you. ren. blessed us: he has blessed the house of 114. (116) Alleluia. I am well pleased because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication. Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live. The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the name of the Lord: O Lord, deliver my soul. 5 The Lord is merciful and righteous; yea, our God has pity. The Lord Gr. infants. preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he delivered me. + 7 Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with thee. For he has delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I shall be wellpleasing before the Lord in the land of the living. vant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast burst my bonds asunder. 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord. 18 I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people, 19 in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, Jerusalem. 116. (117) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye peoples. + Rom. 15.11. For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever. 117. (118) Alleluia. 9 It Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. Let now the house of Israel say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 3 Let now the house of Aaron say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 4 Let now all that fear the Lord say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 5 I called on the Lord out of affliction: and he hearkened to me, so as to bring me into a wide place. 6+ The Lord Heb. 13. 6. is my helper; and I will not fear what man shall do to me. The Lord is my helper; and I shall see my desire upon mine enemies. It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man. is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes. 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them. "They 10+ I believed, wherefore I have completely compassed me about: but + 2 Cor. 4. 13. spoken: but I was greatly in the name of the Lord I repulsed afflicted. "And I said in mine amaze- them. 12 They compassed me about as ment, Every man is a liar. 12 What bees do a honeycomb, and they burst shall I render to the Lord for all the into flame as fire among thorns: but things wherein he has rewarded me? in the name of the Lord I repulsed 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and them. 13 I was thrust, and sorely call upon the name of the Lord. 14 I shaken, that I might fall: but the will pay my vows to the Lord, in the Lord helped me. presence of all his people. 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. 16 O Lord, I am thy ser 115. Alleluia. The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of exultation and salvation is in the tabernacles corner. 21 of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord has wrought mightily. 16 The right hand of the Lord has exalted me: the right hand of the Lord has wrought powerfully. "I shall not die, but live, and recount the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord has chastened me sore: but he has not given me up to death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter by it. I will give thanks to thee; because thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. 22 The stone + Mat. 21. 42. which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the 23 This has been done of the Lord; and it is wonderful in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the Lord has made: let us exult and rejoice in it. 25 O Lord, save now: O Lord, send + Mat. 21. 9. now prosperity. 26+ Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord, and he has shined upon us: celebrate the feast with thick branches, binding + Possibly, the the victims even to the horns multitude, of the altar. 28 Thou art my God, and I will give thee thanks: thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. I will give thanks to thee, for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. 29 Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 9. d. cœtu frequenti. 118. (119) Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart. 3 For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways. 4 Thou hast commanded us diligently to keep thy precepts. 50 that my ways were directed to keep 6 Then shall I not thine ordinances. be ashamed, when I have respect to 8 7 I will give all thy commandments. thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learnt the judgments of thy righteousness. I will keep thine ordinances: O forsake me not greatly. "Wherewith shall a young +Gr. ews apódpa. man direct his way? by keeping thy words. 10 With my whole heart have I diligently sought thee: cast me not away from thy commandments. 11 I have hidden thine oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thine ordinances. 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate on thy commandments, and consider thy ways. 16 I will meditate on thine ordinances: I will not forget thy words. 17 Render a recompense to thy servant: so shall I live, and keep thy words. Open thou mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things out of thy law. 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. 20 My soul has longed exceedingly for thy judgments at all times. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud: cursed are they that turn aside from thy commandments. 22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out thy testimonies. 23 For princes sat and spoke against me: but thy servant was meditating on thine ordinances. 24 For thy testimonies are my meditation, and thine ordinances are my counsellors. 25 My soul has cleaved to the ground; quicken thou me according to thy word. 26 I declared my ways, and 18 thou didst hear me; teach me thine ordinances. 