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Psalm 42(41) Quemadmodum .2 Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God. .3 My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my life; when can I enter and see the face of God? .4 My tears have become my bread, by night, by day, as I hear it said all the day long: "Where is your God?" .5 These things will I remember as I pour out my soul: how I would lead the rejoicing crowd into the house of God, amid cries of gladness and thanksgiving, the throng wild with joy. .6 Why are you cast down, my soul, why groan within me? Hope in God; I will praise him still, my savior and my God. .7 My soul is cast down within me as I think of you, from the country of Jordan and Mount Hermon, from the Hill of Mizar. .8 Deep is calling on deep, in the roar of waters; your torrents and all your waves swept over me. .9 By day the Lord will send his loving kindness; by night I will sing to him, praise the God of my life. .10 I will say to God, my rock: "Why have your forgotten me? Why do I go mourning oppressed by the foe?" .11 With cries that pierce me to the heart, my enemies revile me, saying to me all day long: "Where is your God?" .12 Why are you cast down, my soul, why groan within me? Hope in God; I will praise him still, my savior and my God. Return to Athanasius' Letter Psalm 43(42) Judica me, Deus 1 Defend me, O God, and plead my cause against a godless nation. From deceitful and cunning men rescue me, O God. 2 Since you, O God, are my stronghold, why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning oppressed by the foe? 3 O send forth your light and your truth; let these be my guide. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. 4 And I will come to the altar of God, the God of my joy. My redeemer, I will thank you on the harp, O God, my God. 5 Why are you cast down my soul, why groan within me? Hope in God; I will praise him still, my savior and my God. Return to Athanasius' Letter Psalm 44(43) Deus, auribus .2 We heard with our own ears, O God, our fathers have told us the story of the things you did in their days, you yourself, in days long ago. .3 To plant them you uprooted the nations; to let them spread you laid peoples low. .4 No sword of their own won the land; no arm of their own brought them victory. It was your right hand, your arm and the light of your face; for you loved them. .5 It is you, my king, my God, who granted victories to Jacob. .6 Through you we beat down our foes; in your name we trampled down our aggressors. .7 For it was not in my bow that I trusted nor yet was I saved by my sword: .8 it was you who saved us from our foes, it was you who put our foes to shame. .9 All day long our boast was in God and we praised your name without ceasing. .10 Yet now you have rejected us, disgraced us; you no longer go forth with our armies. .11 You make us retreat from the foe and our enemies plunder us at will. .12 You make us like sheep for the slaughter and scatter us among the nations. .13 You sell your own people for nothing and make no profit by the sale. .14 You make us the taunt of our neighbors, the laughing stock of all who are near. .15 Among the nations, you make us a byword, among the peoples a thing of derision. .16 All day long my disgrace is before me; my face is covered with shame .17 at the voice of the taunter, the scoffer, at the sight of the foe and avenger. * * * .18 This befell us though we had not forgotten you, though we had not been false to your covenant, .19 though we had not withdrawn our hearts; though our feet had not strayed from your path. .20 Yet you have crushed us in a place of sorrows and covered us with the shadow of death. .21 Had we forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to another god .22 would not God have found this out, he who knows the secrets of the heart? .23 It is for you that we face death all day long and are counted as sheep for the slaughter. .24 Awake, O Lord, why do you sleep? Arise, do not reject us for ever! .25 Why do you hide your face and forget our oppression and misery? .26 For we are brought down low to the dust; our body lies prostrate on the earth. .27 Stand up and come to our help! Redeem us because of your love! Return to Athanasius' Letter Psalm 45(44) Eructavit cor meum .2 My heart overflows with noble words. To the king I must speak the song I have made, my tongue as nimble as the pen of a scribe. .3 You are the fairest of the children of men and graciousness is poured upon your lips: because God has blessed you for evermore. .4 O mighty one, gird your sword upon your thigh; /.5 in splendor and state, ride on in triumph for the cause of truth and goodness and right. Take aim with your bow in your dread right hand. .6 Your arrows are sharp, peoples fall beneath you. The foes of the king fall down and lose heart. .7 Your throne, O God, shall endure for ever. A scepter of justice is the scepter of your kingdom. .8 Your love is for justice; your hatred for evil. