Latin Text Selections

The Latin:

Dóminus sóluit compedítos ;
Dóminus illúminat cæcos.
Dóminus érigit elísos ;
Dóminus díligit iústos.
Dóminus custódit adúenas,
pupíllum et uíduam suscípiet,
et uías peccatórum dispérdet.

The English (D-R):

The Lord looseth them that are fettered:
the Lord enlighteneth the blind.
The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down:
the Lord loveth the just.
The Lord keepeth the strangers,
he will support the fatherless and the widow:
and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

[Some vocabulary, with the power of God. Verbs are in italic, objects in bold.]

canticum, cantici

aria in Latin comedy, song

[Three of our well known canticles can be accessed here.]

sacerdos, sacerdotis

priest, priestess

laboro, laborare, laboraui, laboratum

to work, to toil, to take pain, to suffer, to be troubled, to be in distress to be anxious

doceo, docere, docui, doctum

to teach, to inform, to tell

aedifico, aedificare, aedificaui, aedificatum

to build, to construct

benedico, benedicere, benedixi, benedictum

to speak well of, to praise, to bless

ausculto, auscultare, auscultaui, auscultatum

to listen to, to obey, to overhear, to wait at the door.