WEEK 19 - TUESDAY Daytime Prayer Psalter, Tuesday Week III
II It was you who divided the sea by your might, who shattered the heads of the monsters in the sea. It was you who crushed Leviathan's heads and gave him as food to the untamed beasts. It was you opened springs and torrents; it was you who dried up ever-flowing rivers. Yours is the day and yours is the night. It was you who appointed the light and the sun; it was you who fixed the bounds of the earth: you who made both summer and winter. Remember this, Lord, and see the enemy scoffing; a senseless people insults your name. Do not give Israel, your dove, to the hawk nor forget the life of your poor ones for ever. Remember your covenant; every cave in the land is a place where violence makes its home. Do not let the oppressed return disappointed; let the poor and the needy bless your name. Arise, O God, and defend your cause! Remember how the senseless revile you all the day. Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the daily increasing uproar of your foes. Glory... Psalm Prayer: Lord, our faithful God, you permitted the temple of the old covenant to be destroyed and your people to be persecuted by unbelievers. Do not forget the new covenant sealed with the blood of your Son. Make the Church your spiritual house and make us living stones built upon Christ so that a full and true temple may be founded at last. Antiphon: Rise up, Lord, defend your cause.
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