Praying the Psalter

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• Mid-hour of the 6th Hour

This reading ends with v. 17, "He divided the rock in the wilderness, and gave them to drink as in a great deep."

This reading begins with v. 18, "He led forth water out of the rock, and brought down waters like rivers." It ends with v. 34, "And He slew their stout ones, and shackled the choice men of Israel."

This reading begins with v. 35, "In all these things they sinned the more, and believed not in His wonders." It ends with v. 49, "He had sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it destroyed them."

This reading begins with v. 50, "And He had given to the cankerworm their fruits, and their labours to the locust." It ends with v. 62, "And they turned back and brake covenant, even as their fathers did; they became like unto a crooked bow."

This reading begins with v. 63, "And they provoked Him to wrath among their hills, and with their graven images they moved Him to jealousy." Read to the end of the psalm.

This reading ends with v. 17, "For from the Lord is our defence, yea, from the Holy One of Israel, our King."

This reading begins with v. 18, "At that time Thou spakest in a vision to Thy sons, and Thou didst say: I have bestowed help on one that is mighty, I have raised up one chosen out of My people." It ends with v. 35, "And His throne shall be as the sun before Me, and as the moon that is established for ever, and is a faithful witness in the sky."

This reading begins with v. 36, "But Thou hast cast off and brought to nought, Thou hast been wroth with Thine anointed." Read to the end of the psalm.

The psalm ends with v. 16, "For He shattered the gates of brass, and brake the bars of iron."

This reading begins with v. 17, "He helped them out of the way of their lawlessness; for on account of their iniquities had they been brought low." It ends with v. 31, "[And they were glad, because they were quiet, and He guided them to the haven of His will.] Let them give thanks unto the Lord for His mercies, and for His wondrous works for the sons of men."

This reading begins with v. 32, "Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people, and in the seat of the elders let them praise Him." Read to the end of the Psalm.

This reading ends with v. 12, "The Lord shall give speech with great power to them that bring good tidings."

The beginning verses of this Psalm is sung all through Pascha and the forty days following Pascha as a clear prophecy fulfilled in the Resurrection of Christ.

This reading begins with v. 13, "He that is the King of the hosts of His beloved one shall divide the spoils for the beauty of the house." It ends with v. 27, "In congregations bless ye God, the Lord from the wellsprings of Israel."

The beginning verses of this Psalm is sung all through Pascha and the forty days following Pascha as a clear prophecy fulfilled in the Resurrection of Christ.

This reading begins with v. 28, "Yonder is Benjamin the younger in rapture, the princes of Judah their rulers, the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthalim." Read to the end of the psalm.

The beginning verses of this Psalm is sung all through Pascha and the forty days following Pascha as a clear prophecy fulfilled in the Resurrection of Christ.

This reading ends with v. 14, "And I made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them."

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• Holy Friday Royal Hours 9th Hour

This reading begins with v. 15, "And they prated against me, they that sit in the gates; and they made a song about me, they that drink wine." It ends with v. 26, "And they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."

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• Holy Friday Royal Hours 9th Hour

This reading begins with v. 27, "Let their table before them be for a snare, for a recompense and for a stumbling-block."  Read to the end of the psalm.

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• Holy Friday Royal Hours 9th Hour

This reading ends with v. 15, "Saying: Touch not Mine anointed ones, and to My prophets do no evil."

This reading begins with v. 16, "And He called a famine upon the land, He brake all the staff of bread." It ends with v. 34, "And devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured all the fruit of their land."

This reading begins with v. 35, "And He smote every firstborn of their land, the firstlings of all their labour." Read to the end of the psalm.

This reading ends with v. 14, "That I may declare all Thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. We will rejoice in Thy salvation."

This reading begins with v. 15, "The heathen are ensnared in the destruction which they have wrought; in this snare which they hid hath their foot been caught." It ends with v. 27, "With cursing is his mouth filled, and with bitterness and deceit; under his tongue are toil and travail."

This reading begins with v. 28, "He sitteth in ambush with the rich in secret places, that he may slay the innocent; his eyes are set upon the poor man." Read to the end of the psalm.

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• Great Compline

Psalm 145 is also read at:

• Typika

The heading of this Psalm reads in the LXX: "This Psalm Is One Written By David's Own Hand, Though It Is Not Numbered With The One Hundred and Fifty Psalms. Composed When He Fought In Single Combat With Goliath."

Psalm 66 is also read at:

• Nativity Royal Hours 3rd Hour

Psalm 53 is also read at:

• 6th Hour
• Holy Friday Royal Hours 6th Hour

This reading ends with v. 16, "For the Lord shall build up Sion, and He shall be seen in His glory."
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• Great Compline

This reading begins with v. 17, "He hat regarded the prayer of the humble, and hath not despised their supplication."  Read to the end of the psalm.

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• Great Compline

This reading ends with v. 16, "And He gave them their request, and sent forth fulness into their souls."

This reading begins with v. 17, "And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord." It ends with v. 31, "And it was counted unto him for righteousness, unto generation and generation for evermore."

This reading begins with v. 32, "And they provoked Him at the water of gainsaying, and Moses suffered hurt for their sakes; for they embittered his spirit, and he gave judgment with his lips." Read to the end of the psalm.

Psalm 2 is also read at:

• Holy Friday Royal Hours 1st Hour

Psalm 86 is also read at:

• Nativity Royal Hours 3rd Hour

Also read at:

• Mid-hour of the 9th Hour

This reads ends with v. 19, "This is the dealing of the Lord with them that slander me, and with them that speak evil things against my soul."
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• Holy Friday Royal Hours 3rd Hour

This reads begins with v. 20, "But Thou, O Lord, O Lord, deal Thou with me for Thy Name's sake; for Thy mercy is good."  Read to the end of the psalm.

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• Holy Friday Royal Hours 3rd Hour

Psalm 109 is also read at:

• Nativity Royal Hours 9th Hour

This readings ends with v. 16, "The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength, the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me, the right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength."
"God is the Lord" during Orthros is taken from this Psalm.

This readings begins with v. 17, "I shall not die, but live, and I shall tell of the works of the Lord." Read to the end of the psalm.

"God is the Lord" during Orthros is taken from this Psalm.

Also read at:

• Mid-hour of the 9th Hour

Also read at:

• Mid-hour of the 3rd Hour

This reading ends with v. 7, "Lo, this is the man that made not God his helper, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his vanity."

This reading begins with v. 8, "But as for me, I am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of the Lord; I have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, and unto the ages of ages." Read to the end of the psalm.