Domini est terra.
Who are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ’s triumphant ascension
thither.
23:1. On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the
Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell
therein.
23:2. For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon
the rivers.
23:3. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall
stand in his holy place?
23:4. The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his
soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
23:5. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his
Saviour.
23:6. This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek
the face of the God of Jacob.
23:7. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal
gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
23:8. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the
Lord mighty in battle.
23:9. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal
gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
23:10. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of
Glory.