Friday Matins

God is faithful―Israel is untrue

The Matins Psalms present a history of the Jewish people which is at the same time a history of falling away from God.  It is an unbroken chain of sin, infidelity, ingratitude; and its final, logical link is the greatest crime of all: the murder of their Messiah.  Matins is thus a background history for the Passion of Christ.

In the story of Israel's sins we must not fail to recognize our own sins, and admit our share of the guilt in our Lord's death upon the Cross.

Repentance for our sins and gratitude for the long-suffering and patience of God―these are the chief themes of Matins on Friday.  We meditate them with the Cross in view.

The Psalm is a sort of poetic chronicle, recording the history of Israel from the exodus out of Egypt up to the crowning of King David.  God's long-suffering patience is vividly depicted.  Despite the constant infidelity of Israel, his patience is not exhausted.  We must figurátively strike our breast when we pray this Psalm; we marvel at God's patience with ourselves.

Hearken unto the lesson of history

Atténdite, popule meus, legem meam: * inclináte aurem vestram in verba oris mei.
2  Apériam in parábolis os meum: * loquar propositiónes ab inítio.
3  Quanta audívimus et cognóvimus ea: * et patres nostri narravérunt nobis.
4  Non sunt occultáta a fíliis eórum: * in generatióne áltera.
5  Narrántes laudes Dómini, et virtútes ejus: * et mirabília ejus, quæ fecit.

Hear my law, O my people; * incline your ears unto the words of my mouth.
2  I will open my mouth in a parable; * I will declare the propositions from of old;
3  How great things we have heard and known, * and such as our fathers have told us;
4  They have not been hidden from their children : * in another generation.
5  Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty powers : and the wonderful works that he hath done.

The Covenant with Jacob

6  Et suscitávit testimónium in Jacob: * et legem pósuit in Israël.
7  Quanta mandávit pátribus nostris nota fácere ea fíliis suis: * ut cognóscat generátio áltera.
8  Fílii qui nascéntur, et exsúrgent, * et narrábunt fíliis suis.
9  Ut ponant in Deo spem suam, et non obliviscántur óperum Dei: * et mandáta ejus exquírant.
10  Ne fiant sicut patres eórum: * generátio prava et exásperans.
11  Generátio, quæ non diréxit cor suum: * et non est creditus cum Deo spíritus ejus.

6  And he hath stablished a testimony in Jacob, * and made a law in Israel.
7  How great things he commanded our forefathers to teach their children : * that their posterity might know it.
8  The children which were yet unborn, and should rise up, * they shall shew the same also to their children.
9  That they might put their trust in God, and not forget the works of God, * and may seek his commandments.
10  That they might not become as their forefathers, * a perverse and stubborn generation.
11  A generation that set not their heart aright, * and whose spirit was not faithful unto God.

Psalm 77.ii.  Filii Ephrem

Miracles and goodness of God

In the far past

12  Fílii Ephrem intendéntes et mitténtes arcum: * convérsi sunt in die belli.
13  Non custodiérunt testaméntum Dei: * et in lege ejus noluérunt ambuláre.
14  Et oblíti sunt benefactórum ejus: * et mirabílium ejus quæ osténdit eis.

12  Like as the children of Ephraim, who bending and shooting with the bow, * turned themselves back in the day of battle.
13  They kept not the covenant of God, * and would not walk in his law.
14  But forgat what he had done, * and the wonderful works that he had shewed for them.

In Egypt and the wilderness

15  Coram pátribus eórum fecit mirabília in terra Ægypti: * in campo Táneos.
16  Interrúpit mare, et perduxit eos: * et státuit aquas quasi in utre.
17  Et dedúxit eos in nube diéi: * et tota nocte in illuminatióne ignis.
18  Interrúpit petram in erémo: * et adaquávit eos velut in abysso multa.
19  Et edúxit aquam de petra: * et dedúxit tamquam flúmina aquas.

