Astitérunt reges terræ, * et príncipes convenérunt in unum, advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum ejus.
The kings of the earth set themselves, * and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His Anointed.
Die 3 Aprilis 2026.
Feria VI in Parasceve.
Duplex I. Classis.
Aperi Dómine os meum ad benedicéndum nomen sanctum tuum: munda quoque cor meum ab ómnibus vanis, pervérsis et aliénis cogitatiónibus: intelléctum illúmina, afféctum inflámma, ut digne, atténte ac devóte hoc Offícium recitáre váleam, et exaudíri mérear ante conspéctum divínæ Majestátis tuæ. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. Amen.
Dómine in unióne illíus divínæ intentiónis, qua ipse in terris laudes Deo persolvísti, has tibi Horas persólvo.
O Lord, open Thou my mouth that I may bless Thy Holy Name. Cleanse my heart from all vain, evil, and wandering thoughts; enlighten my understanding; kindle my affections, that I may pray to, and praise Thee with attention and devotion; and may worthily be heard before the presence of Thy Divine Majesty. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Lord, in union with that Divine Intention wherewith Thou didst Thyself praise God, while as Thou wast on earth, I offer these Hours unto Thee.
Ad Matutinum.
Dicuntur secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cœlis: sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cœlo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven: hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum: benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui Jesus. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipoténtem, Creatórem cœli et terræ. Et in Jesum Christum, Fílium ejus únicum, Dóminum nostrum: qui concéptus est de Spíritu sancto, natus ex María Vírgine, passus sub Póntio Piláto, crucifíxus, mórtuus, et sepúltus: descéndit ad ínferos: tértia die resurréxit a mórtuis: ascéndit ad cœlos, sedet ad déxteram Dei Patris omnipoténtis: inde ventúrus est judicáre vivos et mórtuos. Credo in Spíritum sanctum, sanctam Ecclésiam cathólicam, sanctórum communiónem, remissiónem peccatórum, carnis resurrectiónem, vitam ætérnam. Amen.
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell: the third day He rose again from the dead: He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the Forgiveness of sins, the Resurrection of the body. And the Life everlasting. Amen.
In fine cujuslibet Psalmi ad Matutinum, exstinguitur una ex quindecim candelis positis in candalabro triangulari ante altare.
Nocturnus I.
Psalmus 2.
Quare fremuérunt Gentes, * et pópuli meditáti sunt inánia?
2 Astitérunt reges terræ, et príncipes convenérunt in unum * advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum ejus.
3 Dirumpámus víncula eórum: * et projiciámus a nobis jugum ipsórum.
4 Qui hábitat in cœlis, irridébit eos: * et Dóminus subsannábit eos.
5 Tunc loquétur ad eos in ira sua, * et in furóre suo conturbábit eos.
6 Ego autem constitútus sum Rex ab eo super Sion montem sanctum ejus, * prǽdicans præcéptum ejus.
7 Dóminus dixit ad me: * Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te.
8 Póstula a me, et dabo tibi Gentes hæreditátem tuam, * et possessiónem tuam términos terræ.
9 Reges eos in virga férrea, * et tamquam vas fíguli confrínges eos.
10 Et nunc reges intellígite: * erudímini qui judicátis terram.
11 Servíte Dómino in timóre: * et exsultáte ei cum tremóre.
12 Apprehéndite disciplínam, nequándo irascátur Dóminus, * et pereátis de via justa.
13 Cum exárserit in brevi ira ejus, * beáti omnes qui confídunt in eo.
Why have the Gentiles raged, * and the people devised vain things?
2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, * against the Lord and against his Christ.
3 Let us break their bonds asunder: * and let us cast away their yoke from us.
4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: * and the Lord shall deride them.
5 Then shall he speak to them in his anger, * and trouble them in his rage.
6 But I am appointed king by him over Sion his holy mountain, * preaching his commandment.
7 The Lord hath said to me: * Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, * and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, * and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
10 And now, O ye kings, understand: * receive instruction, you that judge the earth.
11 Serve ye the Lord with fear: * and rejoice unto him with trembling.
12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, * and you perish from the just way.
13 When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, * blessed are all they that trust in him.
Astitérunt reges terræ, et príncipes convenérunt in unum, advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum ejus.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His Anointed.
Divisérunt sibi * vestiménta mea, et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
They part my garments among them, * and cast lots upon my vesture.
Psalmus 21.
Deus Deus meus réspice in me: † quare me dereliquísti? * longe a salúte mea verba delictórum meórum.
2 Deus meus clamábo per diem, et non exaúdies: * et nocte, et non ad insipiéntiam mihi.
3 Tu autem in sancto hábitas, * laus Israël.
4 In te speravérunt patres nostri: * speravérunt, et liberásti eos.
5 Ad te clamavérunt, et salvi facti sunt: * in te speravérunt, et non sunt confúsi.
6 Ego autem sum vermis, et non homo: * oppróbrium hóminum, et abjéctio plebis.
7 Omnes vidéntes me, derisérunt me: * locúti sunt lábiis, et movérunt caput.
8 Sperávit in Dómino, erípiat eum: * salvum fáciat eum, quóniam vult eum.
9 Quóniam tu es, qui extraxísti me de ventre: * spes mea ab ubéribus matris meæ.
10 In te projéctus sum ex útero: † de ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu, * ne discésseris a me:
11 Quóniam tribulátio próxima est: * quóniam non est qui ádjuvet.
12 Circumdedérunt me vítuli multi: * tauri pingues obsedérunt me.
13 Aperuérunt super me os suum, * sicut leo rápiens et rúgiens.
14 Sicut aqua effúsus sum: * et dispérsa sunt ómnia ossa mea.
15 Factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquéscens * in médio ventris mei.
16 Aruit tamquam testa virtus mea, † et lingua mea adhǽsit faúcibus meis: * et in púlverem mortis deduxísti me.
17 Quóniam circumdedérunt me canes multi: * concílium malignántium obsédit me.
18 Fodérunt manus meas et pedes meos: * dinumeravérunt ómnia ossa mea.
19 Ipsi vero consideravérunt et inspexérunt me: † divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea, * et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
20 Tu autem Dómine ne elongáveris auxílium tuum a me: * ad defensiónem meam cónspice.
21 Erue a frámea Deus ánimam meam: * et de manu canis únicam meam:
22 Salva me ex ore leónis: * et a córnibus unicórnium humilitátem meam.
23 Narrábo nomen tuum frátribus meis: * in médio ecclésiæ laudábo te.
24 Qui timétis Dóminum, laudáte eum: * univérsum semen Jacob glorificáte eum.
25 Tímeat eum omne semen Israël: * quóniam non sprevit, neque despéxit deprecatiónem paúperis:
26 Nec avértit fáciem suam a me: * et cum clamárem ad eum, exaudívit me.
27 Apud te laus mea in ecclésia magna: * vota mea reddam in conspéctu timéntium eum.
28 Edent paúperes, et saturabúntur: † et laudábunt Dóminum qui requírunt eum: * vivent corda eórum in sǽculum sǽculi.
29 Reminiscéntur et converténtur ad Dóminum * univérsi fines terræ:
30 Et adorábunt in conspéctu ejus * univérsæ famíliæ Géntium.
31 Quóniam Dómini est regnum: * et ipse dominábitur Géntium.
32 Manducavérunt et adoravérunt omnes pingues terræ: * in conspéctu ejus cadent omnes qui descéndunt in terram.
33 Et ánima mea illi vivet: * et semen meum sérviet ipsi.
34 Annuntiábitur Dómino generátio ventúra: † et annuntiábunt cœli justítiam ejus pópulo qui nascétur, * quem fecit Dóminus.
O God my God, look upon me: † why hast thou forsaken me? * Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
2 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.
3 But thou dwellest in the holy place, * the praise of Israel.
4 In thee have our fathers hoped: * they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
5 They cried to thee, and they were saved: * they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man: * the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
7 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: * they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
8 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: * let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
9 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: * my hope from the breasts of my mother.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb. † From my mother's womb thou art my God, * Depart not from me.
11 For tribulation is very near: * for there is none to help me.
12 Many calves have surrounded me: * fat bulls have besieged me.
13 They have opened their mouths against me, * as a lion ravening and roaring.
14 I am poured out like water; * and all my bones are scattered.
15 My heart is become like wax melting * in the midst of my bowels.
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.
17 For many dogs have encompassed me: * the council of the malignant hath besieged me.
18 They have dug my hands and feet. * They have numbered all my bones.
19 And they have looked and stared upon me. † They parted my garments amongst them; * and upon my vesture they cast lots.
20 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; * look towards my defence.
21 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: * my only one from the hand of the dog.
22 Save me from the lion's mouth; * and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
23 I will declare thy name to my brethren: * in the midst of the church will I praise thee.
24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: * all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.
25 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: * because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man.
26 Neither hath he turned away his face from me: * and when I cried to him he heard me.
27 With thee is my praise in a great church: * I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.
28 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.
29 All the ends of the earth shall remember, * and shall be converted to the Lord:
30 And all the kindreds of the Gentiles * shall adore in his sight.
31 For the kingdom is the Lord's; * and he shall have dominion over the nations.
32 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: * all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.
33 And to him my soul shall live: * and my seed shall serve him.
34 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.
Divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea, et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Insurrexérunt in me * testes iníqui, et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
False witnesses are risen up against me, * and iniquity hath belied itself.
Psalmus 26.
Dóminus illuminátio mea, et salus mea, * quem timébo?
