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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Latin from Zero, a weekly podcast from Digital Monastery.
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- 0:33SPEAKER_00: This is Psalm 8 from the Clementine Vulgate.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: For the end, for the wine presses, a Psalm of David.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: You have set your glory above the heavens.
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: Out of the mouths of infants and nursing children,
- 0:52SPEAKER_00: you have established praise because of your foes to silence the enemy and
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: the avenger.
- 0:58SPEAKER_00: When I look at your heavens,
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: the work of your fingers,
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: the moon and the stars that you have set in place,
- 1:04SPEAKER_00: what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you care for him?
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: You have made him a little lower than the angels.
- 1:11SPEAKER_00: You have crowned him with glory and honor.
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: You have put all things under his feet.
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: All sheep and oxen,
- 1:21SPEAKER_00: and also the beasts of the field,
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: the birds of the heavens,
- 1:25SPEAKER_00: and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
- 1:29SPEAKER_00: O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
- 1:36SPEAKER_00: In Finem Protorcularibus Psalmus David Domine Dominus Noster quam admirabile est
- 1:45SPEAKER_00: Nomen tuum in universa terra quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua supercelos.
- 1:54SPEAKER_00: Ex ore infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuo sut destruas
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: inimicum et ultorem.
- 2:04SPEAKER_00: Quoniam videbo cielos tuos opera digitorum, tuorum lunam et stellas quai tu fundasti.
- 2:13SPEAKER_00: Quid est homo quod memor esseius aut filius ominis quoniam visitas eum?
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: Minuisti eum paulo minus ab angelis gloria et honore coronasti eum.
- 2:29SPEAKER_00: Et constituisti eum super opera manum tuarum.
- 2:35SPEAKER_00: Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oves et boves universas in super et pecora campi.
- 2:44SPEAKER_00: Volucres caeli et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris.
- 2:50SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster quam admirabile est, nomen tum in universa terra.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: Line 1.
- 2:59SPEAKER_00: In finem protorcularibus psalmus David.
- 3:04SPEAKER_00: In finem protorcularibus.
- 3:07SPEAKER_00: For the end, for the wine presses.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: In finem protorcularibus.
- 3:13SPEAKER_00: Psalmus David, a Psalm of David.
- 3:17SPEAKER_00: Psalmus David, line one again.
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: In finem protorcularibus Psalmus David, line two.
- 3:26SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster,
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: quam admirabile est,
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: nomen tum in universa, terra quoniam elevata, est magnificentia tua supercelos.
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster, O Lord, our Lord.
- 3:43SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster, quam admirabile est nomen Tum in Universa Terra.
- 3:50SPEAKER_00: How wonderful is your name in all the earth!
- 3:55SPEAKER_00: Quam admirabile est nomen Tum in Universa Terra.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: Quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super cielos.
- 4:05SPEAKER_00: For your majesty is exalted above the heavens.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: Quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua supercelos.
- 4:15SPEAKER_00: Line 2 again.
- 4:17SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster quam admirabile est nomen tum
- 4:22SPEAKER_00: in universa terra quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua supercelos.
- 4:29SPEAKER_00: Line 3.
- 4:31SPEAKER_00: Exori infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem propter inimicos tuo sud destruas
- 4:38SPEAKER_00: inimicum et ultorem.
- 4:40SPEAKER_00: Exore infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem.
- 4:45SPEAKER_00: Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have perfected praise.
- 4:51SPEAKER_00: Exore infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem.
- 4:56SPEAKER_00: Propter inimicos tuos.
- 4:59SPEAKER_00: Because of your enemies.
- 5:01SPEAKER_00: Propter inimicos tuos.
- 5:04SPEAKER_00: Ut destruas inimicum et ultorem.
- 5:08SPEAKER_00: To destroy the enemy and the avenger.
- 5:11SPEAKER_00: Ut destruas inimicum et ultorem.
- 5:14SPEAKER_00: Line 3 again.
- 5:17SPEAKER_00: Exore infantium et lactantium perfecisti laudem propteri inimicos tuos ut destruas
- 5:24SPEAKER_00: inimicum et ultorem.
