Day 2 : Morning Prayer

9 - Confitebor tibi

1  I will give thanks unto you, O Lord, with my whole heart; *
I will speak of all your marvelous works.
2  I will be glad and rejoice in you; *
indeed, my songs will I sing of your Name, O Most High.
3  When my enemies are driven back, *
they shall fall and perish at your presence;
4  For you have maintained my right and my cause; *
you sit on your throne judging right.
5  You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the ungodly; *
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6  As for the enemy, their destruction has come; they are
  in perpetual ruin; *
like the cities which you have destroyed, their memory 
has perished with them.
7  But the Lord sits enthroned for ever; *
he has prepared his seat for judgment.
8  For he shall judge the world in righteousness, *
and minister true judgment to the peoples.
9  The Lord will be a defense for the oppressed, *
even a refuge in the time of trouble;
10  And those who know your Name will put their trust in you, *
for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you.
11  O praise the Lord who dwells in Zion; *
tell the peoples what things he has done.
12  For when he takes vengeance for blood, he remembers them, *
and forgets not the cry of the poor.
13  Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider the trouble I suffer
  from those who hate me, *
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

14  That I may tell of all your praises within the gates
  of the daughter of Zion; *
I will rejoice in your salvation.
15  The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; *
in the same net which they hid secretly is their foot caught.
16  The Lord is known to execute judgment; *
the ungodly are trapped in the works of their own hands.
17  The wicked shall return to the grave, *
even all the peoples that forget God.
18  For the poor shall not always be forgotten; *
the patient hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.
19  Rise up, O Lord, and let them not have the upper hand; *
let the nations be judged in your sight.
20  Put them in fear, O Lord, *
that the nations may know themselves to be merely human.
