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.
Clementine Vulgate
Psalms 149
1Alleluja. [Cantate Domino canticum novum; laus ejus in ecclesia sanctorum. 2Ltetur Isral in eo qui fecit eum, et filii Sion exsultent in rege suo. 3Laudent nomen ejus in choro; in tympano et psalterio psallant ei. 4Quia beneplacitum est Domino in populo suo, et exaltabit mansuetos in salutem. 5Exsultabunt sancti in gloria; ltabuntur in cubilibus suis. 6Exaltationes Dei in gutture eorum, et gladii ancipites in manibus eorum: 7ad faciendam vindictam in nationibus, increpationes in populis; 8ad alligandos reges eorum in compedibus, et nobiles eorum in manicis ferreis; 9ut faciant in eis judicium conscriptum: gloria hc est omnibus sanctis ejus. Alleluja.]
Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.