Psalm 113 has been the final Psalm at Vespers...

Since Easter and was still today. The line spacing, and particularly the wider spacing in two places, is down to the vagaries of the minor gods Copy and Paste and am not going to spend any more time attempting to rectify what is probably not rectifiable.

In exitu Israël de Ægypto

domus Jacob de populo barbaro  

2 facta est Judæa sanctificatio ejus
Israël potestas ejus  

3 mare vidit, et fugit
Iordanis conversus est retrorsum  

4 montes exsultaverunt ut arietes
et colles sicut agni ovium  

5 quid est tibi, mare, quod fugisti
et tu, Jordanis, quia conversus es retrorsum  

6 montes, exsultastis sicut arietes
et colles, sicut agni ovium  

7 a facie Domini mota est terra
a facie Dei Jacob  

8 qui convertit petram in stagna aquarum
et rupem in fontes aquarum  

9 non nobis, Domine, non nobis
sed nomini tuo da gloriam  

10 super misericordia tua et veritate tua
nequando dicant gentes ubi est Deus eorum

 

11 Deus autem noster in cælo

omnia quæcumque voluit fecit  

12 simulacra gentium argentum et aurum
opera manuum hominum  

13 os habent, et non loquentur

oculos habent, et non videbunt  

14 aures habent, et non audient 

nares habent, et non odorabunt

 

15 manus habent, et non palpabunt
pedes habent, et non ambulabunt
non clamabunt in gutture suo  

16 similes illis fiant qui faciunt ea
et omnes qui confidunt in eis  

17 domus Israël speravit in Domino
adjutor eorum et protector eorum est  

18 domus Aaron speravit in Domino
adjutor eorum et protector eorum est  

19 qui timent Dominum speraverunt in Domino

adjutor eorum et protector eorum est  

20 Dominus memor fuit nostri
et benedixit nobis
benedixit domui Israël
benedixit domui Aaron  

21 benedixit omnibus qui timent Dominum
pusillis cum majoribus.  

22 adjiciat Dominus super vos
super vos et super filios vestros  

23 benedicti vos a Domino
qui fecit cælum et terram  

24 cælum cæli Domino
terram autem dedit filiis hominum  

25 non mortui laudabunt te, Domine
neque omnes qui descendunt in infernum  

26 sed nos qui vivimus, benedicimus Domino
ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum

 

I specially appreciate verses 11 sqq. Mons Knox's translation with a minor adjustment:

God our God is a God that dwells in heaven

all that his will designs he executes

the heathen have silver idols and golden gods

which the hands of men have fashioned

they have mouths and yet are silent

eyes they have and yet are sightless 

ears they have and want all hearing

noses and yet no smell can reach them 

hands unfeeling feet unstirring

never a sound their throats may utter 

such be the end of all who make them

such the reward of all who trust them

 

 

 

 

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