Psalmorum 58
1 In finem, Ne disperdas, David in tituli inscriptionem. Si vere utique iustitiam loquimini: recta iudicate filii hominum.
For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men.
2 Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini: in terra iniustitias manus vestræ concinnant.
For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3 Alienati sunt peccatores a vulva, erraverunt ab utero: locuti sunt falsa.
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4 Furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis: sicut aspidis surdæ, et obturantis aures suas,
Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5 quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium: et venefici incantantis sapienter.
which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.
6 Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum: molas leonum confringet Dominus.
God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7 Ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens: intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur.
They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8 Sicut cera, quæ fluit, auferentur: supercecidit ignis, et non viderunt solem.
They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9 Priusquam intelligerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum: sicut viventes, sic in ira absorbet eos.
Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10 Lætabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam: manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 Et dicet homo: Si utique est fructus iusto: utique est Deus iudicans eos in terra.
And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
