Alleluja.

(Alleluia.)

Alleluia.

Laudate, pueri, Dominum; laudate nomen Domini.

Praise the Lord, you that are his servants, praise the name of the Lord together.

Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.

Sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.

Blessed be the Lord’s name at all times, from this day to all eternity;

Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

A solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini.

from the sun’s rise to the sun’s setting let the Lord’s name be praised continually.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.

Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus, et super cælos gloria ejus.

The Lord is sovereign king of all the nations; his glory is high above the heavens.

The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.

Quis sicut Dominus Deus noster, qui in altis habitat,

Who is like the Lord our God, so high above us,

Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

et humilia respicit in cælo et in terra?

that stoops to regard both heaven and earth,

and looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?

Suscitans a terra inopem, et de stercore erigens pauperem:

lifting up the poor from the dust he lay in, raising the beggar out of his dung-hill,

Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

ut collocet eum cum principibus, cum principibus populi sui.

to find him a place among the princes, the princes that rule over his people?

That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.

Qui habitare facit sterilem in domo, matrem filiorum lætantem.

He gives the barren woman a home to dwell in, a mother rejoicing in her children.

Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.