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1 A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.

2 O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.

3 For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.

4 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.

5 They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”

6 For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:

7 the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,

8 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.

9 For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.

10 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.

11 They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.

12 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders

13 who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”

14 My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.

15 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.

16 So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.

17 Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.

18 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.

19 And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.

1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.

2 How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

3 My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.

4 For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

5 Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age.

6 Blessed is the man whose help is from you. In his heart, he is disposed to ascend

7 from the valley of tears, from the place which he has determined.

8 For even the lawgiver will provide a blessing; they will go from virtue to virtue. The God of gods will be seen in Zion.

9 O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob.

10 O God, gaze upon our protector, and look upon the face of your Christ.

11 For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

12 For God loves mercy and truth. The Lord will give grace and glory.

13 He will not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in you.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.

2 O Lord, you have blessed your land. You have turned aside the captivity of Jacob.

3 You have released the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sins.

4 You have mitigated all your wrath. You have turned aside from the wrath of your indignation.

5 Convert us, O God, our Savior, and turn your anger away from us.

6 Will you be angry with us forever? And will you extend your wrath from generation to generation?

7 O God, you will turn back and revive us. And your people will rejoice in you.

8 O Lord, reveal to us your mercy, and grant to us your salvation.

9 I will listen to what the Lord God may be saying to me. For he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those who are being converted to the heart.

10 So then, truly his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that glory may inhabit our land.

11 Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.

12 Truth has risen from the earth, and justice has gazed down from heaven.

13 For so will the Lord give goodness, and our earth will give her fruit.

14 Justice will walk before him, and he will set his steps upon the way.

1 A Prayer of David himself. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me. For I am needy and poor.

2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy. My God, bring salvation to your servant who hopes in you.

3 O Lord, be merciful to me, for I have cried out to you all day long.

4 Give joy to the soul of your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to you, Lord.

5 For you are sweet and mild, Lord, and plentiful in mercy to all who call upon you.

6 Pay attention, Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplication.

7 In the day of my tribulation, I cried out to you, because you heeded me.

8 There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord, and there is no one like you in your works.

9 All the nations, which you have made, will draw near and adore in your presence, O Lord. And they will glorify your name.

10 For you are great, and you perform wonders. You alone are God.

11 Lead me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth. May my heart rejoice, so that it will fear your name.

12 I will confess to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart. And I will glorify your name in eternity.

13 For your mercy toward me is great, and you have rescued my soul from the lower part of Hell.

14 O God, the iniquitous have risen up against me, and the synagogue of the powerful have sought my soul, and they have not placed you in their sight.

15 And you, Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, being patient and full of mercy and truthful.

16 Look down upon me and have mercy on me. Grant your authority to your servant, and bring salvation to the son of your handmaid.

17 Make me a sign of what is good, so that those who hate me, may look and be confounded. For you, O Lord, have helped me and consoled me.

1 A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains:

2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3 Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.

4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.

5 Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

6 The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her.

7 For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.

1 A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite.

2 O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.

3 Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition.

4 For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell.

5 I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance,

6 idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand.

7 They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death.

8 Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me.

9 You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart.

10 My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you.

11 Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you?

12 Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition?

13 Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion?

14 And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you.

15 Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me?

16 I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed.

17 Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me.

18 They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once.

19 Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery.

1 The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite.

2 I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation.

3 For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.

4 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:

5 I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.

6 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.

7 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?

8 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.

9 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.

10 You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.

11 You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.

12 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.

13 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.

14 Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.

15 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.

16 Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,

17 and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.

18 For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.

19 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.

20 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.

21 I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

22 For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.

23 The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.

24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.

25 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.

26 And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

27 He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”

28 And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.

29 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.

30 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.

31 But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,

32 if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:

33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.

34 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.

35 And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.

36 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,

37 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,

38 and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.

39 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.

40 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.

41 You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.

42 All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.

43 You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies.

44 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.

45 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.

46 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.

47 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire?

48 Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?

49 Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld?

50 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?

51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.

52 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.

53 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.

1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.

2 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.

3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.

4 For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,

5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.

6 In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.

7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.

8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.

9 For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.

10 The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.

11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath

12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.

14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.

15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.

16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.

17 And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.

1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David. Whoever dwells with the assistance of the Most High will abide in the protection of the God of heaven.

2 He will say to the Lord, “You are my supporter and my refuge.” My God, I will hope in him.

3 For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word.

4 He will overshadow you with his shoulders, and you will hope under his wings.

5 His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night,

6 before the arrow flying in the day, before the troubles that wander in the darkness, nor of invasion and the midday demon.

7 A thousand will fall before your side and ten thousand before your right hand. Yet it will not draw near you.

8 So then, truly, you will consider with your eyes, and you will see the retribution of sinners.

9 For you, O Lord, are my hope. You have set the Most High as your refuge.

10 Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle.

11 For he has given his Angels charge over you, so as to preserve you in all your ways.

12 With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone.

13 You will walk over the asp and the king serpent, and you will trample the lion and the dragon.

14 Because he has hoped in me, I will free him. I will protect him because he has known my name.

15 He will cry out to me, and I will heed him. I am with him in tribulation. I will rescue him, and I will glorify him.

16 I will fill him with length of days. And I will reveal to him my salvation.

1 A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath.

2 It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:

3 to announce your mercy in the morning, and your truth throughout the night,

4 upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments.

5 For you, O Lord, have delighted me with your doings, and I will exult in the works of your hands.

6 How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts have been made exceedingly deep.

7 A foolish man will not know these things, and a senseless one will not understand:

8 when sinners will have risen up like grass, and when all those who work iniquity will have appeared, that they shall pass away, age after age.

9 But you, O Lord, are the Most High for all eternity.

10 For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed.

11 And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.

12 And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me.

13 The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.

14 Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

15 They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,

16 so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.