Psalms 57
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.
1In finem, ne disperdas. David in tituli inscriptionem.
2If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
2[Si vere utique justitiam loquimini, recta judicate, filii hominum.
3For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini; in terra injustitias manus vestræ concinnant.
4The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4Alienati sunt peccatores a vulva; erraverunt ab utero: locuti sunt falsa.
5Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5Furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis, sicut aspidis surdæ et obturantis aures suas,
6Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium, et venefici incantantis sapienter.
7God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
7Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum; molas leonum confringet Dominus.
8They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
8Ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens; intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur.
9Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
9Sicut cera quæ fluit auferentur; supercecidit ignis, et non viderunt solem.
10Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10Priusquam intelligerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum, sicut viventes sic in ira absorbet eos.
11The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11Lætabitur justus cum viderit vindictam; manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
12And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
12Et dicet homo: Si utique est fructus justo, utique est Deus judicans eos in terra.]
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