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1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me until the end? How long will you turn your face away from me?

2 How long can I take counsel in my soul, sorrowing in my heart throughout the day?

3 How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

4 Look upon me and listen to me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes, lest I fall asleep forever in death,

5 lest at any time my enemy may say, “I have prevailed against him.” Those who trouble me will exult, if I have been disturbed.

6 But I have hoped in your mercy. My heart will exult in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, who assigns good things to me. And I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They were corrupted, and they have become abominable in their studies. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.

2 The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God.

3 They have all gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.

4 Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully; the venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.

5 Their feet are swift to shed blood. Grief and unhappiness are in their ways; and the way of peace, they have not known.

6 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

7 Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?

8 They have not called upon the Lord. There, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear.

9 For the Lord is with the just generation. You have confounded the counsel of the needy because the Lord is his hope.

10 Who will grant the salvation of Israel from Zion? When the Lord turns away the captivity of his people, Jacob will exult, and Israel will rejoice.

1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, who will dwell in your tabernacle? Or who will rest on your holy mountain?

2 He who walks without blemish and who works justice.

3 He who speaks the truth in his heart, who has not acted deceitfully with his tongue, and has not done evil to his neighbor, and has not taken up a reproach against his neighbors.

4 In his sight, the malicious one has been reduced to nothing, but he glorifies those who fear the Lord. He who swears to his neighbor and does not deceive.

5 He who has not given his money in usury, nor accepted bribes against the innocent. He who does these things will be undisturbed for eternity.

1 The inscription of a title: of David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, because I have hoped in you.

2 I have said to the Lord: “You are my God, so you have no need of my goodness.”

3 As for the saints, who are in his land: he has made all my desires wonderful in them.

4 Their infirmities have been multiplied; after this, they acted more quickly. I will not gather for their convocations of blood, nor will I remember their names with my lips.

5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup. It is you who will restore my inheritance to me.

6 The lots have fallen upon me with clarity. And, indeed, my inheritance has been very clear to me.

7 I will bless the Lord, who has bestowed understanding upon me. Moreover, my temperament has also corrected me, even through the night.

8 I have made provision for the Lord always in my sight. For he is at my right hand, so that I may not be disturbed.

9 Because of this, my heart has been joyful, and my tongue has exulted. Moreover, even my body will rest in hope.

10 For you will not abandon my soul to Hell, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

11 You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy by your countenance. At your right hand are delights, even to the end.

1 A Prayer of David. Lord, listen to my justice, attend to my supplication. Pay attention to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

2 Let my judgment proceed from your presence. Let your eyes behold fairness.

3 You have tested my heart and visited it by night. You have examined me by fire, and iniquity has not been found in me.

4 Therefore, may my mouth not speak the works of men. I have kept to difficult ways because of the words of your lips.

5 Perfect my steps in your paths, so that my footsteps may not be disturbed.

6 I have cried out because you, O God, have listened to me. Incline your ear to me and heed my words.

7 Make your mercies wonderful, for you save those who hope in you.

8 From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,

9 from the face of the impious who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul.

10 They have concealed their fatness; their mouth has been speaking arrogantly.

11 They have cast me out, and now they have surrounded me. They have cast their eyes down to the earth.

12 They have taken me, like a lion ready for the prey, and like a young lion dwelling in hiding.

13 Rise up, O Lord, arrive before him and displace him. Deliver my soul from the impious one: your spear from the enemies of your hand.

14 Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life. Their gut has been filled from your hidden stores. They have been filled with sons, and they have bequeathed to their little ones the remainder.

15 But as for me, I will appear before your sight in justice. I will be satisfied when your glory appears.

1 Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:

2 I will love you, O Lord my strength.

3 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

4 Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies.

5 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.

6 The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me.

7 In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into his ears.

8 The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.

9 A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it.

10 He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.

11 And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds.

12 And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

13 At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire.

14 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

15 And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.

16 Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed, by your rebuke, O Lord, by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath.

17 He sent from on high, and he accepted me. And he took me up, out of many waters.

18 He rescued me from my strongest enemies, and from those who hated me. For they had been too strong for me.

19 They intercepted me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my protector.

20 And he led me out, into a wide place. He accomplished my salvation, because he willed me.

21 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice, and he will repay me according to the purity of my hands.

22 For I have preserved the ways of the Lord, and I have not behaved impiously before my God.

23 For all his judgments are in my sight, and his justice, I have not pushed away from me.

24 And I will be immaculate together with him, and I will keep myself from my iniquity.

25 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

26 With the holy, you will be holy, and with the innocent, you will be innocent,

27 and with the elect, you will be elect, and with the perverse, you will be perverse.

28 For you will save the humble people, but you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant.

29 For you illuminate my lamp, O Lord. My God, enlighten my darkness.

30 For in you, I will be delivered from temptation; and with my God, I will climb over a wall.

31 As for my God, his way is undefiled. The eloquence of the Lord has been examined by fire. He is the protector of all who hope in him.

32 For who is God, except the Lord? And who is God, except our God?

33 It is God who has wrapped me with virtue and made my way immaculate.

34 It is he who has perfected my feet, like the feet of deer, and who stations me upon the heights.

35 It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass.

36 And you have given me the protection of your salvation. And your right hand sustains me. And your discipline has corrected me unto the end. And your discipline itself will teach me.