2 Dóminus protéctor vitæ meæ, * a quo trepidábo?
3 Dum apprópiant super me nocéntes, * ut edant carnes meas:
4 Qui tríbulant me inimíci mei, * ipsi infirmáti sunt, et cecidérunt.
5 Si consístant advérsum me castra, * non timébit cor meum.
6 Si exsúrgat advérsum me prǽlium, * in hoc ego sperábo.
7 Unam pétii a Dómino, hanc requíram, * ut inhábitem in domo Dómini ómnibus diébus vitæ meæ:
8 Ut vídeam voluptátem Dómini, * et vísitem templum ejus.
9 Quóniam abscóndit me in tabernáculo suo: * in die malórum protéxit me in abscóndito tabernáculi sui.
10 In petra exaltávit me: * et nunc exaltávit caput meum super inimícos meos.
11 Circuívi, et immolávi in tabernáculo ejus hóstiam vociferatiónis: * cantábo, et psalmum dicam Dómino.
12 Exaúdi Dómine vocem meam, qua clamávi ad te: * miserére mei, et exaúdi me.
13 Tibi dixit cor meum, exquisívit te fácies mea: * fáciem tuam Dómine requíram.
14 Ne avértas fáciem tuam a me: * ne declínes in ira a servo tuo.
15 Adjútor meus esto: * ne derelínquas me, neque despícias me Deus salutáris meus.
16 Quóniam pater meus, et mater mea dereliquérunt me: * Dóminus autem assúmpsit me.
17 Legem pone mihi Dómine in via tua: * et dírige me in sémitam rectam propter inimícos meos.
18 Ne tradíderis me in ánimas tribulántium me: * quóniam insurrexérunt in me testes iníqui, et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
19 Credo vidére bona Dómini * in terra vivéntium.
20 Exspécta Dóminum, viríliter age: * et confortétur cor tuum, et sústine Dóminum.
The Lord is my light and my salvation, * whom shall I fear?
2 The Lord is the protector of my life: * of whom shall I be afraid?
3 Whilst the wicked draw near against me, * to eat my flesh.
4 My enemies that trouble me, * have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.
5 If armies in camp should stand together against me, * my heart shall not fear.
If a battle should rise up against me, * in this will I be confident.
7 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.
8 That I may see the delight of the Lord, * and may visit his temple.
9 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; * in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.
10 He hath exalted me upon a rock: * and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies.
11 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.
12 Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: * have mercy on me and hear me.
13 My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: * thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.
14 Turn not away thy face from me; * decline not in thy wrath from thy servant.
15 Be thou my helper, * forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.
16 For my father and my mother have left me: * but the Lord hath taken me up.
17 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, * and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.
18 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.
19 I believe to see the good things of the Lord * in the land of the living.
20 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.
Insurrexérunt in me testes iníqui, et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
False witnesses are risen up against me, and iniquity hath belied itself.
Versiculus.
℣. Divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea.
℟. Et super vestem meam misérunt sortem.
℣. They part my garments among them.
℟. And cast lots upon my vesture.
Dicitur secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cœlis: sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cœlo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven: hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Lectio I.
De Lamentatióne Jeremíæ Prophétæ.
Thren. 2. c.
Heth. Cogitávit Dóminus dissipáre murum fíliæ Sion: teténdit funículum suum, et non avértit manum suam a perditióne: luxítque antemurále, et murus páriter dissipátus est.
Teth. Defíxæ sunt in terra portæ ejus: pérdidit, et contrívit vectes ejus: regem ejus et príncipes ejus in Géntibus: non est lex, et prophétæ ejus non invenérunt visiónem a Dómino.
Jod. Sedérunt in terra, conticuérunt senes fíliæ Sion: conspersérunt cínere cápita sua, accíncti sunt cilíciis, abjecérunt in terram cápita sua vírgines Jerúsalem.
Caph. Defecérunt præ lácrimis óculi mei, conturbáta sunt víscera mea: effúsum est in terra jecur meum super contritióne fíliæ pópuli mei, cum defíceret párvulus, et lactens in platéis óppidi.
Jerúsalem, Jerúsalem, convértere ad Dóminum Deum tuum.
Responsorium I.
℟. Omnes amíci mei dereliquérunt me, et prævaluérunt insidiántes mihi: trádidit me quem diligébam: * Et terribílibus óculis plaga crudéli percutiéntes, acéto potábant me.
℣. Inter iníquos projecérunt me, et non pepercérunt ánimæ meæ.
℟. Et terribílibus óculis plaga crudéli percutiéntes, acéto potábant me.
℟. All my friends have forsaken me, and mine enemies have prevailed against me; he whom I loved hath betrayed me. * Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me; he breaketh me with breach upon breach: and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
℣. I am numbered with the transgressors; and my life is not spared.
℟. Mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me; he breaketh me with breach upon breach: and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lectio II.
Lamed. Mátribus suis dixérunt: Ubi est tríticum et vinum? cum defícerent quasi vulneráti in platéis civitátis: cum exhalárent ánimas suas in sinu matrum suárum.
Mem. Cui comparábo te? vel cui assimilábo te fília Jerúsalem? cui exæquábo te, et consolábor te virgo fília Sion? magna est enim velut mare contrítio tua: quis medébitur tui?
Nun. Prophétæ tui vidérunt tibi falsa, et stulta, nec aperiébant iniquitátem tuam, ut te ad pœniténtiam provocárent: vidérunt autem tibi assumptiónes falsas, et ejectiónes.
Samech. Plausérunt super te mánibus omnes transeúntes per viam: sibilavérunt, et movérunt caput suum super fíliam Jerúsalem: Hǽccine est urbs, dicéntes, perfécti decóris, gaúdium univérsæ terræ?
Jerúsalem, Jerúsalem, convértere ad Dóminum Deum tuum.
Responsorium II.
℟. Velum templi scissum est, * Et omnis terra trémuit: latro de cruce clamábat, dicens: Meménto mei Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
℣. Petræ scissæ sunt, et monuménta apérta sunt, et multa córpora sanctórum, qui dormíerant, surrexérunt.
℟. Et omnis terra trémuit: latro de cruce clamábat, dicens: Meménto mei Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
℟. The veil of the Temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom, * And all the earth did quake: the thief on the cross cried, saying: Lord, remember me when Thou comest into thy kingdom!
℣. The rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints, which slept, arose.
℟. And all the earth did quake: the thief on the cross cried, saying: Lord, remember me when Thou comest into thy kingdom!
Lectio III.
Thren. 3.
Aleph. Ego vir videns paupertátem meam in virga indignatiónis ejus.
Aleph. Me minávit, et addúxit in ténebras, et non in lucem.
Aleph. Tantum in me vertit, et convértit manum suam tota die.
Beth. Vetústam fecit pellem meam, et carnem meam, contrívit ossa mea.
Beth. Ædificávit in gyro meo, et circúmdedit me felle, et labóre.
Beth. In tenebrósis collocávit me, quasi mórtuos sempitérnos.
Ghimel. Circumædificávit advérsum me, ut non egrédiar: aggravávit cómpedem meum.
Ghimel. Sed et cum clamávero, et rogávero, exclúsit oratiónem meam.
Ghimel. Conclúsit vias meas lapídibus quadris, sémitas meas subvértit.
Jerúsalem, Jerúsalem, convértere ad Dóminum Deum tuum.
Responsorium III.
℟. Vínea mea elécta, ego te plantávi: * Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
℣. Sepívi te, et lápides elégi ex te, et ædificávi turrim.
℟. Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
℣. Vínea mea elécta, ego te plantávi:
℟. Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
℟. I had planted thee a noble vineyard; * How then art thou turned into a degenerate plant, which willest that Barabbas should be released unto thee, and that I should be crucified.
℣. I fenced thee, and gathered out the stones from thee, and built a tower in the midst of the land.
℟. How then art thou turned into a degenerate plant, which willest that Barabbas should be released unto thee, and that I should be crucified.
℣. I had planted thee a noble vineyard;
℟. How then art thou turned into a degenerate plant, which willest that Barabbas should be released unto thee, and that I should be crucified.
Nocturnus II.
Vim faciébant, * qui quærébant ánimam meam.
They that sought after my life * have used violence again me.
Psalmus 37.
Dómine ne in furóre tuo árguas me, * neque in ira tua corrípias me.
2 Quóniam sagíttæ tuæ infíxæ sunt mihi: * et confirmásti super me manum tuam.
3 Non est sánitas in carne mea a fácie iræ tuæ: * non est pax óssibus meis a fácie peccatórum meórum.
4 Quóniam iniquitátes meæ supergréssæ sunt caput meum: * et sicut onus grave gravátæ sunt super me.
5 Putruérunt et corrúptæ sunt cicatríces meæ, * a fácie insipiéntiæ meæ.
6 Miser factus sum, et curvátus sum usque in finem: * tota die contristátus ingrediébar.
7 Quóniam lumbi mei impléti sunt illusiónibus: * et non est sánitas in carne mea.
8 Afflíctus sum, et humiliátus sum nimis: * rugiébam a gémitu cordis mei.
9 Dómine, ante te omne desidérium meum: * et gémitus meus a te non est abscónditus.
10 Cor meum conturbátum est, derelíquit me virtus mea: * et lumen oculórum meórum, et ipsum non est mecum.
11 Amíci mei, et próximi mei * advérsum me appropinquavérunt, et stetérunt.
12 Et qui juxta me erant, de longe stetérunt: * et vim faciébant qui quærébant ánimam meam.
13 Et qui inquirébant mala mihi, locúti sunt vanitátes: * et dolos tota die meditabántur.
14 Ego autem tamquam surdus non audiébam: * et sicut mutus non apériens os suum.
15 Et factus sum sicut homo non aúdiens: * et non habens in ore suo redargutiónes.
16 Quóniam in te Dómine sperávi: * tu exaúdies me Dómine Deus meus.
17 Quia dixi: Nequándo supergaúdeant mihi inimíci mei: * et dum commovéntur pedes mei, super me magna locúti sunt.
18 Quóniam ego in flagélla parátus sum: * et dolor meus in conspéctu meo semper.
19 Quóniam iniquitátem meam annuntiábo: * et cogitábo pro peccáto meo.
20 Inimíci autem mei vivunt, et confirmáti sunt super me: * et multiplicáti sunt qui odérunt me iníque.
21 Qui retríbuunt mala pro bonis, detrahébant mihi: * quóniam sequébar bonitátem.
22 Ne derelínquas me Dómine Deus meus: * ne discésseris a me.
23 Inténde in adjutórium meum, * Dómine Deus salútis meæ.
Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; * nor chastise me in thy wrath.
