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Thursday · The ninth hour, 3 p.m.

The ninth hour: the hour of Christ’s death, remembered in the midst of the afternoon.

Psalmody

Psalm 74

Ant. We will call upon thy name O Lord. We will relate thy wondrous works.

We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name.

We will relate thy wondrous works: when I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: for God is the judge.

One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up: for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture.

And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.

And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.

Psalm 75 (2–7)

In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.

And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion:

There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle.

Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills. All the foolish of heart were troubled.

They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

Psalm 75 (8–13)

Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still,

When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.

For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents.

To him that is terrible, even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.

Hymn

O strength and stay upholding all creation,Who ever dost thyself unmoved abide,Yet day by day the light in due gradationFrom hour to hour through all its changes guide:

Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,An eve untouched by shadows of decay,The brightness of a holy death-bed blendingWith dawning glories of th’ eternal day.

Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,And thou, O Christ, the co-eternal Word,Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things livingNow and to endless ages art adored.

Amen.

Short responsory

R.br. Redeem me, O Lord, and have mercy on me.

R. Redeem me, O Lord, and have mercy on me.

V. For my feet stood in the right way.

R. And have mercy on me.

R. Redeem me, O Lord, and have mercy on me.

Roman Breviary, 1962: the ferial and Sunday psalter and the fixed hymns and responsories (Divinum Officium). The propers of the season and of the saints, the readings and the prayers are not yet in the library.