| 8 οἰκτίρμων καὶ ἐλεήμων ὁ κύριος μακρόθυμος καὶ πολυέλεος 9 οὐκ εἰς τέλος ὀργισθήσεται οὐδὲ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μηνιεῖ 10 οὐ κατὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν ἐποίησεν ἡμῖν οὐδὲ κατὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν ἀνταπέδωκεν ἡμῖν 11 ὅτι κατὰ τὸ ὕψος τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἐκραταίωσεν κύριος τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τοὺς φοβουμένους αὐτόν 12 κα{Q'} ὅσον ἀπέχουσιν ἀνατολαὶ ἀπὸ δυσμῶν ἐμάκρυνεν ἀ{F'} ἡμῶν τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν 13 καθὼς οἰκτίρει πατὴρ υἱούς οἰκτίρησεν κύριος τοὺς φοβουμένους αὐτόν 14 ὅτι αὐτὸς ἔγνω τὸ πλάσμα ἡμῶν μνήσθητι ὅτι χοῦς ἐσμεν 15 ἄνθρωπος ὡσεὶ χόρτος αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ ἄνθος τοῦ ἀγροῦ οὕτως ἐξανθήσει 16 ὅτι πνεῦμα διῆλθεν ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ οὐχ ὑπάρξει καὶ οὐκ ἐπιγνώσεται ἔτι τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ 17 τὸ δὲ ἔλεος τοῦ κυρίου ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐπὶ τοὺς φοβουμένους αὐτόν καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ υἱοὺς υἱῶν 18 τοῖς φυλάσσουσιν τὴν διαθήκην αὐτοῦ καὶ μεμνημένοις τῶν ἐντολῶν αὐτοῦ τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτάς 19 κύριος ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἡτοίμασεν τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ πάντων δεσπόζει 20 εὐλογεῖτε τὸν κύριον πάντες οἱ ἄγγελοι αὐτοῦ δυνατοὶ ἰσχύι ποιοῦντες τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι τῆς φωνῆς τῶν λόγων αὐτοῦ 21 εὐλογεῖτε τὸν κύριον πᾶσαι αἱ δυνάμεις αὐτοῦ λειτουργοὶ αὐτοῦ ποιοῦντες τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ 22 εὐλογεῖτε τὸν κύριον πάντα τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ τῆς δεσποτείας αὐτοῦ εὐλόγει ἡ ψυχή μου τὸν κύριον |
8 How pitying and gracious the Lord is, how patient, how rich in mercy! 9 He will not always be finding fault, his frown does not last for ever; 10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve, does not exact the penalty of our wrong-doing. 11 High as heaven above the earth towers his mercy for the men that fear him; 12 far as the east is from the west, he clears away our guilt from us. 13 For his own worshippers, the Lord has a father’s pity; 14 does he not know the stuff of which we are made, can he forget that we are only dust? 15 Man’s life is like the grass, he blooms and dies like a flower in the fields; 16 once the hot wind has passed over, it has gone, forgotten by the place where it grew. 17 But the Lord’s worshippers know no beginning or end of his mercy; he will keep faith with their children’s children, 18 do they but hold fast by his covenant, and live mindful of his law. 19 The Lord has set up his throne in heaven, rules with universal sway. 20 Bless the Lord, all you angels of his; angels of sovereign strength, that carry out his commandment, attentive to the word he utters; 21 bless the Lord, all you hosts of his, the servants that perform his will; 22 bless the Lord, all you creatures of his, in every corner of his dominion; and thou, my soul, bless the Lord. |
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Miserator et misericors Dominus:
longanimis, et multum misericors. 9
Non in perpetuum irascetur,
neque in æternum comminabitur. 10
Non secundum peccata nostra fecit nobis,
neque secundum iniquitates nostras retribuit nobis. 11
Quoniam secundum altitudinem cæli a terra,
corroboravit misericordiam suam super timentes se; 12
quantum distat ortus ab occidente,
longe fecit a nobis iniquitates nostras. 13
Quomodo miseretur pater filiorum,
misertus est Dominus timentibus se. 14
Quoniam ipse cognovit figmentum nostrum;
recordatus est quoniam pulvis sumus. 15
Homo, sicut fœnum dies ejus;
tamquam flos agri, sic efflorebit: 16
quoniam spiritus pertransibit in illo, et non subsistet,
et non cognoscet amplius locum suum. 17
Misericordia autem Domini ab æterno,
et usque in æternum super timentes eum.
Et justitia illius in filios filiorum, 18
his qui servant testamentum ejus,
et memores sunt mandatorum ipsius ad faciendum ea. 19
Dominus in cælo paravit sedem suam,
et regnum ipsius omnibus dominabitur. 20
Benedicite Domino, omnes angeli ejus:
potentes virtute, facientes verbum illius,
ad audiendam vocem sermonum ejus. 21
Benedicite Domino, omnes virtutes ejus;
ministri ejus, qui facitis voluntatem ejus. 22
Benedicite Domino, omnia opera ejus:
in omni loco dominationis ejus,
benedic, anima mea, Domino. Ipsi David. |