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Psalms Chapter 134

Laudate nomen.

An exhortation to praise God: the vanity of idols.

134:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants,
praise the Lord:

134:2. You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the
house of our God.

134:3. Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name,
for it is sweet.

134:4. For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own
possession.

134:5. For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above all
gods.

134:6. Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in
the sea, and in all the deeps.

134:7. He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made
lightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:

134:8. He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast.

134:9. He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst of thee, O Egypt:
upon Pharao, and upon all his servants.

134:10. He smote many nations, and slew mighty kings:

134:11. Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king of Basan, and all the
kingdoms of Chanaan.

134:12. And gave their land for an inheritance, for an inheritance to
his people Israel.

134:13. Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy memorial, O Lord, unto all
generations.

134:14. For the Lord will judge his people, and will be entreated in
favour of his servants.

134:15. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of
men's hands.

134:16. They have a mouth, but they speak not: they have eyes, but they
see not.

134:17. They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath
in their mouths.

134:18. Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that
trusteth in them.

134:19. Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the Lord, O house of
Aaron.

134:20. Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that fear the Lord, bless
the Lord.

134:21. Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem.

Psalms Chapter 135

Confitemini Domino.

God is to be praised for his wonderful works.

135:1. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

Praise the Lord... By this invitation to praise the Lord, thrice
repeated, we profess the Blessed Trinity, One God in three distinct
Persons, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

135:2. Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:3. Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:4. Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:5. Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endureth for
ever.

135:6. Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy
endureth for ever.

135:7. Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:8. The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:9. The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

135:10. Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for
ever.

135:11. Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

135:12. With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy
endureth for ever.

135:13. Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for
ever.

135:14. And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy
endureth for ever.

135:15. And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy
endureth for ever.

135:16. Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

135:17. Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:18. And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:19. Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:20. And Og king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:21. And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy
endureth for ever.

135:22. For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

135:23. For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy
endureth for ever.

135:24. And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for
ever.

135:25. Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.

135:26. Give glory to the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for
ever.

135:27. Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for
ever.

Psalms Chapter 136

Super flumina.

The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon.

A psalm of David, for Jeremias.

For Jeremias... For the time of Jeremias, and the captivity of Babylon.

136:1. Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we
remembered Sion:

136:2. On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

136:3. For there they that led us into captivity required of us the
words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a
hymn of the songs of Sion.

136:4. How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

136:5. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

136:6. Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I
make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

136:7. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem:
Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

136:8. O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall
repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

136:9. Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against
the rock.

Dash thy little ones, etc... In the spiritual sense, we dash the little
ones of Babylon against the rock, when we mortify our passions, and
stifle the first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to the rock which
is Christ.

Psalms Chapter 137

Confitebor tibi.

Thanksgiving to God for his benefits.

137:1. For David himself. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole
heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to
thee in the sight of the angels:

137:2. I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to
thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy
holy name above all.

137:3. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt
multiply strength in my soul.

137:4. May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have
heard all the words of thy mouth.

137:5. And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory
of the Lord.

137:6. For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he
knoweth afar off.

137:7. If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken
me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my
enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.

137:8. The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever:
O despise not the works of thy hands.

Psalms Chapter 138

Domine, probasti.

God's special providence over his servants.

138:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and
known me:

138:2. Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.

138:3. Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line
thou hast searched out.

138:4. And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my
tongue.

There is no speech, etc... Viz., unknown to thee: or when there is no
speech in my tongue; yet my whole interior and my most secret thoughts
are known to thee.

138:5. Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of
old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.

138:6. Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot
reach to it.

138:7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from
thy face?

138:8 If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell,
thou art present.

138:9. If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea:

138:10. Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall
hold me.

138:11. And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be
my light in my pleasures.

138:12. But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light
all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to
thee.

138:13. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my
mother's womb.

138:14. I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful
are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.

138:15. My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret:
and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.

138:16. Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall
be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

138:17. But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable:
their principality is exceedingly strengthened.

138:18. I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand,
I rose up and am still with thee.

138:19. If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart
from me:

138:20. Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in
vain.

Because you say in thought, etc... Depart from me, you wicked, who plot
against the servants of God, and think to cast them out of the cities of
their habitation; as if they have received them in vain, and to no
purpose.

138:21. Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away
because of thy enemies?

138:22. I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become
enemies to me.

I have hated them... Not with an hatred of malice, but a zeal for the
observance of God's commandments; which he saw were despised by the
wicked, who are to be considered enemies to God.

138:23. Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my
paths.

138:24. And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in
the eternal way.

Psalms Chapter 139

Eripe me, Domine.

A prayer to be delivered from the wicked.

139:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David.

139:2. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust
man.

139:3. Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long
they designed battles.

139:4. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of
asps is under their lips.

139:5. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men
deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:

139:6. The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out
cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the
wayside.

139:7. I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of
my supplication.

139:8. O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast
overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

139:9. Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have
plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.

139:10. The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips
shall overwhelm them.

139:11. Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down
into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

139:12. A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil
shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

139:13. I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will
revenge the poor.

139:14. But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the
upright shall dwell with thy countenance.

Psalms Chapter 140

Domine, clamavi.

A prayer against sinful words, and deceitful flatterers.

A psalm of David.

140:1. I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when
I cry to thee.

140:2. Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up
of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

140:3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my
lips.

140:4. Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With
men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of
them.

140:5. The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but
let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still
be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Let not the oil of the sinner, etc... That is, the flattery, or
deceitful praise.-Ibid. For my prayer, etc... So far from coveting their
praises, who are never well pleased but with things that are evil; I
shall continually pray to be preserved from such things as they are
delighted with.