- 5:26SPEAKER_00: Line 4.
- 5:28SPEAKER_00: Quoniam videbo cielos tuos opera digitorum tuorum lunam et stellas quai tu fundasti.
- 5:36SPEAKER_00: Quoniam videbo cielos tuos, for I will see your heavens.
- 5:41SPEAKER_00: The work of your fingers.
- 5:43SPEAKER_00: The moon and the stars which you have established.
- 5:47SPEAKER_00: Line 4 again.
- 6:04SPEAKER_00: Quoniam videbo celos tuos opera digitorum tuorum lunam et stellas quai tu fundasti.
- 6:12SPEAKER_00: Line 5.
- 6:14SPEAKER_00: Quid est homo quod memor esseius aut filius ominis quoniam visita seum?
- 6:22SPEAKER_00: Quid est homo quod memor esseius?
- 6:25SPEAKER_00: What is man that you are mindful of him?
- 6:28SPEAKER_00: Quid est homo quod memor esseius?
- 6:32SPEAKER_00: Aut filius ominis quoniam visitas seum, or the son of man that you visit him.
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: Aut filius ominis quoniam visitas seum.
- 6:44SPEAKER_00: Line 5 again.
- 6:46SPEAKER_00: Quid est homo quod memor esseius aut filius ominis quoniam visitas seum.
- 6:53SPEAKER_00: Line 6.
- 6:55SPEAKER_00: Minuisti eum paulo minus ab angelis gloria et honore coronasti eum.
- 7:02SPEAKER_00: Minuisti eum paulo minus ab angelis.
- 7:06SPEAKER_00: You crowned him with glory and honor.
- 7:09SPEAKER_00: Gloria et onore coronasti eum.
- 7:11SPEAKER_00: Line 6 again.
- 7:26SPEAKER_00: Minuisti eum paulo minus ab angelis gloria et honore coronasti eum.
- 7:32SPEAKER_00: Line 7.
- 7:34SPEAKER_00: Et constituisti eum super opera manum tuarum, and you set him over the works of your hands.
- 7:42SPEAKER_00: Line 7 again.
- 7:44SPEAKER_00: Et constituisti eum super opera manum tuarum.
- 7:49SPEAKER_00: Line 8.
- 7:51SPEAKER_00: Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius ovis et bovis universas in super et pecora campi.
- 7:59SPEAKER_00: Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius.
- 8:03SPEAKER_00: You have put all things under his feet.
- 8:06SPEAKER_00: Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius.
- 8:11SPEAKER_00: Ovis et bovis universas.
- 8:14SPEAKER_00: All sheep and oxen.
- 8:16SPEAKER_00: Ovis et bovis universas.
- 8:19SPEAKER_00: Insuper et pecora campi, and even the beasts of the field.
- 8:24SPEAKER_00: Insuper et pecora campi.
- 8:26SPEAKER_00: Line 8 again.
- 8:28SPEAKER_00: Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oves et boves universas insuper et pecora campi.
- 8:36SPEAKER_00: Line 9.
- 8:38SPEAKER_00: Volucres caeli et pisces maris qui perambulant semitas maris.
- 8:44SPEAKER_00: Volucris Caeli et Pisces Maris, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea.
- 8:51SPEAKER_00: Volucris Caeli et Pisces Maris,
- 8:54SPEAKER_00: qui perambulant Semitas Maris, that pass through the paths of the seas.
- 9:00SPEAKER_00: Qui perambulant Semitas Maris.
- 9:03SPEAKER_00: Line on again.
- 9:05SPEAKER_00: Volucris Caeli et Pisces Maris, qui perambulant Semitas Maris.
- 9:11SPEAKER_00: Line 10.
- 9:13SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster, quam admirabile est, nomen tum in universa terra.
- 9:21SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster, O Lord, our Lord.
- 9:25SPEAKER_00: Domine Dominus Noster, quam admirabile est, nomen tum in universa terra.
- 9:33SPEAKER_00: How wonderful is your name in all the earth!
- 9:37SPEAKER_00: Quam admirabile est, nomen tum in universa terra.
- 9:42SPEAKER_00: Line 10 again.
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