Vulgate><Knox Bible><Douay-Rheims
Alleluja.
(Alleluia.)
Alleluia.
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Laudate, pueri, Dominum; laudate nomen Domini.
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Praise the Lord, you that are his servants, praise the name of the Lord together.
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Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.
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Sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.
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Blessed be the Lord’s name at all times, from this day to all eternity;
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Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.
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A solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini.
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from the sun’s rise to the sun’s setting let the Lord’s name be praised continually.
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From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.
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Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus, et super cælos gloria ejus.
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The Lord is sovereign king of all the nations; his glory is high above the heavens.
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The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.
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Quis sicut Dominus Deus noster, qui in altis habitat,
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Who is like the Lord our God, so high above us,
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Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:
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et humilia respicit in cælo et in terra?
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that stoops to regard both heaven and earth,
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and looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?
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Suscitans a terra inopem, et de stercore erigens pauperem:
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lifting up the poor from the dust he lay in, raising the beggar out of his dung-hill,
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Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:
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ut collocet eum cum principibus, cum principibus populi sui.
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to find him a place among the princes, the princes that rule over his people?
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That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.
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Qui habitare facit sterilem in domo, matrem filiorum lætantem.
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He gives the barren woman a home to dwell in, a mother rejoicing in her children.
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Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.