heart.\n\n35:12. Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the\nsinner move me.\n\n35:13. There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and\ncould not stand.\n\nPsalms Chapter 36\n\nNoli aemulari.\n\nAn exhortation to despise this world; and the short prosperity of the\nwicked; and to trust in Providence.\n\n36:1. Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity.\n\n36:2. For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green\nherbs shall quickly fall.\n\n36:3. Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou\nshalt be fed with its riches.\n\n36:4. Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy\nheart.\n\n36:5. Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it.\n\n36:6. And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment\nas the noonday.\n\n36:7. Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who\nprospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.\n\n36:8. Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.\n\n36:9. For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord,\nthey shall inherit the land.\n\n36:10. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou\nshalt seek his place, and shalt not find it.\n\n36:11. But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in\nabundance of peace.\n\n36:12. The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him\nwith his teeth.\n\n36:13. But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day\nshall come.\n\n36:14. The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To\ncast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.\n\n36:15. Let their sword enter into their own hearts, andlet their bow be\nbroken.\n\n36:16. Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the\nwicked.\n\n36:17. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken in pieces; but the\nLord strengtheneth the just.\n\n36:18. The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; and their inheritance\nshall be for ever.\n\n36:19. They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of\nfamine they shall be filled:\n\n36:20. Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord,\npresently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to\nnothing and vanish like smoke.\n\n36:21. The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again; but the just sheweth\nmercy and shall give.\n\n36:22. For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse\nhim shall perish.\n\n36:23. With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall\nlike well his way.\n\n36:24. When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth\nhis hand under him.\n\n36:25. I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just\nforsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.\n\n36:26. He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed\nshall be in blessing.\n\n36:27. Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.\n\n36:28. For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints:\nthey shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the\nseed of the wicked shall perish.\n\n36:29. But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for\nevermore.\n\n36:30. The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall\nspeak judgment.\n\n36:31. The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be\nsupplanted.\n\n36:32. The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to\ndeath,\n\n36:33. But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him\nwhen he shall be judged.\n\n36:34. Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to\ninherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see.\n\n36:35. I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted ukp like the\ncedars of Libanus.\n\n36:36. And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his\nplace was not found.\n\n36:37. Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for\nthe peaceable man.\n\n36:38. But the unjust shall be destroyed to gether: the remnants of the\nwicked shall perish.\n\n36:39. But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their\nprotector in the time of trouble.\n\n36:40. And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue\nthem from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him.\n\nPsalms Chapter 37\n\nDomine, ne in furore.\n\nA prayer of a penitent for the remission of his sins. The third\npenitential psalm.\n\n37:1. A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.\n\nFor a remembrance... Viz., of our miseries and sins: and to be sung on\nthe sabbath day.\n\n37:2. Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy\nwrath.\n\n37:3. For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong\nupon me.\n\n37:4. There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no\npeace for my bones, because of my sins.\n\n37:5. For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are\nbecome heavy upon me.\n\n37:6. My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.\n\n37:7. I am bcome miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked\nsorrowfull all the day long.\n\n37:8. For my loins are filled with illusions; and there isno health in\nmy flesh.\n\n37:9. I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning\nof my heart.\n\n37:10. Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden\nfrom thee.\n\n37:11. My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of\nmy eyes itself is not with me.\n\n37:12. My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against\nme. And they that were near me stood afar off:\n\n37:13. And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought\nevils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.\n\n37:14. But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening\nhis mouth.\n\n37:15. And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no reproofs\nin his mouth.\n\n37:16. For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my\nGod.\n\n37:17. For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and\nwhilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.\n\n37:18. For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before\nme.\n\n37:19. For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think formy sin.\n\n37:20. But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: and they that hate\nme wrongfully are ultiplied.\n\n37:21. They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I\nfollowed goodness.\n\n37:22. For sake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me.\n\n37:23. Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.\n\nPsalms Chapter 38\n\nDixi custodiam.\n\nA just man's peace and patience in his sufferings; considering the\nvanity of the world, and the providence of God.\n\n38:1. Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.\n\n38:2. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my\ntongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against\nme.\n\n38:3. I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things:\nand my sorrow was renewed.\n\n38:4. My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditqation a fire shall\nflame out.\n\n38:5. I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is\nthe number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.\n\n38:6. Behold thou hast made my days measurable and my substance is as\nnothing before thee. And indeed all things are vantiy: every man living.\n\n38:7. Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain.\nHe storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.\n\n38:8. And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is\nwith thee.\n\n38:9. Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a\nreproach to the fool.\n\n38:10. I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.\n\n38:11. Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made\nme faint in rebukes:\n\n38:12. Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul\nto waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.\n\n38:13. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my\ntears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as\nall my fathers were.\n\n38:14. O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be\nno more.\n\nPsalms Chapter 39\n\nExpectans expectavi.\n\nChrist's coming, and redeeming mankind.\n\n39:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.\n\n39:2. With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive\nto me.\n\n39:3. And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery\nand the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my\nsteps.\n\n39:4. And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many\nshall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.\n\n39:5. Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who\nhath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.\n\n39:6. Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in\nthy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have\nspoken they are multiplied above number.\n\n39:7. Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast\npierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not\nrequire:\n\n39:8. Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written\nof me\n\n39:9. That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy\nlaw in the midst of my heart.\n\n39:10. I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not\nrestrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.\n\n39:11. I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy\ntruth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth\nfrom a great council.\n\n39:12. Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy\nand thy truth have always upheld me.\n\n39:13. For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have\novertaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the\nhairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.\n\nMy iniquities... That is, the sins of all mankind, which I have taken\nupon me.\n\n39:14. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.\n\n39:15. Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my\nsoul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that\ndesire evils to me.\n\n39:16. Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: 'T is\nwell, t' is well.\n\n'T is well... The Hebrew here is an interjection of insult and derision,\nlike the Vah. Matt. 27.49.\n\n39:17. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such\nas love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.\n\n39:18. But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art\nmy helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.\n\nPsalms Chapter 40\n\nBeatus qui intelligit.\n\nThe happiness of him that shall believe in Christ; notwithstanding the\nhumility and poverty in which he shall come: the malice of his enemies,\nespecially of the traitor Judas.\n\n40:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.\n\n40:2. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the\npoor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.\n\n40:3. The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon\nthe earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.\n\n40:4. The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his\ncouch in his sickness.\n\n40:5. I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have\nsinned against thee.\n\n40:6. My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his\nname perish?\n\n40:7. And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart\ngathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same\npurpose.\n\n40:8. All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils\nto me.\n\n40:9. They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth\nrise again no more?\n\n40:10. For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my\nbread, hath greatly supplanted me.\n\n40:11. But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise my up again: and I\nwill requite them.\n\n40:12. By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my\nenemy shall not rejoice over me.\n\n40:13. But thou hast upheldme by reason of my innocence: and hast\nestablished me in thy sight for ever.\n\n40:14. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity.\nSo be it. So be it.\n\nPsalms Chapter 41\n\nQuemadmodum desiderat.\n\nThe fervent desire of the just after God: hope in afflictions.\n\n41:1. Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core.\n\n41:2. As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul\npanteth after thee, O God.\n\n41:3. My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I\ncome and appear before the face of God?\n\n41:4. My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me\ndaily: Where is thy God?\n\n41:5. These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I\nshall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the\nhouse of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one\nfeasting.\n\n41:6. Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in\nGod, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my\ncountenance,\n\n41:7. And my God. My soul is troubled within my self: therefore will I\nremember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little\nhill.\n\n41:8. Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy\nheights and thy billows have passed over me.\n\n41:9. In the daytime the Lord hath commanded hismercy; and a canticle to\nhim in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.\n\n41:10. I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten\nme? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?\n\n41:11. Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who troubleme have\nreproached me; Whilst they say to me day be day: Where is thy God?\n\n41:12. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?\nHope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of\nmy countenance, and my God.\n\nPsalms Chapter 42\n\nJudica me, Deus.\n\nThe prophet aspireth after the temple and altar of God.\n\n42:1. A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from\nthe nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful\nman.\n\n42:2. For thou art God my strrength: why hast thou cast me off? and why\ndo I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?\n\n42:3. Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and\nbrought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.\n\n42:4. And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my\nyouth.\n\n42:5. To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art\nthou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?\n\n42:6. Hope in God, for I will still give pralise to him: the salvation\nof my countenance, and my God.\n\nPsalms Chapter 43\n\nDeus auribus nostris.\n\nThe church commemorates former favours, and present afflictions; under\nwhich she prays for succour.\n\n43:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.\n\n43:2. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to\nus, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.\n\n43:3. Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou\ndidst aflict the people and cast them out.\n\n43:4. For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword:\nneither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and\nthe light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.\n\n43:5. Thou art thyself my king andmy God, who commandest the saving of\nJacob.\n\n43:6. Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and\nthrough thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.\n\n43:7. For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.\n\n43:8. But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put\nthem to shame that hate us.\n\n43:9. In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will\ngive praise for ever.\n\n43:10. But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou,\nO God, wilt not go out with our armies.\n\n43:11. Thou hast made kus turn our back to our enemies: and they that\nhated us plundered for themselves.\n\n43:12. Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered\nus among the nations.\n\n43:13. Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no\nreckoning in the exchange of them.\n\n43:14. Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and\nderision to them that are round about us.\n\n43:15. Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the\nhead among the people.\n\n43:16. All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my\nface hath covered me,\n\n43:17. At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the\nface of the enemy and persecutor.\n\n43:18. All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten\nthee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.\n\n43:19. And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned\naside our steps from thy way.\n\n43:20. For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the\nshadow of death hath covered us.\n\n43:21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread\nforth our hands to a strange god:\n\n43:22. Shall not God search out thesethings: for he knoweth the secrets\nof the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we\nare counted as sheep for the slaughter.\n\n43:23. Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to\nthe end.\n\n43:24. Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our\ntrouble?\n\n43:25. For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to\nthe earth.\n\n43:26. Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake.\n\nPsalms Chapter 44\n\nEructavit cor meum.\n\nThe excellence of Christ's kingdom, and the endowments of his church.\n\n44:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of\nCore, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved.\n\nFor them that shall be changed... i.e., for souls happily changed, by\nbeing converted to God.-Ibid. The Beloved... Viz., Our Lord Jesus\nChrist.\n\n44:2. My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king:\nMy tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.\n\n44:3. Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad\nin thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.\n\n44:4. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty.\n\n44:5. With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously,\nand reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand\nshall conduct thee wonderfully.\n\n44:6. Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the\nhearts of the king's enemies.\n\n44:7. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom\nis a sceptre of uprightness.\n\n44:8. Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy\nGod, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.\n\n44:9. Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory\nhouses: out of which\n\n44:10. The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The\nqueen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with\nvariety.\n\n44:11. Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy\npeople and thy father's house.\n\n44:12. And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord\nthy God, and him they shall adore.\n\n44:13. And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among the\npeople, shall entreat thy countenance.\n\n44:14. All the glory of the king's daughter is within in golden borders,\n\n44:15. Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be\nbrought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.\n\n44:16. They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be\nbrought into the temple of the king.\n\n44:17. Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make\nthem princes over all the earth.\n\n44:18. They shall remember thy name throughout all generations.\nTherefore shall people praise thee for ever; yea, for ever and ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 45\n\nDeus noster refugium.\n\nThe church in persecution trusteth in the protection of God.\n\n45:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.\n\n45:2. Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which\nhave found us exceedingly.\n\n45:3. Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and\nthe mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea.\n\n45:4. Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled\nwith his strength.\n\n45:5. The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most\nHigh hath sanctified his own tabernacle.\n\n45:6. God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help\nit in the lmorning early.\n\n45:7. Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered\nhis voice, the earth trembled.\n\n45:8. The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.\n\n45:9. Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath\ndone upon earth,\n\n45:10. Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall\ndestroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in\nthe fire.\n\n45:11. Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the\nnations, and I will be exalted in the earth.\n\n45:12. The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.\n\nPsalms Chapter 46\n\nOmnes gentes, plaudite.\n\nThe Gentiles are invited to praise God for the establishment of the\nkingdom of Christ.\n\n46:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core.\n\n46:2. O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice\nof joy,\n\n46:3. For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.\n\n46:4. He hath subdued the people under jus; and the nations under our\nfeet.\n\n46:5. He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which\nhe hath love.\n\n46:6. God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of\ntrumpet.\n\n46:7. Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing\nye.\n\n46:8. For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.\n\n46:9. God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.\n\n46:10. The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of\nAbraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.\n\nPsalms Chapter 47\n\nMagnus Dominus.\n\nGod is greatly to be praised for the establishment of his church.\n\n47:1. A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of\nthe week.\n\n47:2. Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of\nour God, in his holy mountain.\n\n47:3. With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the\nsides of the north, the city of the great king.\n\n47:4. In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.\n\n47:5. For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they\ngathered together.\n\n47:6. So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were\nmoved:\n\n47:7. Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in\nlabour.\n\n47:8. With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of\nTharsis.\n\n47:9. As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of\nhosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.\n\n47:10. We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.\n\n47:11. According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise kunto the\nends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.\n\n47:12. Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad;\nbecause of thy judgments, O Lord.\n\n47:13. Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers.\n\n47:14. Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that\nye may relate it in another generation.\n\n47:15. For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he\nshall rule us for evermore.\n\nPsalms Chapter 48\n\nAudite haec, omnes gentes.\n\nThe folly of worldlings, who live on in sin, without thinking of death\nor hell.\n\n48:1. Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.\n\n48:2. Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of\nthe world.\n\n48:3. All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and\npoor together.\n\n48:4. My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart\nunderstanding.\n\n48:5. I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on\nthe psaltery.\n\n48:6. Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall\nencompass me.\n\nThe iniquity of my heel... That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways: or\nthe iniquity of my pride, with which as with the heel, I have spurned\nand kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel, that is, the\niniquity in which I shall be found in death. The meaning of this verse\nis, Why should I now indulge those passions and sinful affections, or\ncommit now those sins, which will cause me so much fear and anguish in\nthe evil day; when the sorrows of death shall compass me, and the perils\nof hell shall find me?\n\n48:7. They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude\nof their riches,\n\nThey that trust, etc... As much as to say, let them fear that trust in\ntheir strength or riches: for they have great reason to fear: seeing no\nbrother or other man, how much a friend soever, can by any price or\nlabour rescue them from death.\n\n48:8. No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to\nGod his ransom,\n\n48:9. Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for\never,\n\nAnd shall labour for ever, etc... This seems to be a continuation of the\nforegoing sentence: as much as to say no man can by any price or ransom\nprolong his life, that so he may still continue to labour here, and live\nto the end of the world. Others understand it of the eternal sorrows,\nand dying life of hell, which is the dreadful consequence of dying in\nsin.\n\n48:10. And shall still live unto the end.\n\n48:11. He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying:\nthe senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave\ntheir riches to strangers:\n\nHe shall not see destruction, etc... Or, shall he not see destruction?\nAs much as to say, however thoughtless he may be of his death, he must\nnot expect to escape; when even the wise and the good are not exempt\nfrom dying.\n\n48:12. And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their\ndwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by\ntheir names.\n\nThey have called, etc... That is, they have left their names on their\ngraves, which alone remain of their lands.\n\n48:13. And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared\nto senseless beasts, and is become like to them.\n\n48:14. This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards\nthey shall delight in their mouth.\n\nThey shall delight in their mouth... Notwithstanding the wretched way in\nwhich they walk, they shall applaud themselves with their mouths, and\nglory in their doings.\n\n48:15. They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And\nthe just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help\nshall decay in hell from their glory.\n\nIn the morning... That is, in the resurrection to a new life; when the\njust shall judge and condemn the wicked. Ibid. From their glory... That\nis, when their short-lived glory in this world shall be past, and be no\nmore.\n\n48:16. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall\nreceive me.\n\n48:17. Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rick, and when the\nglory of his house shall be increased.\n\n48:18. For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his\nglory descend with him.\n\n48:19. For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise\nthee when thou shalt do well to him.\n\n48:20. He shall g in to the gneerations of his fathers: and he shall\nnever see light.\n\n48:21. Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been\ncompared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.\n\nPsalms Chapter 49\n\nDeus deorum.\n\nThe coming of Christ: who prefers virtue and inward purity before the\nblood of victims.\n\n49:1. A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he\nhath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down\nthereof:\n\n49:2. Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.\n\n49:3. God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep\nsilence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be\nround about him.\n\n49:4. He shall call heraven from above, and the earth, to judge his\npeople.\n\n49:5. Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before\nsacrifices.\n\n49:6. And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.\n\n49:7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify\nto thee: I am God, thy God.\n\n49:8. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt\nofferings are always in my sight.\n\n49:9. I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy\nflocks.\n\n49:10. For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the\nhills, and the oxen.\n\n49:11. I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the\nfield.\n\n49:12. If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is\nmine, and the fulness thereof.\n\n49:13. Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of\ngoats?\n\n49:14. Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the\nmost High.\n\n49:15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and\nthou shalt glorify me.\n\n49:16. But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my\njustices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?\n\n49:17. Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind\nthee.\n\n49:18. If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with\nadulterers thou hast been a partaker.\n\n49:19. Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.