Saturday in the Eleventh Week
after the Octave of Pentecost

Matins
 

Matins

De libro quarto Regum

The Lesson is taken from
the fourth Book of Kings

Vigésimum et primum annum ætátis habébat Sedecías cum regnáre cœpísset, et úndecim annis regnávit in Jerúsalem.  Nomen matris ejus erat Amítal fília Jeremíæ de Lobna.  Et fecit malum coram Dómino, juxta ómnia quæ fécerat Jóakim ; irascebátur enim Dóminus contra Jerúsalem et contra Judam, donec projíceret eos a fácie sua ; recessítque Sedecías a rege Babylónis.  Factum est autem anno nono regni ejus, mense décimo décima die mensis, venit Nabuchodónosor rex Babylónis ipse et omnis exércitus ejus in Jerúsalem, et circumdedérunt eam et exstruxérunt in circúitu ejus munitiónes, et clausa est cívitas atque valláta usque ad undécimum annum regis Sedecíæ nona die mensis ; prævaluítque fames in civitáte, nec erat panis pópulo terræ.

Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.  For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.  And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.  And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.  And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Peccávi super númerum arénæ maris, et multiplicáta sunt peccáta mea : et non sum dignus vidére altitúdinem cæli præ multitúdine iniquitátis meæ : quóniam irritávi iram tuam, * Et malum coram te feci.
V.  Quóniam iniquitátem meam ego cognósco : et delíctum meum contra me est semper, quia tibi soli peccávi.
R.  Et malum coram te feci.

R.  I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea ; yea, I am not worthy to look up toward heaven because of the multitude of mine iniquities ; against thee only have I sinned ;  *   And done this evil in thy sight.
V.  I acknowledge my faults, and my sin is ever before me ; against thee only have I sinned.
R.  And done this evil in thy sight.

Et interrúpta est cívitas, et omnes viri bellatóres nocte fugérunt per viam portæ, quæ est inter dúplicem murum ad hortum regis.  Porro Chaldæi obsidébant in circúitu civitátem.  Fugit ítaque Sedecías per viam, quæ ducit ad campéstria solitúdinis.  Et persecútus est exércitus Chaldæórum regem, comprehendítque eum in planítie Jéricho ; et omnes bellatóres, qui erant cum eo, dispérsi sunt et reliquérunt eum.  Apprehénsum ergo regem duxérunt ad regem Babylónis in Réblatha, qui locútus est cum eo judícium.  Fílios autem Sedecíæ occídit coram eo et óculos ejus effódit vinxítque eum caténis, et addúxit in Babylónem.

And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.  And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.  So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.  And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Exaudísti, Dómine, oratiónem servi tui, ut ædificárem templum nómini tuo : * Bénedic et sanctífica domum istam in sempitérnum, Deus Israël.
V.  Dómine, qui custódis pactum cum servis tuis, qui ámbulant coram te in toto corde suo.
R.  Bénedic et sanctífica domum istam in sempitérnum, Deus Israël.

R.  O Lord, thou who hast had respect unto the prayer of thy servant, that he should build a temple to thy Name, *  O Lord the God of Israel, bless and sanctify this thy House for ever.
V.  O Lord, thou who keepest Covenant with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart.
R.  O Lord the God of Israel, bless and sanctify this thy House for ever.

In Feastdays of Simple rank and in the Office of St. Mary on the Sabbath :

V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Bénedic et sanctífica domum istam in sempitérnum, Deus Israël.

V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  O Lord the God of Israel, bless and sanctify this thy House for ever.

And on such Feastdays of Simple rank, the Third Lesson is read according to the Proper.  In the Office of St. Mary on the Sabbath, the Third Lesson is read according to the month of the year.

Proper Third Lesson

Office of St. Mary on the Sabbath

Mense quinto séptima die mensis, ipse est annus nonus décimus regis Babylónis, venit Nabuzárdan princeps exércitus servus regis Babylónis in Jerúsalem.  Et succéndit domum Dómini et domum regis et domos Jerúsalem, omnémque domum combússit igni.  Et muros Jerúsalem in circúitu destrúxit omnis exércitus Chaldæórum, qui erat cum príncipe mílitum.  Réliquam autem pópuli partem quæ remánserat in civitáte, et pérfugas qui transfúgerant ad regem Babylónis, et réliquum vulgus tránstulit Nabuzárdan princeps milítiæ et de paupéribus terræ relíquit vinitóres et agrícolas.  Colúmnas autem æreas quæ erant in templo Dómini, et bases, et mare æreum quod erat in domo Dómini, congregérunt Chaldæi et transtulérunt æs omne in Babylónem.

And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:  and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.  And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.  Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.  But the captain of the guard left of the door of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.  And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

V.  Tu autem, Dómine, miserére nobis.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Thanks be to God.

R.  Audi, Dómine, hymnum et oratiónem, quam servus tuus orat coram te hódie, ut sint óculi tui apérti, et aures tuæ inténtæ, * Super domum istam die ac nocte.
V.  Réspice, Dómine, de sanctuário tuo, et de excélso cælórum habitáculo.
R.  Super domum istam die ac nocte.
V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Super domum istam die ac nocte.

R.  Hearken unto the prayer, O Lord my God, which thy servant prayeth before thee today, that thine eyes may be open and thine ears attent * Toward this House day and night.
V.  Look down, O Lord, from thy holy place, and from thy dwelling place in the height of heaven.
R.  Toward this House day and night.
V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  Toward this House day and night.

The Office of Matins ends after the Third Respond.  The Te Deum is not said, and Lauds normally follows immediately, beginning with the Opening Versicles.  Otherwise, the Conclusion of Matins is read, according to the Rubrics.

Conclusion of Matins
 

After the conclusion of the First Nocturn, the Second Nocturn is begun according to the current weekday.

Second Nocturn