Psalmorum 108
1 Canticum Psalmi, ipsi David. [Paratum cor meum, Deus, paratum cor meum; cantabo, et psallam in gloria mea.
A song. A psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I would sing, I would make music; awake, my soul.
2 Exsurge, gloria mea; exsurge, psalterium et cithara; exsurgam diluculo.
Awake, harp and lyre; I would wake the dawn.
3 Confitebor tibi in populis, Domine, et psallam tibi in nationibus:
I would praise you among the peoples, O Lord; make music among the nations to you.
4 quia magna est super cælos misericordia tua, et usque ad nubes veritas tua.
For great to heaven is your love, and your faithfulness to the clouds.
5 Exaltare super cælos, Deus, et super omnem terram gloria tua:
Be exalted, O God, o’er the heavens, and your glory o’er all the earth.
6 ut liberentur dilecti tui. Salvum fac dextera tua, et exaudi me.
So those you love may be rescued, save by your right hand and answer us.
7 Deus locutus est in sancto suo: Exsultabo, et dividam Sichimam; et convallem tabernaculorum dimetiar.
God did solemnly swear: ‘As victor will I divide Shechem, portion out the valley of Succoth.
8 Meus est Galaad, et meus est Manasses, et Ephraim susceptio capitis mei. Juda rex meus;
Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my sceptre of rule,
9 Moab lebes spei meæ: in Idumæam extendam calceamentum meum; mihi alienigenæ amici facti sunt.
Moab the pot that I wash in, on Edom I hurl my sandal, I shout o’er Philistia in triumph.’
10 Quis deducet me in civitatem munitam? quis deducet me usque in Idumæam?
O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom!
11 nonne tu, Deus, qui repulisti nos? et non exibis, Deus, in virtutibus nostris?
Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.
12 Da nobis auxilium de tribulatione, quia vana salus hominis.
Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless.
13 In Deo faciemus virtutem; et ipse ad nihilum deducet inimicos nostros.]
With God we shall yet do bravely, he himself will tread down our foes.
