ÿþPsalm 101 1 THE PRAYER OF THE POOR WHEN HE SHALL BE ANXIOUS AND SHALL MAKE HIS PETITION BEFORE OUR LORD 2 Lord, hear my prayer: and let my cry come to thee. 3 Turn not away thy face from me: in what day soever I am in tribulation, incline thine ear to me. In what day soever I shall invocate thee, hear me speedily. 4 Because my days have vanished as smoke: and my bones are withered as a dry burnt firebrand. 5 I am stricken as grass, and my heart is withered: because I have forgotten to eat my bread. 6 For the voice of my groaning, my bone hath claved to my flesh. 7 I am become like a pelican of the wilderness: I am become as a night crow in the house. 8 I have watched and am become as a sparrow solitaire in the house-top. 9 All the day did mine enemies upbraid me: and they that praised me sware against me. 10 Because I did eat ashes as bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. 11 At the face of thy wrath and indignation: because lifting me up thou hast thrown me down. 12 My days have declined as a shadow: and I am withered as grass. 13 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial in generation and generation. 14 Thou rising up shall have mercy on Sion: because it is time to have mercy on it, because the time cometh. 15 Because the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof. 16 And the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the Kings of the earth thy glory. 17 Because our Lord hath built Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory. 18 He hath had respect to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition. 19 Let these things be written unto an other generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise our Lord. 20 Because he hath looked forth from his high holy place: our Lord from heaven hath looked upon the earth. 21 That he might hear the groanings of the fettered: that he might loose the children of them that are slain: 22 That they may shew forth the name of our Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem. 23 In the assembling of the people together in one, and Kings to serve our Lord. 24 He answered him in the way of his strength: Shew me the fewness of my days. 25 Call me not back in the half of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. 26 In the beginning, O Lord, thou didst found the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands. 27 They shall perish, but thou are permanent: and they shall all wax old as a garment. And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed: 28 but thou art the self-same, and thy years shall not fail. 29 The children of thy servants shall inhabit: and their seed shall be directed for ever. Psalm 102 1 TO DAVID HIMSELF. My soul, bless thou our Lord: and all things that are within me, his holy name. 2 My soul bless thou our Lord: and forget not all his retributions. 3 Who is propitious to all thine iniquities: who healeth all thine infirmities. 4 Who redeemeth thy life from deadly falling: who crowneth thee in mercy and commiserations. 5 Who replenisheth thy desire in good things: thy youth shall be renewed as the eagles. 6 Our Lord doth mercies: and judgement to all that suffer wrong. 7 He made his ways known to Moses, his wills to the children of Israel. 8 Our Lord is pitiful, and merciful: long suffering, and very merciful. 9 He will not be angry always: neither will he threaten for ever. 10 He hath not done to us according to our sins: neither according to our iniquities hath he rewarded us. 11 For according to the height of heaven from the earth: hath he strengthened his mercy upon them that fear him. 12 As far as the East is distant from the West: hath he made our iniquities far from us. 13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath our Lord compassion on them that fear him: 14 because he hath known our making. He remembered that we are dust: 15 man, his days are as grass, as the flower of the field, so shall he flourish. 16 Because the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not stand: and he shall know his place no more. 17 But the mercy of our Lord from everlasting, and unto everlasting upon them that fear him. And his justice is upon the children's children, to them that keep his testament. 18 And are mindful of his commandments to do them. 19 Our Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven: and his Kingdom shall have dominion over all. 20 Bless our Lord, all ye his Angels: mighty in power, doing his word, that fear the voice of his words. 21 Bless our Lord, all ye his hosts: you his ministers that do his will. 22 Bless ye our Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, my soul bless thou our Lord. Psalm 103 1 TO DAVID HIMSELF. My soul bless thou our Lord: O Lord my God, thou art magnified exceedingly. 2 Thou hast put on confession and beauty: being clothed with light as with a garment. Stretching out the heaven as a skin: 3 which coverest the higher parts thereof with waters. Which makest the cloud for thee to ascend on: which walkest upon the wings of winds. 4 Which makest spirits thine Angels: and thy ministers a burning fire. 5 Which hast founded the earth upon the stability thereof: it shall not be inclined for ever and ever. 6 The depth as a garment is his clothing: upon the mountains shall waters stand. 7 At thy reprehension they shall fly: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear. 8 They mountains ascend: and the plain fields descend into the place which thou has founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over: neither shall they return to cover the earth. 10 Which sendest forth fountains in the valleys: between the midst of mountains shall waters pass. 11 All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall expect in their thirst. 12 Over them shall the fowls of the air inhabit: out of the midst of rocks they shall give forth voices. 13 Watering the mountains from his higher places: of the fruit of thy work shall the earth be filled. 14 Bringing forth grass for beasts, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring forth bread out of the earth: 15 and wine may make the heart of man joyful. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and bread may confirm the heart of man. 16 The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus, which he hath planted: 17 there sparrows shall make their nest. The house of the heron is the leader of them: 18 the high mountains for harts: the rock a refuge for the Irchins. 19 He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. 20 The didst appoint darkness, and night was made: in it shall all the beasts of the wood pass. 21 The whelps of lions roaring, to raven, and to seek of God meat for themselves. 22 The sun is risen, and they are gathered together: and in their couches they shall be placed. 23 Man shall go forth to his work: and to his working until evening. 24 How magnified are thy works, O Lord! thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy possession. 25 This great sea, and very large, there are creeping beasts, whereof there is no number. Little beasts with great: 26 there ships shall pass. This dragon, whom thou madest to delude: 27 all expect of thee that thou give them meat in season. 28 Thou giving unto them, they shall gather it: thou opening thy hand, all shall be filled with bounty. 29 But thou turning away the face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their spirit, and they shall fail, and shall return into their dust. 30 Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. 31 Be the glory of our Lord for ever: our Lord will rejoice in his works. 32 Who looketh upon the earth and maketh it to tremble: who toucheth the mountains and they smoke. 33 I will chant to our Lord in my life: I will sing to my God as long as I am. 34 Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in our Lord. 35 Let sinners fail from the earth, and the unjust, so that they be not: my soul bless thou our Lord. Psalm 104 ALLELUIA 1 Confess ye to our Lord, and invocate his name; shew forth his works among the Gentiles. 2 Chant to him and sing to him: tell ye all his marvellous works. 3 Praise ye him in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek our Lord. 4 Seek ye our Lord, and be confirmed: seek his face always. 5 Remember ye his marvellous works which he hath done: his wonders and the judgements of his mouth. 6 The seed of Abraham his servants: the children of Jacob his elect. 7 He is the Lord our God: in all the earth are his judgements. 8 He hath been mindful for ever of his testament; of the word which he commanded unto a thousand generations. 9 Which he disposed to Abraham: and of his oath to Isaac. 10 And he appointed it to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an eternal testament, 11 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Channan, the cord of your inheritance. 12 When they were of small number, very few and sojourners thereof: 13 And they passed from nation into nation, and from Kingdom to an other people. 14 He left not a man to hurt them: and he rebuked Kings for their sake: 15 Touch not my anointed, and toward my Prophets be not malignant. 16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he destroyed all the strength of bread. 17 He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold to be a servant. 18 They humbled his feet in fetters, iron passed through his soul, 19 until his word came. The word of our Lord inflamed him: 20 the King sent, and loosed him; the Prince of the people, and released him. 21 He appointed him Lord of his house: and Prince of all his possession. 22 That he might instruct his Princes as himself: and might teach his ancients wisdom. 