First Nocturn

COMMENTARY

Ant.    Suscitávit Dóminus * testimónium in Jacob : et legem pósuit in Israël.

Ant.    The Lord stablished * a testimony in Jacob, and made a law in Israel.

Psalmus 77. i.  Attendite, popule

Atténdite, pópule 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.
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 créditus cum Deo spíritus ejus.

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.
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.

Ant.    Suscitávit Dóminus testimónium in Jacob : et legem pósuit in Israël.

Ant.    The Lord stablished a testimony in Jacob, and made a law in Israel.

Ant.    Coram pátribus eórum * fecit Deus mirabília.

Ant.    Marvellous things did he * in the sight of our forefathers.

Psalmus 77.ii.  Filii Ephrem

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.
15  Coram pátribus eórum fecit mirabília in terra Ægypti: * in campo Táneos.
16  Interrúpit mare, et perdúxit 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.

Psalm 77.ii.  Filii Ephrem

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.
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.

Ant.    Coram pátribus eórum fecit Deus mirabília.

Ant.    Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers.

Ant.    Jánuas cæli apéruit * Dóminus, et pluit illis manna ad manducándum.

Ant.    The Lord opened the doors of heaven, * and rained down manna also upon them for to eat.

Psalmus 77. iii.  Et apposuerunt

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

Psalm 77. iii.  Et apposuerunt

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?
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.
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.

Ant.    Jánuas cæli apéruit Dóminus, et pluit illis manna ad manducándum.

Ant.    The Lord opened the doors of heaven, and rained down manna also upon them for to eat.

In Offices of three Lessons, the next Antiphon is intoned as given below.

In Offices of nine Lessons, the First Nocturn continues as follows:

STAND

The Lessons for the First Nocturn are taken either from the Proper, or from the Common, as given in their proper place.

Proper or Common Lessons

Absolutio: Exáudi, Dómine Jesu Christe, preces servórum tuórum, et miserére nobis : Qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivis et regnas in sæcula sæculórum.
R.  Amen.

Absolution:  Graciously hear, O Lord Jesu Christ, the prayers of thy servants, and have mercy upon us.  Who, with the Father, and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest, for ever and ever.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 1: Benedictióne perpétua benedícat nos Pater ætérnus.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 1:  May the Father Eternal bless us with a never-ending blessing.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 2: Unigénitus Dei Fílius nos benedícere et adjuváre dignétur.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 2: May the Son of God, the sole-begotten, mercifully bless and keep us.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 3: Spíritus Sancti grátia illúminet sensus et corda nostra.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 3: May the grace of the Holy Spirit all our heart and mind enlighten.
R.  Amen.

Second Nocturn

COMMENTARY

Ant.    Deus adjútor * est eórum : et Excélsus redémptor eórum est.

Ant.    God was their helper, * and the most high God was their redeemer.

Psalmus 77. iv.  In omnibus

36  In ómnibus his peccavérunt adhuc: * et non credidérunt mirabílibus ejus.
37  Et defecérunt in vanitáte dies eórum: * et anni eórum cum festinatióne.
38  Cum occíderet eos, quærébant eum: * et revertebántur, et dilúculo veniébant ad eum.
39  Et rememoráti sunt quia Deus adjútor est eórum: * et Deus excélsus redémptor eórum est.
40  Et dilexérunt eum in ore suo, * et lingua sua mentíti sunt ei.
41  Cor autem eórum non erat rectum cum eo: * nec fidéles hábiti sunt in testaménto ejus.
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.

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.
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.
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.

Ant.    Deus adjútor est eórum : et Excélsus redémptor eórum est.

Ant.    God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

Ant.    Redémit eos * Dóminus de manu tribulántis.

Ant.    The Lord did deliver them * from the hand of the enemy.

Psalmus 77. v.  Non sunt recordati

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.
57  Et ábstulit sicut oves pópulum suum: * et perdúxit 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 funículo distributiónis.
61  Et habitáre fecit in tabernáculis eórum: * tribus Israël.
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.

Psalm 77. v.  Non sunt recordati

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.
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.
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.

Ant.    Redémit eos Dóminus de manu tribulántis.

Ant.    The Lord did deliver them from the hand of the enemy.

Ant.    Ædificávit * Deus sanctifícium suum in terra.

Ant.    And God built his sanctuary * in the land.

Psalmus 77. vi.  Audivit Deus

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.
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.

Psalm 77. vi.  Audivit Deus

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.
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.

Ant.    Ædificávit Deus sanctifícium suum in terra.

Ant.    And God built his sanctuary in the land.

In Offices of three Lessons, the next Antiphon is intoned as given below.

