Posted on 11/28/2008 9:04:34 PM PST by GonzoII
Douay Rheims Version
MATINS: First Nocturn
Psalm 104
Confitemini Domino
A thanksgiving to God, for his benefits to his people Israel.
1 Alleluia. GIVE glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles. 2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works. 3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. 4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore. 5 Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth. 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen. 7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. 8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. 9 Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac: 10 And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament: 11 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance. 12 When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein: 13 And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. 14 He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes. 15 Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets. 16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. 17 He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave. 18 They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, 19 until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him. 20 The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty. 21 He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession. 22 That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom. 23 And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies, 25 He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants. 26 He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen. 27 He gave them power to shew his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham. 28 He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings. 31 He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts. 32 He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land. 33 And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts. 34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number. 35 And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground. 36 And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour. 37 And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble. 38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them. 39 He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night. 40 They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven. 41 He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land. 42 Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham. 43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness. 44 And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people: 45 That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.
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SECOND NOCTURN:
Psalm 105
Confitemini DominoA confession of the manifold sins and ingratitude of the Israelites.
1 Alleluia. GIVE glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises? 3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times. 4 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation. 5 That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance. 6 We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity. 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea. 8 And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known. 9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness. 10 And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 11 And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left. 12 And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. 13 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels. 14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. 15 And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls. 16 And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord. 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron. 18 And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked. 19 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. 20 And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass. 21 They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, 22 wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea. 23 And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. 24 And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word, 25 and they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the 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 scatter them in the countries. 28 They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29 And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them. 30 Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased. 31 And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore. 32 They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes: 33 because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them. 35 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works: 36 and served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them. 37 And they sacrificed 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 idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood, 39 and was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions. 40 And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance. 41 And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them. 42 And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands: 43 many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities. 44 And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer. 45 And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. 46 And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives. 47 Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise. 48 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.
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THIRD NOCTURN
Psalm 106
Confitemini DominoAll are invited to give thanks to God for his perpetual providence over men.
1 Alleluia. GIVE glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. 3 From the rising and the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea. 4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation. 5 They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. 6 And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses. 7 And he led them into the right way: that they might go to a city of habitation. 8 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men. 9 For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things. 10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron. 11 Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High: 12 And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and their was none to help them. 13 Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses. 14 And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder. 15 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. 16 Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars. 17 He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices. 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death. 19 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses. 20 He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions. 21 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men. 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy. 23 They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters: 24 These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. 25 He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up. 26 They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils. 27 They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up. 28 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses. 29 And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still. 30 And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for. 31 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. 32 And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise him in the chair of the ancients. 33 He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground: 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35 He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into water springs. 36 And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation. 37 And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth. 38 And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease. 39 Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow. 40 Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way. 41 And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of 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 the Lord?
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LAUDS:
Psalm 149
Cantate DominoThe Church is particularly bound to praise God.
1 Alleluia. SING ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints. 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king. 3 Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery. 4 For the Lord is well pleased with 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 high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands: 7 To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people: 8 To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron. 9 To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.
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Psalm 91
Bonum Est ConfiteriGod is to be praised for his wondrous works. 1 A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day. 2 IT is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High. 3 To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night: 4 Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp. 5 For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice. 6 O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep. 7 The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things. 8 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever: 9 but thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore. 10 For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 11 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy. 12 My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me. 13 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus. 14 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. 15 They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated, 16 that they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.
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Psalm 63
Exaudi Deus OrationemA prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that he will bring to nought the machinations of persecutors.
1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. 2 HEAR, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy. 3 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. 4 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing, 5 to shoot in secret the undefiled. 6 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them? 7 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart: 8 and God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds: 9 and their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled; 10 and every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings. 11 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.
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Canticle of Ecclesiasticus: 36: 1-16
1 Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the light of thy mercies: 2 And send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after thee: that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they may shew forth thy wonders. 3 Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power. 4 For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence, 5 That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there is no God beside thee, O Lord. 6 Renew thy signs, and work new miracles. 7 Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm. 8 Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath. 9 Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy. 10 Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works. 11 Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people. 12 Crush the head of the princes of the enemies that say: There is no other beside us. 13 Gather together all the tribes of Jacob: that they may know that there is no God besides thee, and may declare thy great works: and thou shalt inherit them as from the beginning. 14 Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn. 15 Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city which thou hast sanctified, the city of thy rest. 16 Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words, and thy people with thy glory. 17 Give testimony to them that are thy creatures from the beginning, and raise up the prophecies which the former prophets spoke in thy name. 18 Reward them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may be found faithful: and hear the prayers of thy servants, 19 According to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, and direct us into the way of justice, and let all know that dwell upon the earth, that thou art God the beholder of all ages. 20 The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another. 21 The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches. 22 A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it. 23 A woman will receive every man: yet one daughter is better than another. 24 The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance of her husband, and a man desireth nothing more. 25 If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men. 26 He that possesseth a good wife, beginneth a possession: she is a help like to himself, and a pillar of rest. 27 Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want. 28 Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from city to city.
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Psalm 150
Laudate Dominum In SanctisAn exhortation to praise God with all sorts of instruments.
1 Alleluia. PRAISE ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness. 3 Praise him with sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs. 5 Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: 6 let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.
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PRIME:
Psalm 93
Deus UltionemGod shall judge and punish the oppressors of his people. 1 A psalm for David himself on the fourth day of the week. THE Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely. 2 Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud. 3 How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory? 4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice? 5 Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance. 6 They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless. 7 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand. 8 Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last. 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider? 10 He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge? 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain. 12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law. 13 That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked. 14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance. 15 Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart. 16 Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity? 17 Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell. 18 If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me. 19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul. 20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? 21 They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood. 22 But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope. 23 And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.
