Feria V infra Hebdomadam V post Epiphaniam

Ant. Be mindful * of your congregation, O Lord, which you have possessed from the beginning.

Psalm 73(1-9)

73:1 O God, why have you rejected us to the end. * Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture?
73:2 Be mindful of your congregation, * which you have possessed from the beginning.
73:2 You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, * mount Zion, in which you have dwelt.
73:3 Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. * How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!
73:4 And those who hate you have been glorified, * in the midst of your solemnity.
73:5 They have set up their own signs as a proof, * as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand.
73:6 As in a forest of chopped wood, they have cut down the entrances themselves. * With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.
73:7 They have set fire to your Sanctuary. * They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
73:8 They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: * “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.
73:9 We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. * And he will no longer know us.”

℣ 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 73(10-17)

73:10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? * Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?
73:11 Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, * from the midst of your sinews, until the end?
73:12 But God is our king before all ages. * He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
73:13 In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. * You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
73:14 You have broken the heads of the serpent. * You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.
73:15 You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. * You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.
73:16 Yours is the day, and yours is the night. * You have made the morning light and the sun.
73:17 You have made all the limits of the earth. * The summer and the spring were formed by you.

℣ 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 73(18-23)

73:18 Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, * and a foolish people has incited against your name.
73:19 Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; * and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end.
73:20 Consider your covenant. * For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.
73:21 Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. * The poor and the needy will praise your name.
73:22 Rise up, O God, judge your own case. * Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long.
73:23 Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. * The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.

℣ 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. Be mindful of your congregation, O Lord, which you have possessed from the beginning.