In Offices of nine Lessons, the Second Nocturn continues as follows:

STAND

The Lessons for the Second Nocturn are taken from the Proper or the Common, as given in their proper place.

Second Nocturn Lessons

Absolutio: Ipsíus píetas et misericórdia nos ádjuvet, qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivit et regnat in sæcula sæculórum.
R.  Amen.

Absolution:  May his loving-kindness and mercy assist us.  Who, with the Father, and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, for ever and ever.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 4: Deus Pater omnípotens sit nobis propítius et clemens.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 4:  May God the Father Almighty shew us his mercy and pity.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 5: Christus perpétuæ det nobis gáudia vitæ.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 5: May Christ bestow upon us the joys of life eternal.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 6: Ignem sui amóris accéndat Deus in córdibus nostris.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 6: May God enkindle in our hearts the fire of his holy love.
R.  Amen.

Third Nocturn

COMMENTARY

Ant.    Adjuva nos, * Deus, salutáris noster : et propítius esto peccátis nostris.

Ant.    Help us, O God * of our salvation, and be merciful unto our sins.

Psalmus 78.  Deus, venerunt

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

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.
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.
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.
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.

Ant.    Adjuva nos, Deus, salutáris noster : et propítius esto peccátis nostris.

Ant.    Help us, O God of our salvation, and be merciful unto our sins.

Ant.    Ego sum Dóminus * Deus tuus, Israël, qui edúxi te de terra Ægypti.

Ant.    I am the Lord * thy God, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Psalmus 80.  Exsultate Deo

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.
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.
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 desidéria cordis eórum: * ibunt in adinventiónibus suis.
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.

Psalm 80.  Exsultate Deo

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.
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.
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.
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.

Ant.    Ego sum Dóminus Deus tuus, Israël, qui edúxi te de terra Ægypti.

Ant.    I am the Lord thy God, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Ant.    Ne táceas, Deus, * quóniam inimíci tui extulérunt caput.

Ant.    Keep not still silence, O God, * for lo, thine enemies have lift up their head.

Psalmus 82.  Deus, quis similis?

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

Psalm 82.  Deus, quis similis?

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.
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.
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.
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.

Ant.    Ne táceas, Deus, quóniam inimíci tui extulérunt caput.

Ant.    Keep not still silence, O God, for lo, thine enemies have lift up their head.

STAND

The Lessons for the Third Nocturn are taken from the Proper or the Common, as given in their proper place.

Third Nocturn Lessons

Absolutio: A vínculis peccatórum nostrórum absólvat nos omnípotens et miséricors Dóminus.
R.  Amen.

Absolution:  May the Lord Almighty and merciful break the bonds of our sins and set us free.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 7: Evangélica léctio sit nobis salus et protéctio.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 7:  May the Gospel's holy lection be our safeguard and protection.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 8 In Festis Dómini:  Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 8 on Feasts of our Lord:  May help divine be with us all, for ever abiding.
R.  Amen.

In Festis B.M.V.  Cujus festum cólimus, ipsa Virgo vírginum intercédat pro nobis ad Dóminum.
R.  Amen.

On Feasts of BVM:  May she whose feast day we are keeping, Mary, blessed Maid of maidens, be our Advocate with God.
R.  Amen.

In Festis Sanctórum:  Cujus (vel Quorum aut Quarum) festum cólimus, ipse (vel ipsa aut ipsi vel ipsæ) intercédat (vel intercédant) pro nobis ad Dóminum.
R.  Amen.

On Saints' Days:  May he [she or they] whose feast day we are keeping, be our Advocate(s) with God.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 9: Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 9: May the King of Angels give us fellowship with all the citizens of heaven.
R.  Amen.

Si autem legenda sit Léctio IX de Homilia:  Per evangélica dicta deleántur nostra delícta.
R.  Amen.

If Lesson IX be the reading of a Gospel Homily:  By the Gospel words today may our sins be done away.
R.  Amen.

IN OFFICES OF THREE LESSONS

Absolutio: Ipsíus píetas et misericórdia nos ádjuvet, qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivit et regnat in sæcula sæculórum.
R.  Amen.

Absolution:  May his loving-kindness and mercy assist us.  Who, with the Father, and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, for ever and ever.
R.  Amen.

The Lessons for the Nocturn are taken from the Proper, as given in their proper place.

Proper Lessons

Benedíctio 1: Evangélica léctio sit nobis salus et protéctio.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 1: May the Gospel's holy lection be our safeguard and protection.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 2: Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 2: May help divine be with us all, for ever abiding.
R.  Amen.

Benedíctio 3: Ad societátem cívium supernórum perdúcat nos Rex Angelórum.
R.  Amen.

Benediction 3: May the King of Angels give us fellowship with all the citizens of heaven.
R.  Amen.