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 99

1Psalmus in confessione. 2[Jubilate Deo, omnis terra; servite Domino in ltitia. Introite in conspectu ejus in exsultatione. 3Scitote quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus; ipse fecit nos, et non ipsi nos: populus ejus, et oves pascu ejus. 4Introite portas ejus in confessione; atria ejus in hymnis: confitemini illi. Laudate nomen ejus, 5quoniam suavis est Dominus, in ternum misericordia ejus, et usque in generationem et generationem veritas ejus.]

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