selves become weak and et ceciderunt. fallen. If therefore whole armies draw up against me,* my heart shall not fear. If the battle rise up against me; I will still keep up my hopes. One thing have I asked of the Lord, and that will I persist to ask; * that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the beauty of the Lord, * and visit his holy temple. For he heretofore concealed me in his tabernacle; in the day of evil he protected me in a secret part of his tabernacle. He placed me on a rock on high: * and now again he hath raised my head above my enemies. I will go round, and offer a victim in his tabernacle with shouts of joy :* I will sing and perform a hymn unto the Lord. Hear, O Lord, my voice, by which I have cried out to thee; have mercy on me, and hear me. To thee my heart hath said; my face hath sought thee; thy face, O Lord, will I still seek. Turn not away thy face from me ; * turn not off in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my help; * forsake me not, nor slight me, O God my Saviour. For my father and my mother have abandoned me; * but the Lord hath taken care of me. Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way ;*and direct me in the right path because of my enemies. Deliver me not over to the will of them that afflict me; * for unjust witnesses have stood up against me, and iniquity hath belied itself. I hope to see the good things of the Lord, * in the land of the living. Expect the Lord, act manfully; and let thy heart be stout and wait the Lord. Anth. I hope to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living. V. May the Lord place them with princes. R. With the princes of his people. Da Our Father. IV. LESSON. O thou answer me. How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my crimes and offences. Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy? Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and pursuest a dry straw. For thou writest bitter things against me, and hast a mind to consume me for the sins of my youth. Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths; and thou hast considered the steps of my feet. Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is eaten by the moth. R. Remember me, O God, for my life is a blast,* neither let the face of man see me. V. From the deep I cried out to thee, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice. Neither let, &c. to V. M V. LESSON. AN born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. He cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such a one, and to bring him to judgment with thee? Who can make him clean, that was conceived of unclean seed? Is it not thou, who alone art? The days of man are short, and the number of his months is before thee: thou hast appointed his bounds, which cannot be passed. Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished-for day come, as that of the hireling. R. Woe be to me, O Lord, for I have sinned greatly in my life: unhappy wretch, what shall I do! Whither shall I fly but to thee, O my God?* Have mercy on me, when thou comest at the last day. V. My soul is greatly dismayed, but do thou, O Lord, assist it. * &c. to V. WHO Have mercy, R. Hei mihi, Domine, quia peccavi nimis, in vita mea: quid faciam miser! Ubi fugiam nisi ad te, Deus meus? * Miserere mei, dum veneris in novissimo die. V. Anima mea turbata est valde, sed tu, Domine, succurre ei.* Miserere, &c. to V. VI. LESSON. HO will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, † and hide me, till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me? Shall a man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? All the days, in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come. Thou shalt call to me, and I will answer thee; to the work of thy own hands thou wilt stretch out thy right hand. Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but pardon me my sins. + Expl. Among the dead, in the place of departed souls before the coming of Christ. tation have I waited for the Lord: * and he hath lent an ear to me. And he hath heard my prayers ;*and hath brought me out of the pit of misery and out of the dirty mire. And he hath set my feet on a rock : * and directed my steps. And he hath put in my mouth a new canticle: * song to our God, a Many shall see this with awful fear and place their hope in the Lord. : Blessed is the man, whose hope is the name of the Lord: * and who hath not looked up to vanities and lying follies.+ Thou hast multiplied, O Lord my God, thy wonders; * and in thy designs none is like to thee. I have attempted to relate them, and to speak of vi Dominum; intendit mihi. et Et exaudivit preces meas; *et eduxit me de lacu miseriæ et de luto fæcis. Et statuit supra petram pedes meos; * et direxit gressus meos. Et immisit in os meum canticum novum ;* carmen Deo nostro. Videbunt multi, et timebunt; * et sperabunt in Domino. Beatus vir, cujus est nomen Domini spes ejus ;* et non respexit in vanitates, et insanias falsas Multa fecisti tu, Domine Deus meus, mirabilia tua ; i * et cogitationibus tuis non est qui similis sit tibi. Annuntiavi et locutus sum; multiplicati sunt: +Expl. Idols and idolatrous practices. * Sacrifice and oblation thou desiredst not: * but thou openedst my ears for me.‡ Burnt-offering and sinoffering thou requiredst not ;* then I said; Behold I come. § || In the beginning of the book it is written of me, that I was to do thy will;* 'tis what I have desired, O my God, and that thy law should be in the centre of my heart. I have published thy justice in the great assembly; *lo I will not restrain my lips; thou, O Lord, knowest it. Thy justice I have not hid within my heart; * I have published thy truth† and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy nor thy truth* from the numerous assembly. With-hold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me; thy mercy and thy truth have always been my support. For evils without number super numerum. Sacrificium et oblationem noluisti;* aures autem perfecisti mihi. Holocaustum & pro peccato non postulasti :* tunc dixi: Ecce venio. In capite libri scriptum est de me, ut facerem voluntatem tuam: * Deus meus, volui, & legem tuam in medio cordis mei. Annuntiavi justitiam tuam in ecclesia magna;* ecce labia mea non prohibebo : Domine, tu scisti. Justitiam tuam non abscondi in corde meo:* veritatem tuam, et salutare tuum dixi. Non abscondi misericordiam tuam, et veritatem tuam * a concilio multo. Tu autem, Domine, ne longe facias miserationes tuas a me : * misericordia tua et veritas tua semper susceperunt me. Quoniam circumdede Expl. The ears of Christ, as man, were opened to hear and obey the commandment of God with regard to the plan of the redemption of mankind. Expl. The typical sacrifices were no longer required by God, when the time for the real victim to appear was come. Expl. In the beginning of Genesis, immediately after the fall of man, a promise was made that the seed of the woman should crush the head of the serpent, and so execute the gracious will and design of God with regard to the redemption of mankind. Or, in capite libri, may signify throughout the whole book, as not only the prophetical writings, but the whole history of the people of God, and the ceremonial precepts pointed him He was the end of the law. + Expl. The certain promise of God, and the accomplishment thereof, the salvation of mankind. out. |