Liber Psalmorum, 57

1. in finem ne disperdas David in tituli inscriptione

1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.

2. si vere utique justitiam loquimini recta judicate filii hominum

2. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.

3. etenim in corde iniquitates operamini in terra iniustitiam manus vestræ concinnant

3. For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

4. alienati sunt peccatores a vulva erraverunt ab utero locuti sunt falsa

4. The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

5. furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis sicut aspidis surdæ et obturantis aures suas

5. Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

6. quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium et venefici incantantis sapienter

6. Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

7. Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum molas leonum confringet Dominus

7. God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

8. ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur

8. They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

9. sicut cera quæ fluit auferentur supercecidit ignis et non viderunt solem

9. Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

10. priusquam intellegerent spinæ vestræ ramnum sicut viventes sicut in ira absorbet vos

10. Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

11. lætabitur justus cum viderit vindictam manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris

11. The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

12. et dicet homo si utique est fructus justo utique est Deus judicans eos in terra

12. And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.