\n\n49:20. Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a\nscandal against thy mother's son:\n\n49:21. These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest\nunjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set\nbefore thy face.\n\n49:22. Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you\naway, and there be none to deliver you.\n\n49:23. The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by\nwhich I will shew him the salvation of God.\n\nPsalms Chapter 50\n\nMiserere.\n\nThe repentance and confession of David after his sin. The fourth\npenitential psalm.\n\n50:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David,\n\n50:2. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with\nBethsabee. [2 Kings 12.]\n\n50:3. Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And\naccording to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.\n\n50:4. Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.\n\n50:5. For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.\n\n50:6. To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil befoer thee: that\nthou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art\njudged.\n\n50:7. For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my\nmother conceive me.\n\n50:8. For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things\nof thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.\n\n50:9. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou\nshalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.\n\n50:10. To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones\nthat have been humbled shall rejoice.\n\n50:11. Tukrn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.\n\n50:12. Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit\nwithin my bowels.\n\n50:13. Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from\nme.\n\n50:14. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with\na perfect spirit.\n\n50:15. I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be\nconverted to thee.\n\n50:16. Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my\ntongue shall extol thy justice.\n\n50:17. O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy\npraise.\n\n50:18. For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given\nit: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.\n\n50:19. A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled\nheart, O God, thou wilt not despise.\n\n50:20. Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the\nwalls of Jerusalem may be built up.\n\n50:21. Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and\nwhole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.\n\nPsalms Chapter 51\n\nQuid gloriaris.\n\nDavid condemneth the wickedness of Doeg, and foretelleth his\ndestruction.\n\n51:1. Unto the end, understanding for David,\n\n51:2. When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house\nof Achimelech.\n\n51:3. Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?\n\n51:4. All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp\nrazor, thou hast wrought deceit.\n\n51:5. Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather\nthan to speak righteousness.\n\n51:6. Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.\n\n51:7. Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out,\nand remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of\nthe living.\n\n51:8. The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:\n\n51:9. Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the\nabundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.\n\n51:10. But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped\nin the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.\n\n51:11. I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I\nwill wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.\n\nPsalms Chapter 52\n\nDixit insipiens.\n\nThe general corruption of man before the coming of Christ.\n\n52:1. Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said\nin his heart: There is no God.\n\nMaeleth... Or Machalath. A musical instrument, or a chorus of musicians,\nfor St. Jerome renders it, per chorum.\n\n52:2. They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is\nnone that doth good.\n\n52:3. God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if\nthere were any that did understand, or did seek God.\n\n52:4. All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable toegther, there\nis none that doth good, no not one.\n\n52:5. Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people\nas they eat bread?\n\n52:6. They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear,\nwhere there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that\nplease men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.\n\nGod hath scattered the bones, etc... That is, God has brought to nothing\nthe strength of all those that seek to please men, to the prejudice of\ntheir duty to their Maker.\n\n52:7. Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall\nbring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel\nshall be glad.\n\nPsalms Chapter 53\n\nDeus, in nomine tuo.\n\nA prayer for help in destress.\n\n53:1. Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.\n\n\n53:2. When the en of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David hidden\nwith us? [1 Kings 23.19]\n\n53:3. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.\n\n53:4. O God, hear my lprayer: give ear to the words of my mouth.\n\n53:5. For strangers have rrisen up against me; and the mighty have\nsought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.\n\n53:6. For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my\nsoul.\n\n53:7. Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy\ntruth.\n\n53:8. I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to\nthy name: because it is good:\n\n53:9. For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath\nlooked down upon my enemies.\n\nPsalms Chapter 54\n\nExaudi, Deus.\n\nA prayer of a just man under persecution from the wicked. It agrees to\nChrist persecuted by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas.\n\n54:1. Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.\n\n54:2. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not lmy supplication:\n\n54:3. Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and\nam troubled,\n\n54:4. At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner.\nFor they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were\ntroublesome to me.\n\n54:5. My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen\nupon me.\n\n54:6. Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.\n\n54:7. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and\nbe at rest?\n\n54:8. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the\nwilderness.\n\n54:9. I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit,\nand a storm.\n\n54:10. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen\niniquity and contradiction in the city.\n\n54:11. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in\nthe midst thereof arelabour,\n\n54:12. And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its\nstreets.\n\n54:13. For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with\nit. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would\nperhaps have hidden my self from him.\n\n54:14. But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,\n\n54:15. Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God\nwe walked with consent.\n\n54:16. Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell.\nFor there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.\n\nLet death, etc... This, and such like imprecations which occur in the\npsalms, are delivered prophetically; that is, by way of foretelling the\npunishments which shall fall upon the wicked from divine justice, and\napproving the righteous ways of God: but not by way of ill will, or\nuncharitable curses, which the law of God disallows.\n\n54:17. But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.\n\n54:18. Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he\nshall hear my voice.\n\n54:19. He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me:\nfor among many they were with me.\n\nAmong many, etc... That is, they that drew near to attack me were many\nin company all combined to fight against me.\n\n54:20. God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is\nno change with them, and they have not feared God:\n\n54:21. He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his\ncovenant,\n\n54:22. They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart\nhath drawn near. His words are smoother tha oil, and the same are darts.\n\nThey are divided, etc... Dispersed, scattered, and brought to nothing,\nby the wrath of God; who looks with indignation on their wicked and\ndeceitful ways.\n\n54:23. Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall\nnot suffer the just to waver for ever.\n\n54:24. But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of\ndestruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their\ndays; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 55\n\nMiserere mei, Deus.\n\nA prayer of David in danger and distress.\n\n55:1. Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance form the\nsanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the\nPhilistines held him in Geth.\n\n55:2. Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all\nthe day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me.\n\n55:3. My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many\nthat make war against me.\n\n55:4. From the height of the day I shall fear: but I will trust in thee.\n\nThe height of the day... That is, even at noonday, when the sun is the\nhighest, I am still in danger.\n\n55:5. In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: I will\nnot fear what flesh can do against me.\n\nMy words... The words or promises God has made in my favour.\n\n55:6. All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were\nagainst me unto evil.\n\n55:7. They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As\nthey have waited for my soul,\n\n55:8. For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break\nthe people in pieces. O God,\n\nFor nothing shalt thou save them... That is, since they lie in wait to\nruin my soul, thou shalt for no consideration favour or assist them, but\nexecute thy justice upon them.\n\n55:9. I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy\nsight, As also in thy promise.\n\n55:10. Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall\ncall upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.\n\n55:11. In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his\nspeech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.\n\n55:12. In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will lpay, praises to\nthee:\n\n55:13. Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from\nfalling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the\nliving.\n\nPsalms Chapter 56\n\nMiserere mei, Deus. The prophet prays in his affliction, and praises God\nfor his delivery.\n\n56:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a\ntitle, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [1 Kings 24.]\n\nDestroy not... Suffer me not to be destroyed.\n\n56:2. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in\nthee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass\naway.\n\n56:3. I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me.\n\n56:4. He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a\nreproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,\n\n56:5. And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I\nslept troubled. The sons ofmen, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and\ntheir tongue a sharp sword.\n\n56:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all\nthe earth.\n\n56:7. They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul.\nThey dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.\n\n56:8. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and\nrehearse a psalm.\n\n56:9. Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.\n\n56:10. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing\na psalm to thee among the nations.\n\n56:11. For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth\nunto the clouds.\n\n56:12. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above\nall the earth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 57\n\nSi vere utique.\n\nDavid reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their punishment.\n\n57:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a\ntitle.\n\n57:2. If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of\nmen.\n\n57:3. For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in\nthe earth.\n\n57:4. The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from\nthe womb: they have spoken false things.\n\n57:5. Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the\ndeaf asp that stoppeth her ears:\n\n57:6. Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard\nthat charmeth wisely.\n\n57:7. God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord\nshall break the grinders of the lions.\n\n57:8. They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent\nhis bow till they be weakened.\n\n57:9. Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen\non them, and they shall not see the sun.\n\n57:10. Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up,\nas alive, in his wrath.\n\nBefore your thorns, etc... That is, before your thorns grow up, so as to\nbecome strong briers, they shall be overtaken and consumed by divine\njustice, swallowing them up, as it were, alive in his wrath.\n\n57:11. The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall\nwash his hands in the blood of the sinner.\n\nShall wash his hands, etc... Shall applaud the justice of God, and take\noccasion from the consideration of the punishment of the wicked to wash\nand cleanse his hands from sin.\n\n57:12. And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is\nindeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 58\n\nEripe me.\n\nA prayer to be delivered from the wicked, with confidence in God's help\nand protection. It agrees to Christ and his enemies the Jews.\n\n58:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a\ntitle, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. [1 Kings 19.]\n\n58:2. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that\nrise up against me.\n\n58:3. Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody\nmen.\n\n58:4. For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in\nupon me:\n\n58:5. Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity\nhave I ren, and directed my steps.\n\n58:6. Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of\nhosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy\non all them that work iniquity.\n\n58:7. They shall return at everning, and shall suffer hunger like dogs:\nand shall go round about the city.\n\n58:8. Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their\nlips: for who, say they, hath heard us?\n\n58:9. But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the\nnations to nothing.\n\n58:10. I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:\n\n58:11. My God, his mercy shall prevent me.\n\n58:12. God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any\ntime my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O\nLord, my protector:\n\n58:13. For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let\nthem be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall\nbe talked of,\n\n58:14. When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and\nthey shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and\nall the ends of the earth.\n\n58:15. They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs:\nand shall go round about the city.\n\n58:16. They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they\nbe not filled.\n\n58:17. But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the\nmorning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my\ntrouble.\n\n58:18. Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence:\nmy God my mercy.\n\nPsalms Chapter 59\n\nDeus, repulisti nos.\n\nAfter many afflictions, the church of Christ shall prevail.\n\n59:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription\nof a title, to David himself, for doctrine,\n\n59:2. When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab\nreturned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand\nmen.\n\n59:3. O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast\nbeen angry, and hast had mercy on us.\n\n59:4. Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the\nbreaches thereof, for it has been moved.\n\n59:5. Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink\nthe wine of sorrow.\n\n59:6. Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may\nflee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered.\n\n59:7. Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.\n\n59:8. God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will\ndivide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.\n\n59:9. Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength\nof my head. Juda is my king:\n\n59:10. Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe:\nto me the foreigners are made subject.\n\nThe pot of my hope... Or my watering pot. That is, a vessel for meaner\nuses, by being reduced to serve me, even in the meanest employments.\nIbid. Foreigners... So the Philistines are called, who had no kindred\nwith the Israelites; whereas the Edomites, Moabites, etc., were\noriginally of the same family.\n\n59:11. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into\nEdom?\n\n59:12. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O\nGod, go out with our armies?\n\n59:13. Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man.\n\n59:14. Through God we shall do mightily: and he shall bring to nothing\nthem that afflict us.\n\nPsalms Chapter 60\n\nExaudi, Deus.\n\nA prayer for the coming of the kingdom of Christ, which shall have no\nend.\n\n60:1. Unto the end, in hymns, for David.\n\n60:2. Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.\n\n60:3. To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was\nin anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;\n\n60:4. For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face\nof the enemy.\n\n60:5. In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected\nunder the covert of thy wings.\n\n60:6. For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an\ninheritance to them that fear thy name.\n\n60:7. Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to\ngeneration and generation.\n\n60:8. He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who\nshall search?\n\n60:9. So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may\npay my vows from day to day.\n\nPsalms Chapter 61\n\nNonne Deo.\n\nThe prophet encourageth himself and all others to trust in God, and\nserve him.\n\n61:1. Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David.\n\n61:2. Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation.\n\n61:3. For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be\nmoved no more.\n\n61:4. How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were\nthrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.\n\n61:5. But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they\nblessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.\n\n61:6. But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my\npatience.\n\n61:7. For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be\nmoved.\n\n61:8. In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and\nmy hope is in God.\n\n61:9. Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts\nbefore him. God is our helper for ever.\n\n61:10. But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the\nbalances: that by vanity they may together deceive.\n\nAre liars in the balances, etc... They are so vain and light, that if\nthey are put into the scales, they will be found to be of no weight; and\nto be mere lies, deceit, and vanity. Or, They are liars in their\nbalances, by weighing things by false weights, and preferring the\ntemporal before the eternal.\n\n61:11. Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound,\nset not your heart upon them.\n\n61:12. God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power\nbelongeth to God,\n\n61:13. And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man\naccording to his works.\n\nPsalms Chapter 62\n\nDeus Deus meus, ad te.\n\nThe prophet aspireth after God.\n\n62:1. A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom.\n\n62:2. O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my\nsoul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!\n\n62:3. In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in\nthe sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.\n\n62:4. For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise.\n\n62:5. Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will\nlift up my hands.\n\n62:6. Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth\nshall praise thee with joyful lips.\n\n62:7. If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in\nthe morning:\n\n62:8. Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the\ncovert of thy wings:\n\n62:9. My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me.\n\n62:10. But they have fought my soul in vain, they shall go into the\nlower parts of the earth:\n\n62:11. They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall\nbe the portions of foxes.\n\n62:12. But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that\nswear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked\nthings.\n\nPsalms Chapter 63\n\nExaudi Deus orationem.\n\nA prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that he will bring to\nnought the machinations of persecutors.\n\n63:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David.\n\n63:2. Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver\nmy soul from the fear of the enemy.\n\n63:3. Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from\nthe multitude of the workers of iniquity.\n\n63:4. For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent\ntheir bow a bitter thing,\n\n63:5. To shoot in secret the undefiled.\n\n63:6. They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are\nresolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have\nsaid: Who shall see them?\n\n63:7. They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their\nsearch. Man shall come to a deep heart:\n\nA deep heart... That is, crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs;\nwhich nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted in\nbringing them to nought by his wisdom and power.\n\n63:8. And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:\n\nThe arrows of children are their wounds... That is, the wounds, stripes,\nor blows, they seek to inflict upon the just, are but like the weak\nefforts of children's arrows, which can do no execution: and their\ntongues, that is, their speeches against them come to nothing.\n\n63:9. And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them\nwere troubled;\n\n63:10. And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and\nunderstood his doings.\n\n63:11. The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and\nall the upright in heart shall be praised.\n\nPsalms Chapter 64\n\nTe decet.\n\nGod is to be praised in his church, to which all nations shall be\ncalled.\n\n\n64:1. To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jeremias and\nEzechiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go out.\n\nOf the captivity... That is, the people of the captivity of Babylon.\nThis is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the ancient translation of\nthe Septuagint.\n\n64:2. A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to\nthee in Jerusalem.\n\n64:3. O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.\n\n64:4. The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt\npardon our transgressions.\n\n64:5. Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall\ndwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy\nhouse; holy is thy temple,\n\n64:6. Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope\nof all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.\n\n64:7. Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded\nwith power:\n\n64:8. Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The\nGentiles shall be troubled,\n\n64:9. And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at\nthy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the\nevening to be joyful.\n\n64:10. Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it;\nthou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water,\nthou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.\n\n64:11. Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it\nshall spring up and rejoice in its showers.\n\n64:12. Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy\nfields shall be filled with plenty.\n\n64:13. The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the\nhills shall be girded about with joy,\n\n64:14. The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound\nwith corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn.\n\nPsalms Chapter 65\n\nJubilate Deo.\n\nAn invitation to praise God.\n\n65:1. Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resurrection. Shout\nwith joy to God, all the earth,\n\n65:2. Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise.\n\n65:3. Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude\nof thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.\n\n65:4. Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a\npsalm to thy name.\n\n65:5. Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels\nover the sons of men.\n\n65:6. Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on\nfoot: there shall we rejoice in him.\n\n65:7. Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations; let\nnot them that provoke him be exalted in themselves.\n\n65:8. O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the voice of his praise to\nbe heard.\n\n65:9. Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be\nmoved:\n\n65:10. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as\nsilver is tried.\n\n65:11. Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on\nour back:\n\n65:12. Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire and\nwater, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment.\n\n65:13. I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my\nvows,\n\n65:14. Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was\nin trouble.\n\n65:15. I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow, with burnt\nofferings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats.\n\n65:16. Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what\ngreat things he hath done for my soul.\n\n65:17. I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.\n\n65:18. If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear\nme.\n\n65:19. Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my\nsupplication.\n\n65:20. Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy\nfrom me.\n\nPsalms Chapter 66\n\nDeus misereatur.\n\nA prayer for the propagation of the church.\n\n66:1. Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David.\n\n66:2. May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of\nhis countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.\n\n66:3. That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations.\n\n66:4. Let people confess to thee, O God: let all people give praise to\nthee.\n\n66:5. Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou judgest the people\nwith justice, and directest the nations upon earth.\n\n66:6. Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give\npraise to thee:\n\n66:7. The earth hath yielded her fruit. May God, our God bless us,\n\n66:8. May God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him.\n\nPsalms Chapter 67\n\nExurgat Deus.\n\nThe glorious establishment of the church of the New Testament,\nprefigured by the benefits bestowed on the people of Israel.\n\n67:1. Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself.\n\n67:2. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that\nhate him flee from before his face.\n\n67:3. As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before\nthe fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.\n\n67:4. And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted\nwith gladness.\n\n67:5. Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who\nascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him:\nbut the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,\n\nWho ascendeth upon the west... Super occasum. St. Gregory understands it\nof Christ, who after his going down, like the sun, in the west, by his\npassion and death, ascended more glorious, and carried all before him.\nSt. Jerome renders it, who ascendeth, or cometh up, through the deserts.\n\n67:6. Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his\nholy place:\n\n67:7. God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth\nout them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke,\nthat dwell in sepulchres.