Roman Breviary

97:1 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: * because he hath done wonderful things.

97:1 His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, * and his arm is holy.

97:2 The Lord hath made known his salvation: * he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles.

97:3 He hath remembered his mercy * and his truth toward the house of Israel.

97:3 All the ends of the earth have seen * the salvation of our God.

97:4 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; * make melody, rejoice and sing.

97:5 Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the voice of a psalm: * with long trumpets, and sound of cornet.

97:6 Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king: * let the sea be moved and the fulness thereof: the world and they that dwell therein.

97:8 The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together at the presence of the Lord: * because he cometh to judge the earth.

97:9 He shall judge the world with justice, * and the people with equity.

89:1 Lord, thou hast been our refuge * ‡ from generation to generation.

89:2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; * from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

89:3 Turn not man away to be brought low: * and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

89:4 For a thousand years in thy sight * are as yesterday, which is past.

89:5 And as a watch in the night, * things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

89:6 In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: * in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

89:7 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: * and are troubled in thy indignation.

89:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: * our life in the light of thy countenance.

89:9 For all our days are spent; * and in thy wrath we have fainted away.

89:9 Our years shall be considered as a spider: * the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years.

89:10 But if in the strong they be fourscore years: * and what is more of them is labour and sorrow.

89:10 For mildness is come upon us: * and we shall be corrected.

89:11 Who knoweth the power of thy anger, * and for thy fear can number thy wrath?

89:12 So make thy right hand known: * and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

89:13 Return, O Lord, how long? * and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

89:14 We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: * and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

89:15 We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: * for the years in which we have seen evils.

89:16 Look upon thy servants and upon their works: * and direct their children.

89:17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; * yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

31:10 Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, * and declare it in the islands that are afar off,

31:11 And say: He that scattered Israel will gather him: * and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.

31:12 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, * and delivered him out of the hand of one that was mightier than he.

31:13 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: * and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord,

31:14 For the corn, and wine, and oil, * and the increase of cattle and herds,

31:15 And their soul shall be as a watered garden, * and they shall be hungry no more.

31:16 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, * the young men and old men together:

31:17 And I will turn their mourning into joy, * and will comfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.

31:18 And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: * and my people shall be filled with my good things.

High let us all our voices raise

In that heroic woman's praise

Whose name, with saintly glory bright,

Shines in the starry realms of light.

Filled with a pure celestial glow,

She spurned all love of things below;

And heedless here on earth to stay,

Climbed to the skies her toilsome way.

With fasts her body she subdued,

But filled her soul with prayer's sweet food:

In other worlds she tastes the bliss

For which she left the joys of this.

O Christ, the strength of all the strong;

To whom our holiest deeds belong!

Through her prevailing prayers on high,

In mercy hear thy people's cry!

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.