23 And Israel entered into Egypt, and Jacob was a foreigner in the land of Cham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies. 25 He turned their heart that they hated his people: and to work guile toward his servants. 26 He sent Moses his servant: Aaron himself whom he chose. 27 He did put in them the words of his signs, and of his wonders in the Land of Cham. 28 He sent darkness, and obscured: and did not exasperate his words. 29 He turned their waters into blood: and killed their fishes. 30 Their land brought forth frogs in the inner chambers of their Kings. 31 He said, and the caenomyia came: and the sciniphs in all their coasts. 32 He made their rains hail: fire burning in their land. 33 And he struck their vines, and their fig-trees: and he destroyed the wood of their coasts. 34 He said, and the locust came, and the bruchus whereof there was no number. 35 And it did eat all the grass in their land: and it did eat all the fruit of their land. 36 And he struck every first begotten in their land: the first fruits of all their labour. 37 And he brought them forth with gold and silver, and there was not in their tribes a feeble person. 38 Egypt was glad at their departure: because the fear of them lay upon them. 39 He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to shine unto them by night. 40 They made petition, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven. 41 He divided the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran in the dry ground. 42 Because he was mindful of his holy word, which he had uttered to Abraham his servant. 43 And he brought forth his people in exultation, and his elect in joy. 44 And he gave them the countries of the Nations: and they possessed the labours of peoples. 45 That they might keep his justifications, and seek after his law. Psalm 105 ALLELUIA 1 Confess ye to our Lord because he is good: because his mercy is for ever. 2 Who shall speak the powers of our Lord, shall make his praises to be heard? 3 Blessed are they that keep judgement and do justice at all time. 4 Remember us, O Lord, in the good pleasure of thy people: visit us in thy salvation: 5 To see in the goodness of thine elect, to rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thine inheritance. 6 We have sinned with our fathers: we have dealt unjustly, we have done iniquity. 7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand thy marvellous works: they were not mindful of the multitude of thy mercy. And they provoked thee to wrath going up unto the sea, the Red Sea. 8 And he save them for his name's sake; that he might make his power known. 9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was made dry: and he led them in the depths as in a desert. 10 And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. 11 And water overwhelmed those that afflicted them: there did not one of them remain. 12 And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. 13 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they expected not his counsel. 14 And they coveted concupiscence in the desert: and tempted God in the place without water. 15 He gave them their petition: and sent satiety into their souls. 16 And they provoked Moses in the camp: Aaron the holy of our Lord. 17 The earth was opened, and swallowed Dathan, and overwhelmed the congregation of Abiron. 18 And a fire flamed up in their synagogue: the flame burnt the sinners. 19 And they made a calf in Horeb: and they adored the sculptile. 20 And they changed their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth grass. 21 They forgat God which saved them, which did great things in Egypt, 22 marvellous things in the land of Cham, terrible things in the Red Sea. 23 And he said to destroy them: if Moses his elect had not stood in the way before him. To turn away his wrath that he should not destroy them: 24 and the esteemed for naught the land that was to be desired. 25 They did not believe his word, 25 and they murmured in their tabernacles: they heard not the voice of our Lord. 26 And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert: 27 And to cast down their seed among the Nations: and to disperse them in the countries. 28 And they were professed to Beelphegor: and they did eat the sacrifices of the dead. 29 And they provoked him in their inventions: and ruin was multiplied on them. 30 And Phinees stood, and pacified: and the slaughter ceased. 31 And it was reputed to him unto justice, in generation and generation even for ever. 32 And they provoked him at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was vexed for them: 33 because they exasperated his spirit. And he plainly affirmed in his lips: 34 they destroyed not the nations of which our Lord spake to them. 35 And they were mingled among the nations, and learned their works: 36 and they served their sculptiles: and it became a scandal to them. 37 And they immolated their sons, and their daughters to devils. 38 And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters, which they sacrificed to the sculptiles of Chanaan. And the land was infected with blood, 39 and was contaminated in their works: and they did fornicate in their inventions. 40 And our Lord was wrath with fury upon his people: and he abhorred his inheritance. 41 And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had the dominion of them. 42 And their enemies afflicted them, and they were humbled under their hands: 43 he did often deliver them. But they exasperated him in their counsel: and they were humbled in their iniquities. 44 And he saw when they were afflicted: and he heard their prayer. 45 And he was mindful of his testament: and it repented him according to the multitude of his mercy. 46 And he gave them into mercies in the sight of all that had taken them. 47 Save us, O Lord our God: and gather us out of the Nations. That we may confess to thy holy name: and may glory in thy praise. 48 Blessed be our Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting unto everlasting: and all the people shall say: Be it, be it. Psalm 106 ALLELUIA 1 Confess ye to our Lord, because he is good: because his mercy is for ever. 2 Let them say that are redeemed of our Lord, whom he redeemed out of the hand of the enemy: and out of the countries he gathered them: 3 From the rising of the sun and the going down: from the north and the sea. 4 They wandered in the wilderness, in a place without water: the way of city for habitation they found not. 5 Hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. 6 And they cried to our Lord when they were in tribulation: and he delivered them out of their necessities. 7 And he conducted them into the right way: to go into a city of habitation. 8 Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: and his marvellous works to the children of men. 9 Because he hath filled the empty soul: and they hungry soul he hath filled with good things. 10 Them that sat in darkness, and in the shadow of death: bound in neediness and iron. 11 Because they exasperated the words of God: and they provoked the counsel of the Highest. 12 And their heart was humbled in labours: they were weakened, neither was there any to help. 13 And they cried to our Lord when they were in tribulation: and he delivered them out of their necessities. 14 And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death: and brake their bonds asunder. 15 Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: and his marvellous works to the children of men. 16 Because he hath destroyed the gates of brass: and the bars of iron he hath broken. 17 He hath received them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were humbled for their injustices. 18 Their soul did abhor all meat: and they approached even to the gates of death. 19 And they cried to our Lord when they were in tribulation: and he delivered them out of their necessities. 20 He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them out of their destructions. 21 Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: and his marvellous works to the children of men. 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and shew forth his works in exultation. 23 They that go down into the sea in ships, making traffic in the great waters. 24 They have seen the works of our Lord, and his marvellous things in the depth. 25 He said, and the blast of the storm stood: and the waves thereof were exalted. 26 They ascend even to the heavens, and they descend even to the depths: their soul pined away in evils. 27 They were troubled, and were moved as a drunken man: and all their wisdom was devoured. 28 And they cried out to our Lord when they were in tribulation, and he brought them out of their necessities. 29 And he turned his storm into calm: and the waves thereof were quiet. 30 And they rejoiced because they were quiet: and he conducted them into the haven of their will. 31 Let the mercies of our Lord confess to him: and his marvellous works to the children of men. 32 And let them exalt him in the Church of the people: and the chair of the ancients let them praise him. 33 He turned the rivers into a desert: and the issues of waters into dryness. 34 The fruitful land into a salt ground, for the malice of them that inhabit it. 35 He turned the desert into pools of waters: and the land without water into issues of waters. 36 And he placed the hungry there, and they built a city of habitation. 37 And they sowed fields and planted vineyards: and they made fruit of nativity. 38 And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their beasts he lessened not. 39 And they were made few: and were vexed by the tribulation of evils, and with sorrow. 40 Contempt was poured out upon Princes: and he made them wander where was no way, and not in the way. 41 And he did help the poor out of poverty: and made families as sheep. 