Liber Psalmorum, 102
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0. A prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD.
1. Preces afflicti, qui defessus angorem suum ante Dominum profundit.
1. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to thee!
2. Domine, exaudi orationem meam, et clamor meus ad te veniat.
2. Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
3. Non abscondas faciem tuam a me; in quacumque die tribulor, inclina ad me aurem tuam. In quacumque die invocavero te, velociter exaudi me.
3. For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
4. Quia defecerunt sicut fumus dies mei, et ossa mea sicut cremium aruerunt.
4. My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; I forget to eat my bread.
5. Percussum est ut fenum et aruit cor meum, etenim oblitus sum comedere panem meum.
5. Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.
6. A voce gemitus mei adhaesit os meum carni meae.
6. I am like a vulture of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
7. Similis factus sum pellicano solitudinis, factus sum sicut nycticorax in ruinis.
7. I lie awake, I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
8. Vigilavi et factus sum sicut passer solitarius in tecto.
8. All the day my enemies taunt me, those who deride me use my name for a curse.
9. Tota die exprobrabant mihi inimici mei, exardescentes in me per me iurabant.
9. For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,
10. Quia cinerem tamquam panem manducabam et potum meum cum fletu miscebam,
10. because of thy indignation and anger; for thou hast taken me up and thrown me away.
11. a facie irae et increpationis tuae, quia elevans allisisti me.
11. My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
12. Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt, et ego sicut fenum arui.
12. But thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.
13. Tu autem, Domine, in aeternum permanes, et memoriale tuum in generationem et generationem.
13. Thou wilt arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.
14. Tu exsurgens misereberis Sion, quia tempus miserendi eius, quia venit tempus,
14. For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust.
15. quoniam placuerunt servis tuis lapides eius, et pulveris eius miserentur.
15. The nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16. Et timebunt gentes nomen tuum, Domine, et omnes reges terrae gloriam tuam,
16. For the LORD will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory;
17. quia aedificavit Dominus Sion et apparuit in gloria sua.
17. he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.
18. Respexit in orationem inopum et non sprevit precem eorum.
18. Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:
19. Scribantur haec pro generatione altera, et populus, qui creabitur, laudabit Dominum.
19. that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,
20. Quia prospexit de excelso sanctuario suo, Dominus de caelo in terram aspexit,
20. to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;
21. ut audiret gemitus compeditorum, ut solveret filios mortis;
21. that men may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,
22. ut annuntient in Sion nomen Domini et laudem eius in Ierusalem,
22. when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.
23. cum congregati fuerint populi in unum et regna, ut serviant Domino.
23. He has broken my strength in mid-course; he has shortened my days.
24. Humiliavit in via virtutem meam, abbreviavit dies meos. Dicam: “Deus meus,
24. "O my God," I say, "take me not hence in the midst of my days, thou whose years endure throughout all generations!"
25. ne auferas me in dimidio dierum meorum; in generationem et generationem sunt anni tui.
25. Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
26. Initio terram fundasti; et opera manuum tuarum sunt caeli.
26. They will perish, but thou dost endure; they will all wear out like a garment. Thou changest them like raiment, and they pass away;
27. Ipsi peribunt, tu autem permanes; et omnes sicut vestimentum veterascent, et sicut opertorium mutabis eos, et mutabuntur.
27. but thou art the same, and thy years have no end.
28. Tu autem idem ipse es, et anni tui non deficient.
28. The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee.
29. Filii servorum tuorum habitabunt, et semen eorum in conspectu tuo firmabitur”.
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