and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past.

And as a watch in the night, 5 things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

6 In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away; in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

4 He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust. 5 His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night;

6 Of the arrow that flieth in the day; of the business that walketh about in the dark; of invasion, or of the noon-day devil.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall

7 For in thy wrath we have fainted away;not come nigh thee. and are troubled in thy indignation.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes; our life in the light of thy counte

nance.

9 For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away.

8 But thou shalt consider with thy eyes; and shalt see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the Most High thy refuge. 10 There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling. 11 For he hath given his Angels charge

Our years shall be considered as a spider:* 10 the days of our years in them are three-over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways. score and ten years.

12 In their hands they shall bear thee up;

But if in the strong they be fourscore lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. years and what is more of them is labour and sorrow.

For mildness is come upon us :† and we shall be corrected.

11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear 12 can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known, and men learned in heart in wisdom.

13 Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

14 Because he hoped in me, I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he hath known my name.

15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation: I will 13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be in-deliver him, and I will glorify him. treated in favour of thy servants. 16 I will fill him with length of days: and

14 We are filled in the morning with thy I will shew him my salvation. mercy and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

PSALM XCI.
Bonum est confiteri.

15 We have rejoiced for the days in God is to be praised for his wondrous works. which thou hast humbled us; for the years 1 A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath-day. in which we have seen evils. 12 is good to give praise to the Lord;

16 Look upon thy servants and upon their works; and direct their children.

17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea the work of our hands do thou direct.

Most

3 To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

4 Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery; with a canticle upon the harp.

5 For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

6 O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

7 The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

8 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear,

That they may perish for ever and ever: 9 but thou, O Lord, art Most High for ever

more.

10 For behold, thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish : and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

11 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

Mildness is come upon us, &c. God's mildness corrects us; inasmuch as he deals 12 My eye also hath looked down upon kindly with us, in shortening the days of this my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the miserable life; and so weaning our affections downfal of the malignant that rise up against from all its transitory enjoyments, and teach-me. ing us true wisdom,

13 The just shall flourish like the palm

tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

14 They that are planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord; and shalt teach him out of thy law.

15 They shall still increase in a fruitful' 13 That thou mayst give him rest from old age; and shall be well treated, 16 that the evil days: till a pit be dug for the they may shew,

That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

with strength, and hath girded himself.
For he hath established the world which
shall not be moved.

2 Thy throne is prepared from of old thou art from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord; the floods have lifted up their voice.

The floods have lifted up their waves, 4 with the noise of many waters.

Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high.

5 Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, Ŏ Lord, unto length of days.

PSALM XCIII.

Deus ultionum.

wicked.

14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheri

tance.

15 Until justice be turned into judg ment† and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

16 Who shall rise up for me against the evil doers? or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity.

17 Unless the Lord had been my helper;

my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

18 If I said: My foot is moved; thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

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

20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee,+ who framest labour in commandment?

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

22 But the Lord is my refuge; and my God the help of my hope.

:

23 And he will render them their iniqui ty and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them. PSALM XCIV. Venite, exultemus.

God shall judge and punish the oppressors of An invitation to adore and serve God, and to

his people.

A psalm for David himself, on the fourth

1 THE

day of the week.

HE Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.

2 Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth render a reward to the proud.

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

4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?

1

hear his voice.

Praise of a canticle for David himself.

Clet us joyfully sing to God our Sa

OME, let us praise the Lord with joy:

viour.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

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

4 For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are

5 Thy people, O Lord, they have brought his. low and they have afflicted thy inheri

:

tance.

* Rest from the evil days. That thou mayst

6 They have slain the widow and the mitigate the sorrows, to which he is exstranger and they have murdered the fa- posed, during the short and evil days of his therless.

:

7 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

8 Understand, ye senseless among the people and you fools, be wise at last. :

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

mortality.

Until justice be turned into judgment, &c. By being put in execution; which will be agreeable to all the upright in heart.

Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, &c. That is, wilt thou, O God, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity; that is, of injustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee? Thou who framest, 10 He that chastiseth nations, shall he or makest, labour in commandment, that is, not rel.uke he that teacheth man know-thou who obligest us to labour with all dililedge? gence to keep thy commandments,

5 For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us adore and fall down, and weep before the Lord that made us.

He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth.

PSALM XCVI.
Dominus regnavit.

7 For he is the Lord our God: and we All are invited to rejoice at the glorious conare the people of his pasture and the sheep

of his hand.

ing and reign of Christ.

8 To-day if you shall hear his voice, har-1 For the same David, when his land was den not your hearts:

9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

11 And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

2 Sing ye to the Lord, and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day.

restored again to him.

THE
HE Lord hath reigned; let the earth

rejoice: let many islands be glad.

2 Clouds and darkness* are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

3 A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.

4 His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

5 The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord; at the presence of the Lord, all the earth.

6 The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.

7 Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his Angels: 8 Sion heard, and was glad.