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Psalm 94
Venite ExultemusAn invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear his voice. 1 Praise of a canticle for David himself. COME let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 4 For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his. 5 For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. 6 Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us. 7 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. 8 To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: 9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works. 10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. 11 And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.
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Psalm 107
Paratum Cor MeusThe prophet praiseth God for benefits received. 1 A canticle of a psalm for David himself. 2 MY heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory. 3 Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early. 4 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the nations. 5 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds. 6 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth: 7 that thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and hear me. 8 God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out 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. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe: the aliens are become my friends. 11 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? 12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies? 13 O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 14 Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies to nothing.
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TERCE:
Psalm 101
Domine ExaudiA prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm. 1 The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. 2 HEAR, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee. 3 Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. 4 For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. 5 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. 6 Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh. 7 I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house. 8 I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop. 9 All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me. 10 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. 11 Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down. 12 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. 13 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations. 14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come. 15 For 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 For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory. 18 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition. 19 Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord: 20 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. 21 That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain: 22 That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem; 23 When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord. 24 He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days. 25 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. 26 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands. 27 They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. 28 But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail. 29 The children of thy servants shall continue: and their seed shall be directed for ever.
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SEXT:
Psalm 103
Benedic AnimaGod is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderful providence. 1 For David himself. BLESS the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty: 2 and art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: 3 who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds. 4 Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire. 5 Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever. 6 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand. 7 At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear. 8 The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth. 10 Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass. 11 All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall expect in their thirst. 12 Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices. 13 Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works: 14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: 15 and that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart. 16 The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: 17 there the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them is the house of the heron. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins. 19 He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. 20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about: 21 The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God. 22 The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens. 23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening. 24 How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches. 25 So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great. 26 There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein. 27 All expect of thee that thou give them food in season. 28 What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all be filled with good. 29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust. 30 Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. 31 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works. 32 He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke. 33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in the Lord. 35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord.
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NONE:
Psalm 108
Deus Laudem MeamDavid, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors; more especially the traitor Judas; foretelling and approving his just punishment for his obstinacy in sin and final impenitence. 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. 2 O GOD, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. 3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause. 4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. 5 And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love. 6 Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin. 8 May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings. 11 May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours. 12 May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring. 13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out. 14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: 16 because he remembered not to shew mercy, 17 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death. 18 And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones. 19 May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually. 20 This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul. 21 But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me, 22 for I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. 23 I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts. 24 My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil. 25 And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked 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 that thou, O Lord, hast done it. 28 They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. 29 Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak. 30 I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him. 31 Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors
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VESPERS:
Psalm 143
Benedictus DominusThe prophet praiseth God, and prayeth to be delivered from his enemies. No worldly happiness is to be compared with that of serving God. 1 A psalm of David against Goliath. BLESSED be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. 2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, 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 makest account of him? 4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. 5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke. 6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them. 7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: 8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. 9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee. 10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword: 11 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; 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 decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: 13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: 14 their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets. 15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
Haydock’s Bible Commentary
Psalm 144
Exaltabo Te DeusA psalm of praise, to the infinite majesty of God. 1 Praise, for David himself. I WILL extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end. 4 Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power. 5 They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works. 6 And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness. 7 They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice. 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy. 9 The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. 10 Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee. 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power: 12 To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom. 13 Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works. 14 The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down. 15 The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season. 16 Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature. 17 The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth. 19 He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them. 20 The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy. 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless thy holy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
Haydock’s Bible Commentary
COMPLINE:
Psalm 87
Domine Deus SalutisA prayer of one under grievous affliction: it agrees to Christ in his passion, and allude to his death and burial. 1 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. 2 O LORD, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee. 3 Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition. 4 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. 5 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, 6 free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand. 7 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. 8 Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me. 9 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: 10 my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee. 11 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee? 12 Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction? 13 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness? 14 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee. 15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me? 16 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. 17 Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me. 18 They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together. 19 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.
Haydock’s Bible Commentary
Psalm 102
Benedic AnimaThanksgiving to God for his mercies. 1 For David himself. BLESS the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee. 3 Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases. 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion. 5 Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's. 6 The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong. 7 He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy. 9 He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever. 10 He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us. 13 As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: 14 for he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust: 15 man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. 16 For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more. 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children, 18 to such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his commandments to do them. 19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom shall rule over all. 20 Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders. 21 Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do his will. 22 Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O my soul, bless thou the Lord. Glory be to the Father...
Haydock’s Bible Commentary
Divine Office "Liturgy of the Hours"
The Psalms: The Perfect Prayer Book for Everyone
"Ego sum Alpha et Omega, princípium
et finis, dicit Dóminus Deus : qui est,
et qui erat, et qui ventúrus est, omnípotens".
"The psalms are prayer, in which God Himself teaches us how to pray; for they were written under the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Herein we have the answer to the question: "What prayers shall I say?" Why the prayers of Holy Scripture itself! "There is no need to scrape together endless man-made prayers when Sacred Scripture frames the very thoughts of God." The psalms are the vital presentation of God's inspirations and man's aspirations; they are the ideal manifestations of man's hunger and thirst after God and of God's loving response to man. Of great age, they are ever new and appropriate. They are as satisfying and stimulating to us of the twentieth century as they were to men before the birth of Christ and down through the Apostolic and Middle Ages".
Rev. Joseph B. Frey; July 16, 1947.
From My Daily Psalm Book, Arranged by Father Joseph Frey, Confraternity of the Precious Blood (1947) pp.vi-ix.
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New word in the first psalm - scinith.
Sciniph - acc. to the Free Online Dictionary, some kind of stinging or biting insect, like a flea or gnat.
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Sciniph is the right word according to my bible?
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