Catholicism

Psalms, chapter 118

1. ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
2. Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek Him with their whole heart.
3. For they that work iniquity, have not walked in His ways.
4. Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.
5. O! that my ways may be directed to keep Thy justifications.
6. Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.
7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of Thy justice.
8. I will keep Thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me.
9. BETH. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing Thy words.
10. With my whole heart have I sought after Thee: let me not stray from Thy commandments.
11. Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee.
12. Blessed art Thou, O Lord: teach me Thy justifications.
13. With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of Thy mouth.
14. I have been delighted in the way of Thy testimonies, as in all riches.
15. I will meditate on Thy commandments: and I will consider Thy ways.
16. I will think of Thy justifications: I will not forget Thy words.
17. GIMEL. Give bountifully to Thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words.
18. Open Thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.
19. I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not Thy commandments from me.
20. My soul hath coveted to long for Thy justifications, at all times.
21. Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from Thy commandments.
22. Remove from reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.
23. For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.
24. For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.
25. DALETH. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.
26. I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications.
27. Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.
28. My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.
29. Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.

Source Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1899 ed.), ebible.org · Contents