< Psalmorum 115 >

1 NON NOBIS DOMINE, NON NOBIS: sed nomini tuo da gloriam.
Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy Name giue the glorie, for thy louing mercie and for thy truethes sake.
2 Super misericordia tua, et veritate tua: nequando dicant Gentes: Ubi est Deus eorum?
Wherefore shall the heathen say, Where is nowe their God?
3 Deus autem noster in cælo: omnia quæcumque voluit, fecit.
But our God is in heauen: he doeth what so euer he will.
4 Simulacra gentium argentum, et aurum, opera manuum hominum.
Their idoles are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens hands.
5 Os habent, et non loquentur: oculos habent, et non videbunt.
They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.
6 Aures habent, et non audient: nares habent, et non odorabunt.
They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smelll not.
7 Manus habent, et non palpabunt: pedes habent, et non ambulabunt: non clamabunt in gutture suo.
They haue handes and touche not: they haue feete and walke not: neither make they a sound with their throte.
8 Similes illis fiant qui faciunt ea: et omnes qui confidunt in eis.
They that make them are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.
9 Domus Israel speravit in Domino: adiutor eorum et protector eorum est.
O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: for he is their helpe and their shielde.
10 Domus Aaron speravit in Domino: adiutor eorum et protector eorum est.
O house of Aaron, trust ye in the Lord: for he is their helpe and their shielde.
11 Qui timent Dominum, speraverunt in Domino: adiutor eorum et protector eorum est.
Ye that feare the Lord, trust in the Lord: for he is their helper and their shield.
12 Dominus memor fuit nostri: et benedixit nobis: Benedixit domui Israel: benedixit domui Aaron.
The Lord hath bene mindfull of vs: he will blesse, he will blesse the house of Israel, he will blesse the house of Aaron.
13 Benedixit omnibus, qui timent Dominum, pusillis cum maioribus.
He will blesse them that feare the Lord, both small and great.
14 Adiiciat Dominus super vos: super vos, et super filios vestros.
The Lord will increase his graces towarde you, euen toward you and toward your children.
15 Benedicti vos a Domino, qui fecit cælum, et terram.
Ye are blessed of the Lord, which made the heauen and the earth.
16 Cælum cæli Domino: terram autem dedit filiis hominum.
The heauens, euen the heauens are the Lordes: but he hath giuen the earth to the sonnes of men.
17 Non mortui laudabunt te Domine: neque omnes, qui descendunt in infernum. (questioned)
The dead prayse not the Lord, neither any that goe downe into the place of silence.
18 Sed nos qui vivimus, benedicimus Domino, ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.
But we will prayse the Lord from henceforth and for euer. Prayse ye the Lord.

< Psalmorum 115 >