37 You have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened.

38 I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them. And I will not turn back until they have failed.

39 I will break them, and they will not be able to stand. They will fall under my feet.

40 And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle. And those rising up against me, you have subdued under me.

41 And you have given the back of my enemies to me, and you have destroyed those who hated me.

42 They cried out, but there was none to save them, to the Lord, but he did not heed them.

43 And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind, so that I will obliterate them like the mud in the streets.

44 You will rescue me from the contradictions of the people. You will set me at the head of the Gentiles.

45 A people I did not know has served me. As soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me.

46 The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.

47 The Lord lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted:

48 O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me, my liberator from my enraged enemies.

49 And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me. From the iniquitous man, you will rescue me.

50 Because of this, O Lord, I will confess to you among the nations, and I will compose a psalm to your name:

51 magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring, even for all time.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

2 The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.

3 Day proclaims the word to day, and night to night imparts knowledge.

4 There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard.

5 Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

6 He has placed his tabernacle in the sun, and he is like a bridegroom coming out of his bedroom. He has exulted like a giant running along the way;

7 his departure is from the summit of heaven. And his course reaches all the way to its summit. Neither is there anyone who can hide himself from his heat.

8 The law of the Lord is immaculate, converting souls. The testimony of the Lord is faithful, providing wisdom to little ones.

9 The justice of the Lord is right, rejoicing hearts. The precepts of the Lord are brilliant, enlightening the eyes.

10 The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for all generations. The judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves:

11 desirable beyond gold and many precious stones, and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

12 For, indeed, your servant keeps them, and in keeping them, there are many rewards.

13 Who can understand transgression? From my hidden faults, cleanse me, O Lord,

14 and from those of others, spare your servant. If they will have no dominion over me, then I will be immaculate, and I will be cleansed from the greatest transgression.

15 And the eloquence of my mouth will be so as to please, along with the meditation of my heart, in your sight, forever, O Lord, my helper and my redeemer.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

2 May the Lord hear you in the day of tribulation. May the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

3 May he send you help from the sanctuary and watch over you from Zion.

4 May he be mindful of all your sacrifices, and may your burnt-offerings be fat.

5 May he grant to you according to your heart, and confirm all your counsels.

6 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God, we will be magnified.

7 May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ. He will hear him from his holy heaven. The salvation of his right hand is in his power.

8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God.

9 They have been bound, and they have fallen. But we have risen up, and we have been set upright.

10 O Lord, save the king, and hear us on the day that we will call upon you.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

2 In your virtue, Lord, the king will rejoice, and over your salvation, he will exult exceedingly.

3 You have granted him the desire of his heart, and you have not cheated him of the wish of his lips.

4 For you have gone ahead of him with blessings of sweetness. You have placed a crown of precious stones on his head.

5 He petitioned you for life, and you have granted him length of days, in the present time, and forever and ever.

6 Great is his glory in your salvation. Glory and great adornment, you will lay upon him.

7 For you will give him as a blessing forever and ever. You will make him rejoice with gladness in your presence.

8 Because the king hopes in the Lord, and in the mercy of the Most High, he will not be disturbed.

9 May your hand be found by all your enemies. May your right hand discover all those who hate you.

10 You will make them like an oven of fire, in the time of your presence. The Lord will stir them up with his wrath, and fire will devour them.

11 You will destroy their fruit from the earth and their offspring from the sons of men.

12 For they have turned evils upon you; they have devised plans, which they have not been able to accomplish.

13 For you will make them turn their back; with your remnants, you will prepare their countenance.

14 Be exalted, Lord, by your own power. We will play music and sing psalms to your virtues.

1 Unto the end. For the tasks of early morning. A Psalm of David.

2 O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses.

3 My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me.

4 But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel.

5 In you, our fathers have hoped. They hoped, and you freed them.

6 They cried out to you, and they were saved. In you, they hoped and were not confounded.

7 But I am a worm and not a man: a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.

8 All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.

9 He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. Let him save him because he chooses him.

10 For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, my hope from the breasts of my mother.

11 I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God.

12 Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me.

13 Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me.

14 They have opened their mouths over me, just like a lion seizing and roaring.

15 And so, I have been poured out like water, and all my bones have been scattered. My heart has become like wax, melting in the midst of my chest.

16 My strength has dried up like clay, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death.

17 For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

18 They have numbered all my bones. And they have examined me and stared at me.

19 They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots.

20 But you, O Lord, do not take your help far from me; be attentive to my defense.

21 O God, rescue my soul from the spear, and my only one from the hand of the dog.

22 Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my humility from the horns of single-horned beast.

23 I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.

24 You who fear the Lord, praise him. All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him.

25 May all the offspring of Israel fear him. For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor. Neither has he turned his face away from me. And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.

26 My praise is with you, within a great church. I will pay my vows in the sight of those who fear him.

27 The poor will eat and be satisfied, and those who yearn for the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will live forever and ever.

28 All the ends of the earth will remember, and they will be converted to the Lord. And all the families of the Gentiles will adore in his sight.

29 For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, and he will have dominion over the Gentiles.

30 All the fat of the earth have gnashed their teeth, and they have adored. In his sight, they will fall down, all those who descend to the ground.

31 And my soul will live for him, and my offspring will serve him.

32 There will be announced for the Lord a future generation, and the heavens will announce his justice to a people who will be born, whom the Lord has made.