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16:15. But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I shall
be satisfied when thy glory shall appear.

Psalms Chapter 17

Diligam te, Domine.

David's thanks to God for his delivery from all his enemies.

17:1. Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the
Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him
from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he
said:

17:2. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

17:3. The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is
my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of
my salvation, and my support.

17:4. Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my
enemies.

17:5. The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity
troubled me.

17:6. The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death
prevented me.

17:7. In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God:
And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came
into his ears.

17:8. The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains
were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.

17:9. There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his
face: coals were kindled by it.

17:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his
feet.

17:11. And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the
wings of the winds.

17:12. And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him:
dark waters in the clouds of the air.

17:13. At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and
coals of fire.

17:14. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his
voice: hail and coals of fire.

17:15. And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he
multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

17:16. Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the
world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit
of thy wrath.

17:17. He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many
waters.

17:18. He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that
hated me: for they were too strong for me.

17:19. They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord
became my rotector.

17:20. And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because
he was well pleased with me.

17:21. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will
repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

17:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done
wickedly against my God.

17:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have
not put away from me.

17:24. And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my
iniquity.

17:25. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and
according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

17:26. With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou
wilt be innocent:

17:27. And withe the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse
thou wilt be perverted.

17:28. For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the
eyes of the proud.

17:29. For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my
darkness.

17:30. For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my
God I shall go over a wall.

17:31. As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are
fire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.

17:32. For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?

17:33. God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.

17:34. Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me
upon high places.

17:35. Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a
brazen bow.

17:36. And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy
right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto
the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.

17:37. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not
weakened.

17:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not
turn again till they are consumed.

17:39. I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they
shall fall under my feet.

17:40. And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast
subdued under me them that rose up against me.

17:41. And thou hast made my enemies furn their back upon me, and hast
destroyed them that hated me.

17:42. They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he
heard them not.

17:43. And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I
shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.

17:44. Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou
wilt make me head of the Gentiles.

17:45. A people which I knew not, hath seerved me: at the hearing of the
ear they have obeyed me.

17:46. The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children
have faded away, and have halted from their paths.

17:47. The Lord liveth, and blessed by my God, and let the God of my
salvation be exalted.

17:48. O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my
deliverer from my enraged enemies.

17:49. And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from
the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.

17:50. Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations,
and I will sing a psalm to thy name.

17:51. Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David,
his anointed: and to his seed for ever.

Psalms Chapter 18

Coeli enarrant.

The works of God shew forth his glory: his law is greatly to be esteemed
and loved.

18:1. Unto the end. APsalm Chapter for David.

18:2. The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament
declareth the work of his hands.

18:3. Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.

18:4. There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not
heard.

18:5. Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words
unto the ends of the world.

18:6. He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he as a bridegroom
coming out of his bridechamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:

18:7. His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to
the end thereof: and ther is no one that can hide himself from his heat.

18:8. The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony
of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

18:9. The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the
commandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.

18:10. The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the
judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.

18:11. More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and
sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

18:12. For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a
great reward.

18:13. Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

18:14. And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no
dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed
form the greatest sin.

18:15. And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the
meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my
Redeemer.

Psalms Chapter 19

Exaudiat te Dominus.

A prayer for the king.

19:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David.

19:2. May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of
the God of Jacob protect thee.

19:3. May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee outof
Sion.

19:4. May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole
burntoffering be made fat.

19:5. May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy
counsels.

19:6. We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we
shall be exalted.

19:7. The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord
hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the
salvation of his right hand is in powers.

The salvation of his right hand is in powers... That is, in strength.
His right hand is strong and mighty to save them that trust in him.

19:8. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon
the name of the Lord, our God.

19:9. They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set
upright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall
call upon thee.

Psalms Chapter 20

Domine, in virtute.

Praise to God for Christ's exaltation after his passion.

20:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David.

20:2. In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation
he shall rejoice exceedingly.

