Psalmorum 52

1 In finem, Intellectus David, Cum venit Doeg Idumæus, et nunciavit Sauli: Venit David in domum Achimelech. Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate?

For the end, [a Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in [your] mischief? All the day

2 Tota die iniustitiam cogitavit lingua tua: sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum.

your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit.

3 Dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem: iniquitatem magis quam loqui æquitatem.

You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. (Pause)

4 Dilexisti omnia verba præcipitationis, lingua dolosa.

You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue.

5 Propterea Deus destruet te in finem, evellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo: et radicem tuam de terra viventium.

Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. (Pause)

6 Videbunt iusti, et timebunt, et super eum ridebunt, et dicent:

And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,

7 ecce homo, qui non posuit Deum adiutorem suum: Sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum: et prævaluit in vanitate sua.

Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

8 Ego autem, sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei, speravi in misericordia Dei in æternum: et in sæculum sæculi.

But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

9 Confitebor tibi in sæculum quia fecisti: et expectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est in conspectu sanctorum tuorum.

I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done [it]: and I will wait on your name; for [it is] good before the saints.