15  Marvellous things did he in the sight of their forefathers, in the land of Egypt, * even in the field of Tanis.
16  He divided the sea, and brought them through; * he made the waters to stand on an heap.
17  In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, * and all the night through with a light of fire.
18  He clave the hard rock in the wilderness, * and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.
19  He brought forth waters out of the rock, * and made waters run out like rivers.

20  Et apposuérunt adhuc peccáre ei: * in iram excitavérunt Excélsum in inaquóso.
21  Et tentavérunt Deum in córdibus suis, * ut péterent escas animábus suis.
22  Et male locúti sunt de Deo: * dixérunt: Numquid póterit Deus paráre mensam in desérto?
23  Quóniam percússit petram, et fluxérunt aquæ: * et torréntes inundavérunt.
24  Numquid et panem potest dare, * aut paráre mensam pópulo suo?

20  And they added yet more sin against him, * they provoked the Most Highest to wrath in the wilderness.
21  And they tempted God in their hearts, * by asking meat for their desires.
22  They spake ill of God also, * they said : Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
23  For he smote the stony rock, that the waters gushed out, * and the torrents overflowed.
24  But can he give bread also, * or provide a table for his people?

Manna and quail

25  Ideo audívit Dóminus, et dístulit: * et ignis accénsus est in Jacob, et ira ascéndit in Israël.
26  Quia non credidérunt in Deo: * nec speravérunt in salutári ejus :
27  Et mandávit núbibus désuper: * et jánuas cæli apéruit.
28  Et pluit illis manna ad manducándum: * et panem cæli dedit eis.
29  Panem Angelórum manducávit homo, * cibária misit eis in abundántia.
30  Tránstulit Austrum de cælo: * et indúxit in virtúte sua Africum.
31  Et pluit super eos sicut púlverem carnes: * et sicut arénam maris volatília pennáta.
32  Et cecidérunt in médio castrórum eórum: * circa tabernácula eórum.
33  Et manducavérunt, et saturáti sunt nimis, et desidérium eórum áttulit eis: * non sunt fraudáti a desidério suo.

25  Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth; * and a fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath came up heavy against Israel;
26  Because they believed not in God, * and put not their trust in his salvation.
27  So he commanded the clouds from above, * and opened the gates of heaven.
28  And he rained down manna upon them for to eat, * and gave them the bread of heaven.
29  Man did eat the bread of angels : * he sent them provisions in abundance.
30  He removed the south wind from heaven; * and through his power he brought in the southwest wind.
31  And he rained upon them flesh as dust, * and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
32  And they fell in the midst of their camp, * round about their pavilions.
33  So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their own desire: * they were not disappointed of that which they craved.

Punishment of their unbelief

34  Adhuc escæ eórum erant in ore ipsórum: * et ira Dei ascéndit super eos
35  Et occídit pingues eórum, * et eléctos Israël impedívit.

34  But while the meat was yet in their mouths, * the heavy wrath of God came upon them.
35  And he slew the rich amongst them : * yea, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Continuation of their punishment

36  In ómnibus his peccavérunt adhuc: * et non credidérunt mirabílibus ejus.
37  Et defecérunt in vanitáte dies eórum: * et anni eórum cum festinatióne.

36  In all these things they sinned still, * and believed not his wondrous works.
37  And their days were consumed in vanity, * and their years in haste.

Their apparent conversion

38  When he slew them, then they sought him, * and they returned, and came unto him early in the morning.
39  And they remembered that God was their helper, * and the most high God their redeemer.
40  And they loved him with their mouth, * and dissembled with him in their tongue.
41  For their heart was not right with him, * neither continued they stedfast in his covenant.

The pattern is repeated time and again

42  Ipse autem est miséricors, et propítius fiet peccátis eórum: * et non dispérdet eos.
43  Et abundávit ut avérteret iram suam: * et non accéndit omnem iram suam:
44  Et recordátus est quia caro sunt: * spíritus vadens et non rédiens.
45  Quóties exacerbavérunt eum in desérto, *  in iram concitavérunt eum in inaquóso?
46  Et convérsi sunt, et tentavérunt Deum: * et Sanctum Israël exacerbavérunt.