\n\nOf one manner... That is, agreeing in faith, unanimous in love, and\nfollowing the same manner of discipline. It is verified in the servants\nof God, living together in his house, which is the church. 1 Tim. 3.15.\nIbid. Them that were bound, etc... The power and mercy of God appears in\nhis bringing out of their captivity those that were strongly bound in\ntheir sins: and in restoring to his grace those whose behaviour had been\nmost provoking; and who by their evil habits were not only dead, but\nburied in their sepulchres.\n\n67:8. O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when\nthou didst pass through the desert:\n\n67:9. The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of\nthe God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.\n\n67:10. Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and\nit was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.\n\nA free rain... the manna, which rained plentifully from heaven, in\nfavour of God's inheritance, that is, of his people Israel: which was\nweakened indeed under a variety of afflictions, but was made perfect by\nGod; that is, was still supported by divine providence, and brought on\nto the promised land. It agrees particularly to the church of Christ his\ntrue inheritance, which is plentifully watered with the free rain of\nheavenly grace; and through many infirmities, that is, crosses and\ntribulations, is made perfect, and fitted for eternal glory.\n\n67:11. In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast\nprovided for the poor.\n\nIn it, etc... That is, in this church, which is thy fold and thy\ninheritance, shall thy animals, thy sheep, dwell: where thou hast\nplentifully provided for them.\n\n67:12. The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings\nwith great power.\n\nTo them that preach good tidings... Evangelizantibus. That is, to the\npreachers of the gospel; who receiving the word from the Lord, shall\nwith great power and efficacy preach throughout the world the glad\ntidings of a Saviour, and of eternal salvation through him.\n\n67:13. The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the\nbeauty of the house shall divide spoils.\n\nThe king of powers... That is, the mighty King, the Lord of hosts, is of\nthe beloved, of the beloved; that is, is on the side of Christ, his most\nbeloved son: and his beautiful house, viz., the church, in which God\ndwells forever, shall by her spiritual conquests divide the spoils of\nmany nations. The Hebrew (as it now stands pointed) is thus rendered,\nThe kings of armies have fled, they have fled, and she that dwells at\nhome (or the beauty of the house) shall divide the spoils.\n\n67:14. If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings\nof a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the\npaleness of gold.\n\nIf you sleep among the midst of lots (intermedios cleros, etc.)... Viz.,\nin such dangers and persecutions, as if your enemies were casting lots\nfor your goods and persons: or in the midst of the lots, (intermedios\nterminos, as St. Jerome renders it,) that is, upon the very bounds or\nborders of the dominions of your enemies: you shall be secure\nnevertheless under the divine protection; and shall be enabled to fly\naway, like a dove, with glittering wings and feathers shining like the\npalest and most precious gold; that is, with great increase of virtue,\nand glowing with the fervour of charity.\n\n67:15. When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall\nbe whited with snow in Selmon.\n\nKings over her... That is, pastors and rulers over his church, viz., the\napostles and their successors. Then by their ministry shall men be made\nwhiter than the snow which lies on the top of the high mountain Selmon.\n\n67:16. The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat\nmountain.\n\nThe mountain of God... The church, which, Isa. 2.2, is called The\nmountain of the house of the Lord upon the top of mountains. It is here\ncalled a fat and a curdled mountain; that is to say, most fruitful, and\nenriched by the spiritual gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost.\n\n67:17. Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is\nwell pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.\n\nWhy suspect, ye curdled mountains?... Why do you suppose or imagine\nthere may be any other such curdled mountains? You are mistaken: the\nmountain thus favoured by God is but one; and this same he has chosen\nfor his dwelling for ever.\n\n67:18. The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of\nthem that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.\n\nThe chariot of God... Descending to give his law on mount Sina: as also\nof Jesus Christ his Son, ascending into heaven, to send from thence the\nHoly Ghost, to publish his new law, is attended with ten thousands, that\nis, with an innumerable multitude of joyful angels.\n\n67:19. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou\nhast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the\ndwelling of the Lord God.\n\nLed captivity captive... Carrying away with thee to heaven those who\nbefore had been the captives of Satan; and receiving from God the Father\ngifts to be distributed to men; even to those who were before\nunbelievers.\n\n67:20. Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will\nmake our journey prosperous to us.\n\n67:21. Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are\nthe issues from death.\n\nThe issues from death... The Lord alone is master of the issues, by\nwhich we may escape from death.\n\n67:22. But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of\nthem that walk on in their sins.\n\n67:23. The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into\nthe depth of the sea:\n\nI will turn them from Basan, etc... I will cast out my enemies from\ntheir rich possessions, signified by Basan, a fruitful country; and I\nwill drive them into the depth of the sea: and make such a slaughter of\nthem, that the feet of my servants may be dyed in their blood, etc.\n\n67:24. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the\ntongue of thy dogs be red with the same.\n\n67:25. They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my\nking who is in his sanctuary.\n\nThy goings... Thy ways, thy proceedings, by which thou didst formerly\ntake possession of the promised land in favour of thy people; and shalt\nafterwards of the whole world, which thou shalt subdue to thy Son.\n\n67:26. Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young\ndamsels playing on timbrels.\n\nPrinces... The apostles, the first converters of nations; attended by\nnumbers of perfect souls, singing the divine praises, and virgins\nconsecrated to God.\n\n67:27. In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of\nIsrael.\n\nFrom the fountains of Israel... From whom both Christ and his apostles\nsprung. By Benjamin, the holy fathers on this place understand St. Paul,\nwho was of that tribe, named here a youth, because he was the last\ncalled to the apostleship. By the princes of Juda, Zabulon, and\nNephthali, we may understand the other apostles, who were of the tribe\nof Juda; or of the tribes of Zabulon, and Nephthali, where our Lord\nbegan to preach, Matt. 4.13, etc.\n\n67:28. There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind. The princes of\nJuda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of\nNephthali.\n\n67:29. Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast\nwrought in us.\n\nCommand thy strength.. Give orders that thy strength may be always with\nus.\n\n67:30. From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.\n\n67:31. Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls\nwith the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with\nsilver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:\n\nRebuke the wild beasts of the reeds... or the wild beasts, which lie hid\nin the reeds. That is, the devils, who hide themselves in order to\nsurprise their prey. Or by wild beasts, are here understood persecutors,\nwho, for all their attempts against the Church, are but as weak reeds,\nwhich cannot prevail against them who are supported by the strength of\nthe Almighty. The same are also called the congregation of bulls (from\ntheir rage against the Church) who assemble together all their kine,\nthat is, the people their subjects, to exclude if they can, from Christ\nand his inheritance, his constant confessors, who are like silver tried\nby fire.\n\n67:32. Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch\nout her hands to God.\n\nAmbassadors shall come, etc... It is a prophecy of the conversion of the\nGentiles, and by name of the Egyptians and Ethiopians.\n\n67:33. Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing\nye to God,\n\n67:34. Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he\nwill give to his voice the voice of power:\n\nTo the east... From mount Olivet, which is on the east side of\nJerusalem.-Ibid. The voice of power... That is, he will make his voice\nto be a powerful voice: by calling from death to life, such as were dead\nin mortal sin: as at the last day he will by the power of his voice call\nall the dead from their graves.\n\n67:35. Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power\nis in the clouds.\n\n67:36. God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will\ngive power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.\n\nPsalms Chapter 68\n\nSalvum me fac, Deus.\n\nChrist in his passion declareth the greatness of his sufferings, and the\nmalice of his persecutors the Jews; and foretelleth their reprobation.\n\n68:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.\n\nFor them that shall be changed... A psalm for Christian converts, to\nremember the passion of Christ.\n\n68:2. Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.\n\nThe waters... Of afflictions and sorrows. My soul is sorrowful even unto\ndeath. Matt. 26.38.\n\n68:3. I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure\nstanding. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath\noverwhelmed me.\n\n68:4. I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes\nhave failed, whilst I hope in my God.\n\n68:5. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me\nwithout cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully\npersecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.\n\nI pay that which I took not away... Christ in his passion made\nrestitution of what he had not taken away, by suffering the punishment\ndue to our sins, and so repairing the injury we had done to God.\n\n68:6. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden\nfrom thee:\n\nMy foolishness and my offences... which my enemies impute to me: or the\nfollies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself.\n\n68:7. Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the\nLord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee,\nO God of Israel.\n\n68:8. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my\nface.\n\n68:9. I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of\nmy mother.\n\n68:10. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of\nthem that reproached thee are fallen upon me.\n\n68:11. And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to\nme.\n\n68:12. And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.\n\n68:13. They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank\nwine made me their song.\n\n68:14. But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy\ngood pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the\ntruth of thy salvation.\n\n68:15. Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me\nfrom them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.\n\n68:16. Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow\nme up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.\n\n68:17. Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to\nthe multitude of thy tender mercies.\n\n68:18. And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble,\nhear me speedily.\n\n68:19. Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.\n\n68:20. Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.\n\n68:21. In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected\nreproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together\nwith me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I\nfound none.\n\n68:22. And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me\nvinegar to drink.\n\n68:23. Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense,\nand a stumblingblock.\n\nLet their table, etc... What here follows in the style of an\nimprecation, is a prophecy of the wretched state to which the Jews\nshould be reduced in punishment of their wilful obstinacy.\n\n68:24. Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend\nthou down always.\n\n68:25. Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger\ntake hold of them.\n\n68:26. Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to\ndwell in their tabernacles.\n\n68:27. Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they\nhave added to the grief of my wounds.\n\n68:28. Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into\nthy justice.\n\n68:29. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the\njust let them not be written.\n\n68:30. But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me\nup.\n\n68:31. I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify\nhim with praise.\n\n68:32. And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth\nforth horns and hoofs.\n\n68:33. Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall\nlive.\n\n68:34. For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his\nprisoners.\n\n68:35. Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every\nthing that creepeth therein.\n\n68:36. For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up.\nAnd they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.\n\nSion... The catholic church. The cities of Juda, etc., her places of\nworship, which shall be established throughout the world. And there,\nviz., in this church of Christ, shall his servants dwell, etc.\n\n68:37. And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love\nhis name shall dwell therein.\n\nPsalms Chapter 69\n\nDeus in adjutorium.\n\nA prayer in persecution.\n\n69:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the\nLord saved him.\n\n69:2. O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.\n\n69:3. Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:\n\n69:4. Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils\nto me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to\nme: 'Tis well, 'tis well.\n\n'T is well, 't is well... Euge, euge. St. Jerome renders it, vah, vah!\nwhich is the voice of one insulting and deriding. Some understand it as\na detestation of deceitful flatterers.\n\n69:5. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such\nas love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.\n\n69:6. But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my\ndeliverer: O lord, make no delay.\n\nPsalms Chapter 70\n\nIn te, Domine.\n\nA prayer for perseverance.\n\n70:1. A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former\ncaptives. In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to\nconfusion:\n\nOf the sons of Jonadab... The Rechabites, of whom see Jer. 35. By this\naddition of the seventy-two interpreters, we gather that this psalm was\nusually sung in the synagogue, in the person of the Rechabites, and of\nthose who were first carried away into captivity.\n\n70:2. Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me,\nand save me.\n\n70:3. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that\nthou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.\n\n70:4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of\nthe hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.\n\n70:5. For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth.\n\n70:6. By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb\nthou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:\n\n70:7. I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.\n\n70:8. Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy\ngreatness all the day long.\n\n70:9. Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall\nfail, do not thou forsake me.\n\n70:10. For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my\nsoul have consulted together,\n\n70:11. Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is\nnone to deliver him.\n\n70:12. O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.\n\n70:13. Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul;\nlet them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.\n\n70:14. But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.\n\n70:15. My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day\nlong. Because I have not known learning,\n\nLearning... As much as to say, I build not upon human learning, but only\non the power and justice of God.\n\n70:16. I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be\nmindful of thy justice alone.\n\n70:17. Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will\ndeclare thy wonderful works.\n\n70:18. And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I\nshew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,\n\n70:19. And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou\nhast done: O God, who is like to thee?\n\n70:20. How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and\nturning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again\nfrom the depths of the earth:\n\n70:21. Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou\nhast comforted me.\n\n70:22. For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of\npsaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of\nIsrael.\n\n70:23. My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my\nsoul which thou hast redeemed.\n\n70:24. Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when\nthey shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.\n\nPsalms Chapter 71\n\nDeus, judicium tuum.\n\nA prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his kingdom: prefigured by\nSolomon and his happy reign.\n\n71:1. A psalm on Solomon.\n\n71:2. Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy\njustice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.\n\n71:3. Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills\njustice.\n\n71:4. He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the\nchildren of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.\n\n71:5. And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout\nall generations.\n\n71:6. He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers\nfalling gently upon the earth.\n\n71:7. In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till\nthe moon be taken away.\n\n71:8. And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the\nends of the earth.\n\n71:9. Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall\nlick the ground.\n\n71:10. The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the\nkings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:\n\n71:11. And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall\nserve him.\n\n71:12. For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that\nhad no helper.\n\n71:13. He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of\nthe poor.\n\n71:14. He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their\nnames shall be honourable in his sight.\n\n71:15. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of\nArabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the\nday.\n\n71:16. And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of\nmountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of\nthe city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.\n\nA firmament on the earth, etc... This may be understood of the church of\nChrist, ever firm and visible: and of the flourishing condition of its\ncongregation.\n\n71:17. Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before\nthe sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all\nnations shall magnify him.\n\n71:18. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful\nthings.\n\n71:19. And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole\nearth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.\n\n71:20. The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.\n\nAre ended... By this it appears that this psalm, though placed here, was\nin order of time the last of those which David composed.\n\nPsalms Chapter 72\n\nQuam bonus Israel Deus.\n\nThe temptation of the weak, upon seeing the prosperity of the wicked, is\novercome by the consideration of the justice of God, who will quickly\nrender to every one according to his works.\n\n72:1. A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of\na right heart!\n\n72:2. But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.\n\n72:3. Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the\nprosperity of sinners.\n\n72:4. For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in\ntheir stripes.\n\n72:5. They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged\nlike other men.\n\n72:6. Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their\niniquity and their wickedness.\n\n72:7. Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have\npassed into the affection of the heart.\n\nFatness... Abundance and temporal prosperity, which hath encouraged them\nin their iniquity: and made them give themselves up to their irregular\naffections.\n\n72:8. They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity\non high.\n\n72:9. They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath\npassed through the earth.\n\n72:10. Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found\nin them.\n\nReturn here... or hither. The weak among the servants of God, will be\napt often to return to this thought, and will be shocked when they\nconsider the full days, that is, the long and prosperous life of the\nwicked; and will be tempted to make the reflections against providence\nwhich are set down in the following verses.\n\n72:11. And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the\nmost High?\n\n72:12. Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they\nhave obtained riches.\n\n72:13. And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my\nhands among the innocent.\n\n72:14. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath\nbeen in the mornings.\n\n72:15. If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the\ngeneration of thy children.\n\nIf I said, etc... That is, if I should indulge such thoughts as these.\n\n72:16. I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my\nsight:\n\n72:17. Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning\ntheir last ends.\n\n72:18. But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were\nlifted up thou hast cast them down.\n\nThou hast put it to them... In punishment of their deceits, or for\ndeceiving them, thou hast brought evils upon them in their last end,\nwhich, in their prosperity they never apprehended.\n\n72:19. How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to\nbe: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.\n\n72:20. As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou\nshalt bring their image to nothing.\n\n72:21. For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:\n\n72:22. And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.\n\n72:23. I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.\n\n72:24. Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast\nconducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.\n\n72:25. For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon\nearth?\n\n72:26. For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the\nGod of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.\n\n72:27. For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast\ndestroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.\n\n72:28. But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the\nLord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the\ndaughter of Sion.\n\nPsalms Chapter 73\n\nUt quid, Deus.\n\nA prayer of the church under grievous persecutions.\n\n73:1. Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the\nend: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?\n\n73:2. Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the\nbeginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed:\nmount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.\n\n73:3. Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what\nthings the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.\n\n73:4. And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of\nthy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,\n\nTheir ensigns, etc... They have fixed their colours for signs and\ntrophies, both on the gates, and on the highest top of the temple: and\nthey knew not, that is, they regarded not the sanctity of the place.\nThis psalm manifestly foretells the time of the Machabees, and the\nprofanation of the temple by Antiochus.\n\n73:5. And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As\nwith axes in a wood of trees,\n\n73:6. They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet\nthey have brought it down.\n\n73:7. They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the\ndwelling place of thy name on the earth.\n\n73:8. They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let\nus abolish all the festival days of God from the land.\n\n73:9. Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will\nknow us no more.\n\n73:10. How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to\nprovoke thy name for ever?\n\n73:11. Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the\nmidst of thy bosom for ever?\n\n73:12. But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the\nmidst of the earth.\n\n73:13. Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush\nthe heads of the dragons in the waters.\n\nThe sea firm... By making the waters of the Red Sea stand like firm\nwalls, whilst Israel passed through: and destroying the Egyptians called\nhere dragons from their cruelty, in the same waters, with their king:\ncasting up their bodies on the shore to be stripped by the Ethiopians\ninhabiting in those days the coast of Arabia.\n\n73:14. Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to\nbe meat for the people of the Ethiopians.\n\n73:15. Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast\ndried up the Ethan rivers.\n\nEthan rivers... That is, rivers which run with strong streams. This was\nverified in Jordan, Jos. 3, and in Arnon, Num. 21.14.\n\n73:16. Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the\nmorning light and the sun.\n\n73:17. Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the\nspring were formed by thee.\n\n73:18. Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish\npeople hath provoked thy name.\n\n73:19. Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and\nforget not to the end the souls of thy poor.\n\n73:20. Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the\nearth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.\n\nThe obscure of the earth... Mean and ignoble wretches have been filled,\nthat is, enriched, with houses of iniquity, that is, with our estates\nand possessions, which they have unjustly acquired.\n\n73:21. Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and\nneedy shall praise thy name.\n\n73:22. Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with\nwhich the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.\n\n73:23. Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate\nthee ascendeth continually.\n\nPsalms Chapter 74\n\nConfitebimur tibi.\n\nThere is a just judgment to come: therefore let the wicked take care.\n\n74:1. Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.\n\nCorrupt not... It is believed to have been the beginning of some ode or\nhymn, to the tune of which this psalm was to be sung. St. Augustine and\nother fathers take it to be an admonition of the spirit of God, not to\nfaint or fail in our hope: but to persevere with constancy in good:\nbecause God will not fail in his due time to render to every man\naccording to his works.\n\n74:2. We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon\nthy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:\n\n74:3. When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.\n\nWhen I shall take a time... In proper times: particularly at the last\nday, when the earth shall melt away at the presence of the great Judge:\nthe same who originally laid the foundations of it, and as it were\nestablished its pillars.\n\n74:4. The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have\nestablished the pillars thereof.\n\n74:5. I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners:\nLift not up the horn.\n\n74:6. Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.\n\n74:7. For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert\nhills:\n\n74:8. For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth\nup:\n\n74:9. