All, and especially clergymen that serve the Church, are invited to praise God by day and by night, so shall they be blessed of God.Al, and especially clergie men that serue the Church, are inuited to prayse God by day and by night, so shal they be blessed of God.✦
A gradual Canticle. Lo now bless our Lord, all ye the servants of our Lord: which stand in the house of our Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.A gradual Canticle. Lo now bless our Lord, all ye the servants of our Lord: which stand in the house of our Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.A gradual Canticle. LOE anow blesse our Lord, al ye the seruantes of our Lord: which stand in the house of our Lord, in the courtes of the house of our God.Canticum graduum. Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum, omnes servi Domini : qui statis in domo Domini, in atriis domus Dei nostri.
2In the nights lift up your hands unto the holy places, and bless ye our Lord.In the nights lift up your hands unto the holy places, and bless ye our Lord.In the nightes lift vp your handes vnto the holie places, and blesse ye our Lord.In noctibus extollite manus vestras in sancta, et benedicite Dominum.
3Our Lord out of Sion bless thee, who made heaven and earth.Our Lord out of Sion bless thee, who made heaven and earth.Our Lord out of Sion blesse thee, who bmade heauen and earth.Benedicat te Dominus ex Sion, qui fecit cælum et terram.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition. Also available: Plantin Louvain (Latin).