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Blessed be the Lord * my support, and my deliverer.
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, * and my fingers to war.
My mercy, and my refuge: * my support, and my deliverer:
My protector, and I have hoped in him: * who subdueth my people under me.
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? * or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Man is like to vanity: * his days pass away like a shadow.
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: * touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: * shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: * from the hand of strange children:
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: * and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
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.
Blessed be the Lord * my support, and my deliverer.
Happy is that people * whose God is the Lord.
To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: * on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
Who givest salvation to kings: * who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword: Deliver me,
And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: * and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
Whose sons are as new plants * in their youth:
Their daughters decked out, * adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
Their storehouses full, * flowing out of this into that.
Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: * their oxen fat.
There is no breach of wall, nor passage, * nor crying out in their streets.
They have called the people happy, that hath these things: * but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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.
Happy is that people * whose God is the Lord.
For the Lord is great * and exceedingly to be praised: His greatness has no end.
I will extol thee, O God my king: * and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
Every day will I bless thee: * and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: * and of his greatness there is no end.
Generation and generation shall praise thy works: * and they shall declare thy power.
They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: * and shall tell thy wondrous works.
And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: * and shall declare thy greatness.
They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: * and shall rejoice in thy justice.
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.
For the Lord is great * and exceedingly to be praised: His greatness has no end.
The Lord is sweet * to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
The Lord is gracious and merciful: * patient and plenteous in mercy.
The Lord is sweet to all: * and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Let all thy works, O Lord, praise thee: * and let thy saints bless thee.
They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: * and shall tell of thy power:
To make thy might known to the sons of men: * and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.
Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: * and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
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 Lord is sweet * to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
The Lord is faithful * in all his words: and holy in all his works. ‡
The Lord is faithful in all his words: * and holy in all his works.
The Lord lifteth up all that fall: * and setteth up all that are cast down.
The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: * and thou givest them meat in due season.
Thou openest thy hand, * and fillest with blessing every living creature.
The Lord is just in all his ways: * and holy in all his works.
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: * to all that call upon him in truth.
He will do the will of them that fear him: * and he will hear their prayer, and save them.
The Lord keepeth all them that love him; * but all the wicked he will destroy.
My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: * and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever; yea, for ever and 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.
The Lord is faithful * in all his words: and holy in all his works. ‡
O Altitúdo divitiárum sapiéntiæ, † et sciéntiæ Dei, quam incomprehensibília sunt iudícia eius, * et investigábiles viæ eius!
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
1. As fades the glowing orb of day, To thee, great source of light, we pray; Blest Three in One, to every heart Thy beams of life and love impart. 2. At early dawn, at close of day, To thee our vows we humbly pay; May we, mid joys that never end, With thy bright saints in homage bend. 3. To God the Father, and the Son, And Holy Spirit, Three in One, Be endless glory, as before The world began, so evermore. Amen.
Ye mountains of Gilboa, * let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon the high places; Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
1. My soul + * doth magnify the Lord. 2. And my spirit hath rejoiced * in God my Saviour.
Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; * for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; * and holy is his name.
And his mercy is from generation unto generations, * to them that fear him.
He hath shewed might in his arm: * he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat, * and hath exalted the humble.
He hath filled the hungry with good things; * and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He hath received Israel his servant, * being mindful of his mercy:
As he spoke to our fathers, * to Abraham and to his seed 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.
Ye mountains of Gilboa, * let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon the high places; Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
Orémus.
Deus, qui diligéntibus te bona invisibília præparásti: † infúnde córdibus nostris tui amóris afféctum; * ut te in ómnibus et super ómnia diligéntes, promissiónes tuas, quæ omne desidérium súperant, consequámur.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
O God, Who hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass man's understanding; pour into our hearts such love toward thee, that we, loving thee in all things and above all things, may obtain thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.