Benedixit omnibus qui timent Dominum, * pusillis cum majoribus.
(He hath blessed all that fear the Lord: both little and great.)
Adjiciat Dominus super vos: * super vos, et super filios vestros.
(May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you and upon your children.)
Benedicti vos a Domino: * qui fecit cœlum et terram.
(Blessed be you of the Lord; Who made heaven and earth.)
Cœlum cœli Domino; * terram autem dedit filiis hominum.
(The heaven of heavens is the Lord's: but the earth He hath given to the children of men.)
Non mortui laudabunt te, Domine: * neque omnes qui descendunt in infernum.
(The dead shall not praise Thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.)