Evening
Prayer
Psalm
108. Paratum cor meum.
Antiphon:
Thy mercy is greater * than the heavens.
O GOD, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; * I
will sing, and give praise with the best member that I have.
2 Awake, thou lute and harp; * I myself will
awake right early.
3 I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
peoples; * I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is greater than the heavens, *
and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
5 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens, * and
thy glory above all the earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered: * let thy
right hand save them, and hear thou me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; * I will
rejoice therefore, and divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; * Ephraim
also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out
my shoe; * upon Philistia will I triumph.
10 Who will lead me into the strong city? * and
who will bring me into Edom?
11 Hast not thou forsaken us, O God? * and wilt
not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 O help us against the enemy: * for vain is the
help of man.
13 Through God we shall do great acts; * and it
is he that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalm
109. Deus, laudem.
Antiphon:
I will praise thee * O Lord among the multitude
HOLD not thy tongue, O God of my praise; * for
the mouth of the ungodly, yea, the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me.
2 And they have spoken against me with false
tongues; * they compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought
against me without a cause.
3 For the love that I had unto them, lo, they
take now my contrary part; * but I give myself unto prayer.
4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good, * and
hatred for my good will.
5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him, *
and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
6 When sentence is given upon him, let him be
condemned; * and let his prayer be turned into sin.
7 Let his days be few; * and let another take his
office.
8 Let his children be fatherless, * and his wife
a widow.
9 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their
bread; * let them seek it also out of desolate places.
10 Let the extortioner consume all that he hath;
* and let the stranger spoil his labour.
11 Let there be no man to pity him, * nor to have
compassion upon his fatherless children.
12 Let his posterity be destroyed; * and in the
next generation let his name be clean put out.
13 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in
remembrance in the sight of the LORD; * and let not the sin of his mother be
done away.
14 Let them alway be before the LORD, * that he
may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;
15 And that, because his mind was not to do good;
* but persecuted the poor helpless man, that he might slay him that was vexed
at the heart.
16 His delight was in cursing, and it shall
happen unto him; * he loved not blessing, therefore shall it be far from him.
17 He clothed himself with cursing like as with a
raiment, * and it shall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his
bones.
18 Let it be unto him as the cloak that he hath
upon him, * and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal.
19 Let it thus happen from the LORD unto mine enemies,
* and to those that speak evil against my soul.
20 But deal thou with me, O LORD God, according
unto thy Name; * for sweet is thy mercy.
21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor, *and
my heart is wounded within me.
22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth, *
and am driven away as the grasshopper.
23 My knees are weak through fasting; * my flesh
is dried up for want of fatness.
24 I am become also a reproach unto them: * they
that look upon me shake their heads.
25 Help me, O LORD my God; * O save me according
to thy mercy;
26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand,
* and that thou, LORD, hast done it.
27 Though they curse, yet bless thou; * and let
them be confounded that rise up against me; but let thy servant rejoice.
28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame; *
and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak.
29 As for me, I will give great thanks unto the
LORD with my mouth, * and praise him among the multitude;
30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the
poor, * to save his soul from unrighteous judges.
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