Laetentur caeli

General information

Offertory for the midnight mass of Christmas.
Source of text is Psalm 95:11-13 (Vulgate).

Notes on selected settings

• Carlo Carturan SSA (vv. 11a,13a)

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Giovanni Bassano — Laetentur coeli a 8  Latin SATB.SATB
• Carlo Carturan — Laetentur coeli  Latin SSA
• Mariano Garau — Laetentur caeli  Latin SATB
• Gregorian chant — Laetentur caeli  Latin Unison
• Hans Leo Hassler — Laetentur coeli  Latin AATB
• Orlando di Lasso — Laetentur coeli  Latin SATB
• Mikolaj Zielenski — Laetentur Caeli  Latin SATB.SATB

Text and translations

Latin text 11  Laetentur caeli, et exsultet terra; commoveatur mare et plenitudo eius; 12  gaudebunt campi, et omnia quae in eis sunt. Tunc exsultabunt omnia ligna silvarum 13  a facie Domini,   quia venit, quoniam venit judicare terram. Judicabit orbem terrae in aequitate, et populos in veritate sua.

English translation 11  Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad: let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is. 12  Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice   before the Lord. 13  For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with his truth.