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title: "Psalm 148 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 148 in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Laudate Dominum de caelis. All creatures are invited to praise their Creator. Alleluia."
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# Psalm 148

Psalm 148 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows has the same number, 148, in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Laudate Dominum de caelis. All creatures are invited to praise their Creator. Alleluia.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 148 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Alleluia. Praise the Lord from the heavens. Praise him on the heights.
2. Praise him, all his Angels. Praise him, all his hosts.
3. Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all stars and light.
4. Praise him, heavens of the heavens. And let all the waters that are above the heavens
5. praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they became. He commanded, and they were created.
6. He has stationed them in eternity, and for age after age. He has established a precept, and it will not pass away.
7. Praise the Lord from the earth: you dragons and all deep places,
8. fire, hail, snow, ice, windstorms, which do his word,
9. mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars,
10. wild beasts and all cattle, serpents and feathered flying things,
11. kings of the earth and all peoples, leaders and all judges of the earth,
12. young men and virgins. Let the older men with the younger men, praise the name of the Lord.
13. For his name alone is exalted.
14. Confession of him is beyond heaven and earth, and he has exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his holy ones, to the sons of Israel, to a people close to him. Alleluia.

## Psalm 148 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Alleluja. Laudate Dominum de cælis; laudate eum in excelsis.
2. Laudate eum, omnes angeli ejus; laudate eum, omnes virtutes ejus.
3. Laudate eum, sol et luna; laudate eum, omnes stellæ et lumen.
4. Laudate eum, cæli cælorum; et aquæ omnes quæ super cælos sunt,
5. laudent nomen Domini. Quia ipse dixit, et facta sunt; ipse mandavit, et creata sunt.
6. Statuit ea in æternum, et in sæculum sæculi; præceptum posuit, et non præteribit.
7. Laudate Dominum de terra, dracones et omnes abyssi;
8. ignis, grando, nix, glacies, spiritus procellarum, quæ faciunt verbum ejus;
9. montes, et omnes colles; ligna fructifera, et omnes cedri;
10. bestiæ, et universa pecora; serpentes, et volucres pennatæ;
11. reges terræ et omnes populi; principes et omnes judices terræ;
12. juvenes et virgines; senes cum junioribus, laudent nomen Domini:
13. quia exaltatum est nomen ejus solius.
14. Confessio ejus super cælum et terram; et exaltavit cornu populi sui. Hymnus omnibus sanctis ejus; filiis Israël, populo appropinquanti sibi. Alleluja.

## The saints

- “Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars: in heaven You formed them clear and precious and beautiful.” — St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Creatures, 1225 (On this theme: verse 3)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, May 5, 2027: Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14
- Wed, May 24, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14
- Mon, Aug 14, 2028 (computed): St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. Mass citations number the Psalms in the Hebrew way.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).