Sabbato infra Hebdomadam IV in Quadragesima

Psalmus 108 (2,13)

With the armour of justice * and in the power of God, let us prove ourselves in much patience.

God, be not thou silent in my praise: * for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

2. Locúti sunt advérsum me lingua dolósa, † et sermónibus ódii circumdedérunt me: * et expugnavérunt me gratis.

They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; * and have fought against me without cause.

3. Pro eo ut me dilígerent, detrahébant mihi: * ego autem orábam.

Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: * but I gave myself to prayer.

4. Et posuérunt advérsum me mala pro bonis: * et ódium pro dilectióne mea.

And they repaid me evil for good: * and hatred for my love.

5. Constítue super eum peccatórem: * et diábolus stet a dextris ejus.

Set thou the sinner over him: * and may the devil stand at his right hand.

6. Cum judicátur, éxeat condemnátus: * et orátio ejus fiat in peccátum.

When he is judged, may he go out condemned; * and may his prayer be turned to sin.

7. Fiant dies ejus pauci: * et episcopátum ejus accípiat alter.

May his days be few: * and his bishopric let another take.

8. Fiant fílii ejus órphani: * et uxor ejus vídua.

May his children be fatherless, * and his wife a widow.

9. Nutántes transferántur fílii ejus, et mendícent: * et ejiciántur de habitatiónibus suis.

Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; * and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

10. Scrutétur fœnerátor omnem substántiam ejus: * et dirípiant aliéni labóres ejus.

May the usurer search all his substance: * and let strangers plunder his labours.

11. Non sit illi adjútor: * nec sit qui misereátur pupíllis ejus.

May there be none to help him: * nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.

12. Fiant nati ejus in intéritum: * in generatióne una deleátur nomen ejus.

May his posterity be cut off; * in one generation may his name be blotted out.

13. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

14. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalmus 108 (14,21)

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: * and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

2. Fiant contra Dóminum semper, † et dispéreat de terra memória eórum: * pro eo quod non est recordátus fácere misericórdiam.

May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: * because he remembered not to shew mercy,

3. Et persecútus est hóminem ínopem, et mendícum, * et compúnctum corde mortificáre.

But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; * and the broken in heart, to put him to death.

4. Et diléxit maledictiónem, et véniet ei: * et nóluit benedictiónem, et elongábitur ab eo.

And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: * and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him.

5. Et índuit maledictiónem sicut vestiméntum, † et intrávit sicut aqua in interióra ejus, * et sicut óleum in óssibus ejus.

And he put on cursing, like a garment: * and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.

6. Fiat ei sicut vestiméntum, quo operítur: * et sicut zona, qua semper præcíngitur.

May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; * and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

7. Hoc opus eórum, qui détrahunt mihi apud Dóminum: * et qui loquúntur mala advérsus ánimam meam.

This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; * and who speak evils against my soul.

8. Et tu, Dómine, Dómine, fac mecum propter nomen tuum: * quia suávis est misericórdia tua.

But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name’s sake: * because thy mercy is sweet.

9. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

10. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Psalmus 108 (22,31)

Do thou deliver me, for I am poor and needy, * and my heart is troubled within me.

2. Sicut umbra cum declínat, ablátus sum: * et excússus sum sicut locústæ.

I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: * and I am shaken off as locusts.

3. Génua mea infirmáta sunt a jejúnio: * et caro mea immutáta est propter óleum.

My knees are weakened through fasting: * and my flesh is changed for oil.

4. Et ego factus sum oppróbrium illis: * vidérunt me, et movérunt cápita sua.

And I am become a reproach to them: * they saw me and they shaked their heads.

5. Adjuva me, Dómine, Deus meus: * salvum me fac secúndum misericórdiam tuam.

Help me, O Lord my God; * save me according to thy mercy.

6. Et sciant quia manus tua hæc: * et tu, Dómine, fecísti eam.

And let them know that this is thy hand: * and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.

7. Maledícent illi, et tu benedíces: † qui insúrgunt in me, confundántur: * servus autem tuus lætábitur.

They will curse and thou wilt bless: * let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.

8. Induántur qui détrahunt mihi, pudóre: * et operiántur sicut diplóide confusióne sua.

Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: * and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.

9. Confitébor Dómino nimis in ore meo: * et in médio multórum laudábo eum.

I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: * and in the midst of many I will praise him.

10. Quia ástitit a dextris páuperis, * ut salvam fáceret a persequéntibus ánimam meam.

Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, * to save my soul from persecutors.

11. Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

12. Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.

As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

With the armour of justice * and in the power of God, let us prove ourselves in much patience.