42 The just shall see and shall rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 43 Who is wise and will keep these things? and will understand the mercies of our Lord? Psalm 107 1 A CANTICLE OF PSALM, TO DAVID HIMSELF. 2 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will chant and will sing in my glory. 3 Arise my glory, arise psalter and harp: I will arise early. 4 I will confess to thee in peoples, O Lord: and I will sing to thee in the Nations. 5 Because thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even to the clouds. 6 Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and thy glory over all the earth: 7 that thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand, and hear me: 8 God spake in his holy: I will rejoice and will divide Sichem, and I will measure the vale of tabernacles. 9 Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim the protection of my head. Juda is my King: 10 Moab the pot of my hope. Upon Idumea I will extend my shoe: the strangers are made my friends. 11 Who will conduct me into a fenced city? who will conduct me into Idumea? 12 Wilt not thou, O God, which hast repelled us, and wilt not thou go forth, O God, in our hosts? 13 Give us help out of tribulation: because man's salvation is vain. 14 In God we shall do strength: and he will bring our enemies to nothing. Psalm 108 1 UNTO THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 God, conceal not my praise: because the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful man is open upon me. 3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongue, and with words of hatred they have compassed me: and they have impugned me without cause. 4 For that they should love me, they backbited me: but I prayed. 5 And they set against me evil things for good: and hatred for my love. 6 Appoint a sinner over him: and let the devil stand on his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him come forth condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sin. 8 Let his days be made few: and let an other take his bishopric. 9 Let his children be made orphans: and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be transported wandering, and let them beg: and let them be cast out of their habitations. 11 Let the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers spoil his labours. 12 Let there be none to help him: neither let there by any to have pity on his pupils. 13 Let his children come to destruction: in one generation let his name be clean put out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers return to memory in the sight of our Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before our Lord always, and let the memory of them perish out of the earth: 16 For that he remembered not to do mercy. 17 And he persecuted the poor and needy man, and the compunct in heart to kill him. 18 And he loved cursing; and it shall come to him: and he would not blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing as a garment, and it entered as water into his inner parts, and as oil in his bones. 19 Be it to him as a garment, wherewith he is covered: and as a girdle wherewith he is always girded. 20 This is the work of them that detract from me before our Lord: and that speak evils against my soul. 21 And thou, Lord, Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Deliver me 22 because I am needy and poor: and my heart is troubled within me. 23 As a shadow when it declineth, am I taken away: and I am shaken as locusts. 24 My knees are weakened with fasting: and my flesh is changed by reason of oil. 25 And I am made a reproach to them: they saw me, and wagged their heads. 26 Help me, O Lord my God: save me according to thy mercy. 27 And let them know that this is thy hand: and thou, O Lord, hast done it. 28 They will curse, and thou shalt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. 29 Let them that detract from me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion, as with a double patched cloak. 30 I will confess to our Lord exceedingly with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him. 31 Because he hath stood on the right hand of the poor, that he might save my soul from the persecutors. Psalm 109 1 A PSALM OF DAVID. Our Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand: til I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet. 2 Our Lord will send forth the rod of thy strength from Sion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 From thee the beginning in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of holy things: from the womb before the day star I begat thee. 4 Our Lord sware, and it shall not repent him: Thou art a Priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech. 5 Our Lord on thy right hand hath broken Kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shall judge in nations, he shall fill ruins, he shall crush the heads in the land of many. 7 Of the torrent in the way he shall drink: therefore shall he exalt the head. Psalm 110 ALLELUIA 1 I will confess to thee, O Lord, with all my heart: in the counsel of the just and the congregation. 2 The works of our Lord are great: exquisite according to all his wills. 3 Confession and magnificence his work: and his justice continueth for ever and ever. 4 He hath made a memory of his marvellous works, a merciful and pitiful Lord: 5 He hath given meat to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his testament: 6 the force of his works he will shew forth to his people: 7 To give them the inheritance of the gentiles: the works of his hands truth and judgement. 8 All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever, made in truth and equity. 9 He sent redemption to his people: he commanded his testament for ever. Holy and terrible is his name: 10 the fear of our Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 11 Understanding is good to all that do it: his praise remaineth for ever and ever. Psalm 111 ALLELUIA. OF THE RETURN OF AGGEUS AND ZACHARY. 1 Blessed is the man that feareth our Lord: he shall have great delight in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty in the earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed. 3 Glory and riches in his house: and his justice abideth for ever and ever. 4 Light is risen up in darkness to the righteous: he is merciful, and pitiful, and just. 5 Acceptable is the man that is merciful and lendeth, that shall dispose his words in judgement: 6 Because he shall not be moved for ever. 7 The just shall be in eternal memory: he shall not fear at the hearing of evil. 8 His heart is ready to hope in our Lord, his heart is confirmed: 9 he shall not be moved til he look over his enemies. 10 He distributed, he gave to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever, his horn shall be exalted in glory. 11 The sinner shall see, and will be angry, he shall gnash his teeth and pine away: the desire of sinners shall perish. Psalm 112 ALLELUIA 1 Praise our Lord ye children: praise ye the name of our Lord. 2 Be the name of our Lord blessed, from henceforth now and for ever. 3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down, the name of our Lord is laudable. 4 Our Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is as the Lord our God, that dwelleth on high, 6 and beholdeth the low things in heaven and in earth? 7 Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dung: 8 To place him with Princes, with the Princes of his people. 9 Who maketh the barren woman to dwell in a house, a joyful mother of children. Psalm 113 ALLELUIA 1 In the coming forth of Israel out Egypt: of the house of Jacob from the barbarous people. 2 Jewry was made his sanctification, Israel his dominion. 3 The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned backward. 4 The mountains leaped as rams: and the little hills as the lambs of sheep. 5 What aileth thee, O sea, that thou didst fly: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned backward? 6 Ye mountains leaped as rams, and ye little hills as the lambs of sheep. 7 At the face of our Lord was the earth moved, at the face of the God of Jacob. 8 Who turned the rock into pools of waters, and stony hill into fountains of waters. 9 Not to us, O Lord, not to us: but to thy name give the glory. 10 For thy mercy and thy truth: lest at any time the Gentiles say: Where is their God? 11 But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things what soever he would. 12 The idols of the gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. 13 They have mouth, and shall not speak: they have eyes, and shall not see. 14 They have ears, and shall not hear: they have nostrils and shall not smell. 15 They have hands, and shall not handle: they have feet, and shall not walk: they shall not cry in their throat. 16 Let them that make them become like to them: and all that have confidence in them. 17 The house of Israel hath hoped in our Lord: he is their helper and their protector. 18 The house of Aaron hath hoped in our Lord: he is their helper and their protector. 19 They that fear our Lord have hoped in our Lord: he is their helper and their protector. 20 Our Lord hath been mindful of us: and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron. 21 He hath blessed all that fear our Lord, the little with the great. 22 Our Lord add upon you: upon you and upon your children. 23 Blessed be you of our Lord, which made heaven and earth. 24 The heaven of heaven is to our Lord: but the earth he hath given to the children of men. 25 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor all they that go down into hell. 26 But we that live do bless our Lord, from this time, and for ever. Psalm 114 ALLELUIA. 