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THE SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS.

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Et ipse redimet Israel * omnibus iniquitatibus

he shall redeem Israel

ex

all his iniquities.

ejus.

VII.

David, who had taken refuge in a cave, sees himself surrounded by the army of Saul he beseeches God not to deal with him according to the rigour of his just judgments, but to show him a way, whereby to The sinner escape the danger that threatens him. implores God to deliver him from the sins and temptations which beset him.

PSALM 142.

O

Hear,

give ear to thy truth

Lord, my prayer Domine, exaudi oratiomy supplication in nem meam, auribus perhear me in thy cipe obsecrationem meam

justice.

And

enter not into judgfor in thy sight no man living shall

ment with thy servant be

justified.

For the enemy hath cuted my soul brought down my

perse-

he

hath

life

to the

hath made

me

to dwell

in darkness, as those that have been dead of old and spirit is in anguish within

me

meam.

earth.

He

exaudi

in veritate tua me in tua justitia. Et non intres in judicium cum servo tuo * quia non justificabitur in conspectu tuo omnis vivens. Quia persecutus est inimicus animam meam * humiliavit terra vitam in

my

heart within

my

me

[

is

troubled. I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works I meditated upon the

works

of thy hands.

Collocavit sicut

me

mortuos

in obscuris seculi et

anxiatus est super me spiritus meus * in me turbatum

est cor

meum.

Memor fui dierum antiquorum, meditatus sum in omnibus op eribustuis * in factis manuum tuarum me:

ditabar.

I stretched forth my hands to thee my soul is as earth without water, unto thee.

te

Expandi manus meas ad

anima mea sicut terra

sine aqua

tibi.