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Ant. The bones that were humbled * shall rejoice before the Lord.

Psalm 50

50:3a Have mercy on me, O God, * according to your great mercy.
50:3b And according to the multitude of your tender mercies, * blot out my iniquity.
50:4 Wash me more thoroughly from my iniquity: * and cleanse me from my sin.
50:5 For I acknowledge my iniquity: * and my sin is always before me.
50:6 Against you only have I sinned, and have done evil in your sight: * that you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.
50:7 For behold, I was conceived in iniquities: * and in sins did my mother conceive me.
50:8 For behold, you have loved truth: * the uncertain and hidden things of your wisdom you have made manifest to me.
50:9 You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: * you will wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
50:10 To my hearing you will give joy and gladness: * and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.
50:11 Turn away your face from my sins: * and blot out all my iniquities.
50:12 Create a clean heart in me, O God: * and renew a right spirit within my inmost parts.
50:13 Cast me not away from your face: * and take not your holy spirit from me.
50:14 Restore to me the joy of your salvation: * and strengthen me with a sovereign spirit.
50:15 I will teach the unjust your ways: * and the wicked shall be converted to you.
50:16 Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation: * and my tongue shall extol your justice.
50:17 O Lord, you will open my lips: * and my mouth shall declare your praise.
50:18 For if you had desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: * with burnt offerings you will not be delighted.
50:19 A sacrifice to God is a troubled spirit: * a contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not despise.
50:20 Deal favorably, O Lord, with your good will toward Sion: * that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
50:21 Then shall you accept a sacrifice of justice, oblations, and burnt offerings: * then shall they lay calves upon your altar.

℣ 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. The bones that were humbled shall rejoice before the Lord.

Ant. Hear, O Lord, * my prayer: to you all flesh shall come.

Psalm 64

64:2 O God, a hymn adorns you in Zion: * and a vow will be repaid to you in Jerusalem.
64:3 Hear my prayer: * all flesh will come to you.
64:4 Words of iniquity have prevailed over us: * and you will pardon our impieties.
64:5 Blessed is he whom you have chosen and taken up: * he will dwell in your courts.
64:5 We will be filled with the good things of your house: * holy is your temple, wonderful in equity.
64:6 Hear us, O God our Savior, * the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of a sea far away.
64:7 You prepare the mountains in your virtue, wrapped with power: * you who stir up the depths of the sea, the noise of its waves.
64:8 The nations will be troubled, and those who dwell at the limits will be afraid before your signs: * you will make the passing of morning and evening enjoyable.
64:10 You have visited the earth, and you have saturated it: * you have enriched it in so many ways.
64:10 The river of God has been filled with water; you have prepared their food: * for thus is its preparation.
64:11 Drench its streams, multiply its fruits; * it will spring up and rejoice in its showers.
64:12 You will bless the crown of the year with your kindness, * and your fields will be filled with abundance.
64:13 The beauty of the desert will fatten, * and the hills will be wrapped with exultation.
64:14 The rams of the sheep have been clothed, and the valleys will abound with grain: * they will cry out; yes, they will even utter a hymn.

℣ 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. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: to you all flesh shall come.

Ant. Your right hand * has upheld me, O Lord.

Psalm 62

62:2a O God, my God, * to you I keep vigil until first light.
62:2b My soul has thirsted for you, * how manifoldly for you is my flesh.
62:3 In a deserted land, both inaccessible and waterless: ‡ so I have appeared in the sanctuary before you, * that I might behold your virtue and your glory.
62:4 For your mercy is better than life itself: * my lips will praise you.
62:5 So will I bless you in my life: * and in your name I will lift up my hands.
62:6 Let my soul be filled as if with marrow and fatness: * and my mouth will give praise with exultant lips.
62:7 When I have remembered you on my bed, † in the morning I will meditate on you: * (8a) for you have been my helper.
62:8b And I will exult under the cover of your wings, † (9) my soul has clung close to you: * your right hand has supported me.
62:10 Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain, † they will enter into the lower parts of the earth: * (11) they will be delivered into the hand of the sword; they will be the portions of foxes.
62:12 Truly, the king will rejoice in God, † all those who swear by him will be praised: * for the mouth of those who speak iniquity has been blocked.

℣ 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. Your right hand has upheld me, O Lord.

Ant. From the gate of hell * deliver my soul, O Lord.

Canticle of Hezekiah

Isa 38:10-24

38:10 I said: In the middle of my days * I will go to the gates of Hell.
38:11 I sought the remainder of my years. * I said: I will not see the Lord God in the land of the living.
38:12 I will no longer behold man, * nor the habitation of rest.
38:13 My longevity has been taken away, and it has been folded up and taken from me, * like the tent of a shepherd.
38:14 My life has been cut off, as if by a weaver; while I was still beginning, he cut me off; * from morning until evening, you have marked out my limits.
38:15 I hoped, even until morning; * like a lion, so has he crushed all my bones.
38:16 From morning until evening, you have marked my limits; * I will cry out like a young swallow; I will meditate like a dove.
38:17 My eyes have been weakened * by gazing upward.
38:18 O Lord, I suffer violence! Answer in my favor. * What can I say, or what would he answer me, since he himself has done this?
38:19 I will acknowledge to you all my years * in the bitterness of my soul.
38:20 O Lord, if such is life, and if the life of my spirit is of such a kind, may you correct me and may you cause me to live. * Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter:
38:21 but you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish; * you have cast all my sins behind your back.
38:22 For Hell will not confess to you, and death will not praise you; * those who descend into the pit will not hope for your truth.
38:23 The living, the living, these will give praise to you, as I also do this day; * the father will make the truth known to the sons.
38:24 O Lord, save me, * and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

℣ 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. From the gate of hell deliver my soul, O Lord.

Ant. Let every spirit * praise the Lord.

Psalm 150

150:1 Praise the Lord in his holy places: * praise him in the firmament of his power.
150:2 Praise him for his mighty deeds: * praise him according to the multitude of his greatness.
150:3 Praise him with the sound of trumpet: * praise him with psaltery and harp.
150:4 Praise him with timbrel and choir: * praise him with strings and pipe.
150:5 Praise him with well-sounding cymbals: † praise him with cymbals of jubilation: * (6) let every spirit praise the Lord.

℣ 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. Let every spirit praise the Lord.