Liber Psalmorum, 58
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0. To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.
1. Magistro chori. Secundum " Ne destruxeris ". David. Miktam.
1. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the sons of men uprightly?
2. Numquid vere, potentes, iustitiam loquimini, recte iudicatis filios hominum?
2. Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
3. Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini, in terra violentiam manus vestrae concinnant.
3. The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.
4. Alienati sunt peccatores ab utero; erraverunt a ventre, qui loquuntur falsa.
4. They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5. Venenum illis in similitudinem serpentis, sicut aspidis surdae et obturantis aures suas,
5. so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
6. quae non exaudiet vocem incantantium et venefici incantantis sapienter.
6. O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
7. Deus, contere dentes eorum in ore ipsorum; molas leonum confringe, Domine.
7. Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
8. Diffluant tamquam aqua decurrens, sicut fenum conculcatum arescant.
8. Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
9. Sicut limax, quae tabescens transit, sicut abortivum mulieris, quod non vidit solem.
9. Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
10. Priusquam sentiant ollae vestrae rhamnum, sicut viventes, sicut ardor irae absorbet eos.
10. The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11. Laetabitur iustus, cum viderit vindictam, pedes suos lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
11. Men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
12. Et dicet homo: “Utique est fructus iusto, utique est Deus iudicans eos in terra”.
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