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1. O strength and stay upholding all creation, Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide, Yet day by day the light in due gradation From hour to hour through all its changes guide: 2. Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending, An eve untouched by shadows of decay, The brightness of a holy death-bed blending With dawning glories of th’ eternal day. 3. Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving, And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word, Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living Now and to endless ages art adored. Amen.
The Apostles spoke in diverse tongues * the wonderful works of God, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
(Phe) Thy testimonies are wonderful: * therefore my soul hath sought them.
The declaration of thy words giveth light: * and giveth understanding to little ones.
I opened my mouth, and panted: * because I longed for thy commandments.
Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me, * according to the judgment of them that love thy name.
Direct my steps according to thy word: * and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
Redeem me from the calumnies of men: * that I may keep thy commandments.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: * and teach me thy justifications.
My eyes have sent forth springs of water: * because they have not kept thy law.
(Sade) Thou art just, O Lord: * and thy judgment is right.
Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: * and thy truth exceedingly.
My zeal hath made me pine away: * because my enemies forgot thy words.
Thy word is exceedingly refined: * and thy servant hath loved it.
I am very young and despised; but * I forget not thy justifications.
Thy justice is justice for ever: * and thy law is the truth.
Trouble and anguish have found me: * thy commandments are my meditation.
Thy testimonies are justice for ever: * give me understanding, and I shall live.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
(Coph) I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: * I will seek thy justifications.
I cried unto thee, save me: * that I may keep thy commandments.
I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: * because in thy words I very much hoped.
My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: * that I might meditate on thy words.
Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: * and quicken me according to thy judgment.
They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; * but they are gone far off from thy law.
Thou art near, O Lord: * and all thy ways are truth.
I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: * that thou hast founded them for ever.
(Res) See my humiliation and deliver me: * for I have not forgotten thy law.
Judge my judgment and redeem me: * quicken thou me for thy word’s sake.
Salvation is far from sinners; * because they have not sought thy justifications.
Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: * quicken me according to thy judgment.
Many are they that persecute me, and afflict me; * but I have not declined from thy testimonies.
I beheld the transgressors, and I pined away; * because they kept not thy word.
Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; * quicken me thou in thy mercy.
The beginning of thy words is truth: * all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
(Sin) Princes have persecuted me without cause: * and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.
I will rejoice at thy words, * as one that hath found great spoil.
I have hated and abhorred iniquity; * but I have loved thy law.
Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, * for the judgments of thy justice.
Much peace have they that love thy law, * and to them there is no stumbling-block.
I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: * and I loved thy commandments.
My soul hath kept thy testimonies: * and hath loved them exceedingly.
I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: * because all my ways are in thy sight.
(Tau) Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: * give me understanding according to thy word.
Let my request come in before thee; * deliver thou me according to thy word.
My lips shall utter a hymn, * when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.
My tongue shall pronounce thy word: * because all thy commandments are justice.
Let thy hand be with me to save me; * for I have chosen thy precepts.
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; * and thy law is my meditation.
My soul shall live and shall praise thee: * and thy judgments shall help me.
I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: * seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Apostles spoke in diverse tongues * the wonderful works of God, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Iudǽi quoque et Prosélyti, Cretes et Arabes: † audívimus eos loquéntes nostris linguis magnália Dei.
Jews also, and Proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Orémus.
Deus, qui hodiérna die corda fidélium Sancti Spíritus illustratióne docuísti: † da nobis in eódem Spíritu recta sápere; * et de eius semper consolatióne gaudére.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte eiúsdem Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
O God, Who on this day didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thine Holy Spirit, grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in His holy comfort.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, God, world without end.