140:6. Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They
shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:

Their judges, etc... Their rulers, or chiefs, quickly vanish and perish,
like ships dashed against the rocks, and swallowed up by the waves. Let
them then hear my words, for they are powerful and will prevail; or, as
it is in the Hebrew, for they are sweet.

140:7. As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground:
Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

140:8. But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my
trust, take not away my soul.

140:9. Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the
stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

140:10. The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.

I am alone, etc... Singularly protected by the Almighty, until I pass
all their nets and snares.

Psalms Chapter 141

Voce mea.

A prayer of David in extremity of danger.

141:1. Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [1
Kings 24.]

141:2. I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made
supplication to the Lord.

141:3. In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my
trouble:

141:4. When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way
wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.

141:5. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that
would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath
regard to my soul.

141:6. I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in
the land of the living.

141:7. Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me
from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

141:8. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just
wait for me, until thou reward me.

Psalms Chapter 142

Domine, exaudi.

The psalmist in tribulation calleth upon God for his delivery. The
seventh penitential psalm.

142:1. A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. [2 Kings 17.]
Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear
me in thy justice.

142:2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no
man living shall be justified.

142:3. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my
life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that
have been dead of old:

142:4 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is
troubled.

142:5. I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I
meditated upon the works of thy hands.

142:6. I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without
water unto thee.

142:7. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not
away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the
pit.

142:8. Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I
hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have
lifted up my soul to thee.

142:9. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:

142:10. Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit
shall lead me into the right land: 11 for thy name's sake, O Lord,
thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of
trouble:

142:12. And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut
off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Psalms Chapter 143

Benedictus Dominus.

The prophet praiseth God, and prayeth to be delivered from his enemies.
No worldly happiness is to be compared with that of serving God.

A psalm of David against Goliath.

143:1. Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and
my fingers to war.

143:2. My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My
protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

143:3. Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of
man, that thou makest account of him?

143:4. Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

143:5. Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and
they shall smoke.

143:6. Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy
arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

143:7. Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from
many waters: from the hand of strange children:

143:8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right
hand of iniquity.

143:9. 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.

143:10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant
David from the malicious sword:

143:11. 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:

143:12. Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters
decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

143:13. Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their
sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

143:14. Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor
crying out in their streets.

143:15. They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but
happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

Psalms Chapter 144

Exaltabo te, Deus.

A psalm of praise, to the infinite majesty of God.

144:1. Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and
I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

144:2. Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever;
yea, for ever and ever.

144:3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his
greatness there is no end.

144:4. Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall
declare thy power.

144:5. They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy
holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works.

144:6. And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall
declare thy greatness.

144:7. They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness:
and shall rejoice in thy justice.

144:8. The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in
mercy.

144:9. The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his
works.

144:10. Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless
thee.

144:11. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of
thy power:

144:12. To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the
magnificence of thy kingdom.

144:13. Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth
throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and
holy in all his works.

144:14. The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are
cast down.

144:15. The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat
in due season.

144:16. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living
creature.

144:17. The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.

144:18. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that
call upon him in truth.

144:19. He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear
their prayer, and save them.

144:20. The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he
will destroy.

144:21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh
bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.

Psalms Chapter 145

Lauda, anima.

We are not to trust in men, but in God alone.

145:1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.

145:2. Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I
will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in
princes:

145:3. In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

145:4. His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in
that day all their thoughts shall perish.

145:5. Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose
hope is in the Lord his God:

145:6. Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in
them.

145:7. Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that
suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that
are fettered:

145:8. The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that
are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

145:9. The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless
and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

145:10. The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation
and generation.

Psalms Chapter 146

Laudate Dominum.

An exhortation to praise God for his benefits.

146:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God
be joyful and comely praise.

146:2. The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the
dispersed of Israel.

146:3. Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

146:4. Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by
their names.

146:5. Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom
there is no number.

146:6. The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even
to the ground.

146:7. Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.

146:8. 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.

146:9. Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that
call upon him.

146:10. He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take
pleasure in the legs of a man.

146:11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that
hope in his mercy.

Psalms Chapter 147

Lauda, Jerusalem.

The church is called upon to praise God for his peculiar graces and
favours to his people. In the Hebrew, this psalm is joined to the
foregoing.

Alleluia.

147:12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.

147:13. Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath
blessed thy children within thee.

147:14. Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the
fat of corn.

147:15. Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth
swiftly.

147:16. Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

147:17. He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the
face of his cold?

He sendeth his crystal... That is, his ice. Some understand it of hail,
which is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels.

147:18. He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall
blow, and the waters shall run.

147:19. Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments
to Israel.

147:20. He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his
judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Psalms Chapter 148

Laudate Dominum de caelis.

All creatures are invited to praise their Creator.

Alleluia.

148:1. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high
places.

148:2. Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts.

148:3. Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and
light.

148:4. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that
are above the heavens

148:5. Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he
commanded, and they were created.

148:6. He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath
made a decree, and it shall not pass away.

148:7. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps:

148:8. Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:

148:9. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars:

148:10. Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls:

148:11. Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the
earth:

148:12. Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the
name of the Lord:

148:13. For his name alone is exalted.

148:14. The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted
the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of
Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.

Psalms Chapter 149

Cantate Domino.

The church is particularly bound to praise God.

Alleluia.

149:1. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the
church of the saints.

149:2. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of
Sion be joyful in their king.

149:3. Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the
timbrel and the psaltery.

149:4. For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt
the meek unto salvation.

149:5. The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their
beds.

149:6. The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged
swords in their hands:

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