Preces Quotidianae
Evening Prayers
The heading introduces the collection of evening prayers.
Evening Prayers.1
Psalm 134:3 – Lift Up Your Hands
A call to bless the Lord in the sanctuary during the night, drawn from Psalm 134:3.
Psalm 134.2 3. In the nights, lift up your hands in3 the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
Psalm 55:17 – Prayer at All Times
A promise to pray evening, morning, and noon, trusting the Lord to hear, from Psalm 55:17.
55.4 17.✦ I will pray morning, noon, and night—and I'll do it earnestly—and You, Lord, will hear my voice.✦
Psalm 42:9 – Mercy by Day, Song by Night
The Lord's mercy by day inspires night-time praise and prayer to the God of life, from Psalm 42:9.
xli. 10. By day the Lord has appointed his mercy; therefore at night I was singing his praises within me, and my prayer is to the God of my life.✦5
Psalm 141:2 – Incense and Evening Sacrifice
A prayer that one's prayer rise like incense and hands like the evening sacrifice, from Psalm 141:2.
CXLI. 2. Let my prayer rise like incense before You; and the lifting of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.6
Blessing for Day and Night
A blessing acknowledging God as creator of day and night, who gives rest to the weary and renews the faint.
Blessed are You, Lord, who created the succession of day and night, and give rest to the weary. and You renew the strength of the one who is faint.
Job 35:10 – Songs in the Night
An appeal to God who gives songs in the night, from Job 35:10.
Psalm 65:8 – Dawn and Evening Praise
God makes the dawn and evening to praise Him, from Psalm 65:8.
Psalm 65. 8.✦ And you make the outgoings of the dawn✦8 and let the evenings praise You.
Psalm 91:5-6 – Deliverance from Day and Night
A prayer of deliverance from the arrow by day, assault, and the noonday demon, from Psalm 91:5-6.
Psalm 90:5.9 You who have delivered us from the arrow that flies by day, from the assault,✦ and from the noonday demon.
Isaiah 38:12 – Life Not Cut Off
Acknowledging God who has not cut off life like a weaver, preserving from morning to evening, from Isaiah 38:12.
15. 38. 14.✦ You who have not cut off, as a weaver,10 our life, and from morning until evening you have not taken us away.11
Confession of Daily Sin
A confession that day upon day, sins are heaped upon sins.
Lord, as day upon day,12 We heap sins upon sins.
Read the original Latin
VESPERTINZE PRECES.
Psal. exxxiv. 3. IN. noctibus extollite manus vestras in
sanctuario, et benedicite Domino.
lv. 17. — Vespere, mane, et meridie, orabo, idque instanter, et Tu, Domine, exaudies vocem meam.
xli. 10. In die mandavit Dominus misericordiam suam, ideo nocte apud me cantabam laudes Ejus, et oratio mea ad Deum vitz: me:ze.
cxli. 2. — Dirigatur oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu Tuo; e t elevatio manuum mearum, sicut sacrificium vespertinum.
Benedictus Tu, Domine, Qui creasti vices diei, et noctis, et das lassis requiem,
et languenti virtutem renovas.
Job. xxxv. Qui das carmina de nocte,
Psal. lxv. 8. Et facis ut exitus aurorz
et vesperis laudent Te. ποῖ 5. Qui liberasti nos a sagitta volante interdiu, ab incursu,
et a demone meridiano.
15. xxxviii. 14. Qui non przcidisti, quasi textor,
vitam nostram, et de mane usque vesperam non abstulisti nos. Domine, sicut dies super dies,
peccata super peccata adjicimus.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.55.17 — I cry out to God, and the LORD saves me.
- ↩Ps.55.17 — I cry out to God, and the LORD saves me.
- ↩Ps.42.9 — By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me — a prayer to the God of my life.
- ↩Job.35.10 — And no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,'
- ↩Ps.65.8 — You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.
- ↩Ps.65.8 — You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.
- ↩Ps.91.5-Ps.91.6 — You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, Ps.91.6 — Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that ravages at midday.
- ↩Isa.38.12 — My dwelling is removed and folded up from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; he cuts me off from the loom. From day to night you bring me to an end.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reads VESPERTINZE; translated as intended VESPERTINAE (evening), agreeing with PRECES.
- 2 ↩Source reads "exxxiv."; treated as OCR/print corruption of Roman CXXXIV (134). Confirm against the printed witness.
- 3 ↩Sentence is mid-verse; next section completes with "the sanctuary, and bless the Lord."
- 4 ↩Latin 'lv.' is a Roman-numeral psalm reference (55), not a lexical item; rendered as modern Arabic 55 to match the citation pattern of this office.
- 5 ↩Trailing corrupt reading 'vitz: me:ze' treated as 'vitae meae' ('of my life'), the expected psalm close in this sequence.
- 6 ↩Source reading 'e t' treated as corrupt spacing for 'et'.
- 7 ↩Latin uses second-person das ('you give'), adapting the Job citation into direct prayer address rather than third-person narration.
- 8 ↩Source reads 'aurorz'; treated as corrupt for 'aurorae' (of the dawn/morning), continued by the next section's 'et vesperis laudent Te'.
- 9 ↩Source reading «ποῖ 5.» is corrupt (likely OCR/type garble of a psalm citation). Rendered as Psalm 90:5 (Vulgate numbering) because the following petition adapts Psalm 90:5–6 material; confirmation belongs to source review.
- 10 ↩Source 'przcidisti' treated as corrupt for 'praecidisti' (you have cut off/cut short).
- 11 ↩Continues the relative clause begun in the previous section (Qui non praecidisti, quasi textor…): vitam nostram is the object of that earlier verb; the et-clause is coordinate thanksgiving that God has not removed us.
- 12 ↩Clause left open by sectioning; the following section completes the thought with peccata super peccata adjicimus (we add sins upon sins).
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