42  But he is merciful, and will forgive their misdeeds, * and will destroy them not.
43  Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, * and did not enkindle his whole wrath.
44  And he remembered that they are but flesh, * even a wind that goeth, and cometh not again.
45  How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, * and move him to wrath in the desert?
46  And they turned back, and tempted God, * and grieved the Holy One in Israel.

Psalm 77. v.  Non sunt recordati

The plagues in Egypt

47  Non sunt recordáti manus ejus, * die qua redémit eos de manu tribulántis.
48  Sicut pósuit in Ægypto signa sua, * et prodígia sua in campo Táneos.
49  Et convértit in sánguinem flúmina eórum: * et imbres eórum, ne bíberent.
50  Misit in eos cœnomyíam, et comédit eos: * et ranam, et dispérdidit eos.
51  Et dedit ærúgini fructus eórum: * et labóres eórum locústæ.
52  Et occídit in grándine víneas eórum: * et moros eórum in pruína.
53  Et trádidit grándini juménta eórum: * et possessiónem eórum igni.
54  Misit  in eos iram indignatiónis suæ: * indignatiónem, et iram, et tribulatiónem: immissiónes per ángelos malos.
55  Viam fecit sémitæ iræ suæ, non pepércit a morte animábus eórum: * et juménta eórum in morte conclúsit.
56  Et percússit omne primogénitum in terra Ægypti: * primítias omnis labóris eórum in tabernáculis Cham.

47  THEY thought not of his hand, * and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy;
48  How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, * and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
49  He turned their rivers into blood, * and their rain so that they might not drink.
50  He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them up; * and frogs to destroy them.
51  He gave their fruits unto the caterpillar, * and their labour unto the locust.
52  He destroyed their vineyards with hailstones, * and their mulberry trees with the hoarfrost.
53  He gave up their cattle also to the hailstones, * and their stock to the fire.
54  He cast upon them the furiousness of his wrath : * anger, displeasure and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.
55  He made a way for a path to his anger, and spared not their souls from death; * and their cattle he confined in death.
56  And he smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, * the firstfruits of all their labour in the dwellings of Ham.

The promised land

57  Et ábstulit sicut oves pópulum suum: * et perduxit eos tamquam gregem in desérto.
58  Et dedúxit eos in spe, et non timuérunt: * et inimícos eórum opéruit mare.
59  Et indúxit eos in montem sanctificatiónis suæ: * montem, quem acquisívit déxtera ejus.
60  Et ejécit a fácie eórum Gentes: * et sorte divísit eis terram in funiculo distributiónis.
61  Et habitáre fecit in tabernáculis eórum: * tribus Israël.

57  And his own people he led forth like sheep, * and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
58  He brought them out in hope, and they feared not, * and he overwhelmed their enemies with the sea.
59  And brought them within the mountain of his sanctuary, * even to his mountain, which he purchased with his right hand.
60  He cast out the heathen also before them, * and by lot divided their land unto them by a line of distribution.
61  And he made the tribes of Israel * to dwell in their tents.

Unfaithful in the promised land

62  Et tentavérunt, et exacerbavérunt Deum excélsum: * et testimónia ejus non custodiérunt.
63  Et avertérunt se, et non servavérunt pactum: * quemádmodum patres eórum convérsi sunt in arcum pravum.
64  In iram concitavérunt eum in cóllibus suis: * et in sculptílibus suis ad æmulatiónem eum provocavérunt.

62  Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, * and kept not his testimonies.
63  And they turned their backs, and kept not the covenant, * even as their forefathers they were turned aside like a broken bow.
64  They moved him to anger on their hills, * and provoked him to jealousy with their graven things.

Psalm 77. vi.  Audivit Deus

Defeat at Silo

65  Audívit Deus, et sprevit: * et ad níhilum redégit valde Israël.
66  Et répulit tabernáculum Silo: * tabernáculum suum, ubi habitávit in homínibus.
67  Et trádidit in captivitátem virtútem eórum: * et pulchritúdinem eórum in manus inimíci.
68  Et conclúsit in gládio pópulum suum: * et hereditátem suam sprevit.
69  Júvenes eórum comédit ignis: * et vírgines eórum non sunt lamentátæ.
70  Sacerdótes eórum in gládio cecidérunt: * et víduæ eórum non plorabántur.

