Feria Quinta in Cena Domini

And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies * blot out my iniquity.

Wash me yet more from my iniquity, * and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my iniquity, * and my sin is always before me.

To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: * that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

For behold I was conceived in iniquities; * and in sins did my mother conceive me.

For behold thou hast loved truth: * the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: * thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: * and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Turn away thy face from my sins, * and blot out all my iniquities.

Create a clean heart in me, O God: * and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Cast me not away from thy face; * and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, * and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

I will teach the unjust thy ways: * and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: * and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: * and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: * with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: * a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; * that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: * then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.

Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; * from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Turn not man away to be brought low: * and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

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

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

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.

For in thy wrath we have fainted away: * and are troubled in thy indignation.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: * our life in the light of thy countenance.

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

Our years shall be considered as a spider: * the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years.

But if in the strong they be fourscore years: * and what is more of them is labour and sorrow.

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

Who knoweth the power of thy anger, * and for thy fear can number thy wrath?

So make thy right hand known: * and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Return, O Lord, how long? * and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: * and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: * for the years in which we have seen evils.

Look upon thy servants and upon their works: * and direct their children.

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.

For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, * that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: * he would not understand that he might do well.

He hath devised iniquity on his bed, * he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, * and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.

Thy justice is as the mountains of God, * thy judgments are a great deep.

Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord: * O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God!

But the children of men * shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.

They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; * and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.

For with thee is the fountain of life; * and in thy light we shall see light.

Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, * and thy justice to them that are right in heart.

Let not the foot of pride come to me, * and let not the hand of the sinner move me.

There the workers of iniquity are fallen, * they are cast out, and could not stand.

The Lord is my strength and my praise, * and he is become salvation to me:

He is my God and I will glorify him: * the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name. * Pharao’s chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea:

His chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea. * The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy. * And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries:

Thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble. * And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together:

The flowing water stood, * the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, * I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill:

I will draw my sword, * my hand shall slay them.

Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: * they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? * who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praiseworthy, doing wonders?

Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them. * In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed:

And in thy strength thou hast carried them * to thy holy habitation.

Nations rose up, and were angry: * sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: * all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.

Let fear and dread fall upon them, * in the greatness of thy arm:

Let them become unmoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: * until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, * in thy most firm habitation which thou hast made, O Lord;

Thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. * The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.

For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: * and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea:

But the children of Israel walked on dry ground * in the midst thereof.

The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: * he will gather together the dispersed of Israel

Who healeth the broken of heart, * and bindeth up their bruises.

Who telleth the number of the stars: * and calleth them all by their names.

Great is our Lord, and great is his power: * and of his wisdom there is no number.

The Lord lifteth up the meek, * and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.

Sing ye to the Lord with praise: * sing to our God upon the harp.

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, * and prepareth rain for the earth.

Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, * and herbs for the service of men.

Who giveth to beasts their food: * and to the young ravens that call upon him.

He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: * nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.

The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: * and in them that hope in his mercy.

And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, * in the house of David his servant:

As he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets, * who are from the beginning:

Salvation from our enemies, * and from the hand of all that hate us:

To perform mercy to our fathers, * and to remember his holy testament,

The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, * that he would grant to us,

That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, * we may serve him without fear,

In holiness and justice before him, * all our days.

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: * for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:

To give knowledge of salvation to his people, * unto the remission of their sins:

Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, * in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:

To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: * to direct our feet into the way of peace.