Liber Psalmorum, 138

1. in finem David psalmus

1. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:

2. Domine probasti me et cognovisti me tu cognovisti sessionem meam et surrectionem meam

2. thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.

3. intellexisti cogitationes meas de longe semitam meam et funiculum meum investigasti

3. Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.

4. et omnes vias meas prævidisti quia non est sermo in lingua mea

4. And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.

5. ecce Domine tu cognovisti omnia novissima et antiqua tu formasti me et posuisti super me manum tuam

5. Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.

6. mirabilis facta est scientia tua ex me confortata est non potero ad eam

6. Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.

7. quo ibo ab spiritu tuo et quo a facie tua fugiam

7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?

8. si ascendero in cælum tu illic es si descendero ad infernum ades

8. If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.

9. si sumpsero pinnas meas diluculo et habitavero in extremis maris

9. If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:

10. etenim illuc manus tua deducet me et tenebit me dextera tua

10. Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.

11. et dixi forsitan tenebræ conculcabunt me et nox inluminatio in deliciis meis

11. And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.

12. quia tenebræ non obscurabuntur a te et nox sicut dies inluminabitur sicut tenebræ ejus ita et lumen ejus

12. But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.

13. quia tu possedisti renes meos suscepisti me de utero matris meæ

13. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb.

14. confitebor tibi quia terribiliter magnificatus es mirabilia opera tua et anima mea cognoscit nimis

14. I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.

15. non est occultatum os meum a te quod fecisti in occulto et substantia mea in inferioribus terræ

15. My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.

16. inperfectum meum viderunt oculi tui et in libro tuo omnes scribentur die formabuntur et nemo in eis

16. Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

17. mihi autem nimis honorificati sunt amici tui Deus nimis confirmati sunt principatus eorum

17. But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.

18. dinumerabo eos et super harenam multiplicabuntur exsurrexi et adhuc sum tecum

18. I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.

19. si occideris Deus peccatores et viri sanguinum declinate a me

19. If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:

20. quia dices in cogitatione accipient in vanitate civitates tuas

20. Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.

21. nonne qui oderunt te Domine oderam et super inimicos tuos tabescebam

21. Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?

22. perfecto odio oderam illos inimici facti sunt mihi

22. I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.

23. proba me Deus et scito cor meum interroga me et cognosce semitas meas

23. Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

24. et vide si via iniquitatis in me est et deduc me in via æterna

24. And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.