Psalms of David
Psalms of David
The Psalter shall be read as here appointed. In the months which have one-and-thirty days the same
Psalms shall be read the last day of the month which are appointed for the day before. And at the end of
every Psalm, and of every portion of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, shall be repeated this
Hymn,
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen
Note, that the Psalter followeth the Division of the Hebrews, and, for the most part, the Translation of the
Great English Bible set forth and used in the time of King Henry the Eighth, and Edward the Sixth.
Upon occasion to be approved by the Ordinary, other Psalms may, with his consent, be substituted for
those appointed in the Psalter.
THE PSALTER
OR
PSALMS OF DAVID
Pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches
PSALM 51 Miserere mei, Deus.
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness : according to the multitude of thy
mercies do away mine offences.
2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness : and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my faults : and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight : that thou mightest be justified in
thy saying, and clear when thou shalt judge.
5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness : and in sin hath my mother conceived me.
6 But lo, thou requirest truth in the inward parts : and shalt make me to understand wisdom
secretIy.
7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean : thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.
8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness : that the bones which thou hast broken may
rejoice.
9 Turn thy face from my sins : and put out all my misdeeds.
10 Make me a clean heart, O God : and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence : and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 O give me the comfort of thy help again : and stablish me with thy free spirit.
13 Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked : and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health : and my tongue
shall sing of thy righteousness.
15 Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord : and my mouth shall shew thy praise.
16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee : but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.
17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit : a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not
despise..
18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion : build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and
oblations : then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar.
PSALM 52 Quid gloriaris?
1 Why boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant : that thou canst do mischief;
2 Whereas the goodness of God : endureth yet daily?
3 Thy tongue imagineth wickedness : and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp razor.
4 Thou hast loved unrighteousness more than goodness : and to talk of lies more than
righteousness.
5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt : O thou false tongue.
6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever : he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling,
and root thee out of the land of the living.
7 The righteous also shall see this, and fear : and shall laugh him to scorn;
8 Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength : but trusted unto the multitude of his riches,
and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
9 As for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God : my trust is in the tender mercy of
God for ever and ever.
10 I will always give thanks unto thee for that thou hast done : and I will hope in thy Name, for thy
saints like it well.