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above other kings: .9 your robes are fragrant with aloes and myrrh. From the ivory palace you are greeted with music. .10 The daughters of kings are among your loved ones. On your right stands the queen in gold of Ophir. * * * .11 Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words: forget your own people and your father's house. .12 So will the king desire your beauty: He is your lord, pay homage to him. .13 And the people of Tyre shall come with gifts, the richest of the people shall seek your favor. .14 The daughter of the king is clothed with splendor, her robes embroidered with pearls set in gold. .15 She is led to the king with her maiden companions. .16 They are escorted amid gladness and joy; they pass within the palace of the king. * * * .17 Sons shall be yours in place of your fathers: you will make them rulers over all the earth. .18 May this song make your name for ever remembered. May the peoples praise you from age to age. Return to Athanasius' Letter Psalm 46(45) Deus noster refugium .2 God is for us a refuge and strength, a helper close at hand, in time of distress, .3 so we shall not fear though the earth should rock, though the mountains fall into the depths of the sea; .4 even though its waters rage and foam, even though the mountains be shaken by its waves. The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our stronghold. .5 The waters of a river give joy to God's city, the holy place where the Most High dwells. .6 God is within, it cannot be shaken; God will help it at the dawning of the day. .7 Nations are in tumult, kingdoms are shaken: he lifts his voice, the earth shrinks away. .8 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our stronghold. .9 Come, consider the works of the Lord, the redoubtable deeds he has done on the earth. .10 He puts an end to wars over all the earth; the bow he breaks, the spear he snaps. (He burns the shields with fire.) .11 "Be still and know that I am God, supreme among the nations, supreme on the earth!" .12 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Return to Athanasius' Letter Psalm 47(46) Omnes gentes, plaudite .2 All peoples, clap your hands, cry to God with shouts of joy! .3 For the Lord, the Most High, we must fear, great king over all the earth. .4 He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet. .5 Our inheritance, our glory, is from him, given to Jacob out of love. .6 God goes up with shouts of joy; the Lord goes up with trumpet blast. .7 Sing praise for God, sing praise, sing praise to our king, sing praise. .8 God is king of all the earth, sing praise with all your skill. .9 God is king over the nations; God reigns on his holy throne. .10 The princes of the people are assembled with the people of Abraham's God. The rulers of the earth belong to God, to God who reigns over all. Return to Athanasius' Letter Psalm 48(47) Magnus Dominus .2 The Lord is great and worthy to be praised in the city of our God. /.3 His holy mountain rises in beauty, the joy of all the earth. Mount Zion, true pole of the earth, the Great King's city! .4 God, in the midst of its citadels, has shown himself its stronghold. .5 For the kings assembled together, together they advanced. .6 They saw; at once they were astounded; dismayed, they fled in fear. .7 A trembling seized them there, like the pangs of birth. .8 By the east wind you have destroyed the ships of Tarshish. .9 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of our God, in the city of the Lord of hosts which God upholds for ever. .10 O God, we ponder your love within your temple. .11 Your praise, O God, like your name reaches the ends of the earth. With justice your right hand is filled. .12 Mount Zion rejoices; the people of Judah rejoice at the sight of your judgments. .13 Walk through Zion, walk all round it; count the number of its towers. .14 Review all its ramparts, examine its castles, that you may tell the next generation .15 that such is our God, our God for ever and always. It is he who leads us. Psalm 49(48) Audite haec, omnes .2 Hear this, all you peoples, give heed, all who dwell in the world, .3 men both high and low, rich and poor alike! .4 My lips will speak words of wisdom. My heart is full of insight. .5 I will turn my mind to a parable, with the harp I will solve my problem. * * * .6 Why should I fear in evil days the malice of the foes who surround me, .7 men who trust in their wealth, and boast of the vastness of their riches? .8 For no man buy his own ransom, or pay a price to God for his life. .9 The ransom of his soul is beyond him. .10 He cannot buy life without end, nor avoid coming to the grave. .11 He knows that wise men and fools must both perish and must leave their wealth to others. .12 Their graves are their homes for ever, their dwelling place from age to age, though their names spread wide through the land. .13 In his riches, man lacks wisdom; he is like the beasts that are destroyed. * * * .14 This is the lot of those who trust in themselves, who have others in their beck and call. .15 Like sheep they are driven to the grave, where death shall be their shepherd and the just shall become their rulers. With the morning their outward show vanishes and the grave becomes their home. .16 But God will ransom me from death and take my soul to himself. .17 Then do not fear when a man grows rich, when the glory of his house increases. .18 He takes nothing with him when he dies, his glory does not follow him below. .19 Though he flattered himself while he lived: "Men will praise me for all my success," .20 yet he will go to join his fathers, and will never see the light any more. .21 In his riches, man lacks wisdom; he is like the beasts that are destroyed. Psalm 50(49) Deus deorum 1 The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken and summoned the earth,

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