65  God heard, and despised them, * and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to naught.
66  And he forsook the tabernacle in Silo, * even his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
67  And he delivered their power into captivity, * and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.
68  And he gave his people over unto the sword, * and he despised his inheritance.
69  The fire consumed their young men, * and their maidens were not lamented.
70  Their priests fell by the sword, * and their widows did not mourn.

Finale:  Juda is chosen

71  Et excitátus est tamquam dórmiens Dóminus: * tamquam potens crapulátus a vino.
72  Et percússit inimícos suos in posterióra: * oppróbrium sempitérnum dedit illis.
73  Et répulit tabernáculum Joseph: * et tribum Ephraim non elégit.
74  Sed elégit tribum Juda, * montem Sion quem diléxit.
75  Et ædificávit sicut unicórnium sanctifícium suum in terra, * quam fundávit in sæcula.
76  Et elégit David, servum suum, et sústulit eum de grégibus óvium: * de post fœtántes accépit eum,
77  Páscere Jacob, servum suum, * et Israël, hereditátem suam:
78  Et pávit eos in innocéntia cordis sui: * et in intelléctibus mánuum suárum dedúxit eos.

71  And the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, * and like a mighty man drunk with wine.
72  He smote his enemies in the hinder parts, * and put them to a perpetual shame.
73  And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, * and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
74  But he chose the tribe of Judah, * even Mount Sion which he loved.
75  And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, * in the land which he stablished for ever.
76  And he chose David his servant, and took him away from the flocks of sheep : * as he was following the ewes great with young ones he took him.
77  That he might feed Jacob his servant, * and Israel his inheritance.
78  And he fed them in the innocency of his heart, * and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.

This Psalm depicts one of the saddest episodes of Jewish history:  Jerusalem and the temple are destroyed, the Gentiles loot and kill, Israel is sunk in deepest shame―a punishment for the infidelity of the chosen people.

The destruction of the sanctuary is at the same time a reminder of the modern-day destruction of the modernists, with their man-oriented liturgies.  In the latter half of the Psalm we plead for the destruction of the enemies of the Church, not with any malice or thoughts of vengeance, but for the manifestation of God's divine justice upon those who would desecrate his holy places.

Finally, this destruction of the sanctuary can be seen as an image of Christ's death:  "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19).  We think about the temple of the soul, violated by sin, and in the Church's name we pray for the conversion of sinners.

Jerusalem desolate

Deus, venérunt Gentes in hereditátem tuam, polluérunt templum sanctum tuum: * posuérunt Jerúsalem in pomórum custódiam.
2  Posuérunt morticína servórum tuórum, escas volatílibus cæli: * carnes sanctórum tuórum béstiis terræ.
3  Effudérunt sánguinem eórum tamquam aquam in circúitu Jerúsalem: * et non erat qui sepelíret.
4  Facti sumus oppróbrium vicínis nostris: * subsannátio et illúsio his, qui in circúitu nostro sunt.

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance, thy holy temple have they defiled, * and made Jerusalem a place to store fruit.
2  The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air, * and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land.
3  Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, * and there was no man to bury them.
4  We are become a reproach to our neighbours, * a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.

Fervent plea for help

5  Usquequo, Dómine, irascéris in finem: * accendétur velut ignis zelus tuus?
6  Effúnde iram tuam in Gentes, quæ te non novérunt: * et in regna quæ nomen tuum non invocavérunt:
7  Quia comedérunt Jacob: * et locum ejus desolavérunt.
8  Ne memíneris iniquitátum nostrárum antiquárum, cito antícipent nos misericórdiæ tuæ: * quia páuperes facti sumus nimis.
9  Adjuva nos, Deus, salutáris noster: et propter glóriam nóminis tui, Dómine, líbera nos: * et propítius esto peccátis nostris, propter nomen tuum:

5  How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever? * shall thy zeal be kindled like fire?
6  Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee; * and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy Name.
7  For they have devoured Jacob, * and laid waste his dwelling-place.
8  O remember not our sins of old, but let thy mercies speedily prevent us, * for we are become exceeding poor.
9  Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy Name, O Lord, deliver us, * and be merciful unto our sins, for thy Name's sake.

