(Alleluia.)

Alleluia.

Alleluja.

Praise the Lord, the Lord is gracious; his mercy endures for ever;

Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus, quoniam in sæculum misericordia ejus.

what tongue can recount all the great deeds of the Lord, can echo all his praise?

Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises?

Quis loquetur potentias Domini; auditas faciet omnes laudes ejus?

Blessed are they who abide ever by his decrees, ever do the right!

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

Beati qui custodiunt judicium, et faciunt justitiam in omni tempore.

Remember me, Lord, with loving thoughts towards thy people, come and strengthen me with thy aid,

Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

Memento nostri, Domine, in beneplacito populi tui; visita nos in salutari tuo:

to witness the prosperity of thy chosen servants, to rejoice with thy people that rejoices, to share the glory of thy own domain.

That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

ad videndum in bonitate electorum tuorum; ad lætandum in lætitia gentis tuæ: ut lauderis cum hæreditate tua.

We have taken part in our fathers’ sins; we are guilty men, rebels against thee.

We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

Peccavimus cum patribus nostris: injuste egimus; iniquitatem fecimus.

So it was with our fathers in Egypt; unremarked, thy wonderful doings, unremembered, thy abundant mercies; even at the Red Sea they must prove rebellious.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

Patres nostri in Ægypto non intellexerunt mirabilia tua; non fuerunt memores multitudinis misericordiæ tuæ. Et irritaverunt ascendentes in mare, mare Rubrum;

Yet, for his own honour, to make known his power, he delivered them,

And he saved them for his own name’s sake: that he might make his power known.

et salvavit eos propter nomen suum, ut notam faceret potentiam suam.

checking the Red Sea, so that it dried up, and leading them through its depths as safely as if they trod the desert sands.

And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.

Et increpuit mare Rubrum et exsiccatum est, et deduxit eos in abyssis sicut in deserto.

From a cruel tyrant’s grasp he rescued them, claimed them for his own;

And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Et salvavit eos de manu odientium, et redemit eos de manu inimici.

and the water overwhelmed their pursuers, till not one of them was left.

And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.

Et operuit aqua tribulantes eos; unus ex eis non remansit.

They believed, then, in his promises, sang songs, then, in his honour,

And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.

Et crediderunt verbis ejus, et laudaverunt laudem ejus.

but soon they forgot what he had done, and could not wait upon his will.

They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.

Cito fecerunt; obliti sunt operum ejus: et non sustinuerunt consilium ejus.

They must needs give way to their cravings in the wilderness, challenge God’s power, there in the desert,

And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

Et concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto, et tentaverunt Deum in inaquoso.

till he granted their will, then sent a wasting sickness to plague them.

And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.

Et dedit eis petitionem ipsorum, et misit saturitatem in animas eorum.

Faction raised its head in the camp against Moses, against Aaron, the Lord’s chosen priest;

And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

Et irritaverunt Moysen in castris; Aaron, sanctum Domini.

and now earth gaped, swallowing up Dathan, overwhelming Abiron and his conspiracy;

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.

Aperta est terra, et deglutivit Dathan, et operuit super congregationem Abiron.

fire broke out in their company, and the rebels perished by its flames.

And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.

Et exarsit ignis in synagoga eorum: flamma combussit peccatores.

They made a calf, too, at Horeb, casting a golden image and worshipping it,

They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

Et fecerunt vitulum in Horeb, et adoraverunt sculptile.

as if they would exchange the glory that dwelt among them for the semblance of a bullock at grass.

And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

Et mutaverunt gloriam suam in similitudinem vituli comedentis fœnum.

So little they remembered the God who had delivered them, those portents of his in Egypt,

They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

Obliti sunt Deum qui salvavit eos; qui fecit magnalia in Ægypto,

strange things seen in the land of Cham, terrible things down by the Red Sea!

wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

mirabilia in terra Cham, terribilia in mari Rubro.

What wonder if he threatened to make an end of them? But Moses, the man of his choice, stood in the breach to confront his anger, to ward off destruction.

And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Et dixit ut disperderet eos, si non Moyses, electus ejus, stetisset in confractione in conspectu ejus, ut averteret iram ejus, ne disperderet eos.

