Psalm 148 (Latin-English)

Psalmus
(Latin-English)

Psalmus - caput 148Psalm - chapter 148

1 Alleluja. Laudate Dominum de cælis; laudate eum in excelsis.

Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places.

2 Laudate eum, omnes angeli ejus; laudate eum, omnes virtutes ejus.

Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

3 Laudate eum, sol et luna; laudate eum, omnes stellæ et lumen.

Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light.

4 Laudate eum, cæli cælorum; et aquæ omnes quæ super cælos sunt,

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens

5 laudent nomen Domini. Quia ipse dixit, et facta sunt; ipse mandavit, et creata sunt.

Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created.

6 Statuit ea in æternum, et in sæculum sæculi; præceptum posuit, et non præteribit.

He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away.

7 Laudate Dominum de terra, dracones et omnes abyssi;

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps:

8 ignis, grando, nix, glacies, spiritus procellarum, quæ faciunt verbum ejus;

Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds which fulfill his word:

9 montes, et omnes colles; ligna fructifera, et omnes cedri;

Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars:

10 bestiæ, et universa pecora; serpentes, et volucres pennatæ;

Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls:

11 reges terræ et omnes populi, principes et omnes judices terræ;

Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the earth:

12 juvenes et virgines, senes cum junioribus laudent nomen Domini,

Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord:

13 quia exaltatum est nomen ejus solius.

For his name alone is exalted.

14 Confessio ejus super cælum et terram; et exaltavit cornu populi sui. Hymnus omnibus sanctis ejus; filiis Isræl, populo appropinquanti sibi. Alleluja.

The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints: to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia.

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About Vulgate

The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible that was to become the Catholic Church's officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible during the 16th century, and is still used fundamentally in the Latin Church to this day.

The translation was largely the work of Jerome, who in 382 had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Gospels then in use by the Roman Church. Jerome, on his own initiative, extended this work of revision and translation to include most of the books of the Bible and once published, the new version became widely adopted and over succeeding centuries eventually eclipsed the Vetus Latina, so that by the 13th century it had taken over from the former version the appellation of versio vulgata (the "version commonly used") or vulgata for short.

The Catholic Church affirmed the Vulgate as its official Latin Bible at the Council of Trent (1545–1563), though there was no authoritative edition at that time. The Clementine edition of the Vulgate of 1592 became the standard Bible text of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church and remained so until 1979 when the Nova Vulgata was promulgated.

Psalmus (Latin-English)

Psalmus
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