2 For thy arrows are fastened in me: * and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
3 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: * there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.
4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: * and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.
5 My sores are putrified and corrupted, * because of my foolishness.
6 I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: * I walked sorrowful all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with illusions; * and there is no health in my flesh.
8 I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: * I roared with the groaning of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee, * and my groaning is not hidden from thee.
10 My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, * and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.
11 My friends and my neighbours * have drawn near, and stood against me.
12 And they that were near me stood afar off: * And they that sought my soul used violence.
13 And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, * and studied deceits all the day long.
14 But I, as a deaf man, heard not: * and as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
15 And I became as a man that heareth not: * and that hath no reproofs in his mouth.
16 For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: * thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God.
17 For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: * and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.
18 For I am ready for scourges: * and my sorrow is continually before me.
19 For I will declare my iniquity: * and I will think for my sin.
20 But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: * and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
21 They that render evil for good, have detracted me, * because I followed goodness.
22 Forsake me not, O Lord my God: * do not thou depart from me.
23 Attend unto my help, * O Lord, the God of my salvation.
Vim faciébant, qui quærébant ánimam meam.
They that sought after my life have used violence again me.
Confundántur * et revereántur, qui quærunt ánimam meam, ut aúferant eam.
Let them be ashamed and confounded * together that seek after my soul, to destroy it.
Psalmus 39.
Exspéctans exspectávi Dóminum, * et inténdit mihi.
2 Et exaudívit preces meas: * et edúxit me de lacu misériæ, et de luto fæcis.
3 Et státuit super petram pedes meos: * et diréxit gressus meos.
4 Et immísit in os meum cánticum novum, * carmen Deo nostro.
5 Vidébunt multi, et timébunt: * et sperábunt in Dómino.
6 Beátus vir, cujus est nomen Dómini spes ejus: * et non respéxit in vanitátes et insánias falsas.
7 Multa fecísti tu Dómine Deus meus mirabília tua: * et cogitatiónibus tuis non est qui símilis sit tibi.
8 Annuntiávi et locútus sum: * multiplicáti sunt super númerum.
9 Sacrifícium et oblatiónem noluísti: * aures autem perfecísti mihi.
10 Holocaústum et pro peccáto non postulásti: * tunc dixi: Ecce vénio.
11 In cápite libri scriptum est de me ut fácerem voluntátem tuam: * Deus meus vólui, et legem tuam in médio cordis mei.
12 Annuntiávi justítiam tuam in ecclésia magna, * ecce lábia mea non prohibébo: Dómine tu scisti.
13 Justítiam tuam non abscóndi in corde meo: * veritátem tuam et salutáre tuum dixi.
14 Non abscóndi misericórdiam tuam et veritátem tuam * a concílio multo.
15 Tu autem Dómine ne longe fácias miseratiónes tuas a me: * misericórdia tua et véritas tua semper suscepérunt me.
16 Quóniam circumdedérunt me mala, quorum non est númerus: * comprehendérunt me iniquitátes meæ, et non pótui ut vidérem.
17 Multiplicátæ sunt super capíllos cápitis mei: * et cor meum derelíquit me.
18 Compláceat tibi Dómine ut éruas me: * Dómine, ad adjuvándum me réspice.
19 Confundántur et revereántur simul, qui quærunt ánimam meam, * ut aúferant eam.
20 Convertántur retrórsum, et revereántur * qui volunt mihi mala.
21 Ferant conféstim confusiónem suam, * qui dicunt mihi: Euge, euge.
22 Exsúltent, et læténtur super te omnes quæréntes te: * et dicant semper: Magnificétur Dóminus: qui díligunt salutáre tuum.
23 Ego autem mendícus sum et pauper: * Dóminus sollícitus est mei.
24 Adjútor meus, et protéctor meus tu es: * Deus meus, ne tardáveris.
With expectation I have waited for the Lord, * and he was attentive to me.
2 And he heard my prayers, * and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs.
3 And he set my feet upon a rock, * and directed my steps.
4 And he put a new canticle into my mouth, * a song to our God.
5 Many shall see, and shall fear: * and they shall hope in the Lord.
6 Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; * and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
7 Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: * and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee.
8 I have declared and I have spoken * they are multiplied above number.
9 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; * but thou hast pierced ears for me.
10 Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: * Then said I, Behold I come.
11 In the head of the book it is written of me that I should do thy will: * O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
12 I have declared thy justice in a great church, * lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.
13 I have not hid thy justice within my heart: * I have declared thy truth and thy salvation.
14 I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth * from a great council.
15 Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: * thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
16 For evils without number have surrounded me; * my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see.
17 They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: * and my heart hath forsaken me.
18 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me, * look down, O Lord, to help me.
19 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul * to take it away.
20 Let them be turned backward and be ashamed * that desire evils to me.
21 Let them immediately bear their confusion, * that say to me: Tis well, tis well.
22 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: * and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.
23 But I am a beggar and poor: * the Lord is careful for me.
24 Thou art my helper and my protector: * O my God, be not slack.
Confundántur et revereántur, qui quærunt ánimam meam, ut aúferant eam.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul, to destroy it.
Aliéni * insurrexérunt in me, et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam.
Strangers are risen up against me, * and oppressors seek after my soul.
Psalmus 53.
Deus in nómine tuo salvum me fac: * et in virtúte tua júdica me.
2 Deus exaúdi oratiónem meam: * aúribus pércipe verba oris mei.
3 Quóniam aliéni insurrexérunt advérsum me, † et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam: * et non proposuérunt Deum ante conspéctum suum.
4 Ecce enim Deus ádjuvat me: * et Dóminus suscéptor est ánimæ meæ.
5 Avérte mala inimícis meis: * et in veritáte tua dispérde illos.
6 Voluntárie sacrificábo tibi, * et confitébor nómini tuo Dómine: quóniam bonum est:
7 Quóniam ex omni tribulatióne eripuísti me: * et super inimícos meos despéxit óculus meus.
Save me, O God, by thy name, * and judge me in thy strength.
2 O God, hear my prayer: * give ear to the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me; † and the mighty have sought after my soul: * and they have not set God before their eyes.
4 For behold God is my helper: * and the Lord is the protector of my soul.
5 Turn back the evils upon my enemies; * and cut them off in thy truth.
6 I will freely sacrifice to thee, * and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:
7 For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: * and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.
Aliéni insurrexérunt in me, et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam.
Strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul.
Versiculus.
℣. Insurrexérunt in me testes iníqui.
℟. Et mentíta est iníquitas sibi.
℣. False witnesses are risen up against me.
℟. And iniquity hath belied itself.
Dicitur secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cœlis: sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cœlo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven: hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Lectio IV.
Ex Tractátu sancti Augustíni Epíscopi super Psalmos.
From the Treatise upon the Psalms, written by St. Austin, Bishop.
In Psalmum 63. ad vers. 2.
Protexísti me Deus a convéntu malignántium, a multitúdine operántium iniquitátem. Jam ipsum caput nostrum intueámur. Multi Mártyres tália passi sunt, sed nihil sic elúcet, quómodo caput Mártyrum: ibi mélius intuémur, quod illi expérti sunt. Protéctus est a multitúdine malignántium, protegénte se Deo, protegénte carnem suam ipso Fílio, et hómine, quem gerébat: quia fílius hóminis est, et Fílius Dei est. Fílius Dei, propter formam Dei: fílius hóminis, propter formam servi, habens in potestáte pónere ánimam suam, et recípere eam. Quid ei potuérunt fácere inimíci? Occidérunt corpus, ánimam non occidérunt. Inténdite. Parum ergo erat, Dóminum hortári Mártyres verbo, nisi firmáret exémplo.
Thou hast hidden me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity. Now let us fix our eyes upon our Head. Many martyrs have suffered such things as He suffered, but God's hiding of His suffering servants is not so well seen in the Martyrs, as it is in the Captain of the Martyrs. And it is in Him that we best see how it fared with them. He was hidden from the secret counsel of the wicked; hidden by God, being Himself God; hidden, as touching the Manhood, by God the Son, and the very Manhood, Which is taken into God the Son; because He is the Son of man, and He is the Son of God; Son of God, as being in the form of God; Son of man, as having taken upon Him the form of a servant, (Phil. ii. 6, 7,) Whose life no man taketh from Him, but Who layeth it down of Himself. He hath power to lay it down, and He hath power to take it again, (John x. 18.) What then was all that they which hated Him could do? They could kill the Body, but they were not able to kill the Soul. Consider this very earnestly. It had been a small thing for the Lord to preach to the Martyrs by His word, if He had not also nerved them by His example.
Responsorium IV.
℟. Tamquam ad latrónem exístis cum gládiis et fústibus comprehéndere me: * Quotídie apud vos eram in templo docens, et non me tenuístis: et ecce flagellátum dúcitis ad crucifigéndum.
℣. Cumque injecíssent manus in Jesum, et tenuíssent eum, dixit ad eos.