27 Instruct me in the way of thine ordinances; and I will meditate on thy wondrous works. 28 My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen 29 Remove thou me with thy words. from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by thy law. I have chosen the way of thy law. truth; and have not forgotten thy 30 +q. d. in teaching me 34 42 + Gr. αὕτη, in see note on or, counte 63 I judgments. I have cleaved to thy songs in the place of my sojourning. testimonies, O Lord; put me not to 55 I remembered thy name, O Lord, shame. 32 I ran the way of thy com- the night, and kept thy law. 56+ This mandments, when thou didst enlarge I had, because I diligently tse. as a law my heart. 33+ Teach me, O sought thine ordinances. Ps.77. (78) 69. giver. Lord, the way of thine or- 57 Thou art my portion, O Lord: I said dinances, and I will seek it out con- that I would keep thy law. 58 I betinually. Instruct me, and I will sought thy favour with my +Gr. presence, search out thy law, and will keep it whole heart: have mercy nance. with my whole heart. 35 Guide me in upon me according to thy tGr.λóyióv σov. the path of thy commandments; for I word. 59 I thought on thy ways, and have delighted in it. 36 Incline mine turned my feet to thy testimonies. 60 I heart to thy testimonies, and not to prepared myself, (and was not terrified,) covetousness. 37 Turn away mine eyes to keep thy commandments. 61 The that I may not behold vanity: quicken snares of sinners entangled me: but I thou me in thy way. 38 Confirm thine forgot not thy law. 62 At midnight I oracle to thy servant, that he may fear arose, to give thanks to thee for the thee. 39 Take away my reproach which judgments of thy righteousness. I have feared: for thy judgments are am a companion of all them that fear good. 40 Behold, I have desired thy thee, and of them that keep thy comcommandments: quicken me in thy mandments. 64 O Lord, the earth is righteousness. 41 And let thy mercy full of thy mercy: teach me thine orcome upon me, O Lord; even thy sal- dinances. 65 Thou hast wrought kindly vation, according to thy word. And with thy servant, O Lord, according so I shall render an answer to them to thy word. 66 Teach me kindness, that reproach me: for I have trusted and instruction, and knowledge: for I in thy words. 43 And take not the have believed thy commandments. word of truth utterly out of my mouth; 67 Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; for I have hoped in thy judgments. therefore have I kept thy word. 68 Good 44 So shall I keep thy law continually, art thou, O Lord; therefore in thy for ever and ever. 45 I walked also at goodness teach me thine ordinances. large for I sought out thy com- 69 The injustice of the proud has been mandments. 46 And I spoke of thy multiplied against me: but I will search testimonies before kings, and was not out thy commandments with all my + Or, exercised ashamed. 47 And I medi- heart. 70 Their heart has been curdled myself in. tated on thy command- like milk; but I have meditated on ments, which I loved exceedingly. thy law. 71 It is good for me that 48 And I lifted up my hands to thy thou hast afflicted me; that I might commandments which I loved; and I learn thine ordinances. 72 The law of meditated in thine ordinances. 49 Re- thy mouth is better to me than thoumember thy words to thy servant, sands of gold and silver. 73 Thy hands wherein thou hast made me hope. have made me, and fashioned me: in50 This has comforted me in mine af- struct me, that I may learn thy comfliction: for thine oracle has quickened mandments. 74 They that fear thee me. 51 The proud have transgressed will see me and rejoice: for I have exceedingly; but I swerved not from hoped in thy words. 75I know, O thy law. 2 I remembered thy judg- Lord, that thy judgments are rightments of old, O Lord; and was com-eousness, and that thou in truthfulness forted. 53 Despair took hold upon me, hast afflicted me. 76 Let, Gr.be, or, be because of the sinners who forsake thy I pray thee, thy mercy 'come made. 54 Thine ordinances were my to comfort me, according to thy word. law. + + to thy servant. 77 Let thy com- | nies are my meditation. 100 I underpassions come to me, that I may live: stand more than the aged; because I for thy law is my meditation.78 Let have sought out thy commandments. the proud be ashamed; for they trans- 101 I have kept back my feet from every gressed against me unjustly: but I will evil way, that I might keep sc. as a lawmeditate in thy commandments. 79 Let thy words. 102 I have not giver. those that fear thee, and those that declined from thy judgments; for thou know thy testimonies, turn to me. hast instructed me. 80 Let mine heart be blameless in thine ordinances, that I may not be ashamed. 81 My soul faints for thy salvation: I have hoped in thy words. 82 Mine eyes failed in waiting for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? 83 For I am become as a bottle in the frost: yet I have not forgotten thine ordinances. 84 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment for me on them that persecute me? 85 Transgressors told me idle tales; but not according to thy law, O Lord. 86 All thy commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help thou me. 87 They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not thy commandments. 88 Quicken me according to thy mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth. 89 Thy word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever. 90 Thy truth endures to all generations; thou hast founded the earth, and it abides. 91 The day continues by thy arrangement; for all things are thy servants. 92 Were it not that thy law is my meditation, then I should have perished in mine affliction. 