< 詩篇 148 >
1 主をほめたたえよ。もろもろの天から主をほめたたえよ。もろもろの高き所で主をほめたたえよ。
Alleluia, [a Psalm] of Aggaeus and Zacharias. Praise you the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the highest.
2 その天使よ、みな主をほめたたえよ。その万軍よ、みな主をほめたたえよ。
Praise you him, all his angels: praise you him, all his hosts.
3 日よ、月よ、主をほめたたえよ。輝く星よ、みな主をほめたたえよ。
Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you stars and light.
4 いと高き天よ、天の上にある水よ、主をほめたたえよ。
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens.
5 これらのものに主のみ名をほめたたえさせよ、これらは主が命じられると造られたからである。
Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.
6 主はこれらをとこしえに堅く定め、越えることのできないその境を定められた。
He has established them for ever, even for ever and ever: he has made an ordinance, and it shall not pass away.
7 海の獣よ、すべての淵よ、地から主をほめたたえよ。
Praise the Lord from the earth, you serpents, and all deeps.
8 火よ、あられよ、雪よ、霜よ、み言葉を行うあらしよ、
Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy wind; the things that perform his word.
9 もろもろの山、すべての丘、実を結ぶ木、すべての香柏よ、
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
10 野の獣、すべての家畜、這うもの、翼ある鳥よ、
wild beasts, and all cattle; reptiles, and winged birds:
11 地の王たち、すべての民、君たち、地のすべてのつかさよ、
kings of the earth, and all peoples; princes, and all judges of the earth:
young men and virgins, old men with youths:
13 彼らをして主のみ名をほめたたえさせよ。そのみ名は高く、たぐいなく、その栄光は地と天の上にあるからである。
let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is exalted; his praise is above the earth and heaven,
14 主はその民のために一つの角をあげられた。これはすべての聖徒のほめたたえるもの、主に近いイスラエルの人々のほめたたえるものである。主をほめたたえよ。
and he shall exalt the horn of his people, [there is] a hymn for all his saints, [even] of the children of Israel, a people who draw near to him.