9 They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set upright.

O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

PSALM XX.

Domine, in virtute.

Praise to God for Christ's exaltation after his passion. 1 Unto the end. A psalin for David. 2 IN thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.

3 Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and hast not withholden from him the will of his lips. 4 For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.

5 He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever. 6 His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him. 7 For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

8 For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

9 Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee. 10 Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them. 11 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men. 12 For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

13 For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face. 14 Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and praise thy power.

Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. 3 0 my God: I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

4 But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.

5 In thee have our fathers hoped; they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.

6 They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 7 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

8 All they that saw me have laughed me to Mat. 27. 46. Mark, 15. 34.-b Mat. 27. 39. Mark, 15. 29. Mat. 27. 43.-d Mat. 27. 35. John, 19. 23. & 24.- Heb. 2. 12.

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9 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him. 10 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother. 11 I was cast upon thee from the womb: From my mother's womb thou art my God, 12 depart not from me.

For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.

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

14 They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring. 15 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered.

My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. 17 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet. 18 They have numbered all my bones.

And they have looked and stared upon me. 19 They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots. 20 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence. 21 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog. 22 Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns. 23 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee. 24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.

25 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man.

Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me. 26 With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.

27 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.

28 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord:

And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

29 For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over the nations.

30 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

31 And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

32 There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew stead of remnants, St. Jerome renders it funes, that is, cords or strings, viz., of the bow of divine justice, from which God directs his arrows against the faces of his enemies.

Who are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ's triumphant ascension thither.

1 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. THE HE bearth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.

3 Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

6 This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob. 7 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye ifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of glory shall enter in.

8 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle. 9 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye ifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

10 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory.

PSALM XXIV. Ad te, Domine, levavi.

A prayer for grace, mercy, and protection against our

enemies.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. T O thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. 2 In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

3 Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded. 4 Let all them be confounded that act unjust hings without cause.

Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me hy paths.

Isa. 40. 11. Jer. 23. 5. Ezec. 34. 11. & 23. 1 Pet. 2. 25. & 5. 3. -b Ps. 49 12. 1 Cor. 10. 26.- John, 15. 25.

thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

6 Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.

7 The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember.

According to thy mercy remember thou me、 8 The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore for thy goodness' sake, O Lord. he will give a law to sinners in the way. 9 He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to the mthat seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

don my sin: for it is great. 11 For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt par

12 Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath

chosen.

13 His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

15 My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare. 16 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.

17 The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.

18 See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

19 Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred. 20 Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee. 21 The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee. 22 Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.

PSALM XXV. Judica me, Domine.

David's prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered, that he may come to worship him in his tabernacle. 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. UDGE me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.

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2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

3 For thy mercy is before my eyes: and I am well pleased with thy truth.

4 I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. 5 I have hated the assembly of the malignant ; and with the wicked I will not sit. 6I will wash my hands among the innocent: and will compass thy altar, O Lord. 7 That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works.

8 I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

9 Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

Fond is filled with gifts.

11 But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me. 12 My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord. PSALM XXVI. Dominus illuminatio. David's faith and hope in God. 1 The psalm of David before he was anointed. THE HE Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

2 Whilst the wicked drew near against me, to eat my flesh.

My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

3 If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear.

If a battle should rise up against me, in this

will I be confident.

4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

4 Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward. 5 Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands; thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.

6 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my supplication.

hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. 7The Lord is my helper and myprotector: in him And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him. 8 The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.

heritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever. 9 Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy in

PSALM XXVIII.

Afferte Domino.

An invitation to glorify God, with a commemoration of his mighty works.

6 He hath exalted me upon a rock and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord,

7 Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me. 8 My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek. 9 Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant.

Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour. 10 For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken me up.

11 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies. 12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself. 13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord. PSALM XXVII. Ad te, Domine, clamabo David's prayer that his enemies may not prevail over him. 1 A psalm for David' himself. UNT NTO thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me; lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

2 Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.

3 Draw me not away together with the wicked;

Ps. 28. v. 6. Shall reduce them to pieces, &c. In Hebrew, Shall make them to skip like a calf. The psalmist here describes the effects of thunder (which he calls the voice of the Lord) which sometimes breaks down the tallest and strongest trees; and makes their broken

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RING to the Lord, O'ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of rams. 2 Bring to the Lord glory and honour; bring to the Lord glory to his name: adore ye the Lord in his holy court.

3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered; The Lord upon many waters.

4 The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in magnificence.

5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall break the cedars of Libanus. 6 And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son of unicorns. 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire; 8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake the desert of Cades. 9 The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover the thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory.

