Feria Sexta infra Hebdomadam XXIII post Octavam Pentecostes

Ant. Mercy and truth * shall go before your face, O Lord.

Psalm 88(2-19)

88:2 I will sing the mercies of the Lord * in eternity.
88:2 I will announce your truth with my mouth, * from generation to generation.
88:3 For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. * Your truth will be prepared there.
88:4 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant: * I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity.
88:5 And I will build up your throne, * from generation to generation.
88:6 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, * and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.
88:7 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? * Who among the sons of God is like God?
88:8 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. * He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
88:9 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? * You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.
88:10 You rule over the power of the sea, * and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.
88:11 You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. * You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.
88:12 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness. * You created the north and the sea.
88:13 Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name. * Your arm acts with power.
88:14 Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted. * Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne.
88:15 Mercy and truth will precede your face. * Blessed is the people that knows jubilation.
88:16 They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord, and they will exult in your name all day long, * and they will be exalted in your justice.
88:18 For you are the glory of their virtue, * and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.
88:19 For our assumption is of the Lord, * and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Psalm 88(20-38)

88:20 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: * I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.
88:21 I have found my servant David. * I have anointed him with my holy oil.
88:22 For my hand will assist him, * and my arm will fortify him.
88:23 The enemy will have no advantage over him, * nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.
88:24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. * And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.
88:25 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. * And his horn will be exalted in my name.
88:26 And I will place his hand on the sea * and his right hand on the rivers.
88:27 He will invoke me: “You are my father, * my God, and the support of my salvation.”
88:28 And I will make him the first-born, * preeminent before the kings of the earth.
88:29 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, * and my covenant for him faithfully.
88:30 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, * and his throne like the days of heaven.
88:31 But if his sons abandon my law, * and if they do not walk in my judgments,
88:32 if they profane my justices, * and if they do not keep my commandments:
88:33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, * and their sins with a beating.
88:34 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, * and I will not do harm to my truth.
88:35 And I will not profane my covenant, * and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.
88:36 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David, * his offspring will remain for eternity.
88:37 And his throne will be like the sun in my sight, * and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Psalm 88(39-53)

88:39 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, * you have pushed away, my Christ.
88:40 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. * You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.
88:41 You have destroyed all his fences. * You have made his territory dreadful.
88:42 All who pass by the way have plundered him. * He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
88:43 You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. * You have brought joy to all his enemies.
88:44 You have diverted the help of his sword, * and you have not assisted him in battle.
88:45 You have torn him away from cleansing, * and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.
88:46 You have reduced the days of his time. * You have flooded him with confusion.
88:47 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? * Will your wrath flare up like a fire?
88:48 Remember what my substance is. * For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?
88:49 Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? * Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld?
88:50 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, * just as you swore to David in your truth?
88:51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants * (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.
88:52 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; * with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.
88:53 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. * Amen. Amen.

℣ Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Spirit.

℟ As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * world without end. Amen.

Ant. Mercy and truth shall go before your face, O Lord.