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1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Idumea.

2 O God, my God: to you, I keep vigil until first light. For you, my soul has thirsted, to you my body, in so many ways.

3 By a deserted land, both inaccessible and waterless, so I have appeared in the sanctuary before you, in order to behold your virtue and your glory.

4 For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise.

5 So will I bless you in my life, and I will lift up my hands in your name.

6 Let my soul be filled, as if with marrow and fatness; and my mouth will give praise with exultant lips.

7 When I have remembered you on my bed in the morning, I will meditate on you.

8 For you have been my helper. And I will exult under the cover of your wings.

9 My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me.

10 Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.

11 They will be delivered into the hand of the sword. They will be the portions of foxes.

12 Truly, the king will rejoice in God: all those who swear by him will be praised, because the mouth of those who speak iniquity has been blocked.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

2 Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.

3 You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity.

4 For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword; they have formed their bow into a bitter thing,

5 so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate.

6 They will suddenly shoot arrows at him, and they will not be afraid. They are resolute in their wicked talk. They have discussed hidden snares. They have said, “Who will see them?”

7 They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,

8 and God will be exalted. The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds,

9 and their tongues have been weakened against them. All those who saw them have been troubled;

10 and every man was afraid. And they announced the works of God, and they understood his acts.

11 The just will rejoice in the Lord, and they will hope in him. And all the upright of heart will be praised.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David. A Canticle of Jeremiah and Ezekiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go into exile.

2 O God, a hymn adorns you in Zion, and a vow will be repaid to you in Jerusalem.

3 Hear my prayer: all flesh will come to you.

4 Words of iniquity have prevailed over us. And you will pardon our impieties.

5 Blessed is he whom you have chosen and taken up. He will dwell in your courts. We will be filled with the good things of your house. Holy is your temple:

6 wonderful in equity. Hear us, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of a sea far away.

7 You prepare the mountains in your virtue, wrapped with power.

8 You stir up the depths of the sea, the noise of its waves. The nations will be troubled,

9 and those who dwell at the limits will be afraid, before your signs. You will make the passing of morning and evening enjoyable.

10 You have visited the earth, and you have saturated it. You have enriched it in so many ways. The river of God has been filled with water. You have prepared their food. For thus is its preparation.

11 Drench its streams, multiply its fruits; it will spring up and rejoice in its showers.

12 You will bless the crown of the year with your kindness, and your fields will be filled with abundance.

13 The beauty of the desert will fatten, and the hills will be wrapped with exultation.

14 The rams of the sheep have been clothed, and the valleys will abound with grain. They will cry out; yes, they will even utter a hymn.

1 Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of the Resurrection. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.

2 Proclaim a psalm to his name. Give glory to his praise.

3 Exclaim to God, “How terrible are your works, O Lord!” According to the fullness of your virtue, your enemies will speak lies about you.

4 Let all the earth adore you and sing psalms to you. May it sing a psalm to your name.

5 Draw near and see the works of God, who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men.

6 He converts the sea into dry land. They will cross the river on foot. There, we will rejoice in him.

7 He rules by his virtue for eternity. His eyes gaze upon the nations. May those who exasperate him, not be exalted in themselves.

8 Bless our God, you Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise be heard.

9 He has set my soul toward life, and he has granted that my feet may not be shaken.

10 For you, O God, have tested us. You have examined us by fire, just as silver is examined.

11 You have led us into a snare. You have placed tribulations on our back.

12 You have set men over our heads. We have crossed through fire and water. And you have led us out to refreshment.

13 I will enter your house with holocausts. I will repay my vows to you,

14 which my lips discerned and my mouth spoke, in my tribulation.

15 I will offer to you holocausts full of marrow, with the burnt offerings of rams. I will offer to you bulls as well as goats.

16 Draw near and listen, all you who fear God, and I will describe to you how much he has done for my soul.

17 I cried out to him with my mouth, and I extolled him under my breath.

18 If I have seen iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not heed me.

19 And yet, God has heeded me and he has attended to the voice of my supplication.

20 Blessed is God, who has not removed my prayer, nor his mercy, from me.

1 Unto the end. With hymns, a Canticle Psalm of David.

2 May God have mercy on us and bless us. May he shine his countenance upon us, and may he have mercy on us.

3 So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations.

4 Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you.

5 May the nations rejoice and exult. For you judge the peoples with equity, and you direct the nations on earth.

6 Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you.

7 The earth has provided her fruit. May God, our God, bless us.

8 May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him.

1 Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of David himself.

2 May God rise up, and may his enemies be scattered, and may those who hate him flee from before his face.

3 Just as smoke vanishes, so may they vanish. Just as wax flows away before the face of fire, so may sinners pass away before the face of God.

4 And so, let the just feast, and let them exult in the sight of God and be delighted in gladness.

5 Sing to God, sing a psalm to his name. Make a path for him, who ascends over the west. The Lord is his name. Exult in his sight; they will be stirred up before his face,

6 the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place.

7 It is God who makes men dwell in a house under one custom. He leads out those who are strongly bound, and similarly, those who exasperate, who dwell in sepulchers.

8 O God, when you departed in the sight of your people, when you passed through the desert,

9 the earth was moved, for the heavens rained down before the face of the God of Sinai, before the face of the God of Israel.

10 You will set aside for your inheritance, O God, a willing rain. And though it was weak, truly, you have made it perfect.

11 Your animals will dwell in it. O God, in your sweetness, you have provided for the poor.

12 The Lord will give the word to evangelizers, along with great virtue.

13 The King of virtue is beloved among the beloved. And the beauty of the house will divide spoils.

14 If you take your rest in the midst of the clergy, you will be like a dove whose wings are covered with fine silver and edged with pale gold.

