Douay Rheims Original ↷
Psalm 108 📜 📕 ↷
Israel's Kingdom Blessing
1 UNTO the end, a Psalm of David.📜💬📚
2 O God conceal not my praise: because the mouth of the sinner, and the mouth of the deceitful man is open upon me.📜💬📚
3 They have spoken against me with deceitful tongue, and with words of hatred they have compassed me: and they have impugned me without cause.📜💬📚
4 For that they should love me, they backbited me: but I prayed.📜💬📚
5 And they set against me evil things for good: and hatred for my love.📜💬📚
6 Appoint a sinner over him: and let the devil stand on his right hand.📜💬📚
7 When he is judged, let him come forth condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sin.📜💬📚
8 Let his days be made few: and let an other take his bishoprick.📜💬📚
9 Let his children be made orphans: and his wife a widow.📜💬📚
10 Let his children be transported wandering, and let them beg: and let them be cast out of their habitations.📜💬📚
11 Let the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers spoil his labours.📜💬📚
12 Let there be none to help him: neither let there be any to have pity on his pupils.📜💬📚
13 Let his children come to destruction: in one generation let his name be clean put out.📜💬📚
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers return to memory in the sight of our Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.📜💬📚
15 Let them be before our Lord always, and let the memory of them perish out of the earth:📜💬📚
16 For that he remembered not to do mercy.📜💬📚
17 And he persecuted the poor, and needy man, and the compunct in heart to kill him.📜💬📚
18 And he loved cursing, and it shall come to him: and he would not blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing as a garment, and it entered as water into his inner parts, and as oil in his bones.📜💬📚
19 Be it to him as a garment, wherewith he is covered: and as a girdle, wherewith he is always girded.📜💬📚
20 This is the work of them that detract from me before our Lord: and that speak evils against my soul.📜💬📚
21 And thou Lord, Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Deliver me📜💬📚
22 because I am needy and poor: and my heart is troubled within me.📜💬📚
23 As a shadow when it declineth, am I taken away: and I am shaken as locusts.📜💬📚
24 My knees are weakened with fasting: and my flesh is changed by reason of oil.📜💬📚
25 And I am made a reproach to them: they saw me, and wagged their heads.📜💬📚
26 Help me, o Lord my God: save me according to thy mercy.📜💬📚
27 And let them know that this is thy hand: & thou, o Lord, hast done it.📜💬📚
28 They will curse, and thou shalt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.📜💬📚
29 Let them that detract from me, be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion, as with a double patched cloak.📜💬📚
30 I will confess to our Lord exceedingly with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.📜💬📚
31 Because he hath stood on the right hand of the poor, that he might save my soul from the persecutors.📜💬📚
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