93views 0shareA prayer in tribulation. [1] Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face…
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Psalm 11 – Salvum me fac
49views 0shareThe prophet calls for God’s help against the wicked. [1] Unto the end; for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint:…
Psalm 10 – In Domino confido
30views 0shareThe just man’s confidence in God in the midst of persecutions. [1] Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time…
Psalm 9 – Confitebor tibi, Domine
41views 0shareThe church praiseth God for his protection against her enemies. [1] Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David. [2] I will give praise to…
Psalm 8 – Domine, Dominus noster
62views 0shareGod is wonderful in his works; especially in mankind, singularly exalted by the incarnation of Christ. [1] Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David. [2] O Lord our…
Psalm 7 – Domine, Deus meus
56views 0shareDavid, trusting in the justice of his cause, prayeth for God’s help against his enemies. [1] The psalm of David which he sung to the Lord for the words of Chusi…
Psalm 6 – Domine, ne in furore
31views 0shareA prayer of a penitent sinner, under the scourge of God. The first penitential psalm. [1] Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. [2] O Lord,…
Psalm 5 – Verba mea auribus
36views 0shareA prayer to God against the iniquities of men. [1] Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm of David. [2] Give ear, O Lord, to my words,…
Psalm 4 – Cum invocarem
38views 0shareThe prophet teacheth us to flee to God in tribulation, with confidence in him. 1 Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David. 2 When I called upon him, the…
Psalm 3 – Domine, quid multiplicati
55views 0shareThe prophet’s danger and delivery from his son Absalom: mystically, the passion and resurrection of Christ. [1] The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom….
Quare fremuerunt – Book of Psalms, Psalm 2
42views 0shareThe vain efforts of persecutors against Christ and his church. [1] Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? [2] The kings of the earth stood up, and…
Beatus vir – Book of Psalms, Psalm 1
29views 0shareThe happiness of the just and the evil state of the wicked. [1] Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the…
Ecclesiasticus, chapter 3 – Book of Sirach
13views 0shareLessons concerning the honour of parents, and humility, and avoiding curiosity. 1 The sons of wisdom are the church of the just: and their generation, obedience and love. 2 Children, hear…
Book of Wisdom, chapter 14
21views 0shareThe beginning of worshipping idols: and the effects thereof. 1 Again, another designing to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood…
Psalm 66 – Deus misereatur
64views 0shareA prayer for the propagation of the church. [1] Unto the end, in, hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David. [2] May God have mercy on us, and bless us:…
Proverbs, chapter 25
10views 0share1 These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezechias king of Juda copied out. 2 It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory…
Prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 22
49views 0shareThe prophet laments the devastation of Juda. He foretells the deprivation of Sobna, and the substitution of Eliacim, a figure of Christ. 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What…
Psalm 136 – Super flumina
16views 0shareThe lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon. A psalm of David, for Jeremias. For the time of Jeremias, and the captivity of Babylon. 1 Upon the…
Ecclesiasticus, chapter 34 – Book of Sirach
13views 0shareThe vanity of dreams. The advantage of experience, and of the fear of God. 1 The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams…
Book of Wisdom, chapter 13 – The Bible
18views 0shareIdolaters are inexcusable: and those most of all that worship for gods the works of the hands of men. 1 But all men are vain, in whom there is not the…