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Psalm 148 is the 148th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Praise ye the Lord from the heavens". In Latin, it is known as "Laudate Dominum de caelis". [ 1 ] The psalm is one of the Laudate psalms .
The words of the hymn were initially written by St. Francis of Assisi [2] in 1225 in the Canticle of the Sun poem, which was based on Psalm 148. [3] The words were translated into English by William Draper, who at the time was rector of a Church of England parish church at Adel near Leeds. Draper paraphrased the words of the Canticle and set ...
The psalms themselves are named from the Latin word laudate, or "praise ye", which begins psalms 148 and 150. At Lauds, according to the Roman Rite , they were sung together following the canticle under one antiphon and under one Gloria Patri until the reforms instituted by St. Pius X in 1911.
The Roman Breviary (Latin: Breviarium Romanum) is a breviary of the Roman Rite in the Catholic Church. A liturgical book, it contains public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office (i.e., at the canonical hours, the Christians' daily prayer).
The Grail Psalms were already popular before the Second Vatican Council revised the liturgies of the Roman rite.Because the Council called for more liturgical use of the vernacular instead of Latin, and also for more singing and chanting (as opposed to the silent Low Mass and privately recited Divine Office, which were the predominantly celebrated forms of the Roman rite before the Council ...
Psalms 146 and 147 in the older versions form Psalm 147 in the Nova Vulgata; Psalms 10–112 and 116–145 (132 out of the 150) in the older versions are numbered lower by one than the same psalm in the Nova Vulgata. Psalms 1–8 and 148–150, 11 psalms in total, are numbered the same in both the old versions and the new one.
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The Book of Genesis – 1948: this was a unique translation, the only one that was revised for the 1970 NAB; The Book of Psalms – 1950 and 1955, reprinted 1959; The Octateuch: Genesis to Ruth – 1952 (published as Volume One) The Sapiential Books (Job to Sirach) – 1955 (published as Volume Three — with Volume Two left to be filled in later)