And now they poured scorn on the land of their desire, distrusting his promise;

And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,

Et pro nihilo habuerunt terram desiderabilem; non crediderunt verbo ejus.

and the camp was all disaffection. So the Lord, finding they would not listen to his voice,

and they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

Et murmuraverunt in tabernaculis suis; non exaudierunt vocem Domini.

lifted his hand and threatened to smite them down, there in the wilderness;

And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;

Et elevavit manum suam super eos ut prosterneret eos in deserto:

they should be lost among the peoples, scattered wide through the world.

And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

et ut dejiceret semen eorum in nationibus, et dispergeret eos in regionibus.

They dedicated themselves to Beelphegor, in honour of the dead gods sat down to feast;

They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Et initiati sunt Beelphegor, et comederunt sacrificia mortuorum.

till their wicked ways roused God’s anger, and a plague fell upon them.

And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

Et irritaverunt eum in adinventionibus suis, et multiplicata est in eis ruina.

Nor might the destruction cease, till Phinees rose up and made amends,

Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.

Et stetit Phinees, et placavit, et cessavit quassatio.

winning himself such title to God’s favour as shall be remembered, age after age, eternally.

And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.

Et reputatum est ei in justitiam, in generationem et generationem usque in sempiternum.

They provoked his anger, too, at the waters of Meriba, so that Moses was punished for their sake;

They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:

Et irritaverunt eum ad aquas contradictionis, et vexatus est Moyses propter eos:

because, in his heart’s bitterness, he broke out into open complaint.

because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.

quia exacerbaverunt spiritum ejus, et distinxit in labiis suis.

Not theirs to root out the heathen, as the Lord had bidden them;

They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.

Non disperdiderunt gentes quas dixit Dominus illis:

they mingled with the heathen instead, and learned their ways;

And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

et commisti sunt inter gentes, et didicerunt opera eorum;

worshipping carved images, to their own undoing,

and served their idols, and it became a stumbling-block to them.

et servierunt sculptilibus eorum, et factum est illis in scandalum.

sacrificing their sons and daughters in honour of devils.

And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

Et immolaverunt filios suos et filias suas dæmoniis.

Innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, was poured out in worship to the idols of Chanaan; with blood the whole land was polluted,

And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,

Et effuderunt sanguinem innocentem, sanguinem filiorum suorum et filiarum suarum, quas sacrificaverunt sculptilibus Chanaan. Et infecta est terra in sanguinibus,

so heinous the guilt of its people, so wanton their ways.

and was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.

et contaminata est in operibus eorum: et fornicati sunt in adinventionibus suis.

Then God’s anger blazed up against his people, his chosen race became abominable to him,

And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.

Et iratus est furore Dominus in populum suum, et abominatus est hæreditatem suam.

and he handed them over to the Gentiles; despised slaves,

And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.

Et tradidit eos in manus gentium; et dominati sunt eorum qui oderunt eos.

they were oppressed by their enemies, bowed down under the yoke.

And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands:

Et tribulaverunt eos inimici eorum, et humiliati sunt sub manibus eorum;

Again and again he brought them deliverance, but ever there were fresh shifts to provoke him, there was fresh guilt to drag them in the dust.

many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

sæpe liberavit eos. Ipsi autem exacerbaverunt eum in consilio suo, et humiliati sunt in iniquitatibus suis.

And still, when he saw their distress, when he heard their appeals to him,

And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.

Et vidit cum tribularentur, et audivit orationem eorum.

the thought him of his covenant availed them; in his great mercy he would relent;

And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Et memor fuit testamenti sui, et pœnituit eum secundum multitudinem misericordiæ suæ:

their very captors should be moved to pity.

And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives.

et dedit eos in misericordias, in conspectu omnium qui ceperant eos.

Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us again, scattered as we are among the heathen, to praise thy holy name, to triumph in thy renown.

Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.

Salvos nos fac, Domine Deus noster, et congrega nos de nationibus: ut confiteamur nomini sancto tuo, et gloriemur in laude tua.

Blessed be the God of Israel from all eternity to all eternity; let all the people cry, Amen, Alleluia.

Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.

Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël, a sæculo et usque in sæculum; et dicet omnis populus: Fiat, fiat.