Roman Breviary

O strength and stay upholding all creation,

Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,

Yet day by day the light in due gradation

From hour to hour through all its changes guide:

Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,

An eve untouched by shadows of decay,

The brightness of a holy death-bed blending

With dawning glories of th’ eternal day.

Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,

And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,

Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living

Now and to endless ages art adored.

Amen.

58:2 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; * and defend me from them that rise up against me.

58:3 Deliver me from them that work iniquity, * and save me from bloody men.

58:4 For behold they have caught my soul: * the mighty have rushed in upon me:

58:5 Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: * without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.

58:6 Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: * even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel.

58:6 Attend to visit all the nations: * have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.

58:7 They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.

58:8 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: * for who, say they, hath heard us?

58:9 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: * thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.

58:10 I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector: * my God, his mercy shall prevent me.

58:12 God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, * lest at any time my people forget.

58:12 And scatter them by thy power; * and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:

58:13 For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: * and let them be taken in their pride.

58:13 And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of, when they are consumed: * when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more.

58:14 And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, * and all the ends of the earth.

58:15 They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: * and shall go round about the city.

58:16 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, * and shall murmur if they be not filled.

58:17 But I will sing thy strength: * and will extol thy mercy in the morning.

58:17 For thou art become my support, * and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

58:18 Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: * my God my mercy.

59:3 God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; * thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.

59:4 Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: * heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved.

59:5 Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; * thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow.

59:6 Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: * that they may flee from before the bow:

59:7 That thy beloved may be delivered. * Save me with thy right hand, and hear me.

59:8 God hath spoken in his holy place: * I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

59:9 Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: * and Ephraim is the strength of my head.

59:9 Juda is my king: * Moab is the pot of my hope.

59:10 Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe: * to me the foreigners are made subject.

59:11 Who will bring me into the strong city? * who will lead me into Edom?

59:12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? * and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our armies?

59:13 Give us help from trouble: * for vain is the salvation of man.

59:14 Through God we shall do mightily: * and he shall bring to nothing them that afflict us.