Peace and All Good
Psalm-XII
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Psalm X 1.Raise a shout of joy to the Lord every land ~ speak a psalm to His Name + give glory as His praise (Ps 65:1-2). 2. Say to God, how terrible are all Your works, Lord + in the multitude of Your virtue Your enemies will lie to You (Ps 65:3). 3. Let every land adore You and sing a psalm to You+ let it speak a psalm to Your Name (Ps 65:4). 4. Come, hear and I will tell, all you who fear the Lord + how great the Lord made My soul (Ps 65:16). 5. To Him with My mouth I shouted + and I exulted with My tongue (Ps 65:17 - Rom. Ps.). 6. And He listened from His holy temple to My voice + and My shout (was) in His sight (Ps 17:7c-d). 7. Bless Our Lord, you nations + and make (your) voice heard as His praise (Ps 65:8). 8. And blest in Him shall be all the tribes of the Earth + all nations shall magnify Him (Ps 71:17c-d). 9. Blest (be) the Lord God of Israel + who alone works great wonders (Ps 71:18 - Rom. Ps.). 10 And blest (be) the Name of His majesty forever + and with His majesty every land shall be filled, let it be, let it be. (Ps 71:19).
In making a thing our own we imbue it with something of our selves, perhaps we add to it something that was not there before, or even change it so that it is not like it was before. We might keep this in mind each time we try to determine the meaning of anothers words: In translating the Psalms of St. Francis differently from someone else, we risk divorcing ourselves completely from the times for which they were intended and understood. Hence, after what has proved a thought provoking exercise in producing my own translations of Francis Psalms I have returned, to my thoughts of a slightly modified version of the official English version. (Loaded by the Franciscan Archives)Francis composed Psalm X for Terce on Sundays and Principle feasts that is at 09.00. Francis composed his psalms in the 13th century using words borrowed from circa 1000Bc - 0 1 AD. I contemplate it in the 21st century. How can I, or any one of us determine, with any certainty that these words say anything more than what they do? Nevertheless consider this: - The Psalm is a song of praise, it begins "1.Raise a shout of joy to the Lord every land ~ speak a psalm to His Name + give glory as His praise (Ps 65:1-2)." and ends with "10 And blest (be) the Name of His majesty forever + and with His majesty every land shall be filled, let it be, let it be. (Ps 71:19)."
Consider this - As the praise of Jesus for His Father, this is a song of triumph from Christ to God fearers, that through His own death on the cross, God the Father has Kingship over the whole of Creation: through its verses, Jesus tells us how his Father made his soul great. How the Lord transformed the cry of abandonment from the cross into a cry of joy (v4, 5) "My work of redemption is finished! now every Nation is free to choose to sing songs of adoration to the Lord, to recite psalms to Gods Name; (v3). His let gives us the choice whether or not to praise the Lord, NB Christ issues the choice of salvation to us as Nations rather than as individuals. Jesus calls us to make our Nations Theocracies. You see it is impossible to meditate on the words of Holy Ones, or, indeed the Scriptures without imbuing it with something of our selves!
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