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105:44. And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their
prayer.
105:45. And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to
the multitude of his mercies.
105:46. And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that
had made them captives.
105:47. Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations:
That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.
105:48. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to
everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.
Psalms Chapter 106
Confitemini Domino.
All are invited to give thanks to God for his perpetual providence over
men..
Alleluia.
106:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
106:2. Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath
redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.
106:3. From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north
and from the sea.
106:4. They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they
found not the way of a city for their habitation.
106:5. They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.
106:6. And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered
them out of their distresses.
106:7. And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city
of habitation.
106:8. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful
works to the children of men.
106:9. For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry
soul with good things.
106:10. Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in
want and in iron.
106:11. Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the
counsel of the most High:
106:12. And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened,
and there was none to help them.
106:13. Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he
delivered them out of their distresses.
106:14. And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death;
and broke their bonds in sunder.
106:15. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful
works to the children of men.
106:16. Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars.
106:17. He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were
brought low for their injustices.
106:18. Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even
to the gates of death.
106:19. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered
them out of their distresses.
106:20. He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their
destructions.
106:21. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful
works to the children of men.
106:22. And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his
works with joy.
106:23. They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the
great waters:
106:24. These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the
deep.
106:25. He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves
thereof were lifted up.
106:26. They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths:
their soul pined away with evils.
106:27. They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their
wisdom was swallowed up.
106:28. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought
them out of their distresses.
106:29. And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.
106:30. And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them
to the haven which they wished for.
106:31. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful
works to the children of men.
106:32. And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise
him in the chair of the ancients.
106:33. He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of
waters into dry ground:
106:34. A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that
dwell therein.
106:35. He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land
into water springs.
106:36. And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their
habitation.
106:37. Anti they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded
fruit of birth.
106:38. And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and
their cattle he suffered not to decrease.
106:39. Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted
through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
106:40. Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them
to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.
106:41. And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families
like a flock of sheep.
106:42. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall
stop her mouth.
106:43. Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the
mercies of the Lord?
Psalms Chapter 107
Paratum cor meum.
The prophet praiseth God for benefits received.
107:1. A canticle of a psalm for David himself.
107:2. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and
will give praise, with my glory.
107:3. Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the
morning early.
107:4. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing
unto thee among the nations.
107:5. For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto
the clouds.
107:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all
the earth:
107:7. That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and
hear me.
107:8. God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will
divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.
107:9. Galaad is mine: and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection
of my head. Juda is my king:
107:10. Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe:
the aliens are become my friends.
107:11. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
Edom?
107:12. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou,
O God, go forth with our armies?
107:13. O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
107:14. Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies
to nothing.
Psalms Chapter 108
Deus, laudem meam.
David in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors; more
especially the traitor Judas: foretelling and approving his just
punishment for his obstinacy in sin and final impenitence.
108:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David.
108:2. O 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.
108:3. 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.
108:4. Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I
gave myself to prayer.
108:5. And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
108:6. Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his
right hand.
Set thou the sinner over him, etc... Give to the devil, that arch-
sinner, power over him: let him enter into him, and possess him. The
imprecations, contained in the thirty verses of this psalm, are opposed
to the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed our Lord; and
are to be taken as prophetic denunciations of the evils that should
befall the traitor and his accomplices the Jews; and not properly as
curses.
108:7. When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be
turned to sin.
108:8. May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
108:9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
108:10. Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let
them be cast out of their dwellings.
108:11. May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers
plunder his labours.
108:12. May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless
offspring.
108:13. May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be
blotted out.
108:14. 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.
108:15. May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of
them perish from the earth: 16 because he remembered not to shew
mercy,
108:17. But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in
heart, to put him to death.
108:18. And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would
not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing,
like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like
oil in his bones.
108:19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a
girdle with which he is girded continually.
108:20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who
speak evils against my soul.
108:21. But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy
mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me,
108:22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
108:23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am
shaken off as locusts.
108:24. My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed
for oil.
For oil... Propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being
perfectly emaciated and dried up, as having lost all its oil or fatness.
108:25. And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked
their heads.
108:26. Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy.
108:27. And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord,
hast done it.
108:28. They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up
against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
108:29. Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be
covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.
108:30. I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the
midst of many I will praise him.
108:31. Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my
soul from persecutors.
Psalms Chapter 109
Dixit Dominus.
Christ's exaltation and everlasting priesthood.
109:1. A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right
hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
109:2. The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion:
rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.
109:3. With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the
brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot
thee.
109:4. The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest
for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.
109:5. The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his
wrath.
109:6. He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush
the heads in the land of many.
109:7. He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift
up the head.
Psalms Chapter 110
Confitebor tibi, Domine.
God is to be praised for his graces, and benefits to his church.
Alleluia.
110:1. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council
of the just, and in the congregation.
110:2. Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his
wills.
110:3. His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth
for ever and ever.
110:4. He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a
merciful and gracious Lord:
110:5. He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for
ever of his covenant:
110:6. He will shew forth to his people the power of his works.
110:7. That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works
of his hands are truth and judgment.
110:8. All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever,
made in truth and equity.
110:9. He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his
covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name:
110:10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good
understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and
ever.
Psalms Chapter 111
Beatus vir.
The good man is happy.
Alleluia, of the returning of Aggeus and Zacharias.
Of the returning, etc... This is in the Greek and Latin, but not in the
Hebrew. It signifies that this psalm was proper to be sung at the time
of the return of the people from their captivity; to inculcate to them,
how happy they might be, if they would be constant in the service of
God.
111:1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight
exceedingly in his commandments.
111:2. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
righteous shall be blessed.
