Psalms 108
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Unto the end, a psalm for David.
1In finem. Psalmus David.
2O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.
2[Deus, laudem meam ne tacueris, quia os peccatoris et os dolosi super me apertum est.
3They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
3Locuti sunt adversum me lingua dolosa, et sermonibus odii circumdederunt me: et expugnaverunt me gratis.
4Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.
4Pro eo ut me diligerent, detrahebant mihi; ego autem orabam.
5And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
5Et posuerunt adversum me mala pro bonis, et odium pro dilectione mea.
6Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand.
6Constitue super eum peccatorem, et diabolus stet a dextris ejus.
7When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.
7Cum judicatur, exeat condemnatus; et oratio ejus fiat in peccatum.
8May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
8Fiant dies ejus pauci, et episcopatum ejus accipiat alter.
9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
9Fiant filii ejus orphani, et uxor ejus vidua.
10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
10Nutantes transferantur filii ejus et mendicent, et ejiciantur de habitationibus suis.
11May the userer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.
11Scrutetur fœnerator omnem substantiam ejus, et diripiant alieni labores ejus.
12May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.
12Non sit illi adjutor, nec sit qui misereatur pupillis ejus.
13May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
13Fiant nati ejus in interitum; in generatione una deleatur nomen ejus.
14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
14In memoriam redeat iniquitas patrum ejus in conspectu Domini, et peccatum matris ejus non deleatur.
15May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
15Fiant contra Dominum semper, et dispereat de terra memoria eorum:
16Because he remembered not to show mercy,
16pro eo quod non est recordatus facere misericordiam,
17But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death.
17et persecutus est hominem inopem et mendicum, et compunctum corde, mortificare.
18And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.
18Et dilexit maledictionem, et veniet ei; et noluit benedictionem, et elongabitur ab eo. Et induit maledictionem sicut vestimentum; et intravit sicut aqua in interiora ejus, et sicut oleum in ossibus ejus.
19May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.
19Fiat ei sicut vestimentum quo operitur, et sicut zona qua semper præcingitur.
20This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.
20Hoc opus eorum qui detrahunt mihi apud Dominum, et qui loquuntur mala adversus animam meam.
21But thou, O Lord, do with for thy names sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me.
21Et tu, Domine, Domine, fac mecum propter nomen tuum, quia suavis est misericordia tua.
22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.
22Libera me, quia egenus et pauper ego sum, et cor meum conturbatum est intra me.
23I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.
23Sicut umbra cum declinat ablatus sum, et excussus sum sicut locustæ.
24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.
24Genua mea infirmata sunt a jejunio, et caro mea immutata est propter oleum.
25And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads,
25Et ego factus sum opprobrium illis; viderunt me, et moverunt capita sua.
26Help me, O Lord my God; save me according to thy mercy.
26Adjuva me, Domine Deus meus; salvum me fac secundum misericordiam tuam.
27And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it.
27Et sciant quia manus tua hæc, et tu, Domine, fecisti eam.
28They will curse and thou will bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.
28Maledicent illi, et tu benedices: qui insurgunt in me confundantur; servus autem tuus lætabitur.
29Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with the their confusion as with a double cloak.
29Induantur qui detrahunt mihi pudore, et operiantur sicut diploide confusione sua.
30I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him.
30Confitebor Domino nimis in ore meo, et in medio multorum laudabo eum:
31Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors.
31quia astitit a dextris pauperis, ut salvam faceret a persequentibus animam meam.]
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