Office canticles: Wisdom 10: 17-21

The following canticles is the third in the Common of Apostles, Evangelists and Several Martyrs in the Benedictine Office, and is also used on the feast of All Saints.

Canticum Sapientiae (10: 17-21) 

Réddidit Deus iustis mercédem labórum suórum, * et dedúxit illos in via mirábili:	And God rendered to the just the wages of their labours, * and conducted them in a wonderful way:
Et fuit illis in velaménto diéi, * et in luce stellárum per noctem;	And he was to them for a covert by day, * and for the light of stars by night:
Tránstulit illos per mare Rubrum, * et transvéxit illos per aquam nímiam.	And he brought them through the Red Sea, * and carried them over through a great water.
Inimícos autem illórum demérsit in mare, * et ab altitúdine inferórum edúxit illos.	But their enemies he drowned in the sea, * and from the depth of hell he brought them out.
Ideo iusti tulérunt spólia impiórum, * et decantavérunt, Dómine, nomen sanctum tuum,	Therefore the just took the spoils of the wicked, * And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord,
Et victrícem manum tuam laudavérunt páriter: † quóniam sapiéntia apéruit os mutórum, * et línguas infántium fecit disértas.	and they praised with one accord thy victorious hand, for wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, * and made the tongues of infants eloquent.
Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.	Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.	As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.