Vulgate><Douay-Rheims><Knox Bible
Alleluja.
Alleluia.
(Alleluia.)
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Laudate Dominum, quoniam bonus est psalmus; Deo nostro sit jucunda, decoraque laudatio.
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Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.
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Praise the Lord; the Lord is gracious; sing to our God, a God who so claims our love; praise is his right.
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Ædificans Jerusalem Dominus, dispersiones Israëlis congregabit:
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The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.
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The Lord is rebuilding Jerusalem, is calling the banished sons of Israel home;
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qui sanat contritos corde, et alligat contritiones eorum;
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Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.
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he it is that heals the broken heart, and binds up its wounds.
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qui numerat multitudinem stellarum, et omnibus eis nomina vocat.
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Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names.
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Does he not know the number of the stars, and call each by its name?
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Magnus Dominus noster, et magna virtus ejus, et sapientiæ ejus non est numerus.
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Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.
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How great a Lord is ours, how magnificent his strength, how inscrutable his wisdom!
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Suscipiens mansuetos Dominus; humilians autem peccatores usque ad terram.
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The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.
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The Lord is the defender of the oppressed, and lays the wicked low in the dust.
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Præcinite Domino in confessione; psallite Deo nostro in cithara.
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Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.
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Strike up, then, in thanksgiving to the Lord, with the harp’s music praise our God;
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Qui operit cælum nubibus, et parat terræ pluviam; qui producit in montibus fœnum, et herbam servituti hominum;
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Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.
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the God who curtains heaven with cloud, and lays up a store of rain for the earth, who clothes the mountain-sides with grass, with corn for man’s need,
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qui dat jumentis escam ipsorum, et pullis corvorum invocantibus eum.
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Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.
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gives food to the cattle, food to the young ravens that cry out to him.
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Non in fortitudine equi voluntatem habebit, nec in tibiis viri beneplacitum erit ei.
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He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.
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Not the well-mounted warrior is his choice, not the swift runner wins his favour;
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Beneplacitum est Domino super timentes eum, et in eis qui sperant super misericordia ejus.
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The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.
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the Lord’s favour is for those who fear him, and put their trust in his divine mercy.