| 1 γαυρίαμα ὕψους στερέωμα καθαριότητος εἶδος οὐρανοῦ ἐν ὁράματι δόξης 2 ἥλιος ἐν ὀπτασίᾳ διαγγέλλων ἐν ἐξόδῳ σκεῦος θαυμαστόν ἔργον ὑψίστου 3 ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἀναξηραίνει χώραν καὶ ἐναντίον καύματος αὐτοῦ τίς ὑποστήσεται κάμινον φυσῶν ἐν ἔργοις καύματος 4 τριπλασίως ἥλιος ἐκκαίων ὄρη ἀτμίδας πυρώδεις ἐκφυσῶν καὶ ἐκλάμπων ἀκτῖνας ἀμαυροῖ ὀφθαλμούς 5 μέγας κύριος ὁ ποιήσας αὐτόν καὶ ἐν λόγοις αὐτοῦ κατέσπευσεν πορείαν 6 καὶ ἡ σελήνη ἐν πᾶσιν εἰς καιρὸν αὐτῆς ἀνάδειξιν χρόνων καὶ σημεῖον αἰῶνος 7 ἀπὸ σελήνης σημεῖον ἑορτῆς φωστὴρ μειούμενος ἐπὶ συντελείας 8 μὴν κατὰ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆς ἐστιν αὐξανόμενος θαυμαστῶς ἐν ἀλλοιώσει 9 σκεῦος παρεμβολῶν ἐν ὕψει ἐν στερεώματι οὐρανοῦ ἐκλάμπων 10 κάλλος οὐρανοῦ δόξα ἄστρων κόσμος φωτίζων ἐν ὑψίστοις κυρίου 11 ἐν λόγοις ἁγίου στήσονται κατὰ κρίμα καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐκλυθῶσιν ἐν φυλακαῖς αὐτῶν |
1 Like a jewel the vault of heaven is set above us; the sight of it is glory made visi-ble. 2 Plain to our view is the sun’s passage as it shines out, a very masterpiece of his workmanship, who is the most High. 3 How it burns up the earth at noon-day! How fierce its glow, beyond all endurance! Tend thou the furnace, heat is thy daily portion; 4 yet three times hotter the sun, as it burns up the hill-side, scorching all with its fiery breath, blinding men’s eyes with its glare. 5 Swiftly it speeds on its course, to do the bidding of the Lord, its glorious maker. 6 The moon, too, that keeps tryst so faithfully, ever marking how the seasons change, 7 and giving the signal when feast days come round! The moon, whose light must decrease till it vanishes, 8 and then increase to the full circle, the month its name-child; 9 cresset of a watch-fire that lights up the high vault of heaven with its radiant glow. 10 And the stars that deck the sky with their splendour, a beacon-light the Lord kindles high above us; 11 the summons of his holy word answering so loyally, watching so patiently at their post! |
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Altitudinis firmamentum pulchritudo ejus est,
species cæli in visione gloriæ. 2
Sol in aspectu annuntians in exitu,
vas admirabile, opus Excelsi. 3
In meridiano exurit terram,
et in conspectu ardoris ejus quis poterit sustinere?
fornacem custodiens in operibus ardoris: 4
tripliciter sol exurens montes,
radios igneos exsufflans,
et refulgens radiis suis obcæcat oculos. 5
Magnus Dominus qui fecit illum,
et in sermonibus ejus festinavit iter. 6
Et luna in omnibus in tempore suo,
ostensio temporis, et signum ævi. 7
A luna signum diei festi:
luminare quod minuitur in consummatione. 8
Mensis secundum nomen ejus est,
crescens mirabiliter in consummatione. 9
Vas castrorum in excelsis,
in firmamento cæli resplendens gloriose. 10
Species cæli gloria stellarum:
mundum illuminans in excelsis Dominus. 11
In verbis Sancti stabunt ad judicium,
et non deficient in vigiliis suis. |