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of\nmixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs\nthereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.\n\n74:10. But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.\n\n74:11. And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the\njust shall be exalted.\n\nPsalms Chapter 75\n\nNotus in Judaea.\n\nGod is known in his church: and exerts his power in protecting it. It\nalludes to the slaughter of the Assyrians, in the days of king Ezechias.\n\n75:1. Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the\nAssyrians.\n\n75:2. In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.\n\n75:3. And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion:\n\n75:4. There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword,\nand the battle.\n\n75:5. Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.\n\n75:6. All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their\nsleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.\n\n75:7. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that\nmounted on horseback.\n\n75:8. Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy\nwrath.\n\nFrom that time, etc... From the time that thy wrath shall break out.\n\n75:9. Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth\ntrembled and was still,\n\n75:10. When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.\n\n75:11. For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the\nremainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.\n\n75:12. Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round\nabout him bring presents. To him that is terrible,\n\n75:13. Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the\nterrible with the kings of the earth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 76\n\nVoce mea.\n\nThe faithful have recourse to God in trouble of mind, with confidence in\nhis mercy and power.\n\n76:1. Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph.\n\n76:2. I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he\ngave ear to me.\n\n76:3. In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to\nhim in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be\ncomforted:\n\n76:4. I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my\nspirit swooned away.\n\n76:5. My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.\n\n76:6. I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal\nyears.\n\n76:7. And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was\nexercised and I swept my spirit.\n\n76:8. Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more\nfavourable again?\n\n76:9. Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to\ngeneration?\n\n76:10. Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up\nhis mercies?\n\n76:11. And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right\nhand of the most High.\n\n76:12. I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy\nwonders from the beginning.\n\n76:13. And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy\ninventions.\n\n76:14. Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like\nour God?\n\n76:15. Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou hast made thy power\nknown among the nations:\n\n76:16. With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob\nand of Joseph.\n\n76:17. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were\nafraid, and the depths were troubled.\n\n76:18. Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound.\nFor thy arrows pass:\n\n76:19. The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened\nthe world: the earth shook and trembled.\n\n76:20. Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy\nfootsteps shall not be known.\n\n76:21. Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses\nand Aaron.\n\nPsalms Chapter 77\n\nAttendite.\n\nGod's great benefits to the people of Israel, notwithstanding their\ningratitude.\n\n77:1. Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline\nyour ears to the words of my mouth.\n\n77:2. I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from\nthe beginning.\n\nPropositions... Deep and mysterious sayings. By this it appears that the\nhistorical facts of ancient times, commemorated in this psalm, were deep\nand mysterious: as being figures of great truths appertaining to the\ntime of the New Testament.\n\n77:3. How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have\ntold us.\n\n77:4. They have not been hidden from their children, in another\ngeneration. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his\nwonders which he hath done.\n\n77:5. And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How\ngreat things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same\nknown to their children:\n\n77:6. That another generation might know them. The children that should\nbe born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.\n\n77:7. That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works\nof God: and may seek his commandments.\n\n77:8. That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and\nexasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright:\nand whose spirit was not faithful to God.\n\n77:9. The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have\nturned back in the day of battle.\n\n77:10. They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not\nwalk.\n\n77:11. And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn\nthem.\n\n77:12. Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the\nland of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.\n\n77:13. He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the\nwaters to stand as in a vessel.\n\n77:14. And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with\na light of fire.\n\n77:15. He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as\nout of the great deep.\n\n77:16. He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down\nas rivers.\n\n77:17. And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most\nHigh to wrath in the place without water.\n\n77:18. And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their\ndesires.\n\n77:19. And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in\nthe wilderness?\n\n77:20. Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the\nstreams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his\npeople?\n\n77:21. Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled\nagainst Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.\n\n77:22. Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his\nsalvation.\n\n77:23. And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the\ndoors of heaven.\n\n77:24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them\nthe bread of heaven.\n\n77:25. Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in\nabundance.\n\n77:26. He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought\nin the southwest wind.\n\n77:27. And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like\nas the sand of the sea.\n\n77:28. And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their\npavilions.\n\n77:29. So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them\ntheir desire:\n\n77:30. they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their\nmeat was in their mouth:\n\n77:31. And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones\namongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.\n\n77:32. In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for\nhis wondrous works.\n\n77:33. And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.\n\n77:34. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and\ncame to him early in the morning.\n\n77:35. And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high\nGod their redeemer.\n\n77:36. And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they\nlied unto him:\n\n77:37. But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted\nfaithful in his covenant.\n\n77:38. But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not\ndestroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not\nkindle all his wrath.\n\n77:39. And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and\nreturneth not.\n\n77:40. How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to\nwrath in the place without water?\n\n77:41. And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of\nIsrael.\n\n77:42. They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them\nfrom the hand of him that afflicted them:\n\n77:43. How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field\nof Tanis.\n\n77:44. And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that\nthey might not drink.\n\n77:45. He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them:\nand frogs which destroyed them.\n\n77:46. And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to\nthe locust.\n\n77:47. And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry\ntrees with hoarfrost.\n\n77:48. And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the\nfire.\n\n77:49. And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation\nand wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.\n\n77:50. He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls\nfrom death, and their cattle he shut up in death.\n\n77:51. And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the\nfirstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.\n\n77:52. And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the\nwilderness like a flock.\n\n77:53. And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea\noverwhelmed their enemies.\n\n77:54. And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the\nmountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the\nGentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of\ndistribution.\n\n77:55. And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.\n\n77:56. Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept\nnot his testimonies.\n\n77:57. And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their\nfathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.\n\n77:58. They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to\njealousy with their graven things.\n\n77:59. God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly\nas it were to nothing.\n\n77:60. And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he\ndwelt among men.\n\n77:61. And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty\ninto the hands of the enemy.\n\n77:62. And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his\ninheritance.\n\n77:63. Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not\nlamented.\n\n77:64. Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.\n\n77:65. And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty\nman that hath been surfeited with wine.\n\n77:66. And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an\neverlasting reproach.\n\n77:67. And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe\nof Ephraim:\n\n77:68. But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.\n\n77:69. And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he\nfounded for ever.\n\nAs of unicorns... That is, firm and strong like the horn of the unicorn.\nThis is one of the chiefest of the propositions of this psalm,\nforeshewing the firm establishment of the one, true, and everlasting\nsanctuary of God, in his church.\n\n77:70. And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of\nsheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,\n\n77:71. To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.\n\n77:72. And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them\nby the skilfulness of his hands.\n\nPsalms Chapter 78\n\nDeus, venerunt gentes.\n\nThe church in time of persecution prayeth for relief. It seems to belong\nto the time of the Machabees.\n\n78:1. A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy\ninheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem\nas a place to keep fruit.\n\n78:2. They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the\nfowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.\n\n78:3. They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem\nand there was none to bury them.\n\n78:4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision\nto them that are round about us.\n\n78:5. How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be\nkindled like a fire?\n\n78:6. Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and\nupon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.\n\n78:7. Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.\n\n78:8. Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily\nprevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.\n\n78:9. Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O\nLord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:\n\n78:10. Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And\nlet him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the\nrevenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:\n\n78:11. Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According\nto the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them\nthat have been put to death.\n\n78:12. And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the\nreproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.\n\n78:13. But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks\nto thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and\ngeneration.\n\nPsalms Chapter 79\n\nQui regis Israel.\n\nA prayer for the church in tribulation, commemorating God's former\nfavours.\n\n79:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for\nAsaph, a psalm.\n\n79:2. Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like\na sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth\n\n79:3. Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and\ncome to save us.\n\n79:4. Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.\n\n79:5. O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the\nprayer of thy servant?\n\n79:6. How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us\nfor our drink tears in measure?\n\n79:7. Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our\nenemies have scoffed at us.\n\n79:8. O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be\nsaved.\n\n79:9. Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the\nGentiles and planted it.\n\n79:10. Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst\nthe roots thereof, and it filled the land.\n\n79:11. The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the\ncedars of God.\n\n79:12. It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto\nthe river.\n\n79:13. Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who\npass by the way do pluck it?\n\n79:14. The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild\nbeast hath devoured it.\n\n79:15. Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and\nvisit this vineyard:\n\n79:16. And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon\nthe son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.\n\n79:17. Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy\ncountenance.\n\nThings set on fire, etc... So this vineyard of thine, almost consumed\nalready, must perish, if thou continue thy rebukes.\n\n79:18. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son\nof man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.\n\nThe man of thy right hand... Christ.\n\n79:19. And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will\ncall upon thy name.\n\n79:20. O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew thy face, and we shall\nbe saved.\n\nPsalms Chapter 80\n\nExultate Deo.\n\nAn invitation to a solemn praising of God.\n\n80:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.\n\nFor the winepresses, etc... Torcularibus. It either signifies a musical\ninstrument, or that this psalm was to be sung at the feast of the\ntabernacles after the gathering in of the vintage.\n\n80:2. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.\n\n80:3. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery\nwith the harp.\n\n80:4. Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your\nsolemnity.\n\n80:5. For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of\nJacob.\n\n80:6. He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the\nland of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.\n\n80:7. He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in\nbaskets.\n\n80:8. Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard\nthee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of\ncontradiction.\n\nIn the secret place of tempest... Heb., Of thunder. When thou soughtest\nto hide thyself from the tempest: or, when I came down to mount Sina,\nhidden from thy eyes in a storm of thunder.\n\n80:9. Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou\nwilt hearken to me,   10  there shall be no new god in thee: neither\nshalt thou adore a strange god.\n\n80:11. For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of\nEgypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.\n\n80:12. But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.\n\n80:13. So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they\nshall walk in their own inventions.\n\n80:14. If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:\n\n80:15. I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on\nthem that troubled them.\n\n80:16. The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be\nfor ever.\n\nTheir time shall be forever... Impenitent sinners shall suffer for ever.\n\n80:17. And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey\nout of the rock.\n\nPsalms Chapter 81\n\nDeus stetit.\n\nAn exhortation to judges and men in power.\n\n81:1. A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and\nbeing in the midst of them he judgeth gods.\n\n81:2. How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the\nwicked?\n\n81:3. Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and\nthe poor.\n\n81:4. Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the\nsinner.\n\n81:5. They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all\nthe foundations of the earth shall be moved.\n\n81:6. I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most\nHigh.\n\n81:7. But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the\nprinces.\n\n81:8. Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among\nall the nations.\n\nPsalms Chapter 82\n\nDeus, quis similis.\n\nA prayer against the enemies of God's church.\n\n82:1. A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.\n\n82:2. O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be\nthou still, O God.\n\n82:3. For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee\nhave lifted up the head.\n\n82:4. They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have\nconsulted against thy saints.\n\n82:5. They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not\na nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.\n\n82:6. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a\ncovenant together against thee,\n\n82:7. The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and\nthe Agarens,\n\n82:8. Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants\nof Tyre.\n\n82:9. Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to\nthe aid of the sons of Lot.\n\n82:10. Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at\nthe brook of Cisson.\n\n82:11. Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.\n\n82:12. Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana.\nAll their princes,\n\n82:13. Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an\ninheritance.\n\n82:14. O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.\n\n82:15. As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:\n\n82:16. So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble\nthem in thy wrath.\n\n82:17. Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O\nLord.\n\n82:18. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them\nbe confounded and perish.\n\n82:19. And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the\nmost High over all the earth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 83\n\nQuam dilecta.\n\nThe soul aspireth after heaven; rejoicing in the mean time, in being in\nthe communion of God's church upon earth.\n\n83:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core.\n\n83:2. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!\n\n83:3. my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart\nand my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.\n\n83:4. For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest\nfor herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of\nhosts, my king and my God.\n\n83:5. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall\npraise thee for ever and ever.\n\n83:6. Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath\ndisposed to ascend by steps,\n\nIn his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, etc... Ascensiones in\ncorde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascended to the temple of God\nsituated on a hill; so the good Christian ascends towards the eternal\ntemple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart:\nand this whilst he lives as yet in the body, in this vale of tears, the\nplace which man hath set: that is, which he hath brought himself to:\nbeing cast out of paradise for his sin.\n\n83:7. In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.\n\n83:8. For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue\nto virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.\n\n83:9. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.\n\n83:10. Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.\n\n83:11. For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have\nchosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in\nthe tabernacles of sinners.\n\n83:12. For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and\nglory.\n\n83:13. He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O\nLord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.\n\nPsalms Chapter 84\n\nBenedixisti, Domine.\n\nThe coming of Christ, to bring peace and salvation to man.\n\n84:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.\n\n84:2. Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the\ncaptivity of Jacob.\n\n84:3. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered\nall their sins.\n\n84:4. Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the\nwrath of thy indignation.\n\n84:5. Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.\n\n84:6. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath\nfrom generation to generation?\n\n84:7. Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall\nrejoice in thee.\n\n84:8. Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.\n\n84:9. I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak\npeace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are\nconverted to the heart.\n\n84:10. Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory\nmay dwell in our land.\n\n84:11. Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have\nkissed.\n\n84:12. Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down\nfrom heaven.\n\n84:13. For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her\nfruit.\n\n84:14. Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the\nway.\n\nPsalms Chapter 85\n\nInclina, Domine.\n\nA prayer for God's grace to assist us to the end.\n\n85:1. A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me:\nfor I am needy and poor.\n\n85:2. Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that\ntrusteth in thee.\n\nI am holy... I am by my office and profession dedicated to thy service.\n\n85:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.\n\n85:4. Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have\nlifted up my soul.\n\n85:5. For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to\nall that call upon thee.\n\n85:6. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my\npetition.\n\n85:7. I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou\nhast heard me.\n\n85:8. There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is\nnone according to thy works.\n\n85:9. All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O\nLord: and they shall glorify thy name.\n\n85:10. For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.\n\n85:11. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let\nmy heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.\n\n85:12. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I\nwill glorify thy name for ever:\n\n85:13. For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my\nsoul out of the lower hell.\n\n85:14. O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of\nthe mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their\neyes.\n\n85:15. And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient,\nand of much mercy, and true.\n\n85:16. O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy\nservant, and save the son of thy handmaid.\n\n85:17. Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be\nconfounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.\n\nPsalms Chapter 86\n\nFundamenta ejus.\n\nThe glory of the church of Christ.\n\n86:1. For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations\nthereof are the holy mountains:\n\nThe holy mountains... The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2.20.\n\n86:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of\nJacob.\n\n86:3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.\n\n86:4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the\nforeigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were\nthere.\n\nRahab... Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many\nshall resort from all nations.\n\n86:5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her?  and the\nHighest himself hath founded her.\n\nShall not Sion say, etc... The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the church,\nshall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person of\nrenown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of people and\nprinces of her communion; who have been foretold in the writings of the\nprophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles.\n\n86:6. The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of\nthem that have been in her.\n\n86:7. The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.\n\nPsalms Chapter 87\n\nDomine, Deus salutis.\n\nA prayer of one under grievous affliction: it agrees to Christ in his\npassion, and alludes to his death and burial.\n\n87:1. A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for\nMaheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite.\n\nMaheleth... A musical instrument, or chorus of musicians, to answer one\nanother.-Ibid. Understanding... Or a psalm of instruction, composed by\nEman the Ezrahite, or by David, in his name.\n\n87:2. O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in\nthe night before thee.\n\n87:3. Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.\n\n87:4. For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to\nhell.\n\n87:5. I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a\nman without help,\n\n87:6. Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres,\nwhom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.\n\n87:7. They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the\nshadow of death.\n\n87:8. Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought\nin upon me.\n\n87:9. Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me\nan abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:\n\n87:10. My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee,\nO Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.\n\n87:11. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to\nlife, and give praise to thee?\n\n87:12. Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth\nin destruction?\n\n87:13. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the\nland of forgetfulness?\n\n87:14. But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer\nshall prevent thee.\n\n87:15. Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy\nface from me?\n\n87:16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have\nbeen humbled and troubled.\n\n87:17. Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.\n\n87:18. They have come round about me like water all the day: they have\ncompassed me about together.\n\n87:19. Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my\nacquaintance, because of misery.\n\nPsalms Chapter 88\n\nMisericordias Domini.\n\nThe perpetuity of the church of Christ, in consequence of the promise of\nGod: which, notwithstanding, God permits her to suffer sometimes most\ngrievous afflictions.\n\n88:1. Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.\n\n88:2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth\nthy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.\n\n88:3. For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the\nheavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.\n\n88:4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my\nservant:\n\n88:5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne\nunto generation and generation.\n\n88:6. The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in\nthe church of the saints.