Psalmorum 58

1 in finem ne disperdas David in tituli inscriptione si vere utique iustitiam loquimini recta iudicate filii hominum

Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.

2 etenim in corde iniquitates operamini in terra iniustitiam manus vestrae concinnant

For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

3 alienati sunt peccatores a vulva erraverunt ab utero locuti sunt falsa

The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

4 furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis sicut aspidis surdae et obturantis aures suas

Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

5 quae non exaudiet vocem incantantium et venefici incantantis sapienter

Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

6 Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum molas leonum confringet Dominus

God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

7 ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur

They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

8 sicut cera quae fluit auferentur supercecidit ignis et non viderunt solem

Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

9 priusquam intellegerent spinae vestrae ramnum sicut viventes sicut in ira absorbet vos

Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

10 laetabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris

The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: 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 man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.