111:3. Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth
for ever and ever.
111:4. To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful,
and compassionate and just.
111:5. Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall
order his words with judgment:
111:6. Because he shall not be moved for ever.
111:7. The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear
the evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:
111:8. His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look
over his enemies.
111:9. He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice
remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.
111:10. The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with
his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms Chapter 112
Laudate, pueri.
God is to be praised for his regard to the poor and humble.
Alleluia.
112:1. Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.
112:2. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for
ever. 112:3. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same,
the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.
112:4. The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the
heavens.
112:5. Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: 6 and looketh
down on the low things in heaven and in earth?
112:7. Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out
of the dunghill:
112:8. That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his
people.
112:9. Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother
of children.
Psalms Chapter 113
In exitu Israel.
God hath shewn his power in delivering his people: idols are vain. The
Hebrews divide this into two psalms.
Alleluia.
113:1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a
barbarous people:
113:2. Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
113:3. The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.
113:4. The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of
the flock. 113:5. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and
thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?
113:6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs
of the flock?
113:7. At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence
of the God of Jacob:
113:8. Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into
fountains of waters.
113:1. Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.
113:2. For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should
say: Where is their God?
113:3. But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he
would.
113:4. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the
hands of men.
113:5. They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.
113:6. They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.
113:7. They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not:
neither shall they cry out through their throat.
113:8. Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as
trust in them.
113:9. The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper
and their protector.
113:10. The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper
and their protector.
113:11. They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their
helper and their protector.
113:12. The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath
blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.
113:13. He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.
113:14. May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your
children.
113:15. Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
113:16. The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given
to the children of men.
113:17. The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go
down to hell.
113:18. But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for
ever.
Psalms Chapter 114
Dilexi.
The prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in God.
Alleluia.
114:1. I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.
114:2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will
call upon him.
114:3. The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell
have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:
114:4. And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.
114:5. The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.
114:6. The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he
delivered me.
114:7. Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful
to thee.
114:8. For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my
feet from falling.
114:9. I will please the Lord in the land of the living.
Psalms Chapter 115
Credidi.
This in the Hebrew is joined with the foregoing psalm, and continues to
express the faith and gratitude of the psalmist.
Alleluia. 115:10. I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have
been humbled exceedingly.
115:11. I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.
115:12. What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he hath
rendered to me?
115:13. I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the
name of the Lord.
115:14. I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:
115:15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
115:16. O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of
thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:
115:17. I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will
call upon the name of the Lord.
115:18. I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:
115:19. In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O
Jerusalem.
Psalms Chapter 116
Laudate Dominum.
All nations are called upon to praise God for his mercy and truth.
Alleluia.
116:1. O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
116:2. For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord
remaineth for ever.
Psalms Chapter 117
Confitemini Domino.
The psalmist praiseth God for his delivery from evils: putteth his whole
trust in him; and foretelleth the coming of Christ.
Alleluia.
117:1. Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
117:2. Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for
ever.
117:3. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
117:4. Let them that fear the Lord now say, that his mercy endureth for
ever.
117:5. In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and
enlarged me.
117:6. The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man can do unto me.
117:7. The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies.
117:8. It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence
in man.
117:9. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.
117:10. All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I
have been revenged on them.
117:11. Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the
Lord I have been revenged on them.
117:12. They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among
thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.
117:13. Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord
supported me.
117:14. The Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is become my
salvation.
117:15. The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles of
the just.
117:16. The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand
of the Lord hath exalted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought
strength.
117:17. I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the
Lord.
117:18. The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered
me over to death.
117:19. Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and
give praise to the Lord.
117:20. This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it.
117:21. I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art
become my salvation.
117:22. The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the
head of the corner.
117:23. This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
117:24. This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and
rejoice therein.
117:25. O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success.
117:26. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have
blessed you out of the house of the Lord.
117:27. The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn
day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.
117:28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I
will exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art
become my salvation.
117:29. O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
Psalms Chapter 118
Beati immaculati.
Of the excellence of virtue consisting in the love and observance of the
commandments of God.
Alleluia.
ALEPH.
Aleph... The first eight verses of this psalm in the original begin with
Aleph, which is the name of the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The
second eight verses begin with Beth, the name of the second letter of
the Hebrew alphabet; and so to the end of the whole alphabet, in all
twenty-two letters, each letter having eight verses. This order is
variously expounded by the holy fathers; which shews the difficulty of
understanding the holy scriptures, and consequently with what humility,
and submission to the Church they are to be read.
118:1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the
Lord.
118:2. Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with
their whole heart.
His testimonies... The commandments of God are called his testimonies,
because they testify his holy will unto us. Note here, that in almost
every verse of this psalm (which in number are 176) the word and law of
God, and the love and observance of it, is perpetually inculcated, under
a variety of denominations, all signifying the same thing.
118:3. For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.
118:4. Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.
118:5. O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.
118:6. Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy
commandments.
118:7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have
learned the judgments of thy justice.
118:8. I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake
me.
BETH.
118:9. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.
118:10. With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray
from thy commandments.
118:11. Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against
thee.
118:12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.
118:13. With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.
118:14. I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all
riches.
118:15. I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy
ways.
118:16. I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.
GIMEL.
118:17. Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep
thy words.
118:18. Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of
thy law.
118:19. I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from
me.
118:20. My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all
times.
118:21. Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from
thy commandments.
118:22. Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought
after thy testimonies.
118:23. For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was
employed in thy justifications.
118:24. For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my
counsel.
DALETH.
118:25. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according
to thy word.
118:26. I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy
justifications.
118:27. Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall
be exercised in thy wondrous works.
118:28. My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in
thy words.
118:29. Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have
mercy on me.
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