Wednesday Sext

Question 1

Miserére mei, Deus, quóniam conculcávit me homo: * tota die impúgnans tribulávit me.

Answer 1

Have mercy on me, God, because, trample (with-culca = with-heel) me, man….all day impugne and tribulate me.

Question 2

Conculcavérunt me inimíci mei tota die: * quóniam multi bellántes advérsum me.

Answer 2

Trampling me, my enemies all day….for the multitude war against me.

Question 3

Ab altitúdine diéi timébo: * ego vero in te sperábo.

Answer 3

even at the altitude of day (high noon) I fear…I, in truth, hope in you

Question 4

In Deo laudábo sermónes meos, in Deo sperávi: * non timébo quid fáciat mihi caro.

Answer 4

By God, I will praise with my sermons (words) “In God I hope….I won’t fear what he can do to me…the carnal man

Question 5

Tota die verba mea exsecrabántur: * advérsum me omnes cogitatiónes eórum in malum.

Answer 5

All day, my words they exsecrate (loathe)…against me all their thoughts were of evil.

Question 6

Inhabitábunt et abscóndent: * ipsi calcáneum meum observábunt.

Answer 6

they inhabit and hide…they, my heel, observe.

Question 7

Sicut sustinuérunt ánimam meam, pro níhilo salvos fácies illos: * in ira pópulos confrínges.

Answer 7

as they sustain in waiting for my soul (to destroy it)…for nothing will save them….in your ire…the people you smash/break

Question 8

Deus, vitam meam annuntiávi tibi: * posuísti lácrimas meas in conspéctu tuo.

Answer 8

God, my life i have declared to you (annunciation)…you have posited my tears in your sight

Question 9

Sicut et in promissióne tua: * tunc converténtur inimíci mei retrórsum:

Answer 9

as also in your promise…..then turned around (convert) my enemies, backward

Question 10

In quacúmque die invocávero te: * ecce, cognóvi, quóniam Deus meus es.

Answer 10

In what day I call on you…behold, I know , who my God is

Question 11

In Deo laudábo verbum, in Dómino laudábo sermónem: * in Deo sperávi, non timébo quid fáciat mihi homo.

Answer 11

In God, I praise the word….in the Lord I praise his speech (word)…in God I hope, I’m not afraid what he can to to me, man.

Question 12

In me sunt, Deus, vota tua, * quæ reddam, laudatiónes tibi.

Answer 12

In me are, God, vow (vote) to you…which I render…praises to you.

Question 13

Quóniam eripuísti ánimam meam de morte, et pedes meos de lapsu: * ut pláceam coram Deo in lúmine vivéntium.

Answer 13

Because you ripped my soul from death, and my feet from lapsing…that I may placate the heart of God in the light of the living

wow! saved from death, now must console the heart of God

Question 14

Miserére mei, Deus, miserére mei: * quóniam in te confídit ánima mea.

Answer 14

have marcy on me, God, have mercy, because in you trust my soul

Question 15

Et in umbra alárum tuárum sperábo, * donec tránseat iníquitas.

Answer 15

And in the shadow of your wings will I hope, until transpires (transient…pass away) iniquity!

beautiful verse

Question 16

Clamábo ad Deum altíssimum: * Deum qui benefécit mihi.

Answer 16

I will cry to God the most High; God who does good to me

Question 17

Misit de cælo, et liberávit me: * dedit in oppróbrium conculcántes me.

Answer 17

He sent (missile) from heaven, and liberated me….he made them opprobrium who tread on me (with culca…heel)

Question 18

Misit Deus misericórdiam suam, et veritátem suam, * et erípuit ánimam meam de médio catulórum leónum: dormívi conturbátus.

Answer 18

God sent (missile) his mercy, and his truth, and ripped my soul from the midst of young (cat…cub) lions, I sleep with turbulence (b/c lions around me)

Question 19

Fílii hóminum dentes eórum arma et sagíttæ: * et lingua eórum gládius acútus.

Answer 19

Sons of men’s teeth are arms (weapons) and arrows….and their tongues sword (gladiator) sharpened

lies everywhere in the world wound souls

Question 20

Exaltáre super cælos, Deus, * et in omnem terram glória tua.

Answer 20

Exalted above heaven, is God….and in all the earth your glory

Question 21

Láqueum paravérunt pédibus meis: * et incurvavérunt ánimam meam.

Answer 21

A snare they paved (prepared) for my feet…and bowed down (curved) my soul

I have bent under the weight of temptations

Question 22

Fodérunt ante fáciem meam fóveam: * et incidérunt in eam.

Answer 22

They dug (like a pig for fodder)…before my face a pit (fovea of eye = hole) …and fell (incident) into it

Question 23

Parátum cor meum, Deus, parátum cor meum: * cantábo, et psalmum dicam.

Answer 23

Paritioned (ready, pared) is my heart, God, ready is my heart….i sing…and psalms I say.

Question 24

Exsúrge, glória mea, exsúrge, psaltérium et cíthara: * exsúrgam dilúculo.

Answer 24

Surge, my glory, surge, psalters and harps….surge early (at dawn…die-lucem = break of day light)

surge = arise

Question 25

Confitébor tibi in pópulis, Dómine: * et psalmum dicam tibi in géntibus:

Answer 25

I will praise you in the people, Lord, and psalms I say to you in the gentiles.

Question 26

Quóniam magnificáta est usque ad cælos misericórdia tua, * et usque ad nubes véritas tua.

Answer 26

For magnified unto the heavens is your mercy….and unto the clouds your truth

Question 27

Exaltáre super cælos, Deus: * et super omnem terram glória tua.

Answer 27

Be Exalted above the heavens, God, and over all earth your glory

Question 28

Si vere útique iustítiam loquímini: * recta iudicáte, fílii hóminum.

Answer 28

If truly justice you speak…rightly judge, you sons of men.

Question 29

Étenim in corde iniquitátes operámini: * in terra iniustítias manus vestræ concínnant.

Answer 29

Truly in heart iniquity you work….on earth, injustices your hands forge (concoct)

you think of evil…and then you do it

Question 30

Alienáti sunt peccatóres a vulva, erravérunt ab útero: * locúti sunt falsa.

Answer 30

Alienated those sinner from womb….errant from the womb….speaking (locuting) false things

Question 31

Furor illis secúndum similitúdinem serpéntis: * sicut áspidis surdæ, et obturántis aures suas,

Answer 31

Their fury (insanity) is according to the similarity to serpents….they are as the asp deaf…and obturate their ears…

deaf snake = not swayed by snake charmer (grace)…stuck as a snake

Question 32

Quæ non exáudiet vocem incantántium: * et venéfici incantántis sapiénter.

Answer 32

who won’t hear the voice of incanters (snake charmers)….nor the wizard (venom-face) that charms wisely.

Question 33

Deus cónteret dentes eórum in ore ipsórum: * molas leónum confrínget Dóminus.

Answer 33

God breaks their teeth in their mouth….the molars of the lion are crushed by the Lord*

the teeth are how beast destroy….God shatters the teeth!

Question 34

Ad níhilum devénient tamquam aqua decúrrens: * inténdit arcum suum donec infirméntur.

Answer 34

To nothing…they become as water currents….he bends (in-tents) their bow (arc) until its weakened

comparing evil to a brief sudden rain…makes their weapons unusable

Question 35

Sicut cera, quæ fluit, auferéntur: * supercécidit ignis, et non vidérunt solem.

Answer 35

like wax (cerumen)…which melts (fluid)….they are taken (off-rented)….superceded by fire…and they don’t see the sun.

Question 36

Priúsquam intellégerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum: * sicut vivéntes, sic in ira absórbet eos.

Answer 36

Prior to knowing your spines the thorn-bush…as alive, in ire he absorbs them

evil is utterly swallowed before it matures in to anything significant (example: Roman persecutions)

Question 37

Lætábitur iustus cum víderit vindíctam: * manus suas lavábit in sánguine peccatóris.

Answer 37

Rejoicing the just when seeing vindication….his hands washes in the blood of sinners.

we rejoice b/c we have been spared the punishment of sins

Question 38

Et dicet homo: Si útique est fructus iusto: * útique est Deus iúdicans eos in terra

Answer 38

and says the man: if surely there is fruit to the just….surely there is a God who judges them on earth.

Question 39

Cibávit illum pane vitæ et intelléctus, et aqua sapiéntiæ salutáris potávit illum Dóminus Deus noster.

Answer 39

With the bread of life and understanding, she shall feed him, and give him the water of wholesome wisdom to drink: and she shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved

part of capitulum

Question 40

Posuísti, Dómine, * Super caput eius.

Answer 40

posited, Lord, upon his head

Question 41

-i you verb
-o I verb
-runt they verb