saints.

82:5. They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not
a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

82:6. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a
covenant together against thee,

82:7. The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and
the Agarens,

82:8. Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants
of Tyre.

82:9. Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to
the aid of the sons of Lot.

82:10. Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at
the brook of Cisson.

82:11. Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

82:12. Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana.
All their princes,

82:13. Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an
inheritance.

82:14. O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

82:15. As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

82:16. So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble
them in thy wrath.

82:17. Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O
Lord.

82:18. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them
be confounded and perish.

82:19. And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the
most High over all the earth.

Psalms Chapter 83

Quam dilecta.

The soul aspireth after heaven; rejoicing in the mean time, in being in
the communion of God's church upon earth.

83:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core.

83:2. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

83:3. my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart
and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

83:4. For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest
for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of
hosts, my king and my God.

83:5. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall
praise thee for ever and ever.

83:6. Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath
disposed to ascend by steps,

In his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, etc... Ascensiones in
corde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascended to the temple of God
situated on a hill; so the good Christian ascends towards the eternal
temple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart:
and this whilst he lives as yet in