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