Psalms 142:1-150:6 Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. Samuel (142:2) I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [1 Samuel 24] ^(142:2) I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. ² ^(142:3) In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble: ³ ^(142:4) When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me. ⁴ ^(142:5) I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul. ⁵ ^(142:6) I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ ^(142:7) Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. ⁷ ^(142:8) Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me. ¹⁴³ ¹ A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. [2 Samuel 17] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice. ² And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified. ³ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old: ⁴ And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled. ⁵ I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands. ⁶ I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee. ⁷ Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee. ⁹ Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled: ¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land: ¹¹ For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble: ¹² And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant. ¹⁴⁴ ¹ Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. ² My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. ³ Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? ⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. ⁵ Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶ Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them. ⁷ Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: ⁸ Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. ⁹ To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee. ¹⁰ Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword: ¹¹ Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity: ¹² Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: ¹³ Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: ¹⁴ Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets. ¹⁵ They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. ² Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. ³ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end. ⁴ Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power. ⁵ They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works. ⁶ And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness. ⁷ They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice. ⁸ The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy. ⁹ The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power: ¹² To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom. ¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works. ¹⁴ The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season. ¹⁶ Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature. ¹⁷ The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. ¹⁸ The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them. ²⁰ The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias. ^(146:2) Praise the Lord, O my soul, ² In my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. ^(146:3) Put not your trust in princes: ³ In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish. ⁵ Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them. ⁷ Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered: ⁸ The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just. ⁹ The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. ¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation. ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise. ² The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel. ³ Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises. ⁴ Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number. ⁶ The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground. ⁷ Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp. ⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men. ⁹ Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him. ¹⁰ He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy. ¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion. ¹³ Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee. ¹⁴ Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn. ¹⁵ Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly. ¹⁶ Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. ¹⁷ He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold? ¹⁸ He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run. ¹⁹ Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia. ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places. ² Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts. ³ Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light. ⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens ⁵ Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away. ⁷ Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps: ⁸ Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word: ⁹ Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars: ¹⁰ Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls: ¹¹ Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the earth: ¹² Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord: ¹³ For his name alone is exalted. ¹⁴ The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia. ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints. ² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king. ³ Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery. ⁴ For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation. ⁵ The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds. ⁶ The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands: ⁷ To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people: ⁸ To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron. ⁹ To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia. ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power. ² Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness. ³ Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. ⁴ Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs. ⁵ Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: ⁶ Let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.