1 I have loved, because our Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear to me: and in my days I will invocate. 3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I have found tribulation and sorrow: 4 and I invocated the name of our Lord. O Lord deliver my soul: 5 our Lord is merciful, and just, and our God doth mercy. 6 Our Lord keepeth little ones: I was humbled, and he hath delivered me. 7 Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: because our Lord hath done good to thee. 8 Because he hath delivered my soul from death: mine eyes from tears, my feet from sliding. 9 I will please our Lord in the country of the living. Psalm 115 ALLELUIA. 1 I believed, for which cause I spake: but I was humbled exceedingly. 2 I said in mine excess: Every man is a liar. 3 What shall I render to our Lord, for all things that he hath rendered to me? 4 I will take the chalice of salvation: and I will invocate the name of our Lord. 5 I will render my vows to our Lord before all his people: 6 precious in the sight of our Lord is the death of his Saints. 7 O Lord, because I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds: 8 I will sacrifice to thee the host of praise, and I will invocate the name of our Lord. 9 I will render my vows to our Lord in the sight of all his people: 10 in the courts of the house of our Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Psalm 116 ALLELUIA. 1 Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles: praise him all ye peoples. 2 Because his mercy is confirmed upon us: and his truth remaineth for ever. Psalm 117 ALLELUIA. 1 Confess ye to our Lord because he is good: because his mercy is for ever. 2 Let Israel now say that he is good: that his mercy is for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say: that his mercy is for ever. 4 Let them now say which fear our Lord: that his mercy is for ever. 5 From tribulation I invocated our Lord: and our Lord heard me in largeness. 6 Our Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man can do to me. 7 Our Lord is my helper: and I will look over mine enemies. 8 It is good to hope in our Lord, rather than to hope in man. 9 It is good to hope in our Lord, rather than to hope in Princes. 10 All nations have compassed me: and in the name of our Lord am I revenged on them. 11 Compassing they have compassed me: and in the name of our Lord I was revenged on them. 12 They compassed me as bees, as were inflamed as fire in thorns: and in the name of our Lord I was revenged on them. 13 Being thrust I was overturned to fall: and our Lord received me. 14 Our Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is made my salvation. 15 The voice of exultation and of salvation in the tabernacles of the just. 16 The right hand of our Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of our Lord hath exalted me, the right hand of our Lord hath wrought strength. 17 I shall not die, but shall live: and I will tell the works of our Lord. 18 Our Lord chastising hath chastised me: and to death he hath not delivered me. 19 Open ye the gates of justice to me, being entered into them I will confess to our Lord: 20 this is the gate of our Lord, the just shall enter into it. 21 I will confess to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation. 22 The stone which the builders rejected: the same is made into the head of the corner. 23 This was done by our Lord: and it is marvellous in our eyes. 24 This is the day which our Lord made: let us rejoice and be glad therein. 25 O Lord, save me, O Lord give good success: Blessed be he that cometh in the name of our Lord. 26 We have blessed you of the house of our Lord: 27 our Lord is God, and he hath given light to us. Appoint a solemn day with thick boughs, even to the horn of the altar. 28 Thou art my God, and I will confess to thee: thou art my God and I will exalt thee. I will confess to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation. 29 Confess ye to our Lord because he is good: because his mercy is for ever. Psalm 118 ALLELUIA. ALEPH 1 Blessed are the immaculate in the way: which walk in the law of our Lord. 2 Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek after him with all their heart. 3 For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways. 4 Thou hast very much commanded thy commandments to be kept. 5 Would God my ways might be directed, to keep thy justifications. 6 Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look throughly in all thy commandments. 7 I will confess to thee in direction of heart: in that I have learned the judgements of thy justice. 8 I will keep thy justifications: forsake me not wholly. BETH 9 Wherein doth a young man correct his way? in keeping thy words. 10 With my whole heart I have sought after thee: repel me not from thy commandments. 11 In my heart I have did thy words: that I may not sin to thee. 12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications. 13 In my lips I have pronounced all the judgements of thy mouth. 14 I am delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches. 15 I will be exercised in thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways. 16 I will meditate in thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. GIMEL 17 Render to thy servant, quicken me: and I shall keep thy words. 18 Reveal mine eyes: and I shall consider the marvellous things of thy law. 19 I am a foreigner in the land, hide not thy commandments from me. 20 My soul hath coveted to desire thy justifications, at all time. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud: cursed are they that decline from they commandments. 22 Take from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies. 23 For Princes sat, and they spake against me: but thy servant was exercised in thy justifications. 24 For both thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. DALETH 25 My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken me according to thy word. 26 I have uttered my ways and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications. 27 Instruct me the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy marvellous works. 28 My soul hath slumbered for tediousness: confirm me in thy words. 29 Remove from me the way of iniquity: and according to thy law, have mercy on me. 30 I have chosen the way of truth: I have not forgotten thy judgements. 31 I have cleaved to thy testimonies, O Lord: do not confound me. 32 I ran the way of thy commandments: when thou didst dilate my heart. HE 33 Set me a law, O Lord, the way of thy justifications: and I will seek after it always. 34 Give me understanding and I will search thy law: and I will keep it with my whole heart. 35 Conduct me into the path of thy commandments: because I would it. 36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies: and not into avarice. 37 Turn away mine eyes that they see not vanity: in thy way quicken me. 38 Establish thy word to thy servant in thy fear. 39 Take away my reproach which I have feared: because thy judgements are pleasant. 40 Behold I have coveted thy commandments: in thine equity quicken me. VAU 41 And let thy mercy come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word. 42 And I shall answer a word to them that upbraid me: because I have hoped in thy words. 43 And take not away out of my mouth the word of truth utterly: because I have much hoped in thy judgements. 44 And I will keep thy law always: for ever, and for ever and ever. 45 And I walked in largeness: because I have sought after thy commandments. 46 And I spake of thy testimonies in the sight of Kings: and was not confounded. 47 And I meditated in thy commandments which I loved. 48 And I have lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications. ZAIN 49 Be mindful of thy word to thy servant, wherein thou hast given me hope. 50 This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath quickened me. 51 The proud did unjustly exceedingly: but I declined not from thy law. 52 I have been mindful of thy judgements from everlasting, O Lord: and was comforted. 53 Fainting possessed me, because of sinners forsaking thy Law. 54 Thy justifications were song by me, in the place of my peregrination. 55 I have been mindful in the night of thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law. 56 This was done to me: because I sought after thy justifications. HETH 57 My portion, O Lord, I said to keep thy law. 58 I besought thy face, with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word. 59 I thought upon my ways: and converted my feet unto thy testimonies. 60 I am prepared, and am not troubled: to keep thy commandments. 61 The cords of sinners have wrapped me round about: and I have not forgotten thy law. 62 At midnight I rose to confess to thee, for the judgements of thy justification. 63 I am partaker of all that fear thee: and that keep thy commandments. 64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach my thy justifications. TETH 65 Thou hast done bounty with thy servant, O Lord: according to thy word. 66 Teach me goodness and discipline, and knowledge: because I have believed thy commandments. 67 Before I was humbled I offended: therefore have I kept thy word. 68 Thou art good: and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications. 69 The iniquity of the proud is multiplied upon me: but I in all my heart will search thy commandments. 70 Their heart is curded together as milk: but I have meditated thy law. 71 It is good for me that thou hast humbled me: that I may learn thy justifications. 72 The law of thy mouth is good unto me: above thousand of gold and silver. IOD 73 Thy hands have made me, and formed me: give me understanding and I will learn thy commandments. 