℟. Quotídie apud vos eram in templo docens, et non me tenuístis: et ecce flagellátum dúcitis ad crucifigéndum.
℟. Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves, for to take Me? * I sat daily with you, teaching in the Temple, and ye laid no hold on Me; and, now when ye have scourged Me, ye lead Me away to crucify Me!
℣. And when they had laid hands on Jesus, and taken Him, He said unto them:
℟. I sat daily with you, teaching in the Temple, and ye laid no hold on Me; and, now when ye have scourged Me, ye lead Me away to crucify Me!
Lectio V.
Nostis qui convéntus erat malignántium Judæórum, et quæ multitúdo erat operántium iniquitátem. Quam iniquitátem? Quia voluérunt occídere Dóminum Jesum Christum. Tanta ópera bona, inquit, osténdi vobis: propter quod horum me vultis occídere? Pértulit omnes infírmos eórum, curávit omnes lánguidos eórum, prædicávit regnum cœlórum, non tácuit vítia eórum, ut ipsa pótius eis displicérent, non médicus, a quo sanabántur. His ómnibus curatiónibus ejus ingráti, tamquam multa febre phrenétici, insaniéntes in médicum, qui vénerat curáre eos, excogitavérunt consílium perdéndi eum: tamquam ibi voléntes probáre, utrum vere homo sit, qui mori possit, an áliquid super hómines sit, et mori se non permíttat. Verbum ipsórum agnóscimus in Sapiéntia Salomónis: Morte turpíssima, ínquiunt, condemnémus eum. Interrogémus eum: erit enim respéctus in sermónibus illíus. Si enim vere Fílius Dei est, líberet eum.
We know what secret counsel was that of the wicked Jews, and what insurrection was that of the workers of iniquity. Of what iniquity were they the workers? The murder of our Lord Jesus Christ. Many good works, saith He, have I showed you for which of those works go ye about to kill Me? He had borne with all their weaknesses: He had healed all their diseases: He had preached unto them the kingdom of heaven: He had discovered to them their iniquities, that they might rather hate them, than the Physician That came to cure them. And now at last, without gratitude for all the tenderness of His healing love, like men raging in an high delirium, throwing themselves madly on the Physician, Who had come to cure them, they took counsel together how they might kill Him, as if to see if He were a Man and could die, or Something more than a man, and That would not let Himself die. In the Wisdom of Solomon we recognize their words, (ii. 18, 19, 20,) Let us condemn Him with a shameful death. Let us examine Him; for, by His own saying, He shall be respected. If He be the Son of God, let Him help Him.
Responsorium V.
℟. Ténebræ factæ sunt, dum crucifixíssent Jesum Judǽi: et circa horam nonam exclamávit Jesus voce magna: Deus meus, ut quid me dereliquísti? * Et inclináto cápite emísit spíritum.
℣. Exclámans Jesus voce magna, ait: Pater, in manus tuas comméndo spíritum meum.
℟. Et inclináto cápite emísit spíritum.
℟. The Jews crucified Jesus: and there was darkness (over all the land, unto the ninth hour): and about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, (saying): My God, (My God,) why hast Thou forsaken Me? * And He bowed His Head, and gave up the Ghost.
℣. When Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said: Father, into thy hands I commend My Spirit.
℟. And He bowed His Head, and gave up the Ghost.
Lectio VI.
Exacuérunt tamquam gládium linguas suas. Non dicant Judǽi: Non occídimus Christum. Etenim proptérea eum dedérunt júdici Piláto, ut quasi ipsi a morte ejus videréntur immúnes. Nam cum dixísset eis Pilátus: Vos eum occídite: respondérunt, Nobis non licet occídere quemquam. Iniquitátem facínoris sui in júdicem hóminem refúndere volébant: sed numquid Deum júdicem fallébant? Quod fecit Pilátus, in eo ipso quod fecit, aliquántum párticeps fuit: sed in comparatióne illórum multo ipse innocéntior. Institit enim quantum pótuit, ut illum ex eórum mánibus liberáret: nam proptérea flagellátum prodúxit ad eos. Non persequéndo Dóminum flagellávit, sed eórum furóri satisfácere volens: ut vel sic jam mitéscerent, et desínerent velle occídere, cum flagellátum vidérent. Fecit et hoc. At ubi perseveravérunt, nostis illum lavísse manus, et dixísse, quod ipse non fecísset, mundum se esse a morte illíus. Fecit tamen. Sed si reus, quia fecit vel invítus: illi innocéntes, qui coëgérunt, ut fáceret? Nullo modo. Sed ille dixit in eum senténtiam, et jussit eum crucifígi, et quasi ipse occídit: et vos o Judǽi occidístis. Unde occidístis? Gládio linguæ: acuístis enim linguas vestras. Et quando percussístis, nisi quando clamástis: Crucifíge, crucifíge?
They whetted their tongue like a sword. The Jews cannot say: We did not murder Christ, albeit they gave Him over to Pilate His judge, that they themselves might seem free of His death. For when Pilate said unto them, Take ye Him: and kill Him, they answered, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. They could throw the blame of their sin upon a human judge: but did they deceive God, the Great Judge? In that which Pilate did, he was their accomplice, but in comparison with them, he had far the lesser sin. (John xix. 11.) Pilate strove as far as he could, to deliver Him out of their hands; for the which reason also he scourged Him, (John xix. 1,) and brought Him forth to them. He scourged not the Lord for cruelty's sake, but in the hope that; he might so slake their wild thirst for blood: that, perchance, even they might be touched with compassion, and cease to lust for His death, when they saw What He was after the flagellation. Even this effort he made! But when Pilate saw that he could not prevail, but that rather a tumult was made, (Matth. xxvii. 24,) ye know how that he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this Just Person. And yet he delivered Him to be crucified! But if he were guilty who did it against his will, were they innocent; who goaded him on to it? No. Pilate gave sentence against Him. and commanded Him to be crucified. But ye, O ye Jews, ye also are His murderers! Wherewith? With your tongue, whetted like a sword. And when? But when ye cried, Crucify Him! Crucify Him! (Mark xv.13-14)
Responsorium VI.
℟. Animam meam diléctam trádidi in manus iniquórum, et facta est mihi hæréditas mea sicut leo in silva: dedit contra me voces adversárius, dicens: Congregámini, et properáte ad devorándum illum: posuérunt me in desérto solitúdinis, et luxit super me omnis terra: * Quia non est invéntus qui me agnósceret, et fáceret bene.
℣. Insurrexérunt in me viri absque misericórdia, et non pepercérunt ánimæ meæ.
℟. Quia non est invéntus qui me agnósceret, et fáceret bene.
℣. Animam meam diléctam trádidi in manus iniquórum, et facta est mihi hæréditas mea sicut leo in silva: dedit contra me voces adversárius, dicens: Congregámini, et properáte ad devorándum illum: posuérunt me in desérto solitúdinis, et luxit super me omnis terra:
℟. Quia non est invéntus qui me agnósceret, et fáceret bene.
℟. I have given the dearly-beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies and Mine heritage is become unto Me as a lion in the forest; the enemy crieth out against Me, saying: Assemble yourselves together, hasten to devour Him: they have made My portion a desolate wilderness, and the whole land mourneth unto Me: * Because there is none found that will know Me, nor do well.
℣. There be risen up against me such as breathe out cruelty, and they have not spared my soul.
℟. Because there is none found that will know Me, nor do well.
℣. I have given the dearly-beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies and Mine heritage is become unto Me as a lion in the forest; the enemy crieth out against Me, saying: Assemble yourselves together, hasten to devour Him: they have made My portion a desolate wilderness, and the whole land mourneth unto Me:
℟. Because there is none found that will know Me, nor do well.
Nocturnus III.
Ab insurgéntibus in me * líbera me Dómine, quia occupavérunt ánimam meam.
O Lord, defend me from them that rise up against me, * for they lie in wait for my life.
Psalmus 58.
Eripe me de inimícis meis Deus meus: * et ab insurgéntibus in me líbera me.
2 Eripe me de operántibus iniquitátem: * et de viris sánguinum salva me.
3 Quia ecce cepérunt ánimam meam: * irruérunt in me fortes.
4 Neque iníquitas mea, neque peccátum meum Dómine: * sine iniquitáte cucúrri, et diréxi.
5 Exsúrge in occúrsum meum, et vide: * et tu Dómine Deus virtútum, Deus Israël,
6 Inténde ad visitándas omnes Gentes: * non misereáris ómnibus, qui operántur iniquitátem.
7 Converténtur ad vésperam: et famem patiéntur ut canes, * et circuíbunt civitátem.
8 Ecce loquéntur in ore suo, et gládius in lábiis eórum: * quóniam quis audívit?
9 Et tu Dómine deridébis eos: * ad níhilum dedúces omnes Gentes.
10 Fortitúdinem meam ad te custódiam, quia Deus suscéptor meus es: * Deus meus, misericórdia ejus prævéniet me.
11 Deus osténdet mihi super inimícos meos, ne occídas eos: * nequándo obliviscántur pópuli mei.
12 Dispérge illos in virtúte tua: * et depóne eos protéctor meus Dómine:
13 Delíctum oris eórum, sermónem labiórum ipsórum: * et comprehendántur in supérbia sua.
14 Et de exsecratióne et mendácio annuntiabúntur in consummatióne: * in ira consummatiónis, et non erunt.
15 Et scient quia Deus dominábitur Jacob: * et fínium terræ.
16 Converténtur ad vésperam et famem patiéntur ut canes: * et circuíbunt civitátem.
17 Ipsi dispergéntur ad manducándum: * si vero non fúerint saturáti et murmurábunt.
18 Ego autem cantábo fortitúdinem tuam: * et exsultábo mane misericórdiam tuam.
19 Quia factus es suscéptor meus, * et refúgium meum, in die tribulatiónis meæ.
20 Adjútor meus tibi psallam, quia Deus suscéptor meus es: * Deus meus misericórdia mea.
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; * and defend me from them that rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from them that work iniquity, * and save me from bloody men.
