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1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. In the time before the Sabbath, when the earth was founded.

2 The Lord has reigned. He has been clothed with beauty.

3 The Lord has been clothed with strength, and he has girded himself. Yet he has also confirmed the world, which will not be moved.

4 My throne is prepared from of old. You are from everlasting.

5 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

6 before the noise of many waters. Wondrous are the surges of the sea; wondrous is the Lord on high.

7 Your testimonies have been made exceedingly trustworthy. Sanctity befits your house, O Lord, with length of days.

1 A Psalm of David himself. The Fourth Sabbath. The Lord is the God of retribution. The God of retribution acts in order to deliver.

2 Lift yourself up, for you judge the earth. Repay the arrogant with retribution.

3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?

4 How long will they utter and speak iniquity? How long will all who work injustice speak out?

5 They have humiliated your people, O Lord, and they have harassed your inheritance.

6 They have executed the widow and the new arrival, and they have slaughtered the orphan.

7 And they have said, “The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob understand.”

8 Understand, you senseless ones among the people. And be wise at last, you foolish ones.

9 He who formed the ear, will he not hear? And he who forged the eye, does he not look closely?

10 He who chastises nations, he who teaches man knowledge, will he not rebuke?

11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men: that these are in vain.

12 Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. And you will teach him from your law.

13 So may you soothe him from the evil days, until a pit may be dug for sinners.

14 For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance,

15 even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart.

16 Who will rise up with me against the malignant? Or who will stand with me against the workers of iniquity?

17 Except that the Lord assisted me, my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell.

18 If ever I said, “My foot is slipping,” then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, your consolations have given joy to my soul.

20 Does the seat of iniquity adhere to you, you who contrive hardship within a commandment?

21 They will hunt down the soul of the just, and they will condemn innocent blood.

22 And the Lord has been made into a refuge for me, and my God into the assistance of my hope.

23 And he will repay them their iniquity, and he will destroy them in their malice. The Lord our God will utterly destroy them.

1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior.

2 Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms.

3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods.

4 For in his hand are all the limits 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 prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who 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 If today you 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 tested me, though they had seen my works.

10 For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart.

11 And these have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest.

1 A Canticle of David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing to the Lord and bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day.

3 Announce his glory among the Gentiles, his miracles among all peoples.

4 For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is terrible, beyond all gods.

5 For all the gods of the Gentiles are demons, but the Lord made the heavens.

6 Confession and beauty are in his sight. Sanctity and magnificence are in his sanctuary.

7 Bring to the Lord, you natives of the nations, bring to the Lord glory and honor.

8 Bring to the Lord glory for his name. Lift up sacrifices, and enter into his courts.

9 Adore the Lord in his holy court. Let the entire earth be shaken before his face.

10 Say among the Gentiles: The Lord has reigned. For he has even corrected the whole world, which will not be shaken. He will judge the peoples with fairness.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; let the sea and all its fullness be moved.

12 The fields and all the things that are in them will be glad. Then all the trees of the forest will rejoice

13 before the face of the Lord: for he arrives. For he arrives to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with fairness and the peoples with his truth.

1 This is to David, when his land was restored to him. The Lord has reigned, let the earth exult. Let the many islands rejoice.

2 Clouds and mist are all around him. Justice and judgment are corrections from his throne.

3 A fire will precede him, and it will enflame his enemies all around.

4 His lightnings have enlightened the whole world. The earth saw, and it was shaken.

5 The mountains flowed like wax before the face of the Lord, before the face of the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens announced his justice, and all peoples saw his glory.

7 May all those who adore graven images be confounded, along with those who glory in their false images. All you his Angels: Adore him.

8 Zion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Judah exulted because of your judgments, O Lord.

9 For you are the Most High Lord over all the earth. You are greatly exalted above all gods.

10 You who love the Lord: hate evil. The Lord watches over the souls of his holy ones. He will free them from the hand of the sinner.

11 The light has risen for the just, and joy for the upright of heart.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, you just ones, and confess to the memory of his sanctuary.

1 A Psalm of David himself. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has performed wonders. His right hand has accomplished salvation for him, with his holy arm.

