Psalmorum 115
1 NON NOBIS DOMINE, NON NOBIS: sed nomini tuo da gloriam.
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, because of your mercy and your truth;
2 Super misericordia tua, et veritate tua: nequando dicant Gentes: Ubi est Deus eorum?
lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?
3 Deus autem noster in caelo: omnia quaecumque voluit, fecit.
But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatever he has pleased.
4 Simulacra gentium argentum, et aurum, opera manuum hominum.
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.
5 Os habent, et non loquentur: oculos habent, et non videbunt.
They have a mouth, but they can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see:
6 Aures habent, et non audient: nares habent, et non odorabunt.
they have ears, but they can’t hear; they have noses, but they can’t smell;
7 Manus habent, et non palpabunt: pedes habent, et non ambulabunt: non clamabunt in gutture suo.
they have hands, but they can’t handle; they have feet, but they can’t walk: they can’t speak through their throat.
8 Similes illis fiant qui faciunt ea: et omnes qui confidunt in eis.
Let those that make them become like to them, and all who trust in them.
9 Domus Israel speravit in Domino: adiutor eorum et protector eorum est.
The house of Israel trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender.
10 Domus Aaron speravit in Domino: adiutor eorum et protector eorum est.
The house of Aaron trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender.
11 Qui timent Dominum, speraverunt in Domino: adiutor eorum et protector eorum est.
They that fear the Lord trust in the Lord: he is their helper and defender.
12 Dominus memor fuit nostri: et benedixit nobis: Benedixit domui Israel: benedixit domui Aaron.
The Lord has remembered us, and blessed us: he has blessed the house of Israel, he has blessed the house of Aaron.
13 Benedixit omnibus, qui timent Dominum, pusillis cum maioribus.
He has blessed them that fear the Lord, both small and great.
14 Adiiciat Dominus super vos: super vos, et super filios vestros.
The Lord add [blessings] to you and to your children.
15 Benedicti vos a Domino, qui fecit caelum, et terram.
Blessed are you of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.
16 Caelum caeli Domino: terram autem dedit filiis hominum.
The heaven of heavens [belongs] to the Lord: but he has given the earth to the sons of men.
17 Non mortui laudabunt te Domine: neque omnes, qui descendunt in infernum. (questioned)
The dead shall not praise you, O Lord, nor any that go down to Hades.
18 Sed nos qui vivimus, benedicimus Domino, ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum.
But we, the living, will bless the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