And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord.

9 For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art exalted exceed

3 Declare his glory among the gentiles;ingly above all gods. his wonders among all people.

10 You that love the Lord, hate evil: the

4 For the Lord is great, and exceedingly Lord preserveth the souls of his saints: he to be praised: he is to be feared above all will deliver them out of the hand of the singods.

5 For all the gods of the gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

6 Praise and beauty are before him; holiness and majesty in his sanctuary.

7 Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the gentiles, bring ye to the Lord glory and honour: 8 bring to the Lord glory unto his

name.

ner.

11 Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.

12 Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holi

ness.

PSALM XCVII.
Cantate Domino.

Bring up sacrifices, and come into his All are again invited to praise the Lord, for courts: 9 adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at his pre

sence.

the victories of Christ.
1 A psalm for David himself.

10 Say ye among the gentiles: SING ye to the Lord a new canticle: be

The Lord hath reigned.

cause he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for him sal

For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the peo-vation, and his arm is holy. ple with justice.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof: 12 the fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful.

2 The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the gentiles.

3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen the be-salvation of God.

Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice 13 before the face of the Lord, cause he cometh; because he cometh to judge the earth.

• When the house was built, &c. Allud-] ing to that time, and then ordered to be

4 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: make melody, rejoice and sing.

5 Sing praise to the Lord on the harp,

* Clouds and darkness. The coming of sung: but principally relating to the build-Christ in the clouds with great terror and ing of the church of Christ, after our re-majesty to judge the world, is here prophedemption from the captivity of satan.

sied.

12 Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices.

11 For according to the height of the heaven above the earth; he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so 13 Thou waterest the hills from thy upper far hath he removed our iniquities from us. rooms: the earth shall be filled with the 13 As a father hath compassion on his chil-fruit of thy works: dren, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: 14 for he knoweth our frame.

He remembereth that we are dust: 15 man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

16 For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him:

And his justice unto children's children, 18 to such as keep his covenant,

And are mindful of his commandments to

do them.

14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men.

That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: 15 and that wine may cheer the heart of man.

That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

16 The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: 17 there the sparrows shall make their nests.

The highest of them is the house of the heron. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.

19 He hath made the moon for seasons:

19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom shall rule over all. the sun knoweth his going down. 20 Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you 20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it that are mighty in strength, and execute his is night: in it shall all the beasts of the word, hearkening to the voice of his orders. woods go about. 21 Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do his will.

22 Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O my soul, bless thou the Lord.

PSALM CIII.
Benedic, anima.

God is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderful providence.

BLES

1 For David himself.

LESS the Lord, O my soul : 0 Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty: 2 and art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: 3 who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water:

Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds. 4 Who makest thy Angels spirits; and thy ministers a burning fire:

5 Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

6 The deep like a garment is its clothing above the mountains shall the waters stand. 7 At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

8 The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.

21 The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God.

22 The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.

23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

24 How great are thy works, O Lord! thou hast made all things in wisdom; the earth is filled with thy riches.

25 So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number;

Creatures little and great. 26 There the ships shall go.

This sea-dragon which thou hast formed to play therein. 27 All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.

28 What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all be filled with good.

29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled; thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

30 Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever; the Lord shall rejoice in his works. 32 He looketh upon the earth, and ma 9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall keth it tremble: he toucheth the mounnot pass over: neither shall they return to tains, and they smoke. 33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: 10 Thou sendest forth springs in the I will sing praise to my God while I have vales: between the midst of the hills the my being.

cover the earth.

waters shall pass.

34 Let my speech be acceptable to him:

11 All the beasts of the field shall drink: but I will take delight in the Lord. the wild asses shall expect in their thirst. 35 Let sinners be consumed out of the

earth, and the unjust, so that they be no people; and to deal deceitfully with his more: 0 my soul, bless thou the Lord.

A thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.

Gis ny; declare his deeds among destroyed their fish.
IVE glory to the Lord, and call upon

5 Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judg-trees of their coasts. ments of his mouth.

6 O ve seed of Abraham his servant; ye the bruchus,§ of which there was no numsons of Jacob his chosen.

(who is never the author of sin) moved the The word of the Lord inflamed him. 20 Egyptians to hate and persecute his peoThe king sent, and he released him; the ple; but that the Egyptians took occasion of ruler of the people, and he set him at li-hating and envying them, from the sight of berty. the benefits which God bestowed upon

21 He made him master of his house, and them. ruler of all his possession.

22 That he might instruct his princes as not wanting to fulfil his words or he did himself, and teach his ancients wisdom. not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the

23 And Israel went into Egypt; and Ja-||children of Israel, who enjoyed light whilst cob was a sojourner in the land of Cham. the Egyptians were oppressed with dark

24 And he increased his people exceed-ness. ingly; and strengthened them over their

§ Bruchus, an insect of the locust kind. His justifications. That is, his comHe turned their heart, &c. Not that Godmandments; which here and in many other