74 They that fear shall see me and shall rejoice: because I have much hoped in thy words. 75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgements are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me. 76 Let thy mercy be done to comfort me, according to thy word unto thy servant. 77 Let thy commiserations come to me and I shall live: because thy law is my meditation. 78 Let the proud be confounded, because they have done unjustly toward me: but I will be exercised in thy commandments. 79 Let them be converted to me that fear thee: and that know thy testimonies. 80 Let my heart be made immaculate in thy justifications, that I be not confounded. CAPH 81 My soul hath fainted for thy salvation: and I have much hoped in thy word. 82 Mine eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me? 83 Because I am made as a bottle in the hoar frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications. 84 How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou do judgement on them that persecute me? 85 The unjust have told me fables: but not as thy law. 86 All thy commandments are truth: they have unjustly persecuted me, help me. 87 They have well near made end of me in the earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments. 88 According to thy mercy quicken me: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth. LAMED 89 For ever, Lord, thy word is permanent in heaven. 90 Thy truth in generation and generation: thou has founded the earth, and it is permanent. 91 By thy ordinance the day continueth: because all things serve thee. 92 But that thy law is my meditation: I had then perhaps perished in my humiliation. 93 I will not forget thy justifications for ever: because in them thou hast quickened me. 94 I am thine, save me: because I have sought out thy justifications. 95 Sinners have expected me to destroy me: I understood thy testimonies. 96 Of all consummation I have seen the end: thy commandment is exceeding large. MEM 97 How have I loved thy law, O Lord! all the day it is my meditation. 98 Above mine enemies thou hast made me wise by thy commandment: because it is to me for ever. 99 Above all that taught me have I understood: because they testimonies are my meditation. 100 Above ancients have I understood: because I have sought they commandments. 101 I have stayed my feet from all evil way: that I may keep thy words. 102 I have not declined from the judgements: because thou hast set me a law. 103 How sweet are thy words to my jaws, more than honey to my mouth! [104] By thy commandments I have understood: therefore have I hated all the way of iniquity. NUN 105 Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths. 106 I sware and have determined to keep the judgements of thy justice. 107 I am humbled exceedingly, O Lord: quicken me according to thy word. 108 The voluntaries of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgements. 109 My soul is in my hands always: and I have not forgotten thy law. 110 Sinners laid a snare for me: and I have not erred from thy commandments. 111 For inheritance I have purchased thy testimonies for ever: because they are the joy of my heart. 112 I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for reward. SAMECH 113 I have hated the unjust: and I have loved thy law. 114 Thou art my helper and protector: and upon thy word I have much hoped. 115 Depart from me ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God. 116 Receive me according to thy word, and I shall live: and confound me not of mine expectation. 117 Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate in thy justifications always. 118 Thou hast despised all that revolt from thy judgements: because their cogitation is unjust. 119 All the sinners of the earth I have reputed prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies. 120 Pierce my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgements. AIN 121 I have done judgement and justice: deliver me not to them that calumniate me. 122 Receive thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me. 123 Mine eyes have failed after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice. 124 Do with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications. 125 I am thy servant: give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. 126 It is time to do, O Lord: they have dissipated thy law. 127 Therefore have I loved the commandments, above gold and topaz. 128 Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: all wicked way I have hated. PHE 129 Thy testimonies are marvellous: therefore hath my soul searched them. 130 The declaration of thy words doth illuminate: and giveth understanding to little ones. 131 I opened my mouth, and drew breath: because I desired thy commandments. 132 Look upon me and have mercy on me, according to the judgement of them that love thy name. 133 Direct my steps according to thy word: and let not any injustice have domination over me. 134 Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments. 135 Illuminate thy face upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications. 136 Mine eyes have gushed forth issues of waters: because they have not kept thy law. SADE 137 Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgement is right. 138 Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy verity exceedingly. 139 My Zeal hath made me to pine away: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. 140 Thy word is fired exceedingly: and thy servant hath loved it. 141 I am a young-man and contemned: I have not forgotten thy justifications. 142 Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is verity. 143 Tribulation and distress have found me: thy commandments are my meditation. 144 Thy testimonies are equity for ever, give me understanding and I shall live. COPH 145 I have cried in my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek after thy justifications. 146 I have cried to thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments. 147 I have prevented in maturity, and have cried: because I hoped much in thy words. 148 Mine eyes have prevented early unto thee: that I might meditate thy words. 149 Hear my voice according to thy mercy, O Lord: and according to thy judgement quicken me. 150 They that persecute me have approached to iniquity: but from thy law they are made far off. 151 Thou art nigh, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth. 152 From the beginning I knew of thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever. RES 153 See my humiliation and deliver me: because I have not forgotten thy law. 154 Judge my judgement and redeem me: for thy word quicken thou me. 155 Salvation is far from sinners: because they have not sought after thy justifications. 156 Thy mercies are many, O Lord: according to thy judgement quicken me. 157 There are many that persecute me and afflict me: I have not declined from thy testimonies. 158 I saw the prevaricators and I pined away: because they kept not thy words. 159 See that I have loved the commandments, O Lord: in thy mercy quicken me. 160 The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgements of thy justice are for ever. SIN 161 Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been afraid of thy words. 162 I will rejoice at thy words: as he that findeth many spoils. 163 I have hated iniquity and abhorred it: but thy law I have loved. 164 Seven times in the day I have said praise to thee, for the judgements of thy justice. 165 There is much peace to them that love thy law: and there is no scandal to them. 166 I expected thy salvation, O Lord: and have loved thy commandments. 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies: and hath loved them exceedingly. 168 I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight. TAU 169 Let my petition approach in thy sight, O Lord: according to thy word give me understanding. 170 Let my request enter in thy sight: according to thy word, deliver me. 171 My lips shall utter an hymn when thou shalt teach me thy justifications. 172 My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are equity. 173 Let thy hand be to save me: because I have chosen thy commandments. 174 I have coveted thy salvation, O Lord: and thy law is my meditation. 175 My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgements shall help me. 176 I have strayed as a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments. Psalm 119 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE When I was in tribulation I cried to our Lord: and he heard me. 2 O Lord, deliver my soul from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What may be given thee, or what may be added unto thee to a deceitful tongue? 4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of desolation. 5 Woe is to me, that my sojourning is prolonged: I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar: 6 My soul hath been long a foreigner. 7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spake to them, they impugned me without cause. Psalm 120 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE I have lifted up mine eyes unto the mountains, from whence help shall come to me? 2 My help is from our Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3 Give he not thy foot to be moved: neither do he slumber that keepeth thee. 4 Lo, he shall not slumber nor sleep that keepeth Israel. 5 Our Lord keepeth thee, our Lord is thy protection, upon thy right hand. 6 By day the sun shall not burn thee: nor the moon by night. 7 Our Lord doth keep thee from all evil: our Lord keep thy soul. 8 Our Lord keep thy coming in, and thy going out: from hence forth now and for ever. Psalm 121 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE I rejoiced in these things which were said to me: We shall go into the house of our Lord. 2 Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem, which is built as a city: whose participation is together in itself. 