\n\n88:7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among\nthe sons of God shall be like to God?\n\n88:8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and\nterrible above all them that are about him.\n\n88:9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord,\nand thy truth is round about thee.\n\n88:10. Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the\nwaves thereof.\n\n88:11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the\narm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.\n\n88:12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the\nfulness thereof thou hast founded:\n\n88:13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall\nrejoice in thy name:\n\n88:14. Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy\nright hand exalted:\n\n88:15. Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and\ntruth shall go before thy face:\n\n88:16. Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O\nLord, in the light of thy countenance:\n\n88:17. And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy\njustice they shall be exalted.\n\n88:18. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good\npleasure shall our horn be exalted.\n\n88:19. For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one\nof Israel.\n\n88:20. Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have\nlaid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my\npeople.\n\n88:21. I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed\nhim.\n\n88:22. For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.\n\n88:23. The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of\niniquity have power to hurt him.\n\n88:24. And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that\nhate him I will put to flight.\n\n88:25. And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall\nhis horn be exalted.\n\n88:26. And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the\nrivers.\n\n88:27. He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the\nsupport of my salvation.\n\n88:28. And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the\nearth.\n\n88:29. I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful\nto him.\n\n88:30. And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne\nas the days of heaven.\n\n88:31. And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:\n\n88:32. If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:\n\n88:33. I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with\nstripes.\n\n88:34. But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my\ntruth to fail.\n\n88:35. Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed\nfrom my mouth I will not make void.\n\n88:36. Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:\n\n88:37. His seed shall endure for ever.\n\n88:38. And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for\never, and a faithful witness in heaven.\n\n88:39. But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my\nanointed.\n\n88:40. Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast\nprofaned his sanctuary on the earth.\n\nOverthrown the covenant, etc... All this seems to relate to the time of\nthe captivity of Babylon, in which, for the sins of the people and their\nprinces, God seemed to have set aside for a while the covenant he made\nwith David.\n\n88:41. Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength\nfear.\n\n88:42. All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach\nto his neighbours.\n\n88:43. Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou\nhast made all his enemies to rejoice.\n\n88:44. Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not\nassisted him in battle.\n\n88:45. Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his\nthrone down to the ground.\n\n88:46. Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him\nwith confusion.\n\n88:47. How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger\nburn like fire?\n\n88:48. Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the\nchildren of men in vain?\n\n88:49. Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall\ndeliver his soul from the hand of hell?\n\n88:50. Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst\nswear to David in thy truth?\n\n88:51. Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have\nheld in my bosom) of many nations:\n\n88:52. Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they\nhave reproached the change of thy anointed.\n\n88:53. Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.\n\nPsalms Chapter 89\n\nDomine, refugium.\n\nA prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness and miseries of\nthe days of man.\n\n89:1. A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge\nfrom generation to generation.\n\n89:2. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was\nformed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.\n\n89:3. Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be\nconverted, O ye sons of men.\n\nTurn not man away, etc... Suffer him not quite to perish from thee,\nsince thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee.\n\n89:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past.\nAnd as a watch in the night,\n\n89:5. Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.\n\n89:6. In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he\nshall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry,\nand wither.\n\n89:7. For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy\nindignation.\n\n89:8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the\nlight of thy countenance.\n\n89:9. For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away.\nOur years shall be considered as a spider:\n\nAs a spider... As frail and weak as a spider's web; and miserable\nwithal, whilst like a spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs to\ncatch flies.\n\n89:10. The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But\nif in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is\nlabour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be\ncorrected.\n\nMildness is come upon us, etc... God's mildness corrects us; inasmuch as\nhe deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life;\nand so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments, and\nteaching us true wisdom.\n\n89:11. Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear\n\n89:12. Can number thy wrath?  So make thy right hand known: and men\nlearned in heart, in wisdom.\n\n89:13. Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy\nservants.\n\n89:14. We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have\nrejoiced, and are delighted all our days.\n\n89:15. We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for\nthe years in which we have seen evils.\n\n89:16. Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their\nchildren.\n\n89:17. And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct\nthou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou\ndirect.\n\nPsalms Chapter 90\n\nQui habitat.\n\nThe just is secure under the protection of God.\n\n90:1. The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of\nthe most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.\n\n90:2. He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my\nGod, in him will I trust.\n\n90:3. For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from\nthe sharp word.\n\n90:4. He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings\nthou shalt trust.\n\n90:5. His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be\nafraid of the terror of the night.\n\n90:6. Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh\nabout in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.\n\n90:7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right\nhand: but it shall not come nigh thee.\n\n90:8. But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of\nthe wicked.\n\n90:9. Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High\nthy refuge.\n\n90:10. There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near\nthy dwelling.\n\n90:11. For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in\nall thy ways.\n\n90:12. In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot\nagainst a stone.\n\n90:13. Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt\ntrample under foot the lion and the dragon.\n\n90:14. Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him\nbecause he hath known my name.\n\n90:15. He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in\ntribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.\n\n90:16. I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my\nsalvation.\n\nPsalms Chapter 91\n\nBonum est confiteri.\n\nGod is to be praised for his wondrous works.\n\n91:1. A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.\n\n91:2. It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O\nmost High.\n\n91:3. To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the\nnight: 91:4. Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with\na canticle upon the harp.\n\n91:5. For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in\nthe works of thy hands I shall rejoice.\n\n91:6. O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.\n\n91:7. The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand\nthese things.\n\n91:8. When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of\niniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:\n\n91:9. But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.\n\n91:10. For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall\nperish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.\n\n91:11. But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old\nage in plentiful mercy.\n\n91:12. My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall\nhear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.\n\n91:13. The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like\nthe cedar of Libanus.\n\n91:14. They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in\nthe courts of the house of our God.\n\n91:15. They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be\nwell treated,\n\n91:16. That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there\nis no iniquity in him.\n\nPsalms Chapter 92\n\nDominus regnavit.\n\nThe glory and stability of the kingdom; that is, of the church of\nChrist.\n\nPraise in the way of a canticle, for David himself, on the day before\nthe sabbath, when the earth was founded.\n\n92:1. The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is\nclothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established\nthe world which shall not be moved.\n\n92:2. My throne is prepared from of old: thou art from everlasting.\n\n92:3. The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their\nvoice. The floods have lifted up their waves,\n\n92:4. With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the\nsea: wonderful is the Lord on high.\n\n92:5. Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh\nthy house, O Lord, unto length of days.\n\nPsalms Chapter 93\n\nDeus ultionum.\n\nGod shall judge and punish the oppressors of his people.\n\nA psalm for David himself on the fourth day of the week.\n\n93:1. The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge\nhath acted freely.\n\n93:2. Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to\nthe proud.\n\n93:3. How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?\n\n93:4. Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work\ninjustice?\n\n93:5. Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted\nthy inheritance.\n\n93:6. They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered\nthe fatherless.\n\n93:7. And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God\nof Jacob understand.\n\n93:8. Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise\nat last.\n\n93:9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the\neye, doth he not consider?\n\n93:10. He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth\nman knowledge?\n\n93:11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.\n\n93:12. Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt\nteach him out of thy law.\n\n93:13. That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be\ndug for the wicked.\n\nRest from the evil days... That thou mayst mitigate the sorrows, to\nwhich he is exposed, during the short and evil days of his mortality.\n\n93:14. For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he\nforsake his own inheritance.\n\n93:15. Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it\nare all the upright in heart.\n\nUntil justice be turned into judgment, etc... By being put in execution;\nwhich will be agreeable to all the upright in heart.\n\n93:16. Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall\nstand with me against the workers of iniquity?\n\n93:17. Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in\nhell.\n\n93:18. If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.\n\n93:19. According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy\ncomforts have given joy to my soul.\n\n93:20. Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in\ncommandment?\n\nDoth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, etc... That is, wilt thou, O\nGod, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity: that is, of\ninjustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee? Thou who\nframest, or makest, labour in commandment, that is, thou who obligest us\nto labour with all diligence to keep thy commandments.\n\n93:21. They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn\ninnocent blood.\n\n93:22. But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.\n\n93:23. And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he\nwill destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.\n\nPsalms Chapter 94\n\nVenite exultemus.\n\nAn invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear his voice.\n\nPraise of a canticle for David himself.\n\n94:1. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God\nour saviour.\n\n94:2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a\njoyful noise to him with psalms.\n\n94:3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.\n\n94:4. For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of\nthe mountains are his.\n\n94:5. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry\nland.\n\n94:6. Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that\nmade us.\n\n94:7. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture\nand the sheep of his hand.\n\n94:8. To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:\n\n94:9. As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the\nwilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my\nworks.\n\n94:10. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said:\nThese always err in heart.\n\n94:11. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that\nthey shall not enter into my rest.\n\nPsalms Chapter 95\n\nCantate Domino.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God for the coming of Christ and his kingdom.\n\n95:1. A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the\ncaptivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the\nearth.\n\nWhen the house was built, etc... Alluding to that time, and then ordered\nto be sung: but principally relating to the building of the church of\nChrist, after our redemption from the captivity of Satan.\n\n95:2. Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation\nfrom day to day.\n\n95:3. Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all\npeople.\n\n95:4. For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be\nfeared above all gods.\n\n95:5. For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the\nheavens.\n\n95:6. Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his\nsanctuary.\n\n95:7. Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to\nthe Lord glory and honour:\n\n95:8. Bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and\ncome into his courts:\n\n95:9. Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at\nhis presence.\n\n95:10. Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath\ncorrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people\nwith justice.\n\n95:11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea\nbe moved, and the fulness thereof:\n\n95:12. The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then\nshall all the trees of the woods rejoice\n\n95:13. before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh\nto judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the\npeople with his truth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 96\n\nDominus regnavit.\n\nAll are invited to rejoice at the glorious coming and reign of Christ.\n\n96:1. For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The\nLord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.\n\n96:2. Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are\nthe establishment of his throne.\n\nClouds and darkness... The coming of Christ in the clouds with great\nterror and majesty to judge the world, is here prophesied.\n\n96:3. A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round\nabout.\n\n96:4. His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and\ntrembled.\n\n96:5. The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the\npresence of the Lord of all the earth.\n\n96:6. The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.\n\n96:7. Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that\nglory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels:\n\n96:8. Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced,\nbecause of thy judgments, O Lord.\n\n96:9. For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art\nexalted exceedingly above all gods.\n\n96:10. You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls\nof his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.\n\n96:11. Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.\n\n96:12. Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance\nof his holiness.\n\nPsalms Chapter 97\n\nCantate Domino.\n\nAll are again invited to praise the Lord, for the victories of Christ.\n\n97:1. A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle:\nbecause he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for\nhim salvation, and his arm is holy.\n\n97:2. The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his\njustice in the sight of the Gentiles.\n\n97:3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of\nIsrael. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.\n\n97:4. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and\nsing.\n\n97:5. Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the\nvoice of a psalm:\n\n97:6. With long trumpets, and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise\nbefore the Lord our king:\n\n97:7. Let the sea be moved and the fullness thereof: the world and they\nthat dwell therein.\n\n97:8. The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice\ntogether\n\n97:9. At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth.\nHe shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity.\n\nPsalms Chapter 98\n\nDominus regnavit.\n\nThe reign of the Lord in Sion: that is, of Christ in his church.\n\n98:1. A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people\nbe angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved.\n\nLet the people be angry... Though many enemies rage, and the whole earth\nbe stirred up to oppose the reign of Christ, he shall still prevail.\n\n98:2. The lord is great in Sion, and high above all people.\n\n98:3. Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and\nholy:\n\n98:4. And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared\ndirections: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.\n\nLoveth judgment... Requireth discretion.-Ibid. Directions... Most right\nand just laws to direct men.\n\n98:5. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is\nholy.\n\nAdore his footstool... The ark of the covenant was called, in the Old\nTestament, God's footstool: over which he was understood to sit, on his\npropitiatory, or mercy seat, as on a throne, between the wings of the\ncherubims, in the sanctuary: to which the children of Israel paid a\ngreat veneration. But as this psalm evidently relates to Christ, and the\nNew Testament, where the ark has no place, the holy fathers understand\nthis text, of the worship paid by the church to the body and blood of\nChrist in the sacred mysteries: inasmuch as the humanity of Christ is,\nas it were, the footstool of the divinity. So St. Ambrose, L. 3. De\nSpiritu Sancto, c. 12. And St. Augustine upon this psalm.\n\n98:6. Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call\nupon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:\n\nMoses and Aaron among his priests... By this it is evident, that Moses\nalso was a priest, and indeed the chief priest, inasmuch as he\nconsecrated Aaron, and offered sacrifice for him. Lev. 8. So that his\npre-eminence over Aaron makes nothing for lay church headship.\n\n98:7. He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his\ntestimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.\n\n98:8. Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to\nthem, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.\n\nAll their inventions... that is, all the enterprises of their enemies\nagainst them, as in the case of Core, Dathan, and Abiron.\n\n98:9. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the\nLord our God is holy.\n\nPsalms Chapter 99\n\nJubilate Deo.\n\nAll are invited to rejoice in God the creator of all.\n\n99:1. A psalm of praise.\n\n99:2. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with\ngladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy.\n\n99:3. Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves.\nWe are his people and the sheep of his pasture.\n\n99:4. Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and\ngive glory to him. Praise ye his name:\n\n99:5. For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth\nto generation and generation.\n\nPsalms Chapter 100\n\nMisericordiam et judicium.\n\nThe prophet exhorteth all by his example, to follow mercy and justice.\n\n100:1. A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to\nthee, O Lord: I will sing,\n\n100:2. And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come\nto me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.\n\nI will understand, etc... That is, I will apply my mind, I will do my\nendeavour, to know and to follow the perfect way of thy commandments:\nnot trusting to my own strength, but relying on thy coming to me by thy\ngrace.\n\n100:3. I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the\nworkers of iniquities.\n\n100:4. The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that\nturned aside from me, I would not know.\n\n100:5. The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I\npersecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I\nwould not eat.\n\n100:6. My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the\nman that walked in the perfect way, he served me.\n\n100:7. He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house:\nhe that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.\n\n100:8. In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I\nmight cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 101\n\nDomine, exaudi.\n\nA prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm.\n\n101:1. The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out\nhis supplication before the Lord.\n\n101:2. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.\n\n101:3. Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble,\nincline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear\nme speedily.\n\n101:4. For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry\nlike fuel for the fire.\n\n101:5. I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot\nto eat my bread.\n\n101:6. Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my\nflesh.\n\n101:7. I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a\nnight raven in the house.\n\nA pelican, etc... I am become through grief, like birds that affect\nsolitude and darkness.\n\n101:8. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the\nhousetop.\n\n101:9. All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised\nme did swear against me.\n\n101:10. For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with\nweeping.\n\n101:11. Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up\nthou hast thrown me down.\n\n101:12. My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like\ngrass.\n\n101:13. But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all\ngenerations.\n\n101:14. Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have\nmercy on it, for the time is come.\n\n101:15. For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall\nhave pity on the earth thereof.\n\n101:16. All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings\nof the earth thy glory.\n\n101:17. For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his\nglory.\n\n101:18. He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not\ndespised their petition.\n\n101:19. Let these things be written unto another generation: and the\npeople that shall be created shall praise the Lord:\n\n101:20. Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from\nheaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.\n\n101:21. That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that\nhe might release the children of the slain:\n\n101:22. That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his\npraise in Jerusalem;\n\n101:23. When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.\n\n101:24. He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the\nfewness of my days.\n\nHe answered him in the way of his strength... That is, the people,\nmentioned in the foregoing verse, or the penitent, in whose person this\npsalm is delivered, answered the Lord in the way of his strength: that\nis, according to the best of his power and strength: or when he was in\nthe flower of his age and strength: inquiring after the fewness of his\ndays: to know if he should live long enough to see the happy restoration\nof Sion, etc.\n\n101:25. Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto\ngeneration and generation.\n\n101:26. In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the\nheavens are the works of thy hands.\n\n101:27. They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow\nold like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they\nshall be changed.\n\n101:28. But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.\n\n101:29. The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall\nbe directed for ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 102\n\nBenedic, anima.\n\nThanksgiving to God for his mercies.\n\n102:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is\nwithin me bless his holy name.\n\n102:2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for\nthee.\n\n102:3. Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases.\n\n102:4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with\nmercy and compassion.\n\n102:5. Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be\nrenewed like the eagle's.\n\n102:6. The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong.\n\n102:7. He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children\nof Israel.\n\n102:8. The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and\nplenteous in mercy. 102:9. He will not always be angry: nor will he\nthreaten for ever.\n\n102:10. He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us\naccording to our iniquities.\n\n102:11. For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he\nhath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.\n\n102:12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our\niniquities from us.\n\n102:13. As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord\ncompassion on them that fear him:\n\n102:14. For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:\n\n102:15. Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he\nflourish.\n\n102:16. For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he\nshall know his place no more.\n\n102:17. But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity\nupon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,\n\n102:18. To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his\ncommandments to do them.\n\n102:19. The lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom\nshall rule over all.\n\n102:20. Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in\nstrength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders.\n\n102:21. Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do\nhis will.\n\n102:22. Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O\nmy soul, bless thou the Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 103\n\nBenedic, anima.\n\nGod is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderful providence.\n\n103:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou\nart exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty:\n\n103:2. And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out\nthe heaven like a pavilion:\n\n103:3. Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the\nclouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.\n\n103:4. Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.\n\n103:5. Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be\nmoved for ever and ever.\n\n103:6. The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains\nshall the waters stand.\n\n103:7. At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they\nshall fear.\n\n103:8. The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which\nthou hast founded for them.\n\n103:9. Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither\nshall they return to cover the earth.\n\n103:10. Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of\nthe hills the waters shall pass.\n\n103:11. All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall\nexpect in their thirst.\n\n103:12. Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of\nthe rocks they shall give forth their voices.\n\n103:13. Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be\nfilled with the fruit of thy works:\n\n103:14. Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of\nmen. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:\n\n103:15. And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the\nface cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.\n\n103:16. The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of\nLibanus which he hath planted:\n\n103:17. There the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them\nis the house of the heron.\n\n103:18. The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the\nirchins.\n\n103:19. He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going\ndown.\n\n103:20. Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all\nthe beasts of the woods go about:\n\n103:21. The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat\nfrom God.\n\n103:22. The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall\nlie down in their dens.\n\n103:23. Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the\nevening.\n\n103:24. How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in\nwisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.\n\n103:25. So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are\ncreeping things without number: Creatures little and great.\n\n103:26. There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed\nto play therein.\n\n103:27. All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.\n\n103:28. What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest\nthy hand, they shall all be filled with good.\n\n103:29. But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou\nshalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to\ntheir dust.\n\n103:30. Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and\nthou shalt renew the face of the earth.\n\n103:31. May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall\nrejoice in his works.\n\n103:32. He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he troubleth\nthe mountains, and they smoke.\n\n103:33. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to\nmy God while I have my being.\n\n103:34. Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in\nthe Lord.\n\n103:35. Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so\nthat they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 104\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nA thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people Israel.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n104:1. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds\namong the Gentiles.\n\n104:2. Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous\nworks.\n\n104:3. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that\nseek the Lord.\n\n104:4. Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.\n\n104:5. Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders,\nand the judgments of his mouth.\n\n104:6. O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.\n\n104:7. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.\n\n104:8. He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he\ncommanded to a thousand generations.\n\n104:9. Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:\n\n104:10. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for\nan everlasting testament:\n\n104:11. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your\ninheritance.\n\n104:12. When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners\ntherein:\n\n104:13. And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to\nanother people.\n\n104:14. He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their\nsakes.\n\n104:15. Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.\n\n104:16. And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all\nthe support of bread.\n\n104:17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.\n\n104:18. They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,\n\n104:19. Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.\n\n104:20. The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and\nhe set him at liberty.\n\n104:21. He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his\npossession.\n\n104:22. That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his\nancients wisdom.\n\n104:23. And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the\nland of Cham.\n\n104:24. And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them\nover their enemies.\n\n104:25. He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal\ndeceitfully with his servants.\n\nHe turned their heart, etc... Not that God (who is never the author of\nsin) moved the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people; but that the\nEgyptians took occasion of hating and envying them, from the sight of\nthe benefits which God bestowed upon them.\n\n104:26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.\n\n104:27. He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the\nland of Cham.\n\n104:28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his\nwords.\n\nGrieved not his words... That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his\nwords: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words:\nor he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of\nIsrael, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with\ndarkness.\n\n104:29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.\n\n104:30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their\nkings.\n\n104:31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in\nall their coasts.\n\nSciniphs... See the annotation, Ex.8.16.\n\n104:32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.\n\n104:33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he\nbroke in pieces the trees of their coasts.\n\n104:34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there\nwas no number.\n\nBruchus... An insect of the locust kind.\n\n104:35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all\nthe fruit of their ground.\n\n104:36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of\nall their labour.\n\n104:37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not\namong their tribes one that was feeble.\n\n104:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon\nthem.\n\n104:39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them\nlight in the night.\n\n104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the\nbread of heaven.\n\n104:41. He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the\ndry land.\n\n104:42. Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his\nservant Abraham.\n\n104:43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with\ngladness.\n\n104:44. And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed\nthe labours of the people:\n\n104:45. That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his\nlaw.\n\nHis justifications... That is, his commandments; which here, and in many\nother places of the scripture, are called justifications, because the\nkeeping of them makes man just. The Protestants render it by the word\nstatutes, in favour of their doctrine, which does not allow good works\nto justify.\n\nPsalms Chapter 105\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nA confession of the manifold sins and ingratitudes of the Israelites.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n105:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n105:2. Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all\nhis praises?\n\n105:3. Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.\n\n105:4. Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with\nthy salvation.\n\n105:5. That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in\nthe joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.\n\n105:6. We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have\nwrought iniquity.\n\n105:7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered\nnot the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to\nthe sea, even the Red Sea.\n\n105:8. And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his\npower known.\n\n105:9. And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them\nthrough the depths, as in a wilderness.\n\n105:10. And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he\nredeemed them from the hand of the enemy.\n\n105:11. And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not\none of them left.\n\n105:12. And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.\n\n105:13. They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited\nnot for his counsel.\n\n105:14. And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted\nGod in the place without water.\n\n105:15. And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their\nsouls.\n\n105:16. And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the\nLord.\n\n105:17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the\ncongregation of Abiron.\n\n105:18. And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned\nthe wicked.\n\n105:19. They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven\nthing.\n\n105:20. And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that\neateth grass.\n\n105:21. They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in\nEgypt,\n\n105:22. Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red\nSea.\n\n105:23. And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen\nstood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should\ndestroy them.\n\n105:24. And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his\nword,\n\n105:25. And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the\nvoice of the Lord.\n\n105:26. And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the\ndesert;\n\n105:27. And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter\nthem in the countries.\n\n105:28. They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices\nof the dead.\n\nInitiated... That is, they dedicated, or consecrated themselves to the\nidol of the Moabites and Madianites, called Beelphegor, or Baal-Peor.\nNum. 25.3.-Ibid. The dead... Viz., idols without life.\n\n105:29. And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was\nmultiplied among them.\n\n105:30. Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter\nceased.\n\n105:31. And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and\ngeneration for evermore.\n\n105:32. They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses\nwas afflicted for their sakes:\n\n105:33. Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with\nhis lips.\n\nHe distinguished with his lips... Moses, by occasion of the people's\nrebellion and incredulity, was guilty of distinguishing with his lips;\nwhen, instead of speaking to the rock, as God had commanded, he said to\nthe people, with a certain hesitation in his faith, Hear ye, rebellious\nand incredulous: Can we from this rock bring out water for you? Num.\n20.10.\n\n105:34. They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto\nthem.\n\n105:35. And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their\nworks:\n\n105:36. And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.\n\n105:37. And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.\n\n105:38. And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of\ntheir daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the\nland was polluted with blood,\n\n105:39. And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after\ntheir own inventions.\n\n105:40. And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he\nabhorred his inheritance.\n\n105:41. And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they\nthat hated them had dominion over them.\n\n105:42. And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under\ntheir hands:\n\n105:43. Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their\ncounsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.\n\n105:44. And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their\nprayer.\n\n105:45. And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to\nthe multitude of his mercies.\n\n105:46. And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that\nhad made them captives.\n\n105:47. Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations:\nThat we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.\n\n105:48. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to\neverlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.\n\nPsalms Chapter 106\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nAll are invited to give thanks to God for his perpetual providence over\nmen..\n\nAlleluia.\n\n106:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n106:2. Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath\nredeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.\n\n106:3. From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north\nand from the sea.\n\n106:4. They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they\nfound not the way of a city for their habitation.\n\n106:5. They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.\n\n106:6. And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered\nthem out of their distresses.\n\n106:7. And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city\nof habitation.\n\n106:8. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful\nworks to the children of men.\n\n106:9. For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry\nsoul with good things.\n\n106:10. Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in\nwant and in iron.\n\n106:11. Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the\ncounsel of the most High:\n\n106:12. And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened,\nand there was none to help them.\n\n106:13. Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he\ndelivered them out of their distresses.\n\n106:14. And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death;\nand broke their bonds in sunder.\n\n106:15. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful\nworks to the children of men.\n\n106:16. Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.\n\n106:17. He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were\nbrought low for their injustices.\n\n106:18. Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even\nto the gates of death.\n\n106:19. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered\nthem out of their distresses.\n\n106:20. He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their\ndestructions.\n\n106:21. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful\nworks to the children of men.\n\n106:22. And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his\nworks with joy.\n\n106:23. They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the\ngreat waters:\n\n106:24. These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the\ndeep.\n\n106:25. He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves\nthereof were lifted up.\n\n106:26. They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths:\ntheir soul pined away with evils.\n\n106:27. They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their\nwisdom was swallowed up.\n\n106:28. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought\nthem out of their distresses.\n\n106:29. And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.\n\n106:30. And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them\nto the haven which they wished for.\n\n106:31. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful\nworks to the children of men.\n\n106:32. And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise\nhim in the chair of the ancients.\n\n106:33. He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of\nwaters into dry ground:\n\n106:34. A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that\ndwell therein.\n\n106:35. He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land\ninto water springs.\n\n106:36. And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their\nhabitation.\n\n106:37. Anti they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded\nfruit of birth.\n\n106:38. And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and\ntheir cattle he suffered not to decrease.\n\n106:39. Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted\nthrough the trouble of evils and sorrow.\n\n106:40. Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them\nto wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.\n\n106:41. And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families\nlike a flock of sheep.\n\n106:42. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall\nstop her mouth.\n\n106:43. Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the\nmercies of the Lord?\n\nPsalms Chapter 107\n\nParatum cor meum.\n\nThe prophet praiseth God for benefits received.\n\n107:1. A canticle of a psalm for David himself.\n\n107:2. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and\nwill give praise, with my glory.\n\n107:3. Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the\nmorning early.\n\n107:4. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing\nunto thee among the nations.\n\n107:5. For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto\nthe clouds.\n\n107:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all\nthe earth:\n\n107:7. That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and\nhear me.\n\n107:8. God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will\ndivide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.\n\n107:9. Galaad is mine: and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection\nof my head. Juda is my king:\n\n107:10. Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe:\nthe aliens are become my friends.\n\n107:11. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into\nEdom?\n\n107:12. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou,\nO God, go forth with our armies?\n\n107:13. O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.\n\n107:14. Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies\nto nothing.\n\nPsalms Chapter 108\n\nDeus, laudem meam.\n\nDavid in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors; more\nespecially the traitor Judas: foretelling and approving his just\npunishment for his obstinacy in sin and final impenitence.\n\n108:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David.\n\n108:2. O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the\nwicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.\n\n108:3. They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have\ncompassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me\nwithout cause.\n\n108:4. Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I\ngave myself to prayer.\n\n108:5. And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.\n\n108:6. Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his\nright hand.\n\nSet thou the sinner over him, etc... Give to the devil, that arch-\nsinner, power over him: let him enter into him, and possess him. The\nimprecations, contained in the thirty verses of this psalm, are opposed\nto the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed our Lord; and\nare to be taken as prophetic denunciations of the evils that should\nbefall the traitor and his accomplices the Jews; and not properly as\ncurses.\n\n108:7. When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be\nturned to sin.\n\n108:8. May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.\n\n108:9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.\n\n108:10. Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let\nthem be cast out of their dwellings.\n\n108:11. May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers\nplunder his labours.\n\n108:12. May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless\noffspring.\n\n108:13. May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be\nblotted out.\n\n108:14. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of\nthe Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.\n\n108:15. May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of\nthem perish from the earth:   16  because he remembered not to shew\nmercy,\n\n108:17. But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in\nheart, to put him to death.\n\n108:18. And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would\nnot have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing,\nlike a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like\noil in his bones.\n\n108:19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a\ngirdle with which he is girded continually.\n\n108:20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who\nspeak evils against my soul.\n\n108:21. But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy\nmercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,\n\n108:22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.\n\n108:23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am\nshaken off as locusts.\n\n108:24. My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed\nfor oil.\n\nFor oil... Propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being\nperfectly emaciated and dried up, as having lost all its oil or fatness.\n\n108:25. And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked\ntheir heads.\n\n108:26. Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.\n\n108:27. And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord,\nhast done it.\n\n108:28. They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up\nagainst me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.\n\n108:29. Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be\ncovered with their confusion as with a double cloak.\n\n108:30. I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the\nmidst of many I will praise him.\n\n108:31. Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my\nsoul from persecutors.\n\nPsalms Chapter 109\n\nDixit Dominus.\n\nChrist's exaltation and everlasting priesthood.\n\n109:1. A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right\nhand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.\n\n109:2. The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion:\nrule thou in the midst of thy enemies.\n\n109:3. With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the\nbrightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot\nthee.\n\n109:4. The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest\nfor ever according to the order of Melchisedech.\n\n109:5. The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his\nwrath.\n\n109:6. He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush\nthe heads in the land of many.\n\n109:7. He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift\nup the head.\n\nPsalms Chapter 110\n\nConfitebor tibi, Domine.\n\nGod is to be praised for his graces, and benefits to his church.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n110:1. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council\nof the just, and in the congregation.\n\n110:2. Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his\nwills.\n\n110:3. His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth\nfor ever and ever.\n\n110:4. He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a\nmerciful and gracious Lord:\n\n110:5. He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for\never of his covenant:\n\n110:6. He will shew forth to his people the power of his works.\n\n110:7. That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works\nof his hands are truth and judgment.\n\n110:8. All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever,\nmade in truth and equity.\n\n110:9. He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his\ncovenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name:\n\n110:10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good\nunderstanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and\never.\n\nPsalms Chapter 111\n\nBeatus vir.\n\nThe good man is happy.\n\nAlleluia, of the returning of Aggeus and Zacharias.\n\nOf the returning, etc... This is in the Greek and Latin, but not in the\nHebrew. It signifies that this psalm was proper to be sung at the time\nof the return of the people from their captivity; to inculcate to them,\nhow happy they might be, if they would be constant in the service of\nGod.\n\n111:1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight\nexceedingly in his commandments.\n\n111:2. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the\nrighteous shall be blessed.\n\n111:3. Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth\nfor ever and ever.\n\n111:4. To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful,\nand compassionate and just.\n\n111:5. Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall\norder his words with judgment:\n\n111:6. Because he shall not be moved for ever.\n\n111:7. The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear\nthe evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:\n\n111:8. His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look\nover his enemies.\n\n111:9. He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice\nremaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.\n\n111:10. The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with\nhis teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.\n\nPsalms Chapter 112\n\nLaudate, pueri.\n\nGod is to be praised for his regard to the poor and humble.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n112:1. Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.\n\n112:2. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for\never. 112:3. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same,\nthe name of the Lord is worthy of praise.\n\n112:4. The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the\nheavens.\n\n112:5. Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: 6 and looketh\ndown on the low things in heaven and in earth?\n\n112:7. Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out\nof the dunghill:\n\n112:8. That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his\npeople.\n\n112:9. Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother\nof children.\n\nPsalms Chapter 113\n\nIn exitu Israel.\n\nGod hath shewn his power in delivering his people: idols are vain. The\nHebrews divide this into two psalms.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n113:1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a\nbarbarous people:\n\n113:2. Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.\n\n113:3. The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.\n\n113:4. The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of\nthe flock. 113:5. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and\nthou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?\n\n113:6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs\nof the flock?\n\n113:7. At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence\nof the God of Jacob:\n\n113:8. Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into\nfountains of waters.\n\n113:1. Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.\n\n113:2. For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should\nsay: Where is their God?\n\n113:3. But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he\nwould.\n\n113:4. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the\nhands of men.\n\n113:5. They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.\n\n113:6. They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.\n\n113:7. They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not:\nneither shall they cry out through their throat.\n\n113:8. Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as\ntrust in them.\n\n113:9. The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper\nand their protector.\n\n113:10. The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper\nand their protector.\n\n113:11. They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their\nhelper and their protector.\n\n113:12. The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath\nblessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.\n\n113:13. He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.\n\n113:14. May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your\nchildren.\n\n113:15. Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.\n\n113:16. The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given\nto the children of men.\n\n113:17. The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go\ndown to hell.\n\n113:18. But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for\never.