Feria Quinta in Cena Domini

O God, hear my prayer: * give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: * and they have not set God before their eyes.

For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.

Turn back the evils upon my enemies; * and cut them off in thy truth.

I will freely sacrifice to thee, * and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: * and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.

Blessed are they that search his testimonies: * that seek him with their whole heart.

For they that work iniquity, * have not walked in his ways.

Thou hast commanded * thy commandments to be kept most diligently.

O! that my ways may be directed * to keep thy justifications.

Then shall I not be confounded, * when I shall look into all thy commandments.

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, * when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.

I will keep thy justifications: * O! do not thou utterly forsake me.

(Béth) By what doth a young man correct his way? * By observing thy words.

With my whole heart have I sought after thee: * let me not stray from thy commandments.

Thy words have I hidden in my heart, * that I may not sin against thee.

Blessed art thou, O Lord: * teach me thy justifications.

With my lips * I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, * as in all riches.

I will meditate on thy commandments: * and I will consider thy ways.

I will think of thy justifications: * I will not forget thy words.

Open thou my eyes: * and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.

I am a sojourner on the earth: * hide not thy commandments from me.

My soul hath coveted too long for thy justifications, * at all times.

Thou hast rebuked the proud: * they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.

Remove from me reproach and contempt: * because I have sought after thy testimonies.

For princes sat, and spoke against me: * but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

For thy testimonies are my meditation: * and thy justifications my counsel.

(Daleth) My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: * quicken thou me according to thy word.

I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: * teach me thy justifications.

Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: * and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.

My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: * strengthen thou me in thy words.

Remove from me the way of iniquity: * and out of thy law have mercy on me.

I have chosen the way of truth: * thy judgments I have not forgotten.

I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: * put me not to shame.

I have run the way of thy commandments, * when thou didst enlarge my heart.