Psalmorum 58
1 In finem, Ne disperdas, David in tituli inscriptionem. Si vere utique iustitiam loquimini: recta iudicate filii hominum.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
2 Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini: in terra iniustitias manus vestræ concinnant.
Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 Alienati sunt peccatores a vulva, erraverunt ab utero: locuti sunt falsa.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis: sicut aspidis surdæ, et obturantis aures suas,
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
5 quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium: et venefici incantantis sapienter.
Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum: molas leonum confringet Dominus.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens: intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur.
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 Sicut cera, quæ fluit, auferentur: supercecidit ignis, et non viderunt solem.
As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Priusquam intelligerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum: sicut viventes, sic in ira absorbet eos.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 Lætabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam: manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Et dicet homo: Si utique est fructus iusto: utique est Deus iudicans eos in terra.
So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.
