Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Clementine Vulgate

Psalms 146

1Alleluja. [Laudate Dominum, quoniam bonus est psalmus; Deo nostro sit jucunda, decoraque laudatio. 2dificans Jerusalem Dominus, dispersiones Isralis congregabit: 3qui sanat contritos corde, et alligat contritiones eorum; 4qui numerat multitudinem stellarum, et omnibus eis nomina vocat. 5Magnus Dominus noster, et magna virtus ejus, et sapienti ejus non est numerus. 6Suscipiens mansuetos Dominus; humilians autem peccatores usque ad terram. 7Prcinite Domino in confessione; psallite Deo nostro in cithara. 8Qui operit clum nubibus, et parat terr pluviam; qui producit in montibus fnum, et herbam servituti hominum; 9qui dat jumentis escam ipsorum, et pullis corvorum invocantibus eum. 10Non in fortitudine equi voluntatem habebit, nec in tibiis viri beneplacitum erit ei. 11Beneplacitum est Domino super timentes eum, et in eis qui sperant super misericordia ejus.]

Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.