3 For behold they have caught my soul: * the mighty have rushed in upon me:
4 Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: * without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.
5 Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: * even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel.
6 Attend to visit all the nations: * have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.
7 They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.
8 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: * for who, say they, hath heard us?
9 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: * thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
10 I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector: * My God, his mercy shall prevent me.
11 God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, * lest at any time my people forget.
12 Scatter them by thy power; * and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:
13 For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: * and let them be taken in their pride.
14 And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of, when they are consumed: * when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more.
15 And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, * and all the ends of the earth.
16 They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.
17 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, * and shall murmur if they be not filled.
18 But I will sing thy strength: * and will extol thy mercy in the morning.
19 For thou art become my support, * and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.
20 Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: * my God my mercy.
Ab insurgéntibus in me líbera me Dómine, quia occupavérunt ánimam meam.
O Lord, defend me from them that rise up against me, for they lie in wait for my life.
Longe fecísti * notos meos a me: tráditus sum, et non egrediébar.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; * I am shut up, and cannot come forth.
Psalmus 87.
Dómine Deus salútis meæ: * in die clamávi, et nocte coram te.
2 Intret in conspéctu tuo orátio mea: * inclína aurem tuam ad precem meam:
3 Quia repléta est malis ánima mea: * et vita mea inférno appropinquávit.
4 Æstimátus sum cum descendéntibus in lacum: * factus sum sicut homo sine adjutório, inter mórtuos liber.
5 Sicut vulneráti dormiéntes in sepúlchris, quorum non es memor ámplius: * et ipsi de manu tua repúlsi sunt.
6 Posuérunt me in lacu inferióri: * in tenebrósis, et in umbra mortis.
7 Super me confirmátus est furor tuus: * et omnes fluctus tuos induxísti super me.
8 Longe fecísti notos meos a me: * posuérunt me abominatiónem sibi.
9 Tráditus sum, et non egrediébar: * óculi mei languérunt præ inópia.
10 Clamávi ad te Dómine tota die: * expándi ad te manus meas.
11 Numquid mórtuis fácies mirabília: * aut médici suscitábunt, et confitebúntur tibi?
12 Numquid narrábit áliquis in sepúlchro misericórdiam tuam, * et veritátem tuam in perditióne?
13 Numquid cognoscéntur in ténebris mirabília tua: * et justítia tua in terra obliviónis?
14 Et ego ad te Dómine clamávi: * et mane orátio mea prævéniet te.
15 Ut quid Dómine repéllis oratiónem meam: * avértis fáciem tuam a me?
16 Pauper sum ego, et in labóribus a juventúte mea: * exaltátus autem, humiliátus sum et conturbátus.
17 In me transiérunt iræ tuæ: * et terróres tui conturbavérunt me.
18 Circumdedérunt me sicut aqua tota die: * circumdedérunt me simul.
19 Elongásti a me amícum et próximum: * et notos meos a miséria.
O Lord, the God of my salvation: * I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.
2 Let my prayer come in before thee: * incline thy ear to my petition.
3 For my soul is filled with evils: * and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.
4 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: * I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.
5 Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: * and they are cast off from thy hand.
6 They have laid me in the lower pit: * in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.
7 Thy wrath is strong over me: * and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
8 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: * they have set me an abomination to themselves.
9 I was delivered up, and came not forth: * My eyes languished through poverty.
10 All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: * I stretched out my hands to thee.
11 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? * or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?
12 Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: * and thy truth in destruction?
13 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; * and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
14 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: * and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.
15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: * why turnest thou away thy face from me?
16 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: * and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.
17 Thy wrath hath come upon me: * and thy terrors have troubled me.
18 They have come round about me like water all the day: * they have compassed me about together.
19 Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: * and my acquaintance, because of misery.
Longe fecísti notos meos a me: tráditus sum, et non egrediébar.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; I am shut up, and cannot come forth.
Captábunt * in ánimam justi, et sánguinem innocéntem condemnábunt.
They gather themselves together * against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalmus 93.
Deus ultiónum Dóminus: * Deus ultiónum líbere egit.
2 Exaltáre qui júdicas terram: * redde retributiónem supérbis.
3 Usquequo peccatóres Dómine, * úsquequo peccatóres gloriabúntur:
4 Effabúntur, et loquéntur iniquitátem: * loquéntur omnes, qui operántur injustítiam?
5 Pópulum tuum Dómine humiliavérunt: * et hæreditátem tuam vexavérunt.
6 Víduam, et ádvenam interfecérunt: * et pupíllos occidérunt.
7 Et dixérunt: Non vidébit Dóminus, * nec intélliget Deus Jacob.
8 Intellígite insipiéntes in pópulo: * et stulti aliquándo sápite.
9 Qui plantávit aurem, non aúdiet? * aut qui finxit óculum, non consíderat?
10 Qui córripit Gentes, non árguet: * qui docet hóminem sciéntiam?
11 Dóminus scit cogitatiónes hóminum, * quóniam vanæ sunt.
12 Beátus homo, quem tu erudíeris Dómine: * et de lege tua docúeris eum,
13 Ut mítiges ei a diébus malis: * donec fodiátur peccatóri fóvea.
14 Quia non repéllet Dóminus plebem suam: * et hæreditátem suam non derelínquet.
15 Quoadúsque justítia convertátur in judícium: * et qui juxta illam omnes qui recto sunt corde.
16 Quis consúrget mihi advérsus malignántes? * aut quis stabit mecum advérsus operántes iniquitátem?
17 Nisi quia Dóminus adjúvit me: * paulo minus habitásset in inférno ánima mea.
18 Si dicébam: Motus est pes meus: * misericórdia tua Dómine adjuvábat me.
19 Secúndum multitúdinem dolórum meórum in corde meo: * consolatiónes tuæ lætificavérunt ánimam meam.
20 Numquid adhǽret tibi sedes iniquitátis: * qui fingis labórem in præcépto?
21 Captábunt in ánimam justi: * et sánguinem innocéntem condemnábunt.
22 Et factus est mihi Dóminus in refúgium: * et Deus meus in adjutórium spei meæ.
23 Et reddet illis iniquitátem ipsórum: et in malítia eórum dispérdet eos: * dispérdet illos Dóminus Deus noster.
The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: * the God of revenge hath acted freely.
2 Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: * render a reward to the proud.
3 How long shall sinners, O Lord: * how long shall sinners glory?
4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: * shall all speak who work injustice?
5 Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: * and they have afflicted thy inheritance.
6 They have slain the widow and the stranger: * and they have murdered the fatherless.
7 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: * neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
8 Understand, ye senseless among the people: * and, you fools, be wise at last.
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? * or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?
10 He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: * he that teacheth man knowledge?
11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, * that they are vain.
12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: * and shalt teach him out of thy law.
13 That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: * till a pit be dug for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not cast off his people: * neither will he forsake his own inheritance.
15 Until justice be turned into judgment: * and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.
16 Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? * or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the Lord had been my helper, * my soul had almost dwelt in hell.
18 If I said: My foot is moved: * thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.
19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, * thy comforts have given joy to my soul.
20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, * who framest labour in commandment?
21 They will hunt after the soul of the just, * and will condemn innocent blood.
22 But the Lord is my refuge: * and my God the help of my hope.
23 And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he will destroy them: * the Lord our God will destroy them.
Captábunt in ánimam justi, et sánguinem innocéntem condemnábunt.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Versiculus.
℣. Locúti sunt advérsum me lingua dolósa.
℟. Et sermónibus ódii circumdedérunt me, et expugnavérunt me gratis.
℣. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
℟. They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Dicitur secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cœlis: sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cœlo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven: hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Lectio VII.
De Epístola beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Hebrǽos.
From the letter of the blessed Apostle Paul to the Hebrews
Hebr. 4. c. et 5.
Festinémus íngredi in illam réquiem: ut ne in idípsum quis íncidat incredulitátis exémplum. Vivus est enim sermo Dei, et éfficax, et penetrabílior omni gládio ancípiti: et pertíngens usque ad divisiónem ánimæ ac spíritus, compágum quoque ac medullárum, et discrétor cogitatiónum et intentiónum cordis. Et non est ulla creatúra invisíbilis in conspéctu ejus: ómnia autem nuda et apérta sunt óculis ejus, ad quem nobis sermo. Habéntes ergo Pontíficem magnum, qui penetrávit cœlos, Jesum Fílium Dei: teneámus confessiónem. Non enim habémus Pontíficem, qui non possit cómpati infirmitátibus nostris: tentátum autem per ómnia pro similitúdine absque peccáto.
Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest; lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is living and effectual, and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is. Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest, who can not have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.
Responsorium VII.
℟. Tradidérunt me in manus impiórum, et inter iníquos projecérunt me, et non pepercérunt ánimæ meæ: congregáti sunt advérsum me fortes: * Et sicut gigántes stetérunt contra me.
℣. Aliéni insurrexérunt advérsum me, et fortes quæsiérunt ánimam meam.
℟. Et sicut gigántes stetérunt contra me.
℟. They have turned me over into the hands of the wicked: they also have numbered me with the transgressors, neither have they spared my life: the mighty are gathered together against me; * And stand up against me like giants.
℣. Strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul.
℟. And stand up against me like giants.
Lectio VIII.