15 When heaven discerns kings to be over her, they will be whitened with the snows of Zalmon.

16 The mountain of God is a fat mountain, a dense mountain, a thick mountain.

17 So then, why are you distrustful of dense mountains? The mountain on which God is well pleased to dwell, even there, the Lord will dwell until the end.

18 The chariot of God is ten thousand fold: thousands rejoice. The Lord is with them in Sinai, in the holy place.

19 You have ascended on high; you have taken captivity captive. You have accepted gifts among men. For even those who do not believe dwell with the Lord God.

20 Blessed is the Lord, day after day. The God of our salvation will make our journey prosper for us.

21 Our God is the God who will bring about our salvation, and our Lord is the Lord who has brought an end to death.

22 So then, truly, God will break the heads of his enemies, the hairy skull of those who wander around in their offenses.

23 The Lord said: I will turn them away from Bashan, I will turn them into the depths of the sea,

24 so that your feet may be soaked in the blood of your enemies, so that the tongue of your dogs may be soaked with the same.

25 O God, they have seen your arrival, the arrival of my God, of my king who is in a holy place.

26 The leaders went ahead, united with the singers of psalms, in the midst of girls playing on timbrels.

27 In the churches, bless the Lord God from the fountains of Israel.

28 In that place, Benjamin is a youth in ecstasy of mind. The leaders of Judah are their governors: the leaders of Zebulun, the leaders of Naphtali.

29 Command by your virtue, O God. Confirm in this place, O God, what you have wrought in us.

30 Before your temple in Jerusalem, kings will offer gifts to you.

31 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, a congregation of bulls with the cows of the people, for they seek to exclude those who have been tested like silver. Scatter the nations that are pleased by wars.

32 Ambassadors will come out of Egypt. Ethiopia will offer in advance her hands to God.

33 Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. Sing psalms to the Lord. Sing psalms to God.

34 He ascends, up to the heaven of the heavens, toward the east. Behold, he will utter his voice, the voice of virtue.

35 Give glory to God beyond Israel. His magnificence and his virtue is in the clouds.

36 God is wonderful in his saints. The God of Israel himself will give virtue and strength to his people. Blessed is God.

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David.

2 Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.

3 I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.

4 I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.

5 Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.

6 O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.

7 Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.

8 For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.

9 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.

10 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.

11 And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.

12 And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.

13 Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.

14 But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.

15 Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.

16 Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.

17 Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.

18 And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.

19 Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.

20 You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.

21 All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.

22 And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

23 Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.

24 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.

25 Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.

26 May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.

27 For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.

28 Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.

29 Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.

30 I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.

31 I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.

32 And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.

33 Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

34 For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.

35 Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.

36 For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.

37 And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David, in remembrance that the Lord had saved him.

2 O God, reach out to help me. O Lord, hasten to assist me.

3 May those who seek my soul be confounded and awed.

4 May those who wish evils upon me be turned back and blush with shame. May they be turned away immediately, blushing with shame, who say to me: “Well, well.”

5 Let all who seek you exult and rejoice in you, and let those who love your salvation forever say: “The Lord be magnified.”

6 I am truly destitute and poor. O God, assist me. You are my helper and my deliverer. O Lord, do not delay.

1 A Psalm of David. Of the sons of Jonadab and the former captives. In you, O Lord, I have hoped; do not let me be brought to ruin forever.

2 Free me by your justice, and rescue me. Incline your ear to me, and save me.

3 Be a God of protection and a place of strength for me, so that you may accomplish my salvation. For you are my firmament and my refuge.

4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, and from the hand of the unjust and those who act against the law.

5 For you, O Lord, are my patience: my hope from my youth, O Lord.

6 In you, I have been confirmed from conception. From my mother’s womb, you are my protector. In you, I will sing forever.

7 I have become to many as if I were a portent, but you are a strong helper.

8 Let my mouth be filled with praise, so that I may sing your glory, your greatness all day long.

9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age. Do not abandon me when my strength will fail.

10 For my enemies have spoken against me. And those who watched for my soul have taken counsel as one,

11 saying: “God has abandoned him. Pursue and overtake him. For there is no one to rescue him.”

12 O God, do not be far from me. O my God, provide for my assistance.

13 May they be confounded, and may they fail, who drag down my soul. Let them be covered with confusion and shame, who seek evils for me.

14 But I will always have hope. And I will add more to all your praise.

15 My mouth will announce your justice, your salvation all day long. For I have not known letters.

16 I will enter into the powers of the Lord. I will be mindful of your justice alone, O Lord.

17 You have taught me from my youth, O God. And so I will declare your wonders continuously,

18 even in old age and with grey hairs. Do not abandon me, O God, while I announce your arm to every future generation: your power

19 and your justice, O God, even to the highest great things that you have done. O God, who is like you?

20 How great is the tribulation that you have revealed to me: very great and evil. And so, turning back, you have brought me to life, and you have led me back again from the abyss of the earth.

21 You have multiplied your magnificence. And so, turning back to me, you have consoled me.

22 Therefore, I will confess your truth to you, with the instruments of the Psalter. O God, I will sing psalms to you with stringed instruments, O Holy One of Israel.

23 My lips will exult, when I sing to you, and also my soul, which you have redeemed.

24 And even my tongue will meditate on your justice all day long, when those who seek evils for me have been confounded and set in awe.

1 A Psalm according to Solomon.

2 Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.

3 Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.

4 He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

5 And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation.

6 He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.

7 In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.

8 And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.

9 In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground.

10 The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts.

11 And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him.

12 For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper.

13 He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.

14 He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.

15 And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long.

16 And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.

17 May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.

18 Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

19 And blessed is the name of his majesty in eternity. And all the earth will be filled with his majesty. Amen. Amen.

20 The praises of David, the son of Jesse, have reached an end.