4 For thither did the tribes ascend, the tribes of our Lord: the testimony of Israel to confess unto the name of our Lord. 5 Because seats sat there in judgement, seats upon the house of David. 6 Ask ye the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance to them that love thee. 7 Peace be made in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers. 8 For my brethren and my neighbours sakes, I spake peace of thee: 9 For the house of our Lord God, I have sought good things to thee. Psalm 122 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. To thee have I lifted up mine eyes, which dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes to our Lord God until he have mercy on us. 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: because we are much replenished with contempt. 4 Because our soul is much replenished: reproach to them that abound, and contempt to the proud. Psalm 123 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. But that our Lord was in us, let Israel now say, 2 but that our Lord was in us. When men rose up against us, 3 perhaps they had swallowed us alive: When their fury was angry against us, 4 perhaps water had swallowed us. 5 Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through an intolerable water. 6 Blessed be our Lord which hath not given us for a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul as a sparrow is delivered from the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken and we are delivered. 8 Our help is in the name of our Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. They that trust in our Lord, as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth 2 in Jerusalem. Mountains round about it: and our Lord round about his people from hence forth now and for ever. 3 Because our Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just reach not their hands to iniquity. 4 Do well, O Lord, to the good, and right of heart. 5 But those that decline into obligations, our Lord will bring with them that work iniquity: peace upon Israel. Psalm 125 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. When our Lord turned the captivity of Sion: we were made as men comforted. 2 Then was our mouth replenished with joy: and our tongue with exultation. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: Our Lord hath done magnifically with them. 3 Our Lord hath done magnifically with us: we are made joyful. 4 Turn our captivity, O Lord, as a torrent in the South. 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joyfulness. 6 Going they went and wept, casting their seeds. 7 But coming they shall come with exultation, carrying their sheaves. Psalm 126 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE OF SOLOMON. Unless our Lord build the house, they have laboured in vain that build it. Unless our Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it. 2 It is vain for you to rise before light: rise ye after ye have sitten, which eat the bread of sorrow. 3 When he shall give sleep to his beloved: behold the inheritance of our Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb. 4 As arrows in the hand of the mighty: so are the children of them that are shaken. 5 Blessed is the man that hath filled his desire of them: he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate. Psalm 127 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. Blessed are all that fear our Lord, that walk in his ways. 2 Because thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou and it shall be well with thee. 3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house. Thy children as young plants of olive-trees, round about thy table. 4 Behold so shall the man be blessed that feareth our Lord. 5 Our Lord out of Sion bless thee: and that thou mayst see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. And that thou mayst see thy children's children, peace upon Israel. Psalm 128 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. Often have they impugned me from my youth, let Israel now say: 2 Often have they impugned me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me. 3 Sinners have builded upon my back: they have prolonged their iniquity. 4 Our just Lord will cut the necks of sinners: 5 let them all be confounded and turned backward that hate Sion. 6 Let them be made as grass in the tops of houses: which is withered before it be plucked up. 7 Whereof the reaper hath not filled his hand and he that gathereth the sheaves his bosom. 8 And they said not that passed by: The blessing of our Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of our Lord. Psalm 129 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. From the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord: 2 Lord, hear my voice: Let thine ears be intent to the voice of my petition. 3 If thou shalt observe iniquities, O Lord: Lord, who shall sustain it? 4 Because with the there is propitiation: and for thy law I have expected thee, O Lord. My soul hath expected in his word: 5 my soul hath hoped in our Lord. 6 From the morning watch even until night: let Israel hope in our Lord. 7 Because with our Lord there is mercy: and with him plenteous redemption. 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Psalm 130 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE OF DAVID. Lord, my heart is not exalted: neither are mine eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters: nor in marvellous things above me. 2 If I was not humbly minded: but exalted my soul: As the weaned child is toward his mother, so retribution in my soul. 3 Let Israel hope in our Lord, from henceforth now and for ever. Psalm 131 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. Remember David, O Lord, and all his meekness: 2 As he sware to our Lord, vowed a vow to the God of Jacob. 3 If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house, if I shall ascend into the bed of my couch. 4 If I shall give sleep to mine eyes, and slumbering to mine eye lids: 5 And rest to my temples: until I find a place for our Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 6 Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the fields of the wood. 7 We will enter into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where his feet stood. 8 Arise, Lord, into thy rest, thou, and the ark of thy sanctification. 9 Let thy Priests be clothed with justice: and let thy Saints rejoice. 10 For David thy servant's sake turn not away the face of thy Christ. 11 Our Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not disappoint it: Of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy seat. 12 If thy children shall keep my testament, and these my testimonies which I will teach them: Their children also even for ever, shall sit upon thy seat. 13 Because our Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for an habitation to himself. 14 This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell because I have chosen it. 15 Blessing, I will bless her widow: her poor I will fill with breads. 16 Her Priests will I clothe with salvation: and her saints shall rejoice with joyfulness. 17 Thither will I bring forth a horn to David, I have prepared a lamp to my Christ. 18 His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my sanctification flourish. Psalm 132 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE OF DAVID. Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell in one. 2 As ointment on the head, which ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, which ran down unto the hem of his garment. 3 As the dew of Hermon, which runneth down upon mount Sion. Because there hath our Lord commanded blessing, and life even for ever. Psalm 133 1 A GRADUAL CANTICLE. Lo, now bless our Lord, all ye the servants of our Lord: Which stand in the house of our Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. 2 In the nights lift up your hands unto the holy places, and bless ye our Lord. 3 Our Lord out of Sion bless thee, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 134 1 ALLELUIA Praise ye the name of our Lord, ye servants praise our Lord. 2 Ye that stand in the house of our Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. 3 Praise ye our Lord, because our Lord is good: sing ye to his name, because it is sweet. 4 Because our Lord hath chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession. 5 Because I have known that our Lord is great, and our God above all Gods. 6 All things whatsoever our Lord would he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the depths. 7 Bringing forth clouds from the uttermost of the earth: lightnings he hath turned into rain. Who bringeth forth the winds out of his treasures: 8 who struck the first begotten of Egypt from man even to beast. 9 He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst of thee, O Egypt: upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants. 10 Who struck many nations: and slew strong Kings: 11 Sehon, the King of the Amorrheites, and Og, the King of Basan, and all the Kingdoms of Chanaan. 12 And he gave their land for inheritance, for an inheritance to Israel his people. 13 Lord, thy name is for ever: Lord, thy memorial is unto generation and generation. 14 Because our Lord shall judge his people: and will be entreated toward his servants. 15 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. 16 They have mouth and shall not speak: they have eyes and shall not see. 17 They have ears and shall not hear: for neither is there breath in their mouth. 