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 Exurge gloria mea, exurge psalterium, et cithara: exurgam 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: Exultabo, 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. Iuda 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.
