In finem, pro torcularibus. Psalmus David.

Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.

(To the choir-master. To the mood of the song, The Wine-presses. A psalm. Of David.)

Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra! quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super cælos.

O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

O Lord, our Master, how the majesty of thy name fills all the earth! Thy greatness is high above heaven itself.

Ex ore infantium et lactentium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuos, ut destruas inimicum et ultorem.

Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

Thou hast made the lips of children, of infants at the breast, vocal with praise, to confound thy enemies; to silence malicious and revengeful tongues.

Quoniam videbo cælos tuos, opera digitorum tuorum, lunam et stellas quæ tu fundasti.

For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

I look up at those heavens of thine, the work of thy hands, at the moon and the stars, which thou hast set in their places;

Quid est homo, quod memor es ejus? aut filius hominis, quoniam visitas eum?

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

what is man that thou shouldst remember him? What is Adam’s breed, that it should claim thy care?

Minuisti eum paulominus ab angelis; gloria et honore coronasti eum;

Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

Thou hast placed him only a little below the angels, crowning him with glory and honour,

et constituisti eum super opera manuum tuarum.

and hast set him over the works of thy hands.

and bidding him rule over the works of thy hands.

Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus, oves et boves universas, insuper et pecora campi,

Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

Thou hast put them all under his dominion, the sheep and the cattle, and the wild beasts besides;

volucres cæli, et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris.

The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, that travel by the sea’s paths.

Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra!

O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!

O Lord, our Master, how the majesty of thy name fills all the earth!