18 Let them that make them become like to them: and all that have confidence in them. 19 Ye house of Israel, bless our Lord: ye house of Aaron, bless our Lord. 20 Ye house of Levi, bless our Lord: you that fear our Lord, bless ye our Lord. 21 Blessed be our Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem. Psalm 135 1 ALLELUIA. Confess ye to our Lord, because he is good: because his mercy is for ever. 2 Confess ye to the God of gods: because his mercy is for ever. 3 Confess ye to the Lord of lords: because his mercy is for ever. 4 Who only doth great marvels: because his mercy is for ever. 5 Who made the heaven in understanding: because his mercy is for ever. 6 Who established the earth over the waters: because his mercy is for ever. 7 Who made the great lights: because his mercy is for ever. 8 The sun to rule the day: because his mercy is for ever. 9 The moon and stars to rule the night: because his mercy is for ever. 10 Who struck Egypt with their first-begotten: because his mercy is for ever. 11 Who brought forth Israel out of the midst of them: because his mercy is for ever. 12 In a mighty hand and lofty arm: because his mercy is for ever. 13 Who divided the Red Sea into divisions: because his mercy is for ever. 14 And brought forth Israel through the midst thereof: because his mercy is for ever. 15 And he overthrew Pharaoh, and his host in the Red Sea: because his mercy is for ever. 16 Who led his people through the desert: because his mercy is for ever. 17 Who struck great Kings: because his mercy is for ever. 18 And slew strong Kings: because his mercy is for ever. 19 Sehon, the King of the Amorrheites: because his mercy is for ever. 20 And Og, the King of Basan: because his mercy is for ever. 21 And he gave their land for an inheritance: because his mercy is for ever. 22 For an inheritance to Israel his servant: because his mercy is for ever. 23 For in our humiliation he was mindful of us: because his mercy is for ever. 24 And he redeemed us from our enemies: because his mercy is for ever. 25 Who giveth food to all flesh: because his mercy is for ever. 26 Confess ye to the God of heaven: because his mercy is for ever. Confess ye to the Lord of lords: because his mercy is for ever. Psalm 136 A PSALM OF DAVID FOR JEREMIAH. 1 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: whiles we remembered Sion. 2 On the willows in the midst thereof: we hanged up our instruments. 3 Because there they that led us captive, demanded of us words of songs. And they that led us away: Sing ye an hymn to us of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the song of our Lord in a strange land? 5 If I shall forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. 6 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I shall not set Jerusalem in the beginning of my joy. 7 Be mindful, O Lord, of the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem: That say: Rase it, rase it, even unto the foundation thereof. 8 Daughter of Babylon miserable: blessed is he that shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. 9 Blessed is he that shall hold and shall dash thy little ones against the rock. Psalm 137 1 TO DAVID HIMSELF. I will confess to thee, O Lord, in my whole heart: because thou hast heard the words of my mouth. In the sight of Angels I will sing to thee: 2 I will adore toward thy holy temple and will confess to thy name: For thy mercy and thy truth: because thou hast magnified above every thing thy holy name. 3 In what day soever I shall invocate thee, hear me: thou wilt multiply strength in my soul. 4 Let all the Kings of the earth, O Lord, confess to thee: because they have heard all the words of thy mouth: 5 And let them sing in the ways of our Lord: because great is the glory of our Lord. 6 Because our Lord is high, and he beholdeth low things: and high things he knoweth far off. 7 If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and upon the wrath of mine enemies thou hast extended thy hand, and thy right hand hath saved me. 8 Our Lord will repay for me: O Lord, thy mercy is for ever: despise not the works of thy hands. Psalm 138 1 UNTO THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID. Lord, thou hast proved me, and hast known me: 2 thou hast known my sitting down and my rising up. 3 Thou hast understood my cogitations far off: my path and my cord thou hast searched out. 4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: because there is not a word in my tongue. 5 Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all the last things, and told them of old: thou hast formed me, and hast put thy hand upon me. 6 Thy knowledge is become marvellous of me: it is made great, and I can not reach to it. 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? and whither shall I fly from thy face? 8 If I shall ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present. 9 If I shall take my wings early, and dwell in the extreme parts of the sea. 10 Certes thither also shall thy hand conduct me: and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall tread over me: and the night is mine illumination in my delights. 12 For darkness shall not be darkened from thee, and the night shall be lightened as the day: as the darkness thereof, so also the light thereof. 13 Because thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast received me from my mother's womb. 14 I will confess to thee because thou art terribly magnified: thy works are marvellous and my soul knoweth exceedingly. 15 My bone is not hid from thee, which thou madest in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth. 16 Mine imperfection thine eyes have seen, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no man in them. 17 But to me thy friends, O God, are become honourable exceedingly: their principality is exceedingly strengthened. 18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and I am yet with thee. 19 If thou shalt kill sinners, O God: ye men of blood depart from me. 20 Because you say in thought: they shall receive thy cities in vain. 21 Did not I hate them that hate thee, O Lord: and pined away because of thine enemies? 22 with perfect hatred did I hate them: they are become enemies to me. 23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me and know my paths. 24 And see, if the way of iniquity be in me: and conduct me in the everlasting way. Psalm 139 1 UNTO THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID. 2 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: from the unjust man rescue me. 3 Which have devised iniquity in their heart: all the day they did appoint battles. They have whet their tongues as that of a serpent: 4 the venom of asps is under their lips. 5 Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner: and from unjust men deliver me. 6 Who have devised to supplant my steps: 7 the proud have hid a snare for me: And they have stretched out ropes for a snare: they have laid a stumbling block for me near the way. 7 [sic] I said to our Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my petition. 8 O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle. 9 Yield me not, O Lord, from my desire to the sinner: they have devised against me, forsake me not, lest thy perhaps be proud. 10 The head of their compass: the labour of their lips shall cover them. 11 Coals shall fall upon them, thou shalt cast them down into fire: in miseries they shall not stand up. 12 A man full of tongue shall not be directed in the earth: evils shall take the unjust man into destruction. 13 I have known that our Lord will do the judgement of the needy: and the revenge of the poor. 14 But as for the just, they shall confess to thy name: and the righteous shall dwell with thy countenance. Psalm 140 1 A PSALM OF DAVID. Lord, I have cried to thee, hear me: attend to my voice when I shall cry to thee. 2 Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight: the elevation of my hands as evening sacrifice. 3 Set, O Lord, a watch to my mouth: and a door round about to my lips. 4 Decline not my heart into words of malice, to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will communicate with the chief of them. 5 The just shall rebuke me in mercy, and shall reprehend me: but let not the oil of a sinner fat my head. Because yet also my prayer is in their good pleasures: 6 their judges are swallowed up joined to the rock. They shall hear my words because they have prevailed: 7 as the grossness of the earth is broken out upon the earth. Our bones are dissipated near to hell: 8 for to thee, O Lord, Lord, are mine eyes: in thee have I hoped, take not away my soul. 9 Keep me from the snare which they have set for me: and from the scandals of them that work iniquity. 10 Sinners shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass. Psalm 141 1 OF UNDERSTANDING TO DAVID, WHEN HE WAS IN THE CAVE, A PRAYER. 2 With my voice I have cried to our Lord: with my voice I have prayed to our Lord: 3 I pour out my prayer in his sight, and I pronounce my tribulation before him. 4 When my spirit faileth of myself, and thou hast known my paths. In this way, which I walked, they hid a snare for me. 5 I looked toward the right hand and saw: and there was none that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is none to require my soul. 6 I have cried to thee, O Lord, have said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living. 7 Attend to my petition: because I am humbled exceedingly. Deliver me from them that persecute me: because they are made strong over me. 8 Bring forth my soul out of prison, to confess unto thy name: the just expect me, til thou reward me. Psalm 142 1 A PSALM OF DAVID, WHEN ABSALOM HIS SON PERSECUTED HIM. Lord, hear my prayer: with thine ears receive my petition in thy truth: hear me in thy justice. 