Plea for punishment of enemies

10  Ne forte dicant in Géntibus: Ubi est Deus eórum? * et innotéscat in natiónibus coram óculis nostris.
11  Ultio sánguinis servórum tuórum, qui effúsus est: * intróeat in conspéctu tuo gémitus compeditórum.
12  Secúndum magnitúdinem bráchii tui, * pósside fílios mortificatórum.
13  Et redde vicínis nostris séptuplum in sinu eórum: * impropérium ipsórum, quod exprobravérunt tibi, Dómine.

10  Lest they should say among the heathen: Where is now their God? * and let him be openly shewed upon the nations, in our sight.
11  By the vengeance of thy servants' blood that is shed, * O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee.
12  According to the greatness of thine arm, * take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.
13  And render unto our neighbours seven-fold in their bosom : * the reproach wherewith they have blasphemed thee, O Lord.

Promise of thanksgiving

14  Nos autem pópulus tuus, et oves páscuæ tuæ, * confitébimur tibi in sæculum.
15  In generatiónem et generatiónem * annuntiábimus laudem tuam.

14  But we are thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, * we shall give thee thanks for ever.
15  From generation to generation * we will alway be shewing forth thy praise.

Psalm 80.  Exsultate Deo

God's solemn reproach
"My people, my people, what have I done unto you?"

This Psalm brings to light another picture from the history of Israel.  The people are all assembled for a solemn festival.  The Lord of the Covenant is giving them an urgently appealing sermon, and this is the climax:  "In your hands lie death and life; choose:  life, if you obey―death, if you are faithless like your forefathers."

Christ's death on the Cross shewed that the Jews chose death and final rejection.

The Christian might well picture Christ addressing the same sermon to him from the Cross.  In our hands, too, lie life and death.

Invitation to the festival

Exsultáte Deo, adjutóri nostro: * jubiláte Deo Jacob.
2  Súmite psalmum, et date tympanum: * psaltérium jucúndum cum cíthara.
3  Buccináte in Neoménia tuba, * in insígni die solemnitátis vestræ.
4  Quia præcéptum in Israël est: * et judícium Dei Jacob.

Rejoice unto God our helper; * sing aloud unto the God of Jacob.
2  Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret, * the merry psaltery with the harp.
3  Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, * even in your appointed solemn feast-day.
4  For it has been made a statute in Israel, * and a judgment of the God of Jacob.

Deliverance from Egypt

5  Testimónium in Joseph pósuit illud, cum exíret de terra Ægypti: * linguam, quam non nóverat, audívit.
6  Divértit ab onéribus dorsum ejus: * manus ejus in cóphino serviérunt.
7  In tribulatióne invocásti me, et liberávi te: * exaudívi te in abscóndito tempestátis: probávi te apud aquam contradictiónis.

5  This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt, * he heard a tongue which he knew not.
6  He removed his back from the burden, * and his hands were a slave unto the baskets.
7  Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee; * I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of strife.

Covenant on Mt. Sinai

8  Audi, pópulus meus, et contestábor te: * Israël, si audíeris me, non erit in te deus recens, neque adorábis deum aliénum.
9  Ego enim sum Dóminus Deus tuus, qui edúxi te de terra Ægypti: * diláta os tuum, et implébo illud.
10  Et non audívit pópulus meus vocem meam: * et Israël non inténdit mihi.
11  Et dimísi eos secúndum desideria cordis eórum: * ibunt in adinventiónibus suis.

8  Hear, O my people; and I will testify unto thee, * O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me, there shall no new god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
9  I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: * open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it.
10  But my people would not hear my voice; * and Israel hearkened not unto me.
11  So I gave them up unto the desires of their hearts:  * they shall walk in their own imaginations.

