WHATE'ER God's fiat did from nothing raise,
Stupendous product of the first six days,
O bless your Maker, your Creator praise.
In this let jarring elements agree,
Or make from discord sweetest harmony.
Ye sons of light made by his power divine ;
By his reflected beams it is you
Your hallelujahs in the chorus join,
That, far as creatures can, your praise may prove
Great as his power, and endless as his love.
Vos o, Jehovæ sacra potentia
Quæcunque verbo fecit amabili;
In ordinem quæcunque certum
Tam bene disposuit Creator;
Sublime carmen dicite, dicite
Sublime numen: perpetuum Dei
Unaque nobiscum favorem
Perpetuo celebrate plausu.
Æterna cæli vos habitacula,
Excelsiores spirituum domus ;
Vos, quæ triumphis personatis
Angelicis, superûmque cantu ;
Cæleste carmen jungite, jungite
Cæleste nostro perpetuum Dei
Unaque nobiscum favorem
Perpetuo celebrate plausu.
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Vos, suaviores cælicolûm chori,
Queis plectra, voces queis liquidæ sonant,
Laudate (nam laudare vestrum est)
Harmonia potiore numen :
Docete carmen numine dignius,
Docete carmen; perpetuum Dei
Unaque nobiscum favorem
Perpetuo celebrate plausu.
Vos, cærulæ undæ, quæ super ardui
Convexa cæli nubila volvitis ;
Vos jam Jehovæ parituræ,
Si jubeat recreare terram;
Parete nobis (æqua rogabimus)
Parete nobis perpetuum Dei
Unaque nobiscum favorem
Perpetuo celebrate plausu.
O angelorum turba seraphica,
Et principatus, tam varii licet
Sint ordines, omnes eundem
Concinite egregium Jehovam:
Laudate nostrum carminibus patrem,
Laudate vestrum: perpetuum Dei
Unaque nobiscum favorem
Perpetuo celebrate plausu.
Praise him, ye heavens, long as your frame shall last,
Who like a curtain spread the azure waste,
And in your happy realms his throne has plac'd:
His utmost splendour still to you appears;
O tune in praise the music of your spheres.
Waters, that, by the Almighty plac'd above,
Fixt as your firmament for ever prove:
Praise him whose spirit did on the waters move;
Who made you free from winds and storms below;
Whose praise can never ebb, nor ever flow.
Thrones, potentates, dominions, powers on high,
Acknowledge your superior in the sky;
And bless the universal Majesty;
Whose word's omnipotent, whose will is fate,
The only powerful, and the only great.
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