اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 109

١ 1 لِإِمَامِ ٱلْمُغَنِّينَ. لِدَاوُدَ. مَزْمُورٌ يَا إِلَهَ تَسْبِيحِي لَا تَسْكُتْ،

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.

٢ 2 لِأَنَّهُ قَدِ ٱنْفَتَحَ عَلَيَّ فَمُ ٱلشِّرِّيرِ وَفَمُ ٱلْغِشِّ. تَكَلَّمُوا مَعِي بِلِسَانِ كِذْبٍ،

For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

٣ 3 بِكَلَامِ بُغْضٍ أَحَاطُوا بِي، وَقَاتَلُونِي بِلَا سَبَبٍ.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

٤ 4 بَدَلَ مَحَبَّتِي يُخَاصِمُونَنِي. أَمَّا أَنَا فَصَلَاةٌ.

For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.

٥ 5 وَضَعُوا عَلَيَّ شَرًّا بَدَلَ خَيْرٍ، وَبُغْضًا بَدَلَ حُبِّي.

And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

٦ 6 فَأَقِمْ أَنْتَ عَلَيْهِ شِرِّيرًا، وَلْيَقِفْ شَيْطَانٌ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ.

Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand.

٧ 7 إِذَا حُوكِمَ فَلْيَخْرُجْ مُذْنِبًا، وَصَلَاتُهُ فَلْتَكُنْ خَطِيَّةً.

Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.

٨ 8 لِتَكُنْ أَيَّامُهُ قَلِيلَةً، وَوَظِيفَتُهُ لِيَأْخُذْهَا آخَرُ.

Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge.

٩ 9 لِيَكُنْ بَنُوهُ أَيْتَامًا وَٱمْرَأَتُهُ أَرْمَلَةً.

Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

١٠ 10 لِيَتِهْ بَنُوهُ تَيَهَانًا وَيَسْتَعْطُوا، وَيَلْتَمِسُوا خُبْزًا مِنْ خِرَبِهِمْ.

Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.

١١ 11 لِيَصْطَدِ ٱلْمُرَابِي كُلَّ مَا لَهُ، وَلْيَنْهَبِ ٱلْغُرَبَاءُ تَعَبَهُ.

Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.

١٢ 12 لَا يَكُنْ لَهُ بَاسِطٌ رَحْمَةً، وَلَا يَكُنْ مُتَرَأِفٌ عَلَى يَتَامَاهُ.

Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.

١٣ 13 لِتَنْقَرِضْ ذُرِّيَّتُهُ. فِي ٱلْجِيلِ ٱلْقَادِمِ لِيُمْحَ ٱسْمُهُمْ.

Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.

١٤ 14 لِيُذْكَرْ إِثْمُ آبَائِهِ لَدَى ٱلرَّبِّ، وَلَا تُمْحَ خَطِيَّةُ أُمِّهِ.

Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.

١٥ 15 لِتَكُنْ أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ دَائِمًا، وَلْيَقْرِضْ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ ذِكْرَهُمْ.

But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.

١٦ 16 مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَذْكُرْ أَنْ يَصْنَعَ رَحْمَةً، بَلْ طَرَدَ إِنْسَانًا مِسْكِينًا وَفَقِيرًا وَٱلْمُنْسَحِقَ ٱلْقَلْبِ لِيُمِيتَهُ.

Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.

١٧ 17 وَأَحَبَّ ٱللَّعْنَةَ فَأَتَتْهُ، وَلَمْ يُسَرَّ بِٱلْبَرَكَةِ فَتَبَاعَدَتْ عَنْهُ.

As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.

١٨ 18 وَلَبِسَ ٱللَّعْنَةَ مِثْلَ ثَوْبِهِ، فَدَخَلَتْ كَمِيَاهٍ فِي حَشَاهُ وَكَزَيْتٍ فِي عِظَامِهِ.

As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.

١٩ 19 لِتَكُنْ لَهُ كَثَوْبٍ يَتَعَطَّفُ بِهِ، وَكَمِنْطَقَةٍ يَتَنَطَّقُ بِهَا دَائِمًا.

Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.

٢٠ 20 هَذِهِ أُجْرَةُ مُبْغِضِيَّ مِنْ عِنْدِ ٱلرَّبِّ، وَأُجْرَةُ ٱلْمُتَكَلِّمِينَ شَرًّا عَلَى نَفْسِي.

Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.

٢١ 21 أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَارَبُّ ٱلسَّيِّدُ فَٱصْنَعْ مَعِي مِنْ أَجْلِ ٱسْمِكَ. لِأَنَّ رَحْمَتَكَ طَيِّبَةٌ نَجِّنِي.

But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)

٢٢ 22 فَإِنِّي فَقِيرٌ وَمِسْكِينٌ أَنَا، وَقَلْبِي مَجْرُوحٌ فِي دَاخِلِي.

Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.

٢٣ 23 كَظِلٍّ عِنْدَ مَيْلِهِ ذَهَبْتُ. ٱنْتَفَضْتُ كَجَرَادَةٍ.

I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

٢٤ 24 رُكْبَتَايَ ٱرْتَعَشَتَا مِنَ ٱلصَّوْمِ، وَلَحْمِي هُزِلَ عَنْ سِمَنٍ.

My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.

٢٥ 25 وَأَنَا صِرْتُ عَارًا عِنْدَهُمْ. يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيَّ وَيُنْغِضُونَ رُؤُوسَهُمْ

I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

٢٦ 26 أَعِنِّي يَارَبُّ إِلَهِي. خَلِّصْنِي حَسَبَ رَحْمَتِكَ.

Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.

٢٧ 27 وَلْيَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ هَذِهِ هِيَ يَدُكَ. أَنْتَ يَارَبُّ فَعَلْتَ هَذَا.

And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.

٢٨ 28 أَمَّا هُمْ فَيَلْعَنُونَ، وَأَمَّا أَنْتَ فَتُبَارِكُ. قَامُوا وَخَزُوا، أَمَّا عَبْدُكَ فَيَفْرَحُ.

Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.

٢٩ 29 لِيَلْبِسْ خُصَمَائِي خَجَلًا، وَلْيَتَعَطَّفُوا بِخِزْيِهِمْ كَٱلرِّدَاءِ.

Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.

٣٠ 30 أَحْمَدُ ٱلرَّبَّ جِدًّا بِفَمِي، وَفِي وَسَطِ كَثِيرِينَ أُسَبِّحُهُ.

I will giue thankes vnto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye multitude.

٣١ 31 لِأَنَّهُ يَقُومُ عَنْ يَمِينِ ٱلْمَسْكِينِ، لِيُخَلِّصَهُ مِنَ ٱلْقَاضِينَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ.

For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.