\n\nPsalms Chapter 114\n\nDilexi.\n\nThe prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in God.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n114:1. I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.\n\n114:2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will\ncall upon him.\n\n114:3. The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell\nhave found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:\n\n114:4. And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.\n\n114:5. The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.\n\n114:6. The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he\ndelivered me.\n\n114:7. Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful\nto thee.\n\n114:8. For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my\nfeet from falling.\n\n114:9. I will please the Lord in the land of the living.\n\nPsalms Chapter 115\n\nCredidi.\n\nThis in the Hebrew is joined with the foregoing psalm, and continues to\nexpress the faith and gratitude of the psalmist.\n\nAlleluia. 115:10. I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have\nbeen humbled exceedingly.\n\n115:11. I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.\n\n115:12. What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he hath\nrendered to me?\n\n115:13. I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the\nname of the Lord.\n\n115:14. I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:\n\n115:15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.\n\n115:16. O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of\nthy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:\n\n115:17. I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will\ncall upon the name of the Lord.\n\n115:18. I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:\n\n115:19. In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O\nJerusalem.\n\nPsalms Chapter 116\n\nLaudate Dominum.\n\nAll nations are called upon to praise God for his mercy and truth.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n116:1. O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.\n\n116:2. For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord\nremaineth for ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 117\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nThe psalmist praiseth God for his delivery from evils: putteth his whole\ntrust in him; and foretelleth the coming of Christ.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n117:1. Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n117:2. Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n117:3. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n117:4. Let them that fear the Lord now say, that his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n117:5. In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and\nenlarged me.\n\n117:6. The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man can do unto me.\n\n117:7. The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies.\n\n117:8. It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence\nin man.\n\n117:9. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.\n\n117:10. All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I\nhave been revenged on them.\n\n117:11. Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the\nLord I have been revenged on them.\n\n117:12. They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among\nthorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.\n\n117:13. Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord\nsupported me.\n\n117:14. The Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is become my\nsalvation.\n\n117:15. The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles of\nthe just.\n\n117:16. The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand\nof the Lord hath exalted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought\nstrength.\n\n117:17. I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the\nLord.\n\n117:18. The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered\nme over to death.\n\n117:19. Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and\ngive praise to the Lord.\n\n117:20. This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it.\n\n117:21. I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art\nbecome my salvation.\n\n117:22. The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the\nhead of the corner.\n\n117:23. This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.\n\n117:24. This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and\nrejoice therein.\n\n117:25. O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success.\n\n117:26. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have\nblessed you out of the house of the Lord.\n\n117:27. The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn\nday, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.\n\n117:28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I\nwill exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art\nbecome my salvation.\n\n117:29. O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\nPsalms Chapter 118\n\nBeati immaculati.\n\nOf the excellence of virtue consisting in the love and observance of the\ncommandments of God.\n\nAlleluia.\n\nALEPH.\n\nAleph... The first eight verses of this psalm in the original begin with\nAleph, which is the name of the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The\nsecond eight verses begin with Beth, the name of the second letter of\nthe Hebrew alphabet; and so to the end of the whole alphabet, in all\ntwenty-two letters, each letter having eight verses. This order is\nvariously expounded by the holy fathers; which shews the difficulty of\nunderstanding the holy scriptures, and consequently with what humility,\nand submission to the Church they are to be read.\n\n118:1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the\nLord.\n\n118:2. Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with\ntheir whole heart.\n\nHis testimonies... The commandments of God are called his testimonies,\nbecause they testify his holy will unto us. Note here, that in almost\nevery verse of this psalm (which in number are 176) the word and law of\nGod, and the love and observance of it, is perpetually inculcated, under\na variety of denominations, all signifying the same thing.\n\n118:3. For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.\n\n118:4. Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.\n\n118:5. O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.\n\n118:6. Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have\nlearned the judgments of thy justice.\n\n118:8. I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake\nme.\n\nBETH.\n\n\n118:9. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.\n\n118:10. With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray\nfrom thy commandments.\n\n118:11. Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against\nthee.\n\n118:12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.\n\n118:13. With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.\n\n118:14. I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all\nriches.\n\n118:15. I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy\nways.\n\n118:16. I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.\n\nGIMEL.\n\n118:17. Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep\nthy words.\n\n118:18. Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of\nthy law.\n\n118:19. I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from\nme.\n\n118:20. My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all\ntimes.\n\n118:21. Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from\nthy commandments.\n\n118:22. Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought\nafter thy testimonies.\n\n118:23. For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was\nemployed in thy justifications.\n\n118:24. For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my\ncounsel.\n\nDALETH.\n\n118:25. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according\nto thy word.\n\n118:26. I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:27. Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall\nbe exercised in thy wondrous works.\n\n118:28. My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in\nthy words.\n\n118:29. Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have\nmercy on me.\n\n118:30. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not\nforgotten.\n\n118:31. I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame.\n\n118:32. I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge\nmy heart.\n\nHE.\n\n118:33. Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord:\nand I will always seek after it.\n\n118:34. Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will\nkeep it with my whole heart.\n\n118:35. Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have\ndesired.\n\n118:36. Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.\n\n118:37. Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in\nthy way.\n\n118:38. Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.\n\n118:39. Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy\njudgments are delightful.\n\n118:40. Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy\njustice.\n\nVAU.\n\n118: 41. Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation\naccording to thy word.\n\n118:42. So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I\nhave trusted in thy words.\n\n118:43. And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for\nin thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.\n\n118:44. So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.\n\n118:45. And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:46. And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not\nashamed.\n\n118:47. I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.\n\n118:48. And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and\nI was exercised in thy justifications.\n\nZAIN.\n\n\n118:49. Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast\ngiven me hope.\n\n118:50. This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath\nenlivened me.\n\n118:51. The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from\nthy law.\n\n118:52. I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted.\n\n118:53. A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that\nforsake thy law.\n\n118:54. Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of\nmy pilgrimage.\n\n118:55. In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept\nthy law.\n\n118:56. This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications.\n\nHETH.\n\n118:57. O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.\n\n118:58. I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me\naccording to thy word.\n\n118:59. I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy\ntestimonies.\n\n118:60. I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:61. The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not\nforgotten thy law.\n\n118:62. I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of\nthy justification.\n\n118:63. I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:64. The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy\njustifications.\n\nTETH.\n\n\n118:65. Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy\nword.\n\n118:66. Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have\nbelieved thy commandments.\n\n118:67. Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.\n\n118:68. Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.\n\n118:69. The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I\nwill seek thy commandments with my whole heart.\n\n118:70. Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy\nlaw.\n\n118:71. It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn\nthy justifications.\n\n118:72. The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and\nsilver.\n\nJOD.\n\n\n118:73. Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and\nI will learn thy commandments.\n\n118:74. They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad: because I\nhave greatly hoped in thy words.\n\n118:75. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth\nthou hast humbled me.\n\n118:76. O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto\nthy servant.\n\n118:77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy\nlaw is my meditation.\n\n118:78. Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly\ntowards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.\n\n118:79. Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy\ntestimonies.\n\n118:80. Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not\nbe confounded.\n\nCAPH.\n\n\n118:81. My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have\nvery much hoped.\n\n118:82. My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort\nme?\n\n118:83. For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten\nthy justifications.\n\n118:84. How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute\njudgment on them that persecute me?\n\n118:85. The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.\n\n118:86. All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do\nthou help me.\n\n118:87. They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not\nforsaken thy commandments.\n\n118:88. Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the\ntestimonies of thy mouth.\n\nLAMED.\n\n118:89. For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.\n\n118:90. Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and\nit continueth.\n\n118:91. By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee.\n\n118:92. Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps\nperished in my abjection.\n\n118:93. Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast\ngiven me life.\n\n118:94. I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.\n\n118:95. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have\nunderstood thy testimonies.\n\n118:96. I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is\nexceeding broad.\n\nMEM.\n\n118:97. O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the\nday.\n\n118:98. Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my\nenemies: for it is ever with me.\n\n118:99. I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy\ntestimonies are my meditation.\n\n118:100. I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought\nthy commandments.\n\n118:101. I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep\nthy words.\n\n118:102. I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set\nme a law.\n\n118:103. How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my\nmouth.\n\n118:104. By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I\nhated every way of iniquity.\n\nNUN.\n\n118:105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.\n\n118:106. I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy\njustice.\n\n118:107. I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me\naccording to thy word.\n\n118:108. The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and\nteach me thy judgments.\n\n118:109. My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten\nthy law.\n\n118:110. Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy\nprecepts.\n\n118:111. I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever:\nbecause they are the joy of my heart.\n\n118:112. I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for\nthe reward.\n\nSAMECH.\n\n\n118:113. I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.\n\n118:114. Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have\ngreatly hoped.\n\n118:115. Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the\ncommandments of my God.\n\n118:116. Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me\nnot be confounded in my expectation.\n\n118:117. Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on\nthy justifications.\n\n118:118. Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments;\nfor their thought is unjust.\n\n118:119. I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators:\ntherefore have I loved thy testimonies.\n\n118:120. Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy\njudgments.\n\nAIN.\n\n118:121. I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that\nslander me.\n\n118:122. Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.\n\n118:123. My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of\nthy justice.\n\n118:124. Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:125. I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy\ntestimonies.\n\n118:126. It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.\n\n118:127. Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the\ntopaz.\n\n118:128. Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated\nall wicked ways.\n\nPHE.\n\n\n118:129. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought\nthem.\n\n118:130. The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth\nunderstanding to little ones.\n\n118:131. I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:132. Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the\njudgment of them that love thy name.\n\n118:133. Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have\ndominion over me.\n\n118:134. Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:135. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:136. My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not\nkept thy law.\n\nSADE.\n\n118:137. Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.\n\n118:138. Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth\nexceedingly.\n\n118:139. My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy\nwords.\n\n118:140. Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it.\n\n118:141. I am very young and despised; but I forget not thy\njustifications.\n\n118:142. Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth.\n\n118:143. Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my\nmeditation.\n\n118:144. Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding,\nand I shall live.\n\nCOPH.\n\n118:145. I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy\njustifications.\n\n118:146. I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.\n\n118:147. I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy\nwords I very much hoped.\n\n118:148. My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might\nmeditate on thy words.\n\n118:149. Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken\nme according to thy judgment.\n\n118:150. They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they\nare gone far off from thy law.\n\n118:151. Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth.\n\n118:152. I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies:\nthat thou hast founded them for ever.\n\nRES.\n\n118:153. See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy\nlaw.\n\n118:154. Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's\nsake.\n\n118:155. Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy\njustifications.\n\n118:156. Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy\njudgment.\n\n118:157. Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not\ndeclined from thy testimonies.\n\n118:158. I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept\nnot thy word.\n\n118:159. Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou\nin thy mercy.\n\n118:160. The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy\njustice are for ever.\n\nSIN.\n\n118:161. Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath\nbeen in awe of thy words.\n\n118:162. I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great\nspoil.\n\n118:163. I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.\n\n118:164. Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the\njudgments of thy justice.\n\n118:165. Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no\nstumbling block.\n\n118:166. I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy\ncommandments.\n\n118:167. My soul hath kept thy testimonies and hath loved them\nexceedingly.\n\n118:168. I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all\nmy ways are in thy sight.\n\nTAU.\n\n118:169. Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me\nunderstanding according to thy word.\n\n118:170. Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according\nto thy word.\n\n118:171. My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy\njustifications.\n\n118:172. My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy\ncommandments are justice.\n\n118:173. Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy\nprecepts.\n\n118:174. I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my\nmeditation.\n\n118:175. My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments\nshall help me.\n\n118:176. I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant,\nbecause I have not forgotten thy commandments.\n\nPsalms Chapter 119\n\nAd Dominum.\n\nA prayer in tribulation.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\nA gradual canticle... The following psalms, in number fifteen, are\ncalled gradual psalms, or canticles, from the word gradus, signifying\nsteps, ascensions, or degrees: either because they were appointed to be\nsung on the fifteen steps, by which the people ascended to the temple:\nor, that in the singing of them the voice was to be raised by certain\nsteps or ascensions: or, that they were to be sung by the people\nreturning from their captivity and ascending to Jerusalem, which was\nseated amongst mountains. The holy fathers, in a mystical sense,\nunderstand these steps, or ascensions, of the degrees by which\nChristians spiritually ascend to virtue and perfection; and to the true\ntemple of God in the heavenly Jerusalem.\n\n119:1. In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.\n\n119:2. O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.\n\n119:3. What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a\ndeceitful tongue?\n\n119:4. The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.\n\n119:5. Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the\ninhabitants of Cedar:\n\n119:6. My soul hath been long a sojourner.\n\n119:7. With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them\nthey fought against me without cause.\n\nPsalms Chapter 120\n\nLevavi oculos.\n\nGod is the keeper of his servants.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n120:1. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall\ncome to me.\n\n120:2. My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.\n\n120:3. May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber\nthat keepeth thee.\n\n120:4. Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.\n\n120:5. The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right\nhand.\n\n120:6. The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.\n\n120:7. The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.\n\n120:8. May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from\nhenceforth now and for ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 121\n\nLaetatus sum in his.\n\nThe desire and hope of the just for the coming of the kingdom of God,\nand the peace of his church.\n\n121:1. A gradual canticle.\n\nI rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the\nhouse of the Lord.\n\n121:2. Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.\n\n121:3. Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.\n\n121:4. For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the\ntestimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.\n\n121:5. Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of\nDavid.\n\n121:6. Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and\nabundance for them that love thee.\n\n121:7. Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.\n\n121:8. For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace\nof thee.\n\n121:9. Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good\nthings for thee.\n\nPsalms Chapter 122\n\nAd te levavi.\n\nA prayer in affliction, with confidence in God.\n\nA gradual canticle.\n\n122:1. To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.\n\n122:2. Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters,\nAs the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our\neyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.\n\n122:3. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly\nfilled with contempt.\n\n122:4. For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich,\nand contempt to the proud.\n\nPsalms Chapter 123\n\nNisi quia Domini.\n\nThe church giveth glory to God for her deliverance, from the hands of\nher enemies.\n\n123:1. A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us,\nlet Israel now say:\n\n123:2. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up\nagainst us,\n\n123:3. Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was\nenkindled against us,\n\n123:4. Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.\n\n123:5. Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had\npassed through a water insupportable.\n\n123:6. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their\nteeth.\n\n123:7. Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the\nfowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.\n\n123:8. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 124\n\nQui confidunt.\n\nThe just are always under God's protection.\n\n124:1. A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount\nSion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth\n\n124:2. In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round\nabout his people from henceforth now and for ever.\n\n124:3. For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of\nthe just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.\n\n124:4. Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of\nheart.\n\n124:5. But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with\nthe workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.\n\nPsalms Chapter 125\n\nIn convertendo.\n\nThe people of God rejoice at their delivery from captivity.\n\n125:1. A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of\nSion, we became like men comforted.\n\n125:2. Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy.\nThen shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things\nfor them.\n\n125:3. The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful.\n\n125:4. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.\n\n125:5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.\n\n125:6. Going they went and wept, casting their seeds.\n\n125:7. But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their\nsheaves.\n\nPsalms Chapter 126\n\nNisi Dominus.\n\nNothing can be done without God's grace and blessing.\n\n126:1. A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house,\nthey labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he\nwatcheth in vain that keepeth it.\n\n126:2. It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have\nsitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to\nhis beloved,\n\nIt is vain for you to rise before light... That is, your early rising,\nyour labour and worldly solicitude, will be vain, that is, will avail\nyou nothing, without the light, grace, and blessing of God.\n\n126:3. Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the\nfruit of the womb.\n\n126:4. As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that\nhave been shaken.\n\n126:5. Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he\nshall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.\n\nPsalms Chapter 127\n\nBeati omnes.\n\nThe fear of God is the way to happiness.\n\n127:1. A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that\nwalk in his ways.\n\n127:2. For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou,\nand it shall be well with thee.\n\n127:3. Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy\nchildren as olive plants, round about thy table.\n\n127:4. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.\n\n127:5. May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good\nthings of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.\n\n127:6. And mayst thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel.\n\nPsalms Chapter 128\n\nSaepe expugnaverunt.\n\nThe church of God is invincible: her persecutors come to nothing.\n\n128:1. A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my\nyouth, let Israel now say.\n\n128:2. Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could\nnot prevail over me.\n\n128:3. The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their\niniquity.\n\n128:4. The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:\n\n128:5. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.\n\n128:6. Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth\nbefore it be plucked up:\n\n128:7. Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth\nsheaves his bosom.\n\n128:8. And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord\nbe upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 129\n\nDe profundis.\n\nA prayer of a sinner, trusting in the mercies of God. The sixth\npenitential psalm.\n\n129:1. A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O\nLord:\n\n129:2. Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my\nsupplication.