2 The Lord has made known his salvation. He has revealed his justice in the sight of the nations.

3 He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

4 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth. Sing and exult, and sing psalms.

5 Sing psalms to the Lord with stringed instruments, with strings and the voice of a psalmist,

6 with subtle wind instruments and the voice of woodwinds. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king.

7 Let the sea be moved and all its fullness, the whole world and all who dwell in it.

8 The rivers will clap their hands, the mountains will exult together,

9 before the presence of the Lord. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with justice, and the peoples with fairness.

1 A Psalm of David himself. The Lord has reigned: let the peoples be angry. He sits upon the cherubim: let the earth be moved.

2 The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all peoples.

3 May they confess to your great name, for it is terrible and holy.

4 And the honor of the king loves judgment. You have prepared guidance. You have accomplished judgment and justice in Jacob.

5 Exalt the Lord our God, and adore the footstool of his feet, for it is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron are among his priests, and Samuel is among those who call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heeded them.

7 He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies and the precept that he gave them.

8 You heeded them, O Lord our God. You were a forgiving God to them, though taking vengeance on all their inventions.

9 Exalt the Lord our God, and adore on his holy mountain. For the Lord our God is holy.

1 A Psalm of Confession.

2 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation.

3 Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name.

5 For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation.

1 A Psalm of David himself. I will sing mercy and judgment to you, O Lord. I will sing psalms.

2 And I will have understanding within the immaculate way, when you will draw near to me. I wandered about in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

3 I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals.

4 The perverse heart did not adhere to me. And the malignant, who turned away before me, I would not recognize.

5 The one who secretly detracted his neighbor, this one I pursued. The one with an arrogant eye and an insatiable heart, with that one I would not eat.

6 My eyes looked toward the faithful of the earth, to sit with me. The one walking in the immaculate way, this one ministered to me.

7 He who has acted arrogantly will not dwell in the midst of my house. He who has spoken iniquity was not guided with the sight of my eyes.

8 In the morning, I executed all the sinners of the earth, so that I might scatter all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

1 The prayer of the pauper, when he was anxious, and so he poured out his petition in the sight of the Lord.

2 O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my outcry reach you.

3 Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly.

4 For my days have faded away like smoke, and my bones have dried out like firewood.

5 I have been cut down like hay, and my heart has withered, for I had forgotten to eat my bread.

6 Before the voice of my groaning, my bone has adhered to my flesh.

7 I have become like a pelican in solitude. I have become like a night raven in a house.

8 I have kept vigil, and I have become like a solitary sparrow on a roof.

9 All day long my enemies reproached me, and those who praised me swore oaths against me.

10 For I chewed on ashes like bread, and I mixed weeping into my drink.

11 By the face of your anger and indignation, you lifted me up and threw me down.

12 My days have declined like a shadow, and I have dried out like hay.

13 But you, O Lord, endure for eternity, and your memorial is from generation to generation.

14 You will rise up and take pity on Zion, for it is time for its mercy, for the time has come.

15 For its stones have pleased your servants, and they will take pity on its land.

16 And the Gentiles will fear your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory.

17 For the Lord has built up Zion, and he will be seen in his glory.

18 He has noticed of the prayer of the humble, and he has not despised their petition.

19 Let these things be written in another generation, and the people who will be created will praise the Lord.

20 For he has gazed from his high sanctuary. From heaven, the Lord has beheld the earth.

21 So may he hear the groans of those in shackles, in order that he may release the sons of the slain.

22 So may they announce the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem:

23 while the people convene, along with kings, in order that they may serve the Lord.

24 He responded to him in the way of his virtue: Declare to me the brevity of my days.

25 Do not call me back in the middle of my days: your years are from generation to generation.

26 In the beginning, O Lord, you founded the earth. And the heavens are the work of your hands.

27 They will perish, but you remain. And all will grow old like a garment. And, like a blanket, you will change them, and they will be changed.

28 Yet you are ever yourself, and your years will not decline.

29 The sons of your servants will live, and their offspring will be guided aright in every age.