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1 Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house, in order to execute him.

2 Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me.

3 Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.

4 For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.

5 And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.

6 Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity.

7 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.

8 Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: “For who has heard us?”

9 And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.

10 I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter.

11 My God, his mercy will precede me.

12 God will oversee my enemies for me. Do not slay them, lest at times my people may forget them. Scatter them by your virtue. And depose them, O Lord, my protector,

13 by the offense of their mouth and by the speech of their lips. And may they be caught in their arrogance. And, for their cursing and lying, they will be made known

14 at the consummation, in the fury of the consummation, and so they will be no more. And they will know that God will rule over Jacob, even to the ends of the earth.

15 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.

16 They will be dispersed in order to gnaw, and truly, when they will not have been satisfied, they will murmur.

17 But I will sing your strength, and I will extol your mercy, in the morning. For you have been my supporter and my refuge in the day of my tribulation.

18 To you, my helper, I will sing psalms. For you are God, my supporter. My God is my mercy.

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction:

2 when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men.

3 O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.

4 You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.

5 You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.

6 You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered.

7 Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

8 God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles.

9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king.

10 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.

11 Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea?

12 Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?

13 Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty.

14 In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing.

1 Unto the end. With hymns, of David.

2 O God, pay attention to my supplication. Be attentive to my prayer.

3 I cried out to you from the ends of the earth. When my heart was in anguish, you exalted me on a rock. You have led me,

4 for you have been my hope, a tower of strength before the face of the enemy.

5 I will dwell in your tabernacle forever. I will be protected under the cover of your wings.

6 For you, my God, have listened to my prayer. You have granted an inheritance to those who fear your name.

7 You will add days to the days of the king, to his years, even to the time of generation after generation.

8 He remains in eternity, in the sight of God. Who will long for his mercy and truth?

9 So I will compose a psalm to your name, forever and ever, so that I may repay my vows from day to day.

1 Unto the end. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

2 Will my soul not be subject to God? For from him is my salvation.

3 Yes, he himself is my God and my salvation. He is my supporter; I will be moved no more.

4 How is it that you rush against a man? Every one of you puts to death, as if you were pulling down a ruined wall, leaning over and falling apart.

5 So, truly, they intended to reject my price. I ran in thirst. They blessed with their mouth and cursed with their heart.

6 Yet, truly, my soul will be subject to God. For from him is my patience.

7 For he is my God and my Savior. He is my helper; I will not be expelled.

8 In God is my salvation and my glory. He is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

9 All peoples gathered together: trust in him. Pour out your hearts in his sight. God is our helper for eternity.

10 So, truly, the sons of men are untrustworthy. The sons of men are liars in the scales, so that, by emptiness, they may deceive among themselves.

11 Do not trust in iniquity, and do not desire plunder. If riches flow toward you, do not be willing to set your heart on them.

12 God has spoken once. I have heard two things: that power belongs to God,

13 and that mercy belongs to you, O Lord. For you will repay each one according to his works.

1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Idumea.

2 O God, my God: to you, I keep vigil until first light. For you, my soul has thirsted, to you my body, in so many ways.

3 By a deserted land, both inaccessible and waterless, so I have appeared in the sanctuary before you, in order to behold your virtue and your glory.

4 For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise.

5 So will I bless you in my life, and I will lift up my hands in your name.

6 Let my soul be filled, as if with marrow and fatness; and my mouth will give praise with exultant lips.

7 When I have remembered you on my bed in the morning, I will meditate on you.

8 For you have been my helper. And I will exult under the cover of your wings.

9 My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me.

10 Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.

11 They will be delivered into the hand of the sword. They will be the portions of foxes.

12 Truly, the king will rejoice in God: all those who swear by him will be praised, because the mouth of those who speak iniquity has been blocked.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

2 Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.

3 You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity.

4 For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword; they have formed their bow into a bitter thing,

5 so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate.

6 They will suddenly shoot arrows at him, and they will not be afraid. They are resolute in their wicked talk. They have discussed hidden snares. They have said, “Who will see them?”

7 They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,

8 and God will be exalted. The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds,

9 and their tongues have been weakened against them. All those who saw them have been troubled;

10 and every man was afraid. And they announced the works of God, and they understood his acts.

11 The just will rejoice in the Lord, and they will hope in him. And all the upright of heart will be praised.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David. A Canticle of Jeremiah and Ezekiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go into exile.

2 O God, a hymn adorns you in Zion, and a vow will be repaid to you in Jerusalem.

3 Hear my prayer: all flesh will come to you.

4 Words of iniquity have prevailed over us. And you will pardon our impieties.

5 Blessed is he whom you have chosen and taken up. He will dwell in your courts. We will be filled with the good things of your house. Holy is your temple:

6 wonderful in equity. Hear us, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of a sea far away.

7 You prepare the mountains in your virtue, wrapped with power.

8 You stir up the depths of the sea, the noise of its waves. The nations will be troubled,

9 and those who dwell at the limits will be afraid, before your signs. You will make the passing of morning and evening enjoyable.

10 You have visited the earth, and you have saturated it. You have enriched it in so many ways. The river of God has been filled with water. You have prepared their food. For thus is its preparation.

11 Drench its streams, multiply its fruits; it will spring up and rejoice in its showers.

12 You will bless the crown of the year with your kindness, and your fields will be filled with abundance.

13 The beauty of the desert will fatten, and the hills will be wrapped with exultation.

14 The rams of the sheep have been clothed, and the valleys will abound with grain. They will cry out; yes, they will even utter a hymn.

