
Day XIV : Morning Prayer

71 - In te, Domine, speravi

1   In you, O Lord, have I put my trust; 🞙
    let me never be put to shame. 

2   Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness; 🞙
    incline your ear to me and save me.

3   Be my rock and my refuge, where I may always return; 🞙
    you have promised to help me, for you are my stronghold and my fortress.

4   Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly, 🞙
    out of the hand of the unrighteous and the cruel.

5   For you, O Lord God, are the one I long for; 🞙
    you are my hope, even from my youth.

6   Through you have I been upheld ever since I was born; 🞙
    you took me out of my mother’s womb; my praise shall be always of you.

7   I have become a portent to many; 🞙
    but you are my refuge and my strength.

8   O let my mouth be filled with your praise, 🞙
    that I may sing of your glory all the day long.

9   Cast me not away in the time of old age; 🞙
    forsake me not when my strength fails me.

10  For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together. 🞙
    They say, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”

11  Go not far from me, O God; 🞙
    my God, make haste to help me.

12  Let those who are my adversaries be confounded and perish; 🞙
    let those who seek to do me evil be covered with shame and dishonor.

13  As for me, I will always patiently abide, 🞙
    and will praise you more and more.

14  My mouth shall speak daily of your righteousness and salvation, 🞙
    for I know not the end of them.

15  I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God, 🞙
    and will make mention of your righteousness, yours alone.

16  You, O God, have taught me from my youth; 🞙
    even to this day I am telling of your wondrous works. 

17  Forsake me not, O God, in my old age, when I am gray-headed, 🞙
    until I have proclaimed your strength to this generation, and your power to all those who are yet to come.

18  Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; 🞙
    you have done great things. Who is like you, O God?

19  Oh, what great troubles and adversities you have shown me!  And yet you have turned and refreshed me; 🞙
    indeed, you have brought me again from the depths of the earth.

20  You have brought me to great honor 🞙
    and comforted me on every side;

21  Therefore will I praise you and your faithfulness, O God, playing on a stringed instrument; 🞙
    to you will I sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

22  My lips will rejoice when I sing to you, 🞙
    and so will my soul, which you have delivered.

23  My tongue also shall speak of your righteousness all the day long, 🞙
    for they are confounded and brought to shame who seek to do me evil.
