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1 The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite.

2 I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation.

3 For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.

4 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:

5 I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.

6 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.

7 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?

8 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.

9 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.

10 You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.

11 You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.

12 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.

13 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.

14 Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.

15 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.

16 Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,

17 and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.

18 For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.

19 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.

20 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.

21 I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

22 For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.

23 The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.

24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.

25 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.

26 And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

27 He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”

28 And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.

29 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.

30 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.

31 But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,

32 if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:

33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.

34 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.

35 And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.

36 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,

37 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,

38 and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.

39 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.

40 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.

41 You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.

42 All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.

43 You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies.

44 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.

45 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.

46 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.

47 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire?

48 Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?

49 Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld?

50 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?

51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.

52 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.

53 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.

1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.

2 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.

3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.

4 For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,

5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.

6 In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.

7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.

8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.

9 For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.

10 The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.

11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath

12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.

14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.

15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.

16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.

17 And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.

1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David. Whoever dwells with the assistance of the Most High will abide in the protection of the God of heaven.

2 He will say to the Lord, “You are my supporter and my refuge.” My God, I will hope in him.

3 For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word.

4 He will overshadow you with his shoulders, and you will hope under his wings.

5 His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night,

6 before the arrow flying in the day, before the troubles that wander in the darkness, nor of invasion and the midday demon.

7 A thousand will fall before your side and ten thousand before your right hand. Yet it will not draw near you.

8 So then, truly, you will consider with your eyes, and you will see the retribution of sinners.

9 For you, O Lord, are my hope. You have set the Most High as your refuge.

10 Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle.

11 For he has given his Angels charge over you, so as to preserve you in all your ways.

12 With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone.

13 You will walk over the asp and the king serpent, and you will trample the lion and the dragon.

14 Because he has hoped in me, I will free him. I will protect him because he has known my name.

15 He will cry out to me, and I will heed him. I am with him in tribulation. I will rescue him, and I will glorify him.

16 I will fill him with length of days. And I will reveal to him my salvation.

1 A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath.

2 It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:

3 to announce your mercy in the morning, and your truth throughout the night,

4 upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments.

5 For you, O Lord, have delighted me with your doings, and I will exult in the works of your hands.

6 How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts have been made exceedingly deep.

7 A foolish man will not know these things, and a senseless one will not understand:

8 when sinners will have risen up like grass, and when all those who work iniquity will have appeared, that they shall pass away, age after age.

9 But you, O Lord, are the Most High for all eternity.

10 For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed.

11 And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.

12 And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me.

13 The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.

14 Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

15 They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,

16 so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.

1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. In the time before the Sabbath, when the earth was founded.

2 The Lord has reigned. He has been clothed with beauty.

3 The Lord has been clothed with strength, and he has girded himself. Yet he has also confirmed the world, which will not be moved.

4 My throne is prepared from of old. You are from everlasting.

5 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

6 before the noise of many waters. Wondrous are the surges of the sea; wondrous is the Lord on high.

7 Your testimonies have been made exceedingly trustworthy. Sanctity befits your house, O Lord, with length of days.

1 A Psalm of David himself. The Fourth Sabbath. The Lord is the God of retribution. The God of retribution acts in order to deliver.

2 Lift yourself up, for you judge the earth. Repay the arrogant with retribution.

3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?

4 How long will they utter and speak iniquity? How long will all who work injustice speak out?

5 They have humiliated your people, O Lord, and they have harassed your inheritance.

6 They have executed the widow and the new arrival, and they have slaughtered the orphan.

7 And they have said, “The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob understand.”

8 Understand, you senseless ones among the people. And be wise at last, you foolish ones.

9 He who formed the ear, will he not hear? And he who forged the eye, does he not look closely?

10 He who chastises nations, he who teaches man knowledge, will he not rebuke?

11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men: that these are in vain.

12 Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. And you will teach him from your law.

13 So may you soothe him from the evil days, until a pit may be dug for sinners.

14 For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance,

15 even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart.

16 Who will rise up with me against the malignant? Or who will stand with me against the workers of iniquity?

17 Except that the Lord assisted me, my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell.

18 If ever I said, “My foot is slipping,” then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

19 According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, your consolations have given joy to my soul.

20 Does the seat of iniquity adhere to you, you who contrive hardship within a commandment?

21 They will hunt down the soul of the just, and they will condemn innocent blood.

22 And the Lord has been made into a refuge for me, and my God into the assistance of my hope.

23 And he will repay them their iniquity, and he will destroy them in their malice. The Lord our God will utterly destroy them.

1 The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior.

2 Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms.

3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods.

4 For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his.

5 For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us.

7 For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

8 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

9 as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works.

10 For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart.

11 And these have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest.

1 A Canticle of David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing to the Lord and bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day.

3 Announce his glory among the Gentiles, his miracles among all peoples.

4 For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is terrible, beyond all gods.

5 For all the gods of the Gentiles are demons, but the Lord made the heavens.

6 Confession and beauty are in his sight. Sanctity and magnificence are in his sanctuary.

7 Bring to the Lord, you natives of the nations, bring to the Lord glory and honor.

8 Bring to the Lord glory for his name. Lift up sacrifices, and enter into his courts.

9 Adore the Lord in his holy court. Let the entire earth be shaken before his face.

10 Say among the Gentiles: The Lord has reigned. For he has even corrected the whole world, which will not be shaken. He will judge the peoples with fairness.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; let the sea and all its fullness be moved.

12 The fields and all the things that are in them will be glad. Then all the trees of the forest will rejoice

13 before the face of the Lord: for he arrives. For he arrives to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with fairness and the peoples with his truth.

1 This is to David, when his land was restored to him. The Lord has reigned, let the earth exult. Let the many islands rejoice.

2 Clouds and mist are all around him. Justice and judgment are corrections from his throne.

3 A fire will precede him, and it will enflame his enemies all around.

4 His lightnings have enlightened the whole world. The earth saw, and it was shaken.

5 The mountains flowed like wax before the face of the Lord, before the face of the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens announced his justice, and all peoples saw his glory.

7 May all those who adore graven images be confounded, along with those who glory in their false images. All you his Angels: Adore him.

8 Zion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Judah exulted because of your judgments, O Lord.

9 For you are the Most High Lord over all the earth. You are greatly exalted above all gods.

10 You who love the Lord: hate evil. The Lord watches over the souls of his holy ones. He will free them from the hand of the sinner.

11 The light has risen for the just, and joy for the upright of heart.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, you just ones, and confess to the memory of his sanctuary.

1 A Psalm of David himself. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has performed wonders. His right hand has accomplished salvation for him, with his holy arm.

2 The Lord has made known his salvation. He has revealed his justice in the sight of the nations.

3 He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

4 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth. Sing and exult, and sing psalms.

5 Sing psalms to the Lord with stringed instruments, with strings and the voice of a psalmist,

6 with subtle wind instruments and the voice of woodwinds. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king.

7 Let the sea be moved and all its fullness, the whole world and all who dwell in it.

8 The rivers will clap their hands, the mountains will exult together,

9 before the presence of the Lord. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with justice, and the peoples with fairness.