108:21. But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me, 108:22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. 108:23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts. 108:24. My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil. For oil. . .Propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being perfectly emaciated and dried up, as having lost all its oil or fatness. 108:25. And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads. 108:26. Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy. 108:27. And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it. 108:28. They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. 108:29. Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak. 108:30. I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him. 108:31. Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors. Psalms Chapter 109 Dixit Dominus. Christ's exaltation and everlasting priesthood. 109:1. A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. 109:2. The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies. 109:3. With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee. 109:4. The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech. 109:5. The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath. 109:6. He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many. 109:7. He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head. Psalms Chapter 110 Confitebor tibi, Domine. God is to be praised for his graces, and benefits to his church. Alleluia. 110:1. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just, and in the congregation. 110:2. Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his wills. 110:3. His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth for ever and ever. 110:4. He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord: 110:5. He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant: 110:6. He will shew forth to his people the power of his works. 110:7. That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works of his hands are truth and judgment. 110:8. All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever, made in truth and equity.