Psalmorum 148
1 Alleluia. Laudate Dominum de caelis: laudate eum in excelsis.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heauen: prayse ye him in the high places.
2 Laudate eum omnes angeli eius: laudate eum omnes virtutes eius.
Prayse ye him, all ye his Angels: praise him, all his armie.
3 Laudate eum sol et luna: laudate eum omnes stellae, et lumen.
Prayse ye him, sunne and moone: prayse ye him all bright starres.
4 Laudate eum caeli caelorum: et aquae omnes, quae super caelos sunt,
Prayse ye him, heauens of heauens, and waters, that be aboue the heauens.
5 laudent nomen Domini. Quia ipse dixit, et facta sunt: ipse mandavit, et creata sunt.
Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
6 Statuit ea in aeternum, et in saeculum saeculi: praeceptum posuit, et non praeteribit.
And he hath established them for euer and euer: he hath made an ordinance, which shall not passe.
7 Laudate Dominum de terra, dracones, et omnes abyssi.
Prayse ye the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all depths:
8 Ignis, grando, nix, glacies, spiritus procellarum: quae faciunt verbum eius:
Fire and hayle, snowe and vapours, stormie winde, which execute his worde:
9 Montes, et omnes colles: ligna fructifera, et omnes cedri.
Mountaines and all hils, fruitfull trees and all ceders:
10 Bestiae, et universa pecora: serpentes, et volucres pennatae:
Beasts and all cattell, creeping things and fethered foules:
11 Reges terrae, et omnes populi: principes, et omnes iudices terrae.
Kings of the earth and all people, princes and all iudges of the worlde:
12 Iuvenes, et virgines: senes cum iunioribus laudent nomen Domini:
Yong men and maidens, also olde men and children:
13 quia exaltatum est nomen eius solius.
Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for his Name onely is to be exalted, and his prayse aboue the earth and the heauens.
14 Confessio eius super caelum, et terram: et exaltavit cornu populi sui. Hymnus omnibus sanctis eius: filiis Israel, populo appropinquanti sibi. Alleluia.
For he hath exalted the horne of his people, which is a prayse for all his Saintes, euen for the children of Israel, a people that is neere vnto him. Prayse ye the Lord.
