| Vers | English: Douay-Rheims | English: King James Version |
| 1 | A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. | I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. |
| 2 | Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God. | For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. |
| 3 | Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. | I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, |
| 4 | For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night, | Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. |
| 5 | things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. | And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. |
| 6 | In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither. | For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? |
| 7 | For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. | God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. |
| 8 | Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance. | O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? |
| 9 | For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered spider: | Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. |
| 10 | the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected. | Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. |
| 11 | Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear | The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. |
| 12 | can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom. | The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. |
| 13 | Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants. | Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. |
| 14 | We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days. | Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. |
| 15 | We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils. | Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. |
| 16 | Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children. | In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. |
| 17 | And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct. | For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. |
| 18 | For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. | |
| 19 | Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. | |
| 20 | I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: | |
| 21 | With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. | |
| 22 | The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. | |
| 23 | And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. | |
| 24 | But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. | |
| 25 | I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. | |
| 26 | He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. | |
| 27 | Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. | |
| 28 | My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. | |
| 29 | His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. | |
| 30 | If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; | |
| 31 | If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; | |
| 32 | Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. | |
| 33 | Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. | |
| 34 | My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. | |
| 35 | Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. | |
| 36 | His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. | |
| 37 | It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. | |
| 38 | But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. | |
| 39 | Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. | |
| 40 | Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. | |
| 41 | All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. | |
| 42 | Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. | |
| 43 | Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. | |
| 44 | Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. | |
| 45 | The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. | |
| 46 | How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? | |
| 47 | Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? | |
| 48 | What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. | |
| 49 | Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? | |
| 50 | Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; | |
| 51 | Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. | |
| 52 | Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. |