Adeámus ergo cum fidúcia ad thronum grátiæ: ut misericórdiam consequámur, et grátiam inveniámus in auxílio opportúno. Omnis namque Póntifex ex homínibus assúmptus, pro homínibus constitúitur in iis quæ sunt ad Deum, ut ófferat dona, et sacrifícia pro peccátis: qui condolére possit iis, qui ignórant, et errant: quóniam et ipse circúmdatus est infirmitáte: et proptérea debet, quemádmodum pro pópulo, ita étiam et pro semetípso offérre pro peccátis.
Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy, and find grace in seasonable aid. For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins: Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity. And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
Responsorium VIII.
℟. Jesum trádidit ímpius summis princípibus sacerdótum, et senióribus pópuli: * Petrus autem sequebátur eum a longe, ut vidéret finem.
℣. Adduxérunt autem eum ad Cáipham príncipem sacerdótum, ubi scribæ et pharisǽi convénerant.
℟. Petrus autem sequebátur eum a longe, ut vidéret finem.
℟. That wicked one betrayed Jesus to the chief-priests and elders of the people * But Peter followed Him afar off, to see the end.
℣. And they led Him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, where the Scribes and Pharisees were assembled.
℟. But Peter followed Him afar off, to see the end.
Lectio IX.
Nec quisquam sumit sibi honórem, sed qui vocátur a Deo, tamquam Aaron. Sic et Christus non semetípsum clarificávit ut Póntifex fíeret: sed qui locútus est ad eum: Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te. Quemádmodum et in álio loco dicit: Tu es sacérdos in ætérnum, secúndum órdinem Melchísedech. Qui in diébus carnis suæ preces, supplicationésque ad eum, qui possit illum salvum fácere a morte cum clamóre válido, et lácrimis ófferens, exaudítus est pro sua reveréntia: Et quidem cum esset Fílius Dei, dídicit ex iis, quæ passus est, obediéntiam: et consummátus, factus est ómnibus obtemperántibus sibi causa salútis ætérnæ, appellátus a Deo Póntifex juxta órdinem Melchísedech.
Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was. So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech. Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence. And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered: And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation. Called by God a high priest according to the order of Melchisedech.
Responsorium IX.
℟. Caligavérunt óculi mei a fletu meo: quia elongátus est a me, qui consolabátur me. Vidéte omnes pópuli, * Si est dolor símilis sicut dolor meus.
℣. O vos omnes qui transítis per viam, atténdite et vidéte.
℟. Si est dolor símilis sicut dolor meus.
℣. Caligavérunt óculi mei a fletu meo: quia elongátus est a me, qui consolabátur me. Vidéte omnes pópuli,
℟. Si est dolor símilis sicut dolor meus.
℟. Mine eyes do fail with tears, because the Comforter that should relieve me is far from me. Behold, O all ye nations * If there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
℣. O all ye that pass by, behold, and see
℟. If there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
℣. Mine eyes do fail with tears, because the Comforter that should relieve me is far from me. Behold, O all ye nations
℟. If there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
Ad Laudes.
Psalmi.
Próprio * Fílio suo non pepércit Deus, sed pro nobis ómnibus trádidit illum.
God spared not His Own Son * but delivered Him up for us all.
Psalmus 50.
Miserére mei Deus, * secúndum magnam misericórdiam tuam.
2 Et secúndum multitúdinem miseratiónum tuárum, * dele iniquitátem meam.
3 Amplius lava me ab iniquitáte mea: * et a peccáto meo munda me.
4 Quóniam iniquitátem meam ego cognósco: * et peccátum meum contra me est semper.
5 Tibi soli peccávi, et malum coram te feci: * ut justificéris in sermónibus tuis, et vincas cum judicáris.
6 Ecce enim in iniquitátibus concéptus sum: * et in peccátis concépit me mater mea.
7 Ecce enim veritátem dilexísti: * incérta et occúlta sapiéntiæ tuæ manifestásti mihi.
8 Aspérges me hyssópo, et mundábor: * lavábis me, et super nivem dealbábor.
9 Audítui meo dabis gaúdium et lætítiam: * et exsultábunt ossa humiliáta.
10 Avérte fáciem tuam a peccátis meis: * et omnes iniquitátes meas dele.
11 Cor mundum crea in me Deus: * et spíritum rectum ínnova in viscéribus meis.
12 Ne projícias me a fácie tua: * et Spíritum sanctum tuum ne aúferas a me.
13 Redde mihi lætítiam salutáris tui: * et spíritu principáli confírma me.
14 Docébo iníquos vias tuas: * et ímpii ad te converténtur.
15 Líbera me de sanguínibus Deus, Deus salútis meæ: * et exsultábit lingua mea justítiam tuam.
16 Dómine, lábia mea apéries: * et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.
17 Quóniam si voluísses sacrifícium, dedíssem útique: * holocaústis non delectáberis.
18 Sacrifícium Deo spíritus contribulátus: * cor contrítum, et humiliátum Deus non despícies.
19 Benígne fac Dómine in bona voluntáte tua Sion: * ut ædificéntur muri Jerúsalem.
20 Tunc acceptábis sacrifícium justítiæ, oblatiónes, et holocaústa: * tunc impónent super altáre tuum vítulos.
Have mercy on me, O God, * according to thy great mercy.
2 And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies * blot out my iniquity.
3 Wash me yet more from my iniquity, * and cleanse me from my sin.
4 For I know my iniquity, * and my sin is always before me.
5 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: * that thou mayst be justified in thy words and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
6 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; * and in sins did my mother conceive me.
7 For behold thou hast loved truth: * the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.
8 Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: * thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
9 To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: * and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.
10 Turn away thy face from my sins, * and blot out all my iniquities.
11 Create a clean heart in me, O God: * and renew a right spirit within my bowels.
12 Cast me not away from thy face; * and take not thy holy spirit from me.
13 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, * and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.
14 I will teach the unjust thy ways: * and the wicked shall be converted to thee.
15 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: * and my tongue shall extol thy justice.
16 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: * and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
17 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: * with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.
18 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: * a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
19 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; * that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
20 Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: * then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.
Próprio Fílio suo non pepércit Deus, sed pro nobis ómnibus trádidit illum.
God spared not His Own Son but delivered Him up for us all.
Anxiátus est super me * spíritus meus, in me turbátum est cor meum.
My spirit is overwhelmed within me; * my heart within me is troubled.
Psalmus 142.
Dómine exaúdi oratiónem meam: aúribus pércipe obsecratiónem meam in veritáte tua: * exaúdi me in tua justítia.
2 Et non intres in judícium cum servo tuo: * quia non justificábitur in conspéctu tuo omnis vivens.
3 Quia persecútus est inimícus ánimam meam: * humiliávit in terra vitam meam.
4 Collocávit me in obscúris sicut mórtuos sǽculi: * et anxiátus est super me spíritus meus, in me turbátum est cor meum.
5 Memor fui diérum antiquórum, meditátus sum in ómnibus opéribus tuis: * in factis mánuum tuárum meditábar.
6 Expándi manus meas ad te: * ánima mea sicut terra sine aqua tibi.
7 Velóciter exaúdi me Dómine: * defécit spíritus meus.
8 Non avértas fáciem tuam a me: * et símilis ero descendéntibus in lacum.
9 Audítam fac mihi mane misericórdiam tuam: * quia in te sperávi.
10 Notam fac mihi viam, in qua ámbulem: * quia ad te levávi ánimam meam.
11 Eripe me de inimícis meis Dómine, ad te confúgi: * doce me fácere voluntátem tuam, quia Deus meus es tu.
12 Spíritus tuus bonus dedúcet me in terram rectam: * propter nomen tuum Dómine vivificábis me, in æquitáte tua.
13 Edúces de tribulatióne ánimam meam: * et in misericórdia tua dispérdes inimícos meos.
14 Et perdes omnes, qui tríbulant ánimam meam: * quóniam ego servus tuus sum.
Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: * hear me in thy justice.
2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: * for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: * he hath brought down my life to the earth.
4 He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old: * And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.
5 I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: * I meditated upon the works of thy hands.
6 I stretched forth my hands to thee: * my soul is as earth without water unto thee.
7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: * my spirit hath fainted away.
8 Turn not away thy face from me, * lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
9 Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; * for in thee have I hoped.
10 Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: * for I have lifted up my soul to thee.
11 Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled: * Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God.
12 Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land: * for thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice.
13 Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble: * And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies.
14 And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: * for I am thy servant.
Anxiátus est super me spíritus meus, in me turbátum est cor meum.
My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is troubled.
Ait latro ad latrónem: * Nos quidem digna factis recípimus, hic autem quid fecit? Meménto mei Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
One thief said unto the other: * We indeed receive the due reward of our deeds, but what hath this man done? Lord, remember me, when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Psalmus 62.
Deus Deus meus * ad te de luce vígilo.
2 Sitívit in te ánima mea, * quam multiplíciter tibi caro mea.
3 In terra desérta, et ínvia, et inaquósa: * sic in sancto appárui tibi, ut vidérem virtútem tuam, et glóriam tuam.
4 Quóniam mélior est misericórdia tua super vitas: * lábia mea laudábunt te.
5 Sic benedícam te in vita mea: * et in nómine tuo levábo manus meas.
6 Sicut ádipe et pinguédine repleátur ánima mea: * et lábiis exsultatiónis laudábit os meum.
7 Si memor fui tui super stratum meum, in matutínis meditábor in te: * quia fuísti adjútor meus.
8 Et in velaménto alárum tuárum exsultábo, adhǽsit ánima mea post te: * me suscépit déxtera tua.
9 Ipsi vero in vanum quæsiérunt ánimam meam, introíbunt in inferióra terræ: * tradéntur in manus gládii, partes vúlpium erunt.