10 The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: and the Lord shall sit king for ever.

The Lord will give strength to his people: the Lord will bless his people with peace.

PSALM XXIX. Exaltabo te, Domine. David praiseth God for his deliverance, and his merciful dealings with him.

1 A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David's house.

2T WILL extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.

30 Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and thou hast healed me.

4 Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.

branches skip, fc. All this is to be understood mystically, of the powerful voice of God's word in his church; which has broke the pride of the great ones of this world, and brought many of them meekly and joyfully to submit their necks to the sweet yoke of Christ.

6 For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will.

In the evening weeping shall have place, and n the morning gladness.

7 And in my abundance I said: I shall never De moved.

8 O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty.

Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.

9 To thee, O Lord, will I cry; and I will make supplication to my God.

10 What profit is there in my blood, whilst go down to corruption?

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Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth? 11 The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me the Lord became my helper.

12 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy thou hast cut my sack-cloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:

13 To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.

PSALM XXX.

In te, Domine, speravi.

A prayer of a just man under affliction.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstacy. 2IN 2 TN thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice. 3 Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me.

Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

4 For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

5 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they bave hidden for me, for thou art my protector. 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth. 7 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose.

But I have hoped in the Lord: 8 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy.

For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

9 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: : my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

11 For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs.

My strength is weakened through poverty, and my bones are disturbed.

They that saw me without, fled from me. 13 am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed. 14 For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about.

While they assemble together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

15 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said Thou art my God. 16 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

17 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

18 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee.

Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell. 19 Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, witl. pride and abuse.

20 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee!

Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.

21 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

22 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn hi: wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city. 23 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

24 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

25 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

PSALM XXXI.

Beati quorum.

The second penitential psalm. 1 To David himself, understanding. LESSED are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

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2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 3 Because I was silent, my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

5 I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed.

I said I will confess against myself my injustice to the Lord; and thou hast forgiven he

"Luke, 23. 46.-b Rom. 4. 7.- Isa. 65. 24.

Ps. 31. v. 3. Because I was silent, &c. That is, whilst I kept silence, by concealing, or refusing to confess my sins, thy hand was heavy upon me, &c.

Ver. 4. 1am turned, &c. That is, I turn and roll about in my bed, to seek for ease in my pain, whilst the thorn of thy justice pierces my flesh, and sticks fast in me. Or, I am turned; that is, I am converted to thee my God, by being brought to a better understanding by thy chastisements. In the Hebrew it is, my moisture is turned into the droughts of the summer.

6 For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time.

not come nigh unto him. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shal

7 Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.

struct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go. 8I will give thee understanding, and I will in I will fix my eyes upon thee.

With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.

10 Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the

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cometh the upright.

2 Give praise to the Lord on the harp, sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

3 Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.

4 For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness.

5 He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the power of them by the spirit of his mouth:

7 Gathering together the waters of the sea as in a vessel; laying up the depths in store-houses. 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him. 9 For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.

10 The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.

11 But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inherit

ance.

13 The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men.

14 From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth. 15 He who hath made the hearts of every one of them who understandeth all their works. 16 The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength 17 Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the abundance of his strength.

18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him and on them that hope in his mercy. 19 To deliver their souls from death: and feed them in famine.

20 Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.

21 For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in ais holy name we have trusted. 22 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.

PSALM XXXIII.

Benedicam Dominum. An exhortation to the praise, and service of God. For David when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who dismissed him, and he went his way. [1 Kings, xxi.]

Gen. 1. 8. Judith, 16. 17.-b Luke, 1. 53.-1 Pet. 3. 10.4 Eccli. 15. 20. Heb. 4. 13.- Infra, 39. 15.

3 In the Lord shall my soul be praised; let the meek hear and rejoice.

4 O magnify the Lord with me: and let us extol his name together.

5 I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles.

6 Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

7 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 8 The angel of the Lord shall encamp round

about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.

9 O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

10 Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

11 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

12 Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

13 Who is the man that desireth life: who loveth to see good days?

14 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

15 Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.

16 The eyes of the Lord are upon the just · and his ears unto their prayers.

17 But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

18 The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles. 19 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit.

20 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them. 21 The Lord keepeth all their bones, not one of them shall be broken.

22 The death of the wicked is very evil: and they that hate the just shall be guilty. 23 The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall offend.

PSALM XXXIV.

Judica, Domine, nocentes me. David, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors: prophetically foreshewing the punishments that shall fall upon them.

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1 For David himself.

UDGE thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me.

2 Take hold of arms and shield and rise up to help me.

3 Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation.

4 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul.

Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.

5 Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them. 6 Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.