Psalm 91
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Clementine Vulgate (Psalm 90)
Latin text
- 1 Laus cantici David. Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei cæli commorabitur.
- 2 Dicet Domino : Susceptor meus es tu, et refugium meum ; Deus meus, sperabo in eum.
- 3 Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium, et a verbo aspero.
- 4 Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis.
- 5 Scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus : non timebis a timore nocturno ;
- 6 a sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incursu, et dæmonio meridiano.
- 7 Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis ; ad te autem non appropinquabit.
- 8 Verumtamen oculis tuis considerabis, et retributionem peccatorum videbis.
- 9 Quoniam tu es, Domine, spes mea ; Altissimum posuisti refugium tuum.
- 10 Non accedet ad te malum, et flagellum non appropinquabit tabernaculo tuo.
- 11 Quoniam angelis suis mandavit de te, ut custodiant te in omnibus viis tuis.
- 12 In manibus portabunt te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.
- 13 Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis, et conculcabis leonem et draconem.
- 14 Quoniam in me speravit, liberabo eum ; protegam eum, quoniam cognovit nomen meum.
- 15 Clamabit ad me, et ego exaudiam eum ; cum ipso sum in tribulatione : eripiam eum, et glorificabo eum.
- 16 Longitudine dierum replebo eum, et ostendam illi salutare meum.
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Church of England 1662 Book of Common Prayer
English text
- 1 Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High : shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
- 2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold : my God, in him will I trust.
- 3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter : and from the noisome pestilence.
- 4 He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers : his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
- 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night : nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
- 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness : nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day.
- 7 A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand : but it shall not come nigh thee.
- 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold : and see the reward of the ungodly.
- 9 For thou, Lord, art my hope : thou hast set thine house of defence very high.
- 10 There shall no evil happen unto thee : neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
- 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee : to keep thee in all thy ways.
- 12 They shall bear thee in their hands : that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.
- 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder : the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.
- 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him up, because he hath known my Name.
- 15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him : yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.
- 16 With long life will I satisfy him : and shew him my salvation.
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Isaac Watts
English text
- 1.He that hath made his refuge God
- Shall find a most secure abode,
- Shall walk all day beneath his shade,
- And there at night shall rest his head.
- 2. Then will I say, My God, thy power
- Shall be my fortress and my tower;
- I, that am formed of feeble dust,
- Make thine almighty arm my trust.
- 3. Thrice happy man! thy Maker's care
- Shall keep thee from the fowler's snare;
- Satan, the fowler, who betrays
- Unguarded souls a thousand ways.
- 4. Just as a hen protects her brood
- From birds of prey that seek their blood,
- Under her feathers, so the Lord
- Makes his own arm his people's guard.
- 5. If burning beams of noon conspire
- To dart a pestilential fire,
- God is their life; his wings are spread
- To shield them with a healthful shade.
- 6. If vapors with malignant breath
- Rise thick, and scatter midnight death,
- Israel is safe; the poisoned air
- Grows pure, if Israel's God be there.
- 7. What though a thousand at thy side,
- At thy right hand ten thousand died,
- Thy God his chosen people saves
- Amongst the dead, amidst the graves.
- 8. So when he sent his angel down
- To make his wrath in Egypt known,
- And slew their sons, his careful eye
- Passed all the doors of Jacob by.
- 9. But if the fire, or plague, or sword,
- Receive commission from the Lord
- To strike his saints among the rest,
- Their very pains and deaths are blest.
- 10. The sword, the pestilence, or fire,
- Shall but fulfil their best desire;
- From sins and sorrows set them free,
- And bring thy children, Lord, to thee.