10 Rex vero lætábitur in Deo, laudabúntur omnes qui jurant in eo: * quia obstrúctum est os loquéntium iníqua.
Psalmus 66.
1 Deus misereátur nostri, et benedícat nobis: * illúminet vultum suum super nos, et misereátur nostri.
2 Ut cognoscámus in terra viam tuam: * in ómnibus Géntibus salutáre tuum.
3 Confiteántur tibi pópuli Deus: * confiteántur tibi pópuli omnes.
4 Læténtur et exsúltent Gentes: * quóniam júdicas pópulos in æquitáte, et Gentes in terra dírigis.
5 Confiteántur tibi pópuli Deus, confiteántur tibi pópuli omnes: * terra dedit fructum suum.
6 Benedícat nos Deus, Deus noster, benedícat nos Deus: * et métuant eum omnes fines terræ.
O God, my God, * to thee do I watch at break of day.
2 For thee my soul hath thirsted; * for thee my flesh, O how many ways!
3 In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: * so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.
4 For thy mercy is better than lives: * thee my lips shall praise.
5 Thus will I bless thee all my life long: * and in thy name I will lift up my hands.
6 Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: * and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.
7 If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning: * because thou hast been my helper.
8 And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings: my soul hath stuck close to thee: * thy right hand hath received me.
9 But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth: * they shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.
10 But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: * because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things.
1 May God have mercy on us, and bless us: * may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us.
2 That we may know thy way upon earth: * thy salvation in all nations.
3 Let people confess to thee, O God: * let all people give praise to thee.
4 Let the nations be glad and rejoice: * for thou judgest the people with justice, and directest the nations upon earth.
5 Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give praise to thee: * the earth hath yielded her fruit.
6 May God, our God bless us, may God bless us: * and all the ends of the earth fear him.
Ait latro ad latrónem: Nos quidem digna factis recípimus, hic autem quid fecit? Meménto mei Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
One thief said unto the other: We indeed receive the due reward of our deeds, but what hath this man done? Lord, remember me, when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Cum conturbáta fúerit * ánima mea Dómine, misericórdiæ memor eris.
Lord, when my soul is troubled, * thou wilt remember mercy.
Canticum Habacuc.
Dómine audívi auditiónem tuam, * et tímui.
2 Dómine opus tuum, * in médio annórum vivífica illud:
3 In médio annórum notum fácies: * cum irátus fúeris, misericórdiæ recordáberis.
4 Deus ab Austro véniet, * et sanctus de monte Pharan:
5 Opéruit cœlos glória ejus: * et laudis ejus plena est terra.
6 Splendor ejus ut lux erit: * córnua in mánibus ejus:
7 Ibi abscóndita est fortitúdo ejus: * ante fáciem ejus ibit mors.
8 Et egrediétur diábolus ante pedes ejus. * Stetit, et mensus est terram.
9 Aspéxit, et dissólvit Gentes: * et contríti sunt montes sǽculi.
10 Incurváti sunt colles mundi, * ab itinéribus æternitátis ejus.
11 Pro iniquitáte vidi tentória Æthiópiæ, * turbabúntur pelles terræ Mádian.
12 Numquid in flumínibus irátus es Dómine? * aut in flumínibus furor tuus? vel in mari indignátio tua?
13 Qui ascéndes super equos tuos: * et quadrígæ tuæ salvátio.
14 Súscitans suscitábis arcum tuum: * juraménta tríbubus quæ locútus es.
15 Flúvios scindes terræ: vidérunt te, et doluérunt montes: * gurges aquárum tránsiit.
16 Dedit abýssus vocem suam: * altitúdo manus suas levávit.
17 Sol, et luna stetérunt in habitáculo suo, * in luce sagittárum tuárum, ibunt in splendóre fulgurántis hastæ tuæ.
18 In frémitu conculcábis terram: * et in furóre obstupefácies Gentes.
19 Egréssus es in salútem pópuli tui: * in salútem cum Christo tuo.
20 Percussísti caput de domo ímpii: * denudásti fundaméntum ejus usque ad collum.
21 Maledixísti sceptris ejus, cápiti bellatórum ejus, * veniéntibus ut turbo ad dispergéndum me.
22 Exsultátio eórum * sicut ejus, qui dévorat paúperem in abscóndito.
23 Viam fecísti in mari equis tuis, * in luto aquárum multárum.
24 Audívi, et conturbátus est venter meus: * a voce contremuérunt lábia mea.
25 Ingrediátur putrédo in óssibus meis, * et subter me scáteat.
26 Ut requiéscam in die tribulatiónis: * ut ascéndam ad pópulum accínctum nostrum.
27 Ficus enim non florébit: * et non erit germen in víneis.
28 Mentiétur opus olívæ: * et arva non áfferent cibum.
29 Abscindétur de ovíli pecus: * et non erit arméntum in præsépibus.
30 Ego autem in Dómino gaudébo: * et exsultábo in Deo Jesu meo.
31 Deus Dóminus fortitúdo mea: * et ponet pedes meos quasi cervórum.
32 Et super excélsa mea dedúcet me victor * in psalmis canéntem.
O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, * and was afraid.
2 O Lord, thy work, * in the midst of the years bring it to life:
3 In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: * when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.
4 God will come from the south, * and the holy one from mount Pharan:
5 His glory covered the heavens, * and the earth is full of his praise.
6 His brightness shall be as the light; * horns are in his hands:
7 There is his strength hid: * Death shall go before his face.
8 And the devil shall go forth before his feet. * He stood and measured the earth.
9 He beheld, and melted the nations: * and the ancient mountains were crushed to pieces.
10 The hills of the world were bowed down * by the journeys of his eternity.
11 I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniquity, * the curtains of the land of Madian shall be troubled.
12 Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? * or was thy wrath upon the rivers? or thy indignation in the sea?
13 Who will ride upon thy horses: * and thy chariots are salvation.
14 Thou wilt surely take up thy bow: * according to the oaths which thou hast spoken to the tribes.
15 Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth. The mountains saw thee, and were grieved: * the great body of waters passed away.
16 The deep put forth its voice: * the deep lifted up its hands.
17 The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, * in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.
18 In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth under foot: * in thy wrath thou wilt astonish the nations.
19 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: * for salvation with thy Christ.
20 Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: * thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.
21 Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, * them that came out as a whirlwind to scatter me.
22 Their joy * was like that of him that devoureth the poor man in secret.
23 Thou madest a way in the sea for thy horses, * in the mud of many waters.
24 I have heard and my bowels were troubled: * my lips trembled at the voice.
25 Let rottenness enter into my bones, * and swarm under me.
26 That I may rest in the day of tribulation: * that I may go up to our people that are girded.
27 For the fig tree shall not blossom: * and there shall be no spring in the vines.
28 The labour of the olive tree shall fail: * and the fields shall yield no food:
29 The flock shall be cut off from the fold, * and there shall be no herd in the stalls.
30 But I will rejoice in the Lord: * and I will joy in God my Jesus.
31 The Lord God is my strength: * and he will make my feet like the feet of harts:
32 And he the conqueror will lead me * upon my high places singing psalms.
Cum conturbáta fúerit ánima mea Dómine, misericórdiæ memor eris.
Lord, when my soul is troubled, thou wilt remember mercy.
Meménto mei * Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
Lord, remember me * when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Psalmus 148.
Laudáte Dóminum de cœlis: * laudáte eum in excélsis.
2 Laudáte eum omnes Angeli ejus: * laudáte eum omnes virtútes ejus.
3 Laudáte eum sol et luna: * laudáte eum omnes stellæ, et lumen.
4 Laudáte eum cœli cœlórum: * et aquæ omnes, quæ super cœlos sunt, laudent nomen Dómini.
5 Quia ipse dixit, et facta sunt: * ipse mandávit, et creáta sunt.
6 Státuit ea in ætérnum, et in sǽculum sǽculi: * præcéptum pósuit, et non præteríbit.
7 Laudáte Dóminum de terra, * dracónes, et omnes abýssi.
8 Ignis, grando, nix, glácies, spíritus procellárum: * quæ fáciunt verbum ejus:
9 Montes, et omnes colles: * ligna fructífera, et omnes cedri.
10 Béstiæ, et univérsa pécora: * serpéntes, et vólucres pennátæ:
11 Reges terræ, et omnes pópuli: * príncipes, et omnes júdices terræ.
12 Júvenes, et vírgines: senes cum junióribus laudent nomen Dómini: * quia exaltátum est nomen ejus solíus.
13 Conféssio ejus super cœlum, et terram: * et exaltávit cornu pópuli sui.
14 Hymnus ómnibus sanctis ejus: * fíliis Israël, pópulo appropinquánti sibi.
Psalmus 149.
1 Cantáte Dómino cánticum novum: * laus ejus in ecclésia sanctórum.
2 Lætétur Israël in eo, qui fecit eum: * et fílii Sion exsúltent in rege suo.
3 Laudent nomen ejus in choro: * in týmpano, et psaltério psallant ei.
4 Quia beneplácitum est Dómino in pópulo suo: * et exaltábit mansuétos in salútem.
5 Exsultábunt sancti in glória: * lætabúntur in cubílibus suis.
6 Exaltatiónes Dei in gútture eórum: * et gládii ancípites in mánibus eórum:
7 Ad faciéndam vindíctam in natiónibus: * increpatiónes in pópulis.
8 Ad alligándos reges eórum in compédibus: * et nóbiles eórum in mánicis férreis.
9 Ut fáciant in eis judícium conscríptum: * glória hæc est ómnibus sanctis ejus.
Psalmus 150.