20:3. Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and hast not withholden
from him the will of his lips.

20:4. For thou hast prevented him with belssings of sweetness: thou hast
set on his head a crown of precious stones.

20:5. He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for
ever and ever.

20:6. His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt
thou lay upon hom.

20:7. For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou
shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

20:8. For the king hopeth in the Lord: andthrough the mercy of the most
High he whall not be moved.

20:9. Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find
out all them that hate thee.

20:10. Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy
anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour
them.

20:11. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed
from among the children of men.

20:12. For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised
counsels which they have not been able to establish.

20:13. For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou
shalt prepare their face.

In thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face... Or thou shalt set thy
remnants against their faces. That is, thou shalt make them see what
punishments remain for them hereafter from thy justice. Instead of
remnants, St. Jerome renders it funes, that is, cords or strings, viz.,
of the bow of divine justice, from which God directs his arrows against
the faces of his enemies.

20:14. Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and
praise thy power.

Psalms Chapter 21

Deus Deus meus.

Christ's passion: and the conversion of the Gentiles.

21:1. Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.

21:2. O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my
salvation are the words of my sins.

The words of my sins... That is, the sins of the world, which I have
taken upon myself, cry out against me, and are the cause of all my
sufferings.

21:3. O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by
night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

21:4. But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.

21:5. In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast
delivered them.

21:6. They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and
were not confounded.

21:7. Bukt I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast
of the prople.

21:8. All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken
with the lips, and wagged the head.

21:9. He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him,
seeing he delighteth in him.

21:10. For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from
the breasts of my mother.

21:11. I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou
art my God,

21:12. Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is
none to help me.

21:13. Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.

21:14. They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and
roaring.

21:15. I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My
heart is become like wax melting in the midast of my bowels.

21:16. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath
cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of
death.

21:17. For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant
hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

21:18. They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared
upon me.

21:19. They lparted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they
cast lots.

21:20. But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look
towards my defence.

21:21. Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand
of the dog.

21:22. Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of
the unicorns.

21:23. I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the
church will I praise thee.

21:24. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob,
glorify him.

21:25. Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted
nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned
away his face form me: and when I cried to him he heard me.

21:26. With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in
the sight of them that fear him.

21:27. The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the
Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.

21:28. All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted
to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his
sight.

21:29. For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over
the nations.

21:30. All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all
they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

21:31. And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

21:32. There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the
heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born,
which the Lord hath made.

Psalms Chapter 22

Dominus regit me.

God's spiritual benefits to faithful souls.

22:1. A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.

Ruleth me... In Hebrew, Is my shepherd, viz., to feed, guide, and govern
me.

22:2. He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on
the water of refreshment:

22:3. He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice,
for his own name's sake.

22:4. For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they
have comforted me.

22:5. Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me.
Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth
me, how goodly is it!

22:6. And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I
may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

Psalms Chapter 23

Domini est terra.

Who are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ's triumphant ascension
thither.

23:1. On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the
Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell
therein.

23:2. For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon
the rivers.

23:3. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand
in his holy place?

23:4. The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his
soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

23:5. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his
Saviour.

23:6. This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek
the face of the God of Jacob.

23:7. Lift up your gates, O ye lprinces, and be ye lifted up, O eternal
gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

23:8. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the
Lord mighty in battle.

23:9. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal
gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

23:10. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of
Glory.

Psalms Chapter 24

Ad te, Domine, levavi.

A prayer for grace, mercy, and protection against our enemies.

24:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up
my soul.

24:2. In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

24:3. Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on
thee shall be confounded.

24:4. Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause.
Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

24:5. Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour;
and on thee have I waited all the day long.

24:6. Remember, O Lor, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that
are from the beginning of the world.

24:7. The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According
to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

24:8. The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to
sinners in the way.

24:9. He will guide themild in judgment: he will teach the meek his
ways.

24:10. All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek
after his covenant and his testimonies.

