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To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.

For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us,

Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth

In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.

¶ Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.

Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,

Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.

A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.

The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word: