Have mercy on me : * Miferere mei: * & and now hear my prayer. O yechildren of men, how long will you be dull of heart? Why do you love vanity, and feek after lies? * Sacrifice a facrifice of righteousness, and hope in the Lord: * many fay, who fheweth us good things? The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is ftamped upon us:* thou haft given, gladnefs to my heart. In the fruit of their wine, and oil: * are they grown rich. In perfect peace:*will I fleep and take my reft; For fingularly Y, O Lord, in hope thou haft fettled me. * Expl. Sin not in your anger. exaudi orationem meam. Filii hominum, ufquequo gravi corde? Ut quid diligitis vanitatem, & quæritis mendacium? Et fcitote quoniam mirificavit Dominus fanctum fuum: * Dominus exaudiet me, cum clamavero ad eum. Irafcimini, & nolite peccare: * quæ dicitis in cordibus veftris, in cubilibus veftris compungimini. Sacrificate facrificium juftitiæ, & fperate in Domino: *multi dicunt, quis oftendit nobis bona? Signatum eft fuper nos lumen vultûs tui, Domine: * dedifti lætitiam in corde meo. A fructu vini, & olei fui: * multiplicati funt. In pace, in id ipfum :* dormiam & requiefcam; Quoniam tu, Domine, fingulariter in fpe,* conftituifti me. y Or, when I was abandoned and alone. be confounded: * but according to thy juftice rescue me. Turn to me thine ear :*make hafte to rescue me. Be unto me a protecting God, and a place of refuge : * that thou may'ft fave me. - For my ftrength and my refuge art thou alone:*for the fake of thy own name wilt thou bring me out, and feed 'N te, Domine, fpe Pf. xc. E that taketh up his abode in the aid of the Moft High:* fhall remain under the protection of the God of heaven. He fhall fay to the Lord Q UI habitat in adju torio altiffimi: in protectione Dei coeli commorabitur. Dicet Domino: fuf Thou art my ceptor meus es tu, & rez Expl, Who art always true to thy word. protector and my refuge: he is my God, in him will I hope. For it is he, who hath delivered me from the fnare of those that hunted me:*and from their threats. With his shoulders will he fill cover thee: * and under his wings fhalt thou fill hope. a His truth fhall encompafs thee with a fhield: thou shalt not fear the terrors of the night: Nor the arrow flying in the day, nor the mifchief talking in the dark:*nor an affault, or the noon-day Devil b. A thousand fhall fall on thy left, and ten thousand on thy right:* but to thee he fhall not approach. However thou shalt contemplate with thy own eyes:*and thoufhalt fee the reward of finners. Thou truly, O Lord, art my hope:*very high haft thou placed thy place of refuge. There no evil fhall come to thee: * nor * fugium meum: Deus meus, fperabo in eum. Quoniam ipfe liberavit me de laqueo venantium: * & à verbo afpero. Scapulis fuis obumbrabit tibi:* & sub pennis ejus fperabis. Scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus non timebis à timore nocturno: A fagittâ volante in die, à negotio perambulante in tenebris: * ab incurfu, & Dæmonio meridiano. Cadent à latere tuo mille, & decem millia à dexteris tuis: * ad te autem non appropin-quabit. Verumtamen oculis tuis confiderabis: * & retributionem peccatorum videbis. Quoniam tu es, Domine, fpes mea: *.altiffimum pofuifti refugium tuum. Non accedet ad te malum:& flagellum a Expl. The effect of bis promife shall be thy fhield. Expl, Araging peftilential air at noon day. fhall any scourge come near thy dwelling. For to his Angels hath he given a charge over thee to guard thee in all thy ways. They fhall bear thee on their hands: * left perhaps thou hit thy foot against a ftone. On the afp and the bafilifk fhalt thou tread: * and thou shalt trample on the lion and dragon. Since he hath hoped in me, I will refcue him: I will protect him, fince he hath known my name. * He fhall cry out to me, and I will hear him: * with him I am in his diftrefs: I will rescue him, and make him glorious. With length of days will I fill him: * and will fhew him my falvation d. non appropinquabit tabernaculo tuo. Quoniam Angelis fuis mandavit de te: * ut cuftodiant te in omnibus viis tuis. In manibus portabunt te: ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum. Super afpidem & bafilifcum ambulabis : * & conculcabis leonem & draconem. Quoniam in me fperavit, liberabo eum: * protegam eum, quoniam cognovit nomen meum. Clamabit ad me, & ego exaudiam eum:*cum ipfo fum in tribulatione: eripiam eum, & glorificabo eum. Longitudine dierum replebo eum : * & oftendam illi falutare meum. c Expl. Acknowledged me to be the true God, and refpe&ted my name. d Expl. That I am bis Saviour. |