93 I will never forget thine ordinances; for with them thou hast quickened me. 94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought out thine ordinances. 95 Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; but I understood thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection; but thy commandment is very broad. 97 How I have loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies in thy commandment; for it is mine for 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimo ever. 103 How sweet are thine oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth! 104 I gain understanding by thy commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness. 105 Thy law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths. 106 I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of thy righteousness. 107 I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to thy word. 108 Accept, I pray thee, O Lord, the freewillofferings of my mouth, and teach me thy judgments. 109 My soul is continually in thine hands; Heb. and and I have not forgotten Alex. my. thy law. 110 Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from thy commandments. I have inherited thy testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart. 112 I have inclined my heart to perform thine ordinances for ever, in return for thy + See Heb. mercies. 113 I have hated transgressors; but I have loved thy law. 14 Thou art my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in thy words. fis Depart from me, ye evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God. 116 Uphold me according to thy word, and quicken me; and make me not ashamed of my expectation. 117 Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in thine ordinances continually. + 115 118 Thou hast brought to nought all that depart from thine ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous. 119 I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved thy testimonies. 120 Penetrate my flesh with thy fear; for I am afraid of thy judgments. 121 I have done judgment and justice; de me. | 149 Hear + Gr. with lawlessness. 151 Thou art + liver me not up to them that injure live. 145 I cried with my whole heart; 122 Receive thy servant for good: hear me, O Lord: I will search out let not the proud accuse me falsely. thine ordinances. 146 I cried to thee; 123 Mine eyes have failed for thy sal- save me, and I will keep thy testimovation, and for the word of thy right- nies. 147 I arose before the dawn, and eousness. 124 Deal with thy servant cried: I hoped in thy words. 148 Mine according to thy mercy, and teach me eyes prevented the dawn, that I might thine ordinances. 125 I am thy servant; meditate on thine oracles. instruct me, and I shall know thy tes- my voice, O Lord, according to thy timonies. 126 It is time for the Lord mercy; quicken me according to thy to work: they have utterly broken thy judgment. 150 They have drawn nigh law. 127 Therefore have I loved thy who persecuted me unlawcommandments more than gold, or the fully; and they are far retopaz. 128 Therefore I directed myself moved from thy law. according to all thy commandments: near, O Lord; and all thy ways are I have hated every unjust way. truth. 152 I have known of Alex. evrodaí, 129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: old concerning thy testi- commands. therefore my soul has sought them out. monies, that thou hast + Gr. of. 130 The manifestation of thy words will founded them for ever. 153 Look upon enlighten, and instruct the simple. mine affliction, and rescue me; for I 131 I opened my mouth, and drew have not forgotten thy law. 154 Plead breath: for I earnestly longed after my cause, and ransom me: quicken thy commandments. 132 Look upon me because of thy word. 155 Salvation me and have mercy upon me, after is far from sinners: for they have not the manner of them that love thy name. searched out thine ordinances. 156 Thy 133 Order my steps according to thy mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken word: and let not any iniquity have me according to thy judgment. dominion over me. 134 Deliver me 157 Many are they that persecute me from the false accusation of men: so and oppress me: but I have not dewill I keep thy commandments. clined from thy testimonies. 135 Cause thy face to shine upon thy beheld men acting foolishly, and I servant: and teach me thine ordi- pined away; for they kept not thine 136 Mine eyes have been oracles. 159 Behold, I have loved thy bathed in streams of water, because I commandments, O Lord: quicken me kept not thy law. 137 Righteous art in thy mercy. 160 The beginning of thou, O Lord, and upright are thy thy words is truth; and all the judgjudgments. 138 Thou hast commanded ments of thy righteousness endure for righteousness and perfect truth, as thy ever. 161 Princes persecuted me with testimonies. 139 Thy zeal has quite out a cause, but my heart feared bewasted me: because mine enemies cause of thy words. 162 I will exult have forgotten thy words. 140 Thy because of thine oracles, as one that word has been very fully tried; and finds much spoil. 163 I hate and abhor thy servant loves it. 141 I am young unrighteousness; but I love thy law. and despised: yet I have not forgotten 164 Seven times in a day have I praised thine ordinances. 142 Thy righteous- thee because of the judgments of thy ness is an everlasting righteousness, righteousness. 165 Great peace have and thy law is truth. 143 Afflictions they that love thy law: and there is and distresses found me: but thy com- no stumbling-block to them. mandments were my meditation. waited for thy salvation, O Lord, and 144 Thy testimonies are an everlasting have loved thy commandments. 167 My righteousness: instruct me, and I shall soul has kept thy testimonies, and nances. 158 I 166 I |