Admonitions

12  Si pópulus meus audísset me: * Israël si in viis meis ambulásset:
13  Pro níhilo fórsitan inimícos eórum humiliássem: * et super tribulántes eos misíssem manum meam.
14  Inimíci Dómini mentíti sunt ei: * et erit tempus eórum in sæcula.
15  Et cibávit eos ex ádipe fruménti: * et de petra, melle saturávit eos.

12  If my people had hearkened unto me : * if Israel had walked in my ways :
13  I should soon have put down their enemies, * and turned my hand against their adversaries.
14  The enemies of the Lord have lied unto him; * and their time shall be for ever.
15  And he fed them with the fat of wheat; * and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Psalm 82.  Deus, quis similis?

Beset by enemies

The Psalm present two pictures:

1. Our blessed Lord surrounded by his enemies, being led off to his death; we hear his prayer and lamentation.
2. The Catholic Church, new Israel, beset by enemies; but "the gates of hell shall not prevail against her."

The enemy alliance

Deus, quis símilis erit tibi? * Ne táceas, neque compescáris, Deus.
2  Quóniam ecce inimíci tui sonuérunt: * et qui odérunt te extulérunt caput.
3  Super pópulum tuum malignavérunt consílium: * et cogitavérunt advérsus sanctos tuos.
4  Dixérunt:  Veníte, et disperdámus eos de gente: * et non memorétur nomen Israël ultra.
5  Quóniam cogitavérunt unanímiter: * simul advérsum te testaméntum disposuérunt, tabernácula Idumæórum et Ismahelítæ:
6  Moab, et Agaréni, Gebal, et Ammon, et Amalec: * alienígenæ cum habitántibus Tyrum.
7  Etenim Assur venit cum illis: * facti sunt in adjutórium fíliis Lot.

O God, who shall be like unto thee? * hold not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence.
2  For lo, thine enemies have made a noise; * and they that hate thee have lift up their head.
3  They have taken counsel against thy people, * and imagined craftily against thy holy ones.
4  They have said, Come, and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation, * and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5  For they have contrived with one consent, * and have made a covenant together against thee, the tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismaeites.
6  Moab and the Hagarens, Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; * the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre.
7  Assur also is joined with them; * and have holpen the children of Lot.

Punish them, O God

8  Fac illis sicut Mádian, et Sísaræ: * sicut Jabin in torrénte Cisson.
9  Disperiérunt in Endor: * facti sunt ut stercus terræ.
10  Pone príncipes eórum sicut Oreb, et Zeb, * et Zébee, et Sálmana:
11  Omnes príncipes eórum: * qui dixérunt : Hereditáte possideámus Sanctuárium Dei.

8  But do thou to them as thou didst unto Madian and Sisera, * and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison;
9  Who perished at Endor, * and became as the dung of the earth.
10  Make their princes like Oreb and Zeb; * even like as Zeba and Salmana;
11  Yea, all their princes : * who have said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

Destroy them utterly

12  Deus meus, pone illos ut rotam: * et sicut stípulam ante fáciem venti.
13  Sicut ignis, qui combúrit silvam: * et sicut flamma combúrens montes:
14  Ita persequéris illos in tempestáte tua: * et in ira tua turbábis eos.
15  Imple fácies eórum ignomínia: * et quærent nomen tuum, Dómine.

12  O my God, make them like unto a wheel, * and as the stubble before the wind;
13  Like as the fire that burneth up the wood, * and as the flame that consumeth the mountains;
14  So shalt thou pursue them in thy tempest, * and trouble them in thy wrath.
15  Fill their faces with shame, * and they shall seek thy Name, O Lord.

Finale

16  Erubéscant, et conturbéntur in sæculum sæculi: * et confundántur, et péreant.
17  (fit reverentia) Et cognoscant quia nomen tibi Dóminus: * tu solus Altíssimus in omni terra.

16  Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more; * let them be put to shame, and perish.
17  (all bow) And they shall know that the Lord is thy Name, * thou alone art the Most Highest over all the earth.