1 Laudáte Dóminum in sanctis ejus: * laudáte eum in firmaménto virtútis ejus.
2 Laudáte eum in virtútibus ejus: * laudáte eum secúndum multitúdinem magnitúdinis ejus.
3 Laudáte eum in sono tubæ: * laudáte eum in psaltério, et cíthara.
4 Laudáte eum in týmpano, et choro: * laudáte eum in chordis, et órgano.
5 Laudáte eum in cýmbalis benesonántibus: laudáte eum in cýmbalis jubilatiónis: * omnis spíritus laudet Dóminum.
Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: * praise ye him in the high places.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels: * praise ye him, all his hosts.
3 Praise ye him, O sun and moon: * praise him, all ye stars and light.
4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: * and let all the waters that are above the heavens praise the name of the Lord.
5 For he spoke, and they were made: * he commanded, and they were created.
6 He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: * he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away.
7 Praise the Lord from the earth, * ye dragons, and all ye deeps:
8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds * which fulfill his word:
9 Mountains and all hills, * fruitful trees and all cedars:
10 Beasts and all cattle: * serpents and feathered fowls:
11 Kings of the earth and all people: * princes and all judges of the earth:
12 Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord: * for his name alone is exalted.
13 The praise of him is above heaven and earth: * and he hath exalted the horn of his people.
14 A hymn to all his saints: * to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him.
1 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: * let his praise be in the church of the saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: * and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.
3 Let them praise his name in choir: * let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.
4 For the Lord is well pleased with his people: * and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.
5 The saints shall rejoice in glory: * they shall be joyful in their beds.
6 The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: * and two-edged swords in their hands:
7 To execute vengeance upon the nations, * chastisements among the people:
8 To bind their kings with fetters, * and their nobles with manacles of iron.
9 To execute upon them the judgment that is written: * this glory is to all his saints.
1 Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: * praise ye him in the firmament of his power.
2 Praise ye him for his mighty acts: * praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness.
3 Praise him with sound of trumpet: * praise him with psaltery and harp.
4 Praise him with timbrel and choir: * praise him with strings and organs.
5 Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: * let every spirit praise the Lord.
Meménto mei Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Versiculus.
℣. Collocávit me in obscúris.
℟. Sicut mórtuos sǽculi.
℣. He hath set me in dark places.
℟. As they that be dead of old.
Canticum Zachariæ.
Posuérunt * super caput ejus causam ipsíus scriptam: Jesus Nazarénus, Rex Judæórum.
They set up over his head his accusation written: * Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
Benedictus.
Benedíctus ✠ Dóminus Deus Israël, * quia visitávit, et fecit redemptiónem plebis suæ:
2 Et eréxit cornu salútis nobis: * in domo David púeri sui.
3 Sicut locútus est per os sanctórum, * qui a sǽculo sunt, prophetárum ejus:
4 Salútem ex inimícis nostris, * et de manu ómnium, qui odérunt nos:
5 Ad faciéndam misericórdiam cum pátribus nostris: * et memorári testaménti sui sancti.
6 Jusjurándum, quod jurávit ad Abraham patrem nostrum, * datúrum se nobis:
7 Ut sine timóre, de manu inimicórum nostrórum liberáti, * serviámus illi.
8 In sanctitáte, et justítia coram ipso, * ómnibus diébus nostris.
9 Et tu puer, Prophéta Altíssimi vocáberis: * præíbis enim ante fáciem Dómini paráre vias ejus:
10 Ad dandam sciéntiam salútis plebi ejus: * in remissiónem peccatórum eórum:
11 Per víscera misericórdiæ Dei nostri: * in quibus visitávit nos, óriens ex alto:
12 Illumináre his, qui in ténebris, et in umbra mortis sedent: * ad dirigéndos pedes nostros in viam pacis.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, * for He hath visited and redeemed His people.
2 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us, * in the house of His servant David:
3 As He spake by the mouth of His holy Prophets, * which have been since the world began:
4 That we should be saved from our enemies, * and from the hand of all that hate us:
5 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, * and to remember His holy covenant:
6 The oath which He sware to our father Abraham, * that He would grant unto us,
7 That we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, * might serve Him without fear,
8 In holiness and righteousness before Him * all the days of our life.
9 And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest: * for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways:
10 To give knowledge of salvation unto His people, * by the remission of their sins;
11 Through the tender mercy of our God, * whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
12 To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, * to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Posuérunt super caput ejus causam ipsíus scriptam: Jesus Nazarénus, Rex Judæórum.
They set up over his head his accusation written: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
Preces.
Interim dum dicitur Canticum Benedíctus. exstinctis prius omnibus candelis in candelabro triangulari, præter unam, quæ posita est in summitate candelabri, exstinguuntur paulatim sex candelæ positæ a principio supra altare, ita ut in ultimo versu exstinguantur ultima candela: similiter exstinguuntur lampades et luminaria per ecclesiam. Cum repetitur Antiphona, accipitur suprema candela ex candelabro, et absconditur sub altari in cornu Epistolæ.
℣. Christus factus est pro nobis obédiens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.
Cum incipitur ℣. Christus factus est. omnes genuflectunt.
Dicitur secreto.
Pater noster, qui es in cœlis: sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cœlo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven: hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Aliquantulum altius.
Psalmus 50.
Miserére mei Deus, * secúndum magnam misericórdiam tuam.
2 Et secúndum multitúdinem miseratiónum tuárum, * dele iniquitátem meam.
3 Amplius lava me ab iniquitáte mea: * et a peccáto meo munda me.
4 Quóniam iniquitátem meam ego cognósco: * et peccátum meum contra me est semper.
5 Tibi soli peccávi, et malum coram te feci: * ut justificéris in sermónibus tuis, et vincas cum judicáris.
6 Ecce enim in iniquitátibus concéptus sum: * et in peccátis concépit me mater mea.
7 Ecce enim veritátem dilexísti: * incérta et occúlta sapiéntiæ tuæ manifestásti mihi.
8 Aspérges me hyssópo, et mundábor: * lavábis me, et super nivem dealbábor.
9 Audítui meo dabis gaúdium et lætítiam: * et exsultábunt ossa humiliáta.
10 Avérte fáciem tuam a peccátis meis: * et omnes iniquitátes meas dele.
11 Cor mundum crea in me Deus: * et spíritum rectum ínnova in viscéribus meis.
12 Ne projícias me a fácie tua: * et Spíritum sanctum tuum ne aúferas a me.
13 Redde mihi lætítiam salutáris tui: * et spíritu principáli confírma me.
14 Docébo iníquos vias tuas: * et ímpii ad te converténtur.
15 Líbera me de sanguínibus Deus, Deus salútis meæ: * et exsultábit lingua mea justítiam tuam.
16 Dómine, lábia mea apéries: * et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.
17 Quóniam si voluísses sacrifícium, dedíssem útique: * holocaústis non delectáberis.
18 Sacrifícium Deo spíritus contribulátus: * cor contrítum, et humiliátum Deus non despícies.
19 Benígne fac Dómine in bona voluntáte tua Sion: * ut ædificéntur muri Jerúsalem.
20 Tunc acceptábis sacrifícium justítiæ, oblatiónes, et holocaústa: * tunc impónent super altáre tuum vítulos.
Have mercy on me, O God, * according to thy great mercy.
2 And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies * blot out my iniquity.
3 Wash me yet more from my iniquity, * and cleanse me from my sin.
4 For I know my iniquity, * and my sin is always before me.
5 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: * that thou mayst be justified in thy words and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
6 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; * and in sins did my mother conceive me.
7 For behold thou hast loved truth: * the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.
8 Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: * thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
9 To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: * and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.
10 Turn away thy face from my sins, * and blot out all my iniquities.
11 Create a clean heart in me, O God: * and renew a right spirit within my bowels.
12 Cast me not away from thy face; * and take not thy holy spirit from me.
13 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, * and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.
14 I will teach the unjust thy ways: * and the wicked shall be converted to thee.
15 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: * and my tongue shall extol thy justice.
16 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: * and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
17 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: * with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.
18 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: * a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
19 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; * that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
20 Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: * then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.
Collecta.
Similiter voce.
Réspice, quǽsumus Dómine, super hanc famíliam tuam, pro qua Dóminus noster Jesus Christus non dubitávit mánibus tradi nocéntium, et crucis subíre torméntum:
O Lord, we beseech Thee, behold this Thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the Cross.
Dicitur sub silentio.
Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus sancti Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.
℟. Amen.
Finita Oratione, fit fragor et strepitus aliquantulum: mox profertur candela accensa de sub altari, et omnes surgunt, et cum silentio discedunt.
Sacrosánctæ et indivíduæ Trinitáti, crucifíxi Dómini nostri Jesu Christi humanitáti, beatíssimæ et gloriosíssimæ sempérque Vírginis Maríæ fœcúndæ integritáti, et ómnium Sanctórum universitáti sit sempitérna laus, honor, virtus et glória ab omni creatúra, nobísque remíssio ómnium peccatórum, per infiníta sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
℣. Beáta víscera Maríæ Vírginis, quæ portavérunt ætérni Patris Fílium.
℟. Et beáta úbera, quæ lactavérunt Christum Dóminum.
To the Most Holy and undivided Trinity, to the Manhood of our Lord Jesus Christ Crucified, to the fruitful Virginity of the most blessed and most glorious Mary, always a Virgin, and to the holiness of all the Saints be ascribed everlasting praise, honour, and glory, by all creatures, and to us be granted the forgiveness of all our sins, world without end. Amen.
Blessed be the womb of the Virgin Mary which bore the Son of the Eternal Father.
And blessed be the paps which gave suck to Christ our Lord.
Pater noster, qui es in cœlis: sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cœlo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris: et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.
Our Father, who art in heaven: hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread: and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us: and lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum: benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui Jesus. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.