24:11. For thy name's sake, O Lrod, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is
great.

24:12. Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law
in the way he hath chosen.

24:13. His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit
the land.

24:14. The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant
shall be made manifest to them.

24:15. My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out
of the snare.

24:16. Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.

24:17. The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my
necessities.

24:18. See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

24:19. Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me
with an unjust hatred.

24:20. Deep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I
have hoped in thee.

24:21. The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have
waited on thee.

24:22. Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.

Psalms Chapter 25

Judica me, Domine.

David's prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered, that he may come
to worship him in his tabernacle.

25:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have
walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall
not be weakened.

25:2. Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

25:3. For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy
truth.

25:4. I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in
with the doers of unjust things.

25:5. I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I
will not sit.

25:6. I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy
altar, O Lord:

25:7. That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy
wondrous works.

25:8. I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where
thy glory dwelleth.

25:9. Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with
bloody men:

25:10. In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with
gifts.

25:11. But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have
mercy on me.

25:12. My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will
bless thee, O Lord.

Psalms Chapter 26

Dominus illuminatio.

David's faith and hope in God.

26:1. The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light
and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my
life: of whom shall I be afraid?

26:2. Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My
enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

26:3. If armies in camp should stand to gether against me, my heart
shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be
confident.

26:4. One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I
may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may
see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

26:5. For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he
hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

26:6. He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head
above my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his
tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to
the Lord.

26:7. Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have
mercy on me and hear me.

26:8. My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O
Lord, will I still seek.

26:9. Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy
servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O
God my Saviour.

26:10. For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken
me up.

26:11. Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path,
because of my enemies.

26:12. Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for
unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to
itself.

26:13. I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the
living.

26:14. Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and
wait thou for the Lord.

Psalms Chapter 27

Ad te, Domine, clamabo.

David's prayer that his enemies may not prevail over him.

27:1. A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God,
be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like
them that go down into the pit.

27:2. Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee;
when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.

27:3. Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of
iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils
are in their hearts.

27:4. Give them according to their works, and according to the
wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands
give thou to them: render to them their reward.

27:5. Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the
operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build
them up.

27:6. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my
supplication.

27:7. The Lord is my helper andmy protector: in him hath my heart
confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again,
and with my will I will give praise to him.

27:8. The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the
salvation of his anointed.

27:9. Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them
and exalt them for ever.

Psalms Chapter 28

Afferte Domino.

An invitation to glorify God, with a commemoration of his mighty works.

28:1. A psalm for David, at the finishing of the tabernacle. Bring to
the Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of rams.

28:2. Bring to the Lord glory and honour: bring to the Lord glory to his
name: adore ye the Lord in his holy court.

28:3. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath
thundered, The Lord is upon many waters.

28:4. The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in
magnificence.

28:5. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall
break the cedars of Libanus.

28:6. And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the
beloved son of unicorns.

Shall reduce them to pieces, etc... In Hebrew, shall make them to skip
like a calf. The psalmist here describes the effects of thunder (which
he calls the voice of the Lord) which sometimes breaks down the tallest
and strongest trees; and makes their broken branches skip, etc. All this
is to be understood mystically of the powerful voice of God's word in
his church; which has broken the pride of the great ones of this world,
and brought many of them meekly and joyfully to submit their necks to
the sweet yoke of Christ.

28:7. The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire:

28:8. The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake
the desert of Cades.

28:9. The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover
the thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory.

28:10. The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: and the Lord shall sit king
for ever. The Lord will give strength to his people: the Lord will bless
his people with peace.

Psalms Chapter 29

Exaltabo te, Domine.

David praiseth God for his deliverance, and his merciful dealings with
him.

29:1. A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David's house.

29:2. I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not
made my enemies to rejoice over me.

29:3. O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and thou hast healed me.

29:4. Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast
saved me from them that go down into the pit.

29:5. Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give praise to the memory
of his holiness.

29:6. For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the
evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.

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