\n\n129:3. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.\n\n129:4. For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy\nlaw, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word:\n129:5. my soul hath hoped in the Lord.\n\n129:6. From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the\nLord.\n\n129:7. Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful\nredemption.\n\n129:8. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.\n\nPsalms Chapter 130\n\nDomine, none est.\n\nThe prophet's humility.\n\n130:1. A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor\nare my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in\nwonderful things above me.\n\n130:2. If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that\nis weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul. 130:3. Let Israel\nhope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 131\n\nMemento, Domine.\n\nA prayer for the fulfilling of the promise made to David.\n\n131:1. A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness.\n\n131:2. How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:\n\n131:3. If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go\nup into the bed wherein I lie:\n\n131:4. If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,\n\n131:5. Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a\ntabernacle for the God of Jacob.\n\n131:6. Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the\nfields of the wood.\n\nWe have heard of it in Ephrata... When I was young, and lived in\nBethlehem, otherwise called Ephrata, I heard of God's tabernacle and\nark, and had a devout desire of seeking it; and accordingly I found it\nat Cariathiarim, the city of the woods: where it was till it was removed\nto Jerusalem. See 1 Par. 13.\n\n131:7. We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where\nhis feet stood.\n\n131:8. Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which\nthou hast sanctified.\n\n131:9. Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and let thy saints\nrejoice.\n\n131:10. For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thy\nanointed.\n\n131:11. The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it\nvoid: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne.\n\n131:12. If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies\nwhich I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit\nupon thy throne.\n\n131:13. For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his\ndwelling.\n\n131:14. This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I have\nchosen it.\n\n131:15. Blessing I will bless her widow: I will satisfy her poor with\nbread.\n\n131:16. I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall\nrejoice with exceeding great joy.\n\n131:17. There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp\nfor my anointed.\n\n131:18. His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my\nsanctification flourish.\n\nPsalms Chapter 132\n\nEcce quam bonum.\n\nThe happiness of brotherly love and concord.\n\n132:1. A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good and how pleasant it\nis for brethren to dwell together in unity:\n\n132:2. Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the\nbeard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment:\n\n132:3. As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there\nthe Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore.\n\nPsalms Chapter 133\n\nEcce nunc benedicite.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God continually.\n\n133:1. A gradual canticle. Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants\nof the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the\nhouse of our God.\n\n133:2. In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye\nthe Lord.\n\n133:3. May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that made heaven and\nearth.\n\nPsalms Chapter 134\n\nLaudate nomen.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God: the vanity of idols.\n\n134:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants,\npraise the Lord:\n\n134:2. You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the\nhouse of our God.\n\n134:3. Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name,\nfor it is sweet.\n\n134:4. For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own\npossession.\n\n134:5. For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above all\ngods.\n\n134:6. Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in\nthe sea, and in all the deeps.\n\n134:7. He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made\nlightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:\n\n134:8. He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast.\n\n134:9. He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst of thee, O Egypt:\nupon Pharao, and upon all his servants.\n\n134:10. He smote many nations, and slew mighty kings:\n\n134:11. Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king of Basan, and all the\nkingdoms of Chanaan.\n\n134:12. And gave their land for an inheritance, for an inheritance to\nhis people Israel.\n\n134:13. Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy memorial, O Lord, unto all\ngenerations.\n\n134:14. For the Lord will judge his people, and will be entreated in\nfavour of his servants.\n\n134:15. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of\nmen's hands.\n\n134:16. They have a mouth, but they speak not: they have eyes, but they\nsee not.\n\n134:17. They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath\nin their mouths.\n\n134:18. Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that\ntrusteth in them.\n\n134:19. Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the Lord, O house of\nAaron.\n\n134:20. Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that fear the Lord, bless\nthe Lord.\n\n134:21. Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem.\n\nPsalms Chapter 135\n\nConfitemini Domino.\n\nGod is to be praised for his wonderful works.\n\n135:1. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\nPraise the Lord... By this invitation to praise the Lord, thrice\nrepeated, we profess the Blessed Trinity, One God in three distinct\nPersons, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.\n\n135:2. Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:3. Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:4. Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:5. Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:6. Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:7. Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:8. The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:9. The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:10. Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:11. Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:12. With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:13. Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:14. And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:15. And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:16. Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:17. Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:18. And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:19. Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:20. And Og king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:21. And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:22. For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for his mercy endureth\nfor ever.\n\n135:23. For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy\nendureth for ever.\n\n135:24. And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:25. Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.\n\n135:26. Give glory to the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\n135:27. Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for\never.\n\nPsalms Chapter 136\n\nSuper flumina.\n\nThe lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon.\n\nA psalm of David, for Jeremias.\n\nFor Jeremias... For the time of Jeremias, and the captivity of Babylon.\n\n136:1. Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we\nremembered Sion:\n\n136:2. On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.\n\n136:3. For there they that led us into captivity required of us the\nwords of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a\nhymn of the songs of Sion.\n\n136:4. How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?\n\n136:5. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.\n\n136:6. Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I\nmake not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.\n\n136:7. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem:\nWho say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.\n\n136:8. O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall\nrepay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.\n\n136:9. Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against\nthe rock.\n\nDash thy little ones, etc... In the spiritual sense, we dash the little\nones of Babylon against the rock, when we mortify our passions, and\nstifle the first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to the rock which\nis Christ.\n\nPsalms Chapter 137\n\nConfitebor tibi.\n\nThanksgiving to God for his benefits.\n\n137:1. For David himself. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole\nheart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to\nthee in the sight of the angels:\n\n137:2. I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to\nthy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy\nholy name above all.\n\n137:3. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt\nmultiply strength in my soul.\n\n137:4. May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have\nheard all the words of thy mouth.\n\n137:5. And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory\nof the Lord.\n\n137:6. For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he\nknoweth afar off.\n\n137:7. If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken\nme: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my\nenemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.\n\n137:8. The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever:\nO despise not the works of thy hands.\n\nPsalms Chapter 138\n\nDomine, probasti.\n\nGod's special providence over his servants.\n\n138:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and\nknown me:\n\n138:2. Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.\n\n138:3. Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line\nthou hast searched out.\n\n138:4. And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my\ntongue.\n\nThere is no speech, etc... Viz., unknown to thee: or when there is no\nspeech in my tongue; yet my whole interior and my most secret thoughts\nare known to thee.\n\n138:5. Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of\nold: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.\n\n138:6. Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot\nreach to it.\n\n138:7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from\nthy face?\n\n138:8  If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell,\nthou art present.\n\n138:9. If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the\nuttermost parts of the sea:\n\n138:10. Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall\nhold me.\n\n138:11. And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be\nmy light in my pleasures.\n\n138:12. But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light\nall the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to\nthee.\n\n138:13. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my\nmother's womb.\n\n138:14. I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful\nare thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.\n\n138:15. My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret:\nand my substance in the lower parts of the earth.\n\n138:16. Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall\nbe written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.\n\n138:17. But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable:\ntheir principality is exceedingly strengthened.\n\n138:18. I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand,\nI rose up and am still with thee.\n\n138:19. If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart\nfrom me:\n\n138:20. Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in\nvain.\n\nBecause you say in thought, etc... Depart from me, you wicked, who plot\nagainst the servants of God, and think to cast them out of the cities of\ntheir habitation; as if they have received them in vain, and to no\npurpose.\n\n138:21. Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away\nbecause of thy enemies?\n\n138:22. I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become\nenemies to me.\n\nI have hated them... Not with an hatred of malice, but a zeal for the\nobservance of God's commandments; which he saw were despised by the\nwicked, who are to be considered enemies to God.\n\n138:23. Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my\npaths.\n\n138:24. And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in\nthe eternal way.\n\nPsalms Chapter 139\n\nEripe me, Domine.\n\nA prayer to be delivered from the wicked.\n\n139:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David.\n\n139:2. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust\nman.\n\n139:3. Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long\nthey designed battles.\n\n139:4. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of\nasps is under their lips.\n\n139:5. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men\ndeliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:\n\n139:6. The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out\ncords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the\nwayside.\n\n139:7. I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of\nmy supplication.\n\n139:8. O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast\novershadowed my head in the day of battle.\n\n139:9. Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have\nplotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.\n\n139:10. The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips\nshall overwhelm them.\n\n139:11. Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down\ninto the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.\n\n139:12. A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil\nshall catch the unjust man unto destruction.\n\n139:13. I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will\nrevenge the poor.\n\n139:14. But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the\nupright shall dwell with thy countenance.\n\nPsalms Chapter 140\n\nDomine, clamavi.\n\nA prayer against sinful words, and deceitful flatterers.\n\nA psalm of David.\n\n140:1. I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when\nI cry to thee.\n\n140:2. Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up\nof my hands, as evening sacrifice.\n\n140:3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my\nlips.\n\n140:4. Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With\nmen that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of\nthem.\n\n140:5. The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but\nlet not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still\nbe against the things with which they are well pleased:\n\nLet not the oil of the sinner, etc... That is, the flattery, or\ndeceitful praise.-Ibid. For my prayer, etc... So far from coveting their\npraises, who are never well pleased but with things that are evil; I\nshall continually pray to be preserved from such things as they are\ndelighted with.\n\n140:6. Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They\nshall hear my words, for they have prevailed:\n\nTheir judges, etc... Their rulers, or chiefs, quickly vanish and perish,\nlike ships dashed against the rocks, and swallowed up by the waves. Let\nthem then hear my words, for they are powerful and will prevail; or, as\nit is in the Hebrew, for they are sweet.\n\n140:7. As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground:\nOur bones are scattered by the side of hell.\n\n140:8. But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my\ntrust, take not away my soul.\n\n140:9. Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the\nstumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.\n\n140:10. The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.\n\nI am alone, etc... Singularly protected by the Almighty, until I pass\nall their nets and snares.\n\nPsalms Chapter 141\n\nVoce mea.\n\nA prayer of David in extremity of danger.\n\n141:1. Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [1\nKings 24.]\n\n141:2. I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made\nsupplication to the Lord.\n\n141:3. In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my\ntrouble:\n\n141:4. When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way\nwherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.\n\n141:5. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that\nwould know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath\nregard to my soul.\n\n141:6. I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in\nthe land of the living.\n\n141:7. Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me\nfrom my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.\n\n141:8. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just\nwait for me, until thou reward me.\n\nPsalms Chapter 142\n\nDomine, exaudi.\n\nThe psalmist in tribulation calleth upon God for his delivery. The\nseventh penitential psalm.\n\n142:1. A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. [2 Kings 17.]\nHear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear\nme in thy justice.\n\n142:2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no\nman living shall be justified.\n\n142:3. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my\nlife to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that\nhave been dead of old:\n\n142:4  And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is\ntroubled.\n\n142:5. I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I\nmeditated upon the works of thy hands.\n\n142:6. I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without\nwater unto thee.\n\n142:7. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not\naway thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the\npit.\n\n142:8. Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I\nhoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have\nlifted up my soul to thee.\n\n142:9. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:\n\n142:10. Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit\nshall lead me into the right land:   11  for thy name's sake, O Lord,\nthou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of\ntrouble:\n\n142:12. And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut\noff all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.\n\nPsalms Chapter 143\n\nBenedictus Dominus.\n\nThe prophet praiseth God, and prayeth to be delivered from his enemies.\nNo worldly happiness is to be compared with that of serving God.\n\nA psalm of David against Goliath.\n\n143:1. Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and\nmy fingers to war.\n\n143:2. My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My\nprotector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.\n\n143:3. Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of\nman, that thou makest account of him?\n\n143:4. Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.\n\n143:5. Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and\nthey shall smoke.\n\n143:6. Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy\narrows, and thou shalt trouble them.\n\n143:7. Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from\nmany waters: from the hand of strange children:\n\n143:8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right\nhand of iniquity.\n\n143:9. To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and\nan instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.\n\n143:10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant\nDavid from the malicious sword:\n\n143:11. Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children;\nwhose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand\nof iniquity:\n\n143:12. Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters\ndecked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:\n\n143:13. Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their\nsheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:\n\n143:14. Their oxen fat. There is no  breach of wall, nor passage, nor\ncrying out in their streets.\n\n143:15. They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but\nhappy is that people whose God is the Lord.\n\nPsalms Chapter 144\n\nExaltabo te, Deus.\n\nA psalm of praise, to the infinite majesty of God.\n\n144:1. Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and\nI will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.\n\n144:2. Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever;\nyea, for ever and ever.\n\n144:3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his\ngreatness there is no end.\n\n144:4. Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall\ndeclare thy power.\n\n144:5. They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy\nholiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works.\n\n144:6. And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall\ndeclare thy greatness.\n\n144:7. They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness:\nand shall rejoice in thy justice.\n\n144:8. The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in\nmercy.\n\n144:9. The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his\nworks.\n\n144:10. Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless\nthee.\n\n144:11. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of\nthy power:\n\n144:12. To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the\nmagnificence of thy kingdom.\n\n144:13. Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth\nthroughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and\nholy in all his works.\n\n144:14. The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are\ncast down.\n\n144:15. The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat\nin due season.\n\n144:16. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living\ncreature.\n\n144:17. The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.\n\n144:18. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that\ncall upon him in truth.\n\n144:19. He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear\ntheir prayer, and save them.\n\n144:20. The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he\nwill destroy.\n\n144:21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh\nbless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.\n\nPsalms Chapter 145\n\nLauda, anima.\n\nWe are not to trust in men, but in God alone.\n\n145:1  Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.\n\n145:2. Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I\nwill sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in\nprinces:\n\n145:3. In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.\n\n145:4. His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in\nthat day all their thoughts shall perish.\n\n145:5. Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose\nhope is in the Lord his God:\n\n145:6. Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in\nthem.\n\n145:7. Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that\nsuffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that\nare fettered:\n\n145:8. The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that\nare cast down: the Lord loveth the just.\n\n145:9. The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless\nand the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.\n\n145:10. The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation\nand generation.\n\nPsalms Chapter 146\n\nLaudate Dominum.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God for his benefits.\n\n146:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God\nbe joyful and comely praise.\n\n146:2. The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the\ndispersed of Israel.\n\n146:3. Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.\n\n146:4. Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by\ntheir names.\n\n146:5. Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom\nthere is no number.\n\n146:6. The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even\nto the ground.\n\n146:7. Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.\n\n146:8. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the\nearth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the\nservice of men.\n\n146:9. Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that\ncall upon him.\n\n146:10. He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take\npleasure in the legs of a man.\n\n146:11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that\nhope in his mercy.\n\nPsalms Chapter 147\n\nLauda, Jerusalem.\n\nThe church is called upon to praise God for his peculiar graces and\nfavours to his people. In the Hebrew, this psalm is joined to the\nforegoing.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n147:12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.\n\n147:13. Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath\nblessed thy children within thee.\n\n147:14. Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the\nfat of corn.\n\n147:15. Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth\nswiftly.\n\n147:16. Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.\n\n147:17. He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the\nface of his cold?\n\nHe sendeth his crystal... That is, his ice. Some understand it of hail,\nwhich is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels.\n\n147:18. He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall\nblow, and the waters shall run.\n\n147:19. Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments\nto Israel.\n\n147:20. He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his\njudgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.\n\nPsalms Chapter 148\n\nLaudate Dominum de caelis.\n\nAll creatures are invited to praise their Creator.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n148:1. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high\nplaces.\n\n148:2. Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts.\n\n148:3. Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and\nlight.\n\n148:4. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that\nare above the heavens\n\n148:5. Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he\ncommanded, and they were created.\n\n148:6. He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath\nmade a decree, and it shall not pass away.\n\n148:7. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps:\n\n148:8. Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:\n\n148:9. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars:\n\n148:10. Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls:\n\n148:11. Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the\nearth:\n\n148:12. Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the\nname of the Lord:\n\n148:13. For his name alone is exalted.\n\n148:14. The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted\nthe horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of\nIsrael, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.\n\nPsalms Chapter 149\n\nCantate Domino.\n\nThe church is particularly bound to praise God.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n149:1. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the\nchurch of the saints.\n\n149:2. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of\nSion be joyful in their king.\n\n149:3. Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the\ntimbrel and the psaltery.\n\n149:4. For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt\nthe meek unto salvation.\n\n149:5. The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their\nbeds.\n\n149:6. The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged\nswords in their hands:\n\n149:7. To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the\npeople:\n\n149:8. To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles\nof iron.\n\n149:9. To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is\nto all his saints. Alleluia.\n\nPsalms Chapter 150\n\nLaudate Dominum in sanctis.\n\nAn exhortation to praise God with all sorts of instruments.\n\nAlleluia.\n\n150:1. Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the\nfirmament of his power.\n\n150:2. Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the\nmultitude of his greatness.\n\n150:3. Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery\nand harp.\n\n150:4. Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and\norgans.\n\n150:5. Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of\njoy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":56091}