Psalms 7

New Jerusalem Bible	Bibbia Vulgata Clementina
¹ [Lament Of David Which he sang to Yahweh about Cush the Benjaminite] Yahweh my God, I takerefuge in you, save me from al my pursuers and rescue me,	¹ Psalmus David, quem cantavit Domino pro verbis Chusi, filii Jemini.
² or he wil savage me like a lion, carry me off with no one to rescue me.	² Domine Deus meus, in te speravi ; salvum me fac ex omnibus persequentibus me, et libera me :
³ Yahweh my God, if I have done this: if injustice has stained my hands,	³ nequando rapiat ut leo animam meam, dum non est qui redimat, neque qui salvum faciