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114 Alleluja. Dilexi, quoniam exaudiet Dominus vocem orationis meae.

Quia inclinavit aurem suam mihi, et in diebus meis invocabo.

Circumdederunt me dolores mortis; et pericula inferni invenerunt me. Tribulationem et dolorem inveni,

et nomen Domini invocavi: o Domine, libera animam meam.

Misericors Dominus et justus, et Deus noster miseretur.

Custodiens parvulos Dominus; humiliatus sum, et liberavit me.

Convertere, anima mea, in requiem tuam, quia Dominus benefecit tibi:

quia eripuit animam meam de morte, oculos meos a lacrimis, pedes meos a lapsu.

Placebo Domino in regione vivorum.

Psalm 114

When Israel came out of Egypt,(A)
    Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Judah(B) became God’s sanctuary,(C)
    Israel his dominion.

The sea looked and fled,(D)
    the Jordan turned back;(E)
the mountains leaped(F) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?(G)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

Tremble, earth,(H) at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool,
    the hard rock into springs of water.(I)