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Bless the Lord, My Soul
A call to bless the Lord for His forgiveness, healing, redemption, and renewal.
Psalm 102. 1.1 Bless the Lord, my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name.✦2 [unclear: cxui.]3 2. Bless the Lord, my soul, and don't forget His benefits.✦45 3. who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases. 4. who redeems your life from destruction and crowns you with mercy and compassion. 5. Who fills your desire with good things, and your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
From Mourning to Gladness
A prayer of thanksgiving for God turning mourning into joy and the resolve to praise Him forever.
[Source unintelligible]6 12. You have turned my mourning into joy; You have torn my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.7 13. That I may sing Your glory, and not be pierced with sorrow,8 Lord, my God, I will praise You forever.9
God's Unfailing Comfort
A meditation on God's deliverance from troubles and a doxology blessing the Lord for His wonders.
71. 18. You've shown me many troubles—hard and numerous. And when You turned back, You gave me life, bringing me up again from the depths of the earth.10 19. You have multiplied Your great works, and, turning back, You have comforted me.11 21. My lips will rejoice when I sing to You, and my soul, which You have redeemed. 22. And my tongue will also meditate on Your righteousness all day long.12 My God, who is like You? Psalm 71:18.✦13 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who✦ has done wonders alone, and blessed be the name✦
Read the original Latin
Psal. cii. 1l. — Benedie, anima mea, Domino, et omnia qui intra me sunt Nomini sancto Ejus. cxui. 2. Benedie, anima mea, Domino, et noli oblivisci retributiones Ejus.
3. Qui propitiatur omnibus iniquitatibus tuis, qui sanat omnes infirmitates tuas.
4. Qui redemit de interitu vitam tuam, qui coronat te misericordia et miserationibus.
5. Qui replet in bonis desiderium tuum, et renovatur, ut aquila, juventus tua.
xxx. 12. Convertisti planctum meum in gaudium: conscidisti saceum meum, et circumdedisti me letitia.
13. Ut cantem gloriam Tuam, et non compungar,
Domine, Deus meus, in seternum confitebor Tibi.
lxxi. 18. Quantas ostendisti mihi tribulationes multas et malas. Et conversus vivificasti me, et de abysso terre iterum reduxisti me.
19. Multiplicasti magnificentias "Tuas, et conversus consolatus es me.
21. Exsultabunt labia mea, cum cantavero Tibi, et anima mea, quam redemisti.
22. Sed et lingua mea tota die meditabitur justitiam "Tuam. Deus meus, quis similis est Tibi?
Ixxi, 18. Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, qui
fecit mirabilia solus, et benedictum nomen
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.103.1;Ps.104.1 — Of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Ps.104.1 — Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.
- ↩Ps.103.2;Ps.104.2 — Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps.104.2 — You wrap yourself in light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent curtain.
- ↩Ps.72.18 — Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone works wonders.
- ↩Ps.72.18 — Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone works wonders.
- ↩Ps.72.18-Ps.72.19 — Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone works wonders. Ps.72.19 — And blessed be the name of his glory forever, and may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads '1l.'; treated as verse number 1 (likely OCR/typesetting corruption of '1.').
- 2 ↩Source 'Benedie' read as 'Benedic' (imperative); 'omnia qui' taken as 'omnia quae' (neuter relative agreeing with omnia).
- 3 ↩Latin 'cxui.' does not yield a coherent reading in context (between Ps 102:1 and the verse-2 marker). Possibly a leaked page number, signature, or OCR debris; left marked rather than silently invented.
- 4 ↩'retributiones' here is the Vulgate psalm term for God's repayments/benefits (Hebrew gemul), not punitive retribution; rendered 'benefits'.
- 5 ↩Source 'Benedie' read as 'Benedic' (imperative), matching the psalm form.
- 6 ↩Supplied Latin is the placeholder 'xxx.' with no recoverable sense; no translation invented.
- 7 ↩Reading saceum as saccum (sackcloth) and letitia as laetitia (gladness), the standard Vulgate forms of this psalm verse.
- 8 ↩compungar is the passive of compungo (to prick/pierce). In this psalm thanksgiving setting it means being stricken again with grief or remorse, not the later technical sense of holy compunction as a grace.
- 9 ↩Latin seternum is treated as a corruption of aeternum (in aeternum, 'forever'); that is the only sense that fits the grammar and the psalm line continued from the previous section.
- 10 ↩conversus is rendered as God turning back in mercy (not the speaker's conversion); vivificasti as restoring life.
- 11 ↩Source has a stray quotation mark before Tuas (magnificentias "Tuas); translated as magnificentias Tuas.
- 12 ↩Source has an orphaned quotation mark before Tuam (justitiam "Tuam.); translated as justitiam Tuam.
- 13 ↩Source reads 'Ixxi, 18.'; most plausible intended reading is Vulgate Psalm 71:18 (Roman numeral Lxxi misread or corrupted as Ixxi), confirmed by the following line and the next section's continuation ('fecit mirabilia solus').
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