All, and especially clergymen that serve the Church, are invited to praise God by day and by night, so shall they be blessed of God.Al, and eſpecially clergie men that ſerue the Church, are inuited to prayſe God by day and by night, ſo ſhal they be bleſſed of God.✦
A gradual Canticle. Lo now bless our Lord, all ye the servants of our Lord: which stand in the house of our Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.A gradual Canticle. LOE a now bleſſe our Lord, al ye the ſeruantes of our Lord: which ſtand in the houſe of our Lord, in the courtes of the houſe of our God.Canticum graduum. Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum, omnes servi Domini : qui statis in domo Domini, in atriis domus Dei nostri.
2In the nights lift up your hands unto the holy places, and bless ye our Lord.In the nightes lift vp your handes vnto the holie places, and bleſſe ye our Lord.In noctibus extollite manus vestras in sancta, et benedicite Dominum.
3Our Lord out of Sion bless thee, who made heaven and earth.Our Lord out of Sion bleſſe thee, who b made heauen and earth.Benedicat te Dominus ex Sion, qui fecit cælum et terram.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.