2 And enter not into judgement with thy servant: because no man living shall be justified in thy sight. 3 Because the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath humbled my life in the earth. He hath set me in obscure places as the dead of the world: 4 and my spirit is in anguish upon me, within me my heart is troubled. 5 I was mindful of old days, I have meditated in all thy works: in the facts of thy hands did I meditate. 6 I have stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee. 7 Hear me quickly, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted. Turn not away thy face from me: and I shall be like to them that descend into the lake. 8 Make me hear thy mercy in the morning: because I have hoped in thee. Make the way known to me, wherein I may walk: because I have lifted up my soul to thee. 9 Deliver me from mine enemies, O Lord, to thee I have fled: 10 teach me to do thy will, because thou art my God. Thy good spirit will conduct me into the right way: 11 for thy name sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thine equity. Thou wilt bring forth my soul out of tribulation 12 and in thy mercy thou wilt destroy mine enemies. And thou wilt destroy all that afflict my soul: because I am thy servant. Psalm 143 1 A PSALM OF DAVID, AGAINST GOLIATH. Blessed be our Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to battle, and my fingers to war. 2 My mercy and my refuge: my defender and my deliverer. My protector and I have hoped in him, who subdueth my people under me. 3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou esteemest him? 4 Man is made like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow. 5 Lord, incline thy heavens, and descend: touch the mountains and they will smoke. 6 Lighten lightning, and thou shalt disperse them: shoot out thine arrows and thou shalt destroy them. 7 Send forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of children strangers. 8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. 9 O God, I will sing to thee a new song: in the psalter of ten strings I will sing to thee. 10 Who givest salvation to Kings: who hast redeemed David thy servant from the malignant sword: 11 deliver me. And rescue me out of the hand of children strangers, whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand, is the right hand of iniquity. 12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth. Their daughters comely trimmed: decked about after the similitude of a temple. 13 Their store-houses full, flowing out of this into that. Their ewes full of young, abounding in their going forth: 14 their oxen are fat. There is no run of wall, nor passage, nor cry in their streets. 15 They have said, that it is a happy people, which hath these things: blessed is the people whose God is our Lord. Psalm 144 1 PRAISING TO DAVID HIMSELF. I will exalt thee, my God, the King: and I will bless thy name for ever and for ever and ever. 2 Every day will I bless thee: and will praise thy name for ever and for ever and ever. 3 Great is our Lord and exceeding laudable, and of his greatness there is no end. 4 Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall pronounce thy power. 5 They shall speak the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy marvellous works. 6 And they shall tell the force of thy terrible things: and shall declare thy greatness. 7 They shall utter the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and in thy justice they shall rejoice. 8 Our Lord is pitiful and merciful: patient and very merciful. 9 Our Lord is sweet to all: and his commiserations are over all his works. 10 Let all thy works, O Lord, confess to thee: and let thy Saints bless thee. 11 They shall tell the glory of thy kingdom: and shall speak thy might. 12 That they may make thy might known to the children of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom. 13 Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all words: and thy dominion in all generation and generation. 14 Our Lord is faithful in all his words, and holy in all his works. 15 Our Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are bruised. 16 The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest their meat in time convenient. 17 Thou openest thy hand: and fillest every living creature with blessing. 18 Our Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. 19 Our Lord is near to all that invocate him: to all that invocate him in truth. 20 He will do the will of them that fear him, and will hear their prayer and save them. 21 Our Lord keepeth all that love him: and he will destroy all sinners. 22 My mouth shall speak the praise of our Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever, and for ever and ever. Psalm 145 1 ALLELUIA OF AGGAEUS AND ZACHARY. 2 My soul praise thou our Lord, I will praise our Lord in my life: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not confidence in Princes: 3 in the sons of men: in whom there is no salvation. 4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their cogitations shall perish. 5 Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, his hope in our Lord his God: 6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them. 7 Which keepeth truth for ever, doth judgement for them that suffer wrong: giveth food to the hungry. Our Lord looseth the fettered: 8 our Lord illuminateth the blind. Our Lord lifteth up the bruised, our Lord loveth the just. 9 Our Lord keepeth strangers, the pupil and widow he will receive: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. 10 Our Lord will reign for ever, thy God, O Sion, in generation and generation. Psalm 146 1 ALLELUIA. Praise ye our Lord because Psalm is good: to our God let there be pleasant and comely praise. 2 Our Lord building up Jerusalem: will gather together the dispersions of Israel. 3 Who healeth the contrite of heart: and bindeth up their sores. 4 Who numbereth the multitude of stars: and giveth names to them all. 5 Great is our Lord, and great is his strength: and of his wisdom there is no number. 6 Our Lord receiving the meek: and humbling sinners even to the ground. 7 Sing ye to our Lord in confession: sing ye to our God on harp. 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds: and prepareth rain for the earth. Who bringeth forth grass in the mountains: and herb for the service of men. 9 Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him. 10 He shall not have pleasure in the strength of an horse: not in the legs of a man shall he be well pleased. 11 Our Lord is well pleased toward them that fear him: and in them that hope upon his mercy. Psalm 147 ALLELUIA. 1 O Jerusalem, praise our Lord: praise thy God, O Sion. 2 Because he hath strengthened the locks of thy gates: he hath blessed thy children in thee. 3 Who hath set thy borders peace: and filleth thee with the fat of corn. 4 Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly. 5 Who giveth snow as wool: scattereth mist as ashes. 6 He casteth his crystal as morsels: before the face of his cold, who shall endure? 7 He shall send forth his word, and shall melt them: his spirit shall blow, and waters shall flow. 8 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and judgements to Israel. 9 He hath not done in like manner to any nation: and his judgements he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia. Psalm 148 1 ALLELUIA. Praise ye our Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places. 2 Praise ye him all his Angels: praise ye him all his hosts: 3 Praise ye him sun and moon: praise him all ye stars and light. 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens: and the waters that are above the heavens, 5 let them praise the name of our Lord. Because he said, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created. 6 He established them for ever, and for ever and ever: he put a precept, and it shall not pass. 7 Praise our Lord from the earth: ye dragons and all depths. 8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, spirit of storms: which do his word: 9 Mountains and all little hills: trees that bear fruit and all cedars. 10 Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls: 11 Kings of the earth and all peoples: Princes and all judges of the earth. 12 Young men and virgins: old with young, let them praise the name of our Lord: 13 because the name of him alone is exalted. 14 The confession of him above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. An hymn to al his saints: to the children of Israel a people approaching unto him. Alleluia. Psalm 149 1 ALLELUIA. Sing ye to our Lord a new song: let his praise be in the Church of saints. 2 Let Israel be joyful in him, that made him: and let the children of Sion rejoice in their King. 3 Let them praise his name in choir: on timbrel and psalter let them sing to him. 4 Because our Lord is well pleased in his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation. 5 The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds. 6 The exaltations of God in their throat: and two edged swords in their hands. 7 To do revenge in the nations: chastisements among the peoples. 8 To bind their Kings in fetters: and their nobles in iron manacles. 9 That they may do in them the judgement that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia. Psalm 150 1 ALLELUIA. Praise ye our Lord in his holies: praise ye him in the firmament of his strength. 2 Praise ye him in his powers: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness. 3 Praise ye him in the sound of trumpet: praise ye him on psalter and harp. 4 Praise ye him on timbrel and choir: praise ye him on strings and organ. 5 Praise ye him on well sounding cymbals: praise ye him on cymbals of jubilation: 6 let very spirit praise our Lord. Alleluia.