Roman Breviary

96:1 The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: * ‡ let many islands be glad.

96:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: * justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

96:3 A fire shall go before him, * and shall burn his enemies round about.

96:4 His lightnings have shone forth to the world: * the earth saw and trembled.

96:5 The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: * at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.

96:6 The heavens declared his justice: * and all people saw his glory.

96:7 Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, * and that glory in their idols.

96:7 Adore him, all you his angels: * Sion heard, and was glad.

96:8 And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, * because of thy judgments, O Lord.

96:9 For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: * thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.

96:10 You that love the Lord, hate evil: * the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

96:11 Light is risen to the just, * and joy to the right of heart.

96:12 Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: * and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.

100:1 Mercy and judgment * I will sing to thee, O Lord:

100:2 I will sing, and I will understand in the unspotted way, * when thou shalt come to me.

100:2 I walked in the innocence of my heart, * in the midst of my house.

100:3 I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing: * I hated the workers of iniquities.

100:4 The perverse heart did not cleave to me: * and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.

100:5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, * him did I persecute.

100:5 With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, * I would not eat.

100:6 My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: * the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.

100:7 He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: * he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

100:8 In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: * that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

16:15 Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, * let us sing a new hymn to our God.

16:16 O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, * and no one can overcome thee.

16:17 Let all thy creatures serve thee: * because thou hast spoken, and they were made:

16:18 Thou didst send forth thy spirit, and they were created, * and there is no one that can resist thy voice.

16:19 The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the waters: * the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face.

16:20 But they that fear thee, * shall be great with thee in all things.

16:21 Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people: for the Lord almighty will take revenge on them, * in the day of judgment he will visit them.

16:22 For he will give fire, and worms into their flesh, * that they may burn, and may feel for ever.

145:2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: * I will sing to my God as long as I shall be.

145:2 Put not your trust in princes: * in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

145:4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: * in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

145:5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God: * who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.

145:7 Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: * who giveth food to the hungry.

145:7 The Lord looseth them that are fettered: * the Lord enlighteneth the blind.

145:8 The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: * the Lord loveth the just.

145:9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: * and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

145:10 The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, * unto generation and generation.

From highest heaven, the Father's Son,

Descending like that mystic stone

Cut from a mountain without hands,

Came down below, and filled all lands;

Uniting, midway in the sky,

His house on earth, and house on high.

That house on high, — it ever rings

With praises of the King of kings;

Forever there, on harps divine,

They hymn th' eternal One and Trine;

We, here below, the strain prolong,

And faintly echo Sion's song.

O Lord of lords invisible!

With thy pure light this temple fill:

Hither, oft as invoked, descend;

Here to thy people's prayer attend;

Here, through all hearts, forevermore,

thy Spirit's quick'ning graces pour.

Here may the faithful, day by day,

Their hearts' adoring homage pay;

And here receive from thy dear love

The blessings of that home above;

Till loosened from this mortal chain,

Its everlasting joys they gain.

To God the Father, glory due

Be paid by all the heavenly host;

And to his only Son most true;

With thee, O mighty Holy Ghost!

To whom, praise, power, and blessing be,

Through th' ages of eternity,

Amen.

1:68 Blessed be the Lord ✠ God of Israel; * because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people:

1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, * in the house of David his servant:

1:70 As he spoke by the mouth of his holy Prophets, * who are from the beginning:

1:71 Salvation from our enemies, * and from the hand of all that hate us:

1:72 To perform mercy to our fathers, * and to remember his holy testament,

1:73 The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, * that he would grant to us,

1:74 That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, * we may serve him without fear,

1:75 In holiness and justice before him, * all our days.

1:76 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:

1:77 To give knowledge of salvation to his people, * unto the remission of their sins:

1:78 Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, * in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:

1:79 To enlighten them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: * to direct our feet into the way of peace.