1 Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of the Resurrection. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.

2 Proclaim a psalm to his name. Give glory to his praise.

3 Exclaim to God, “How terrible are your works, O Lord!” According to the fullness of your virtue, your enemies will speak lies about you.

4 Let all the earth adore you and sing psalms to you. May it sing a psalm to your name.

5 Draw near and see the works of God, who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men.

6 He converts the sea into dry land. They will cross the river on foot. There, we will rejoice in him.

7 He rules by his virtue for eternity. His eyes gaze upon the nations. May those who exasperate him, not be exalted in themselves.

8 Bless our God, you Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise be heard.

9 He has set my soul toward life, and he has granted that my feet may not be shaken.

10 For you, O God, have tested us. You have examined us by fire, just as silver is examined.

11 You have led us into a snare. You have placed tribulations on our back.

12 You have set men over our heads. We have crossed through fire and water. And you have led us out to refreshment.

13 I will enter your house with holocausts. I will repay my vows to you,

14 which my lips discerned and my mouth spoke, in my tribulation.

15 I will offer to you holocausts full of marrow, with the burnt offerings of rams. I will offer to you bulls as well as goats.

16 Draw near and listen, all you who fear God, and I will describe to you how much he has done for my soul.

17 I cried out to him with my mouth, and I extolled him under my breath.

18 If I have seen iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not heed me.

19 And yet, God has heeded me and he has attended to the voice of my supplication.

20 Blessed is God, who has not removed my prayer, nor his mercy, from me.

1 Unto the end. With hymns, a Canticle Psalm of David.

2 May God have mercy on us and bless us. May he shine his countenance upon us, and may he have mercy on us.

3 So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations.

4 Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you.

5 May the nations rejoice and exult. For you judge the peoples with equity, and you direct the nations on earth.

6 Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you.

7 The earth has provided her fruit. May God, our God, bless us.

8 May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him.

1 Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of David himself.

2 May God rise up, and may his enemies be scattered, and may those who hate him flee from before his face.

3 Just as smoke vanishes, so may they vanish. Just as wax flows away before the face of fire, so may sinners pass away before the face of God.

4 And so, let the just feast, and let them exult in the sight of God and be delighted in gladness.

5 Sing to God, sing a psalm to his name. Make a path for him, who ascends over the west. The Lord is his name. Exult in his sight; they will be stirred up before his face,

6 the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place.

7 It is God who makes men dwell in a house under one custom. He leads out those who are strongly bound, and similarly, those who exasperate, who dwell in sepulchers.

8 O God, when you departed in the sight of your people, when you passed through the desert,

9 the earth was moved, for the heavens rained down before the face of the God of Sinai, before the face of the God of Israel.

10 You will set aside for your inheritance, O God, a willing rain. And though it was weak, truly, you have made it perfect.

11 Your animals will dwell in it. O God, in your sweetness, you have provided for the poor.

12 The Lord will give the word to evangelizers, along with great virtue.

13 The King of virtue is beloved among the beloved. And the beauty of the house will divide spoils.

14 If you take your rest in the midst of the clergy, you will be like a dove whose wings are covered with fine silver and edged with pale gold.

15 When heaven discerns kings to be over her, they will be whitened with the snows of Zalmon.

16 The mountain of God is a fat mountain, a dense mountain, a thick mountain.

17 So then, why are you distrustful of dense mountains? The mountain on which God is well pleased to dwell, even there, the Lord will dwell until the end.

18 The chariot of God is ten thousand fold: thousands rejoice. The Lord is with them in Sinai, in the holy place.

19 You have ascended on high; you have taken captivity captive. You have accepted gifts among men. For even those who do not believe dwell with the Lord God.

20 Blessed is the Lord, day after day. The God of our salvation will make our journey prosper for us.

21 Our God is the God who will bring about our salvation, and our Lord is the Lord who has brought an end to death.

22 So then, truly, God will break the heads of his enemies, the hairy skull of those who wander around in their offenses.

23 The Lord said: I will turn them away from Bashan, I will turn them into the depths of the sea,

24 so that your feet may be soaked in the blood of your enemies, so that the tongue of your dogs may be soaked with the same.

25 O God, they have seen your arrival, the arrival of my God, of my king who is in a holy place.

26 The leaders went ahead, united with the singers of psalms, in the midst of girls playing on timbrels.

27 In the churches, bless the Lord God from the fountains of Israel.

28 In that place, Benjamin is a youth in ecstasy of mind. The leaders of Judah are their governors: the leaders of Zebulun, the leaders of Naphtali.

29 Command by your virtue, O God. Confirm in this place, O God, what you have wrought in us.

30 Before your temple in Jerusalem, kings will offer gifts to you.

31 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, a congregation of bulls with the cows of the people, for they seek to exclude those who have been tested like silver. Scatter the nations that are pleased by wars.

32 Ambassadors will come out of Egypt. Ethiopia will offer in advance her hands to God.

33 Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. Sing psalms to the Lord. Sing psalms to God.

34 He ascends, up to the heaven of the heavens, toward the east. Behold, he will utter his voice, the voice of virtue.

35 Give glory to God beyond Israel. His magnificence and his virtue is in the clouds.

36 God is wonderful in his saints. The God of Israel himself will give virtue and strength to his people. Blessed is God.