16. Convertentur ad vesperam, et famem patientur ut canes : *et circuibunt civitatem,

17. Ipsi dispergentur ad manducandum : * si vero non fuerint saturati, et murmurabunt.

18. Ego autem cantabo fortitudinem tuam: *et exultabo mane misericordiam tuam.

19. Quia factus es susceptor meus: * et refugium meum, in die tribulationis meæ.

20. Adjutor meus tibi psallam, quia Deus susceptor meus es: * Deus meus, misericordia mea.

Ant. Ab insurgentibus in me libera me, Domine; quia occupaverunt ani

mam meam.

Ant. Longe fecisti notos meos a me: traditus sum, et non egrediebar.

16. They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs and shall go round about the city.

17. They shall be scattered abroad to eat: and shall murmur if they be not filled.

18. But I will sing thy strength and will ex ol thy mercy in the morning.

19. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

20. Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: my God, my

2. Intret in conspectu tuo oratio mea: *inclina aurem tuam ad precem

meam.

3. Quia repleta est malis anima mea: * et vita mea interno appropinquavit.

4. Estimatus sum cum descendentibus in lacum: factus sum sicut homo sine adjutorio, inter mortuos liber.

5. Sicut vulnerati dormientes in sepulchris, quorum non es memor amplius: * et ipsi de manu tua repulsi sunt.

6. Posuerunt me in lacu inferiori: in tenebrosis, et in umbra mortis.

7. Super me confirmatus est furor tuus: * et omnes fluctus tuos induxisti super me.

8. Longe fecisti notos meos a me: * posuerunt me abominationem sibi.

9. Traditus sum, et non egrediebar: oculi mei languerunt præ inopia.

10. Clamavi ad te, Domine, tota die: * ex

2. Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

3. For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

4. I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.

5. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.

6. They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. 7. Thy wrath is strong over me and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

8. Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves.

9. I was delivered up, and came not forth: my eyes languished through poverty.

10. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I

stretched out my hands to thee.

11. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead: or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

12. Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy, and thy truth in destruction?

13. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark: and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

14. But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

15. Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted, have been humbled and troubled.

17. Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me. 18. They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

19. Friend and neigh

and they have murdered the fatherless.

7. And they have said: The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

8. Understand ye senseless among the people: and you fools be wise at last.

9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear: or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

10. He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke he that teacheth man knowledge?

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11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

12. Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

13. That thou mayest give him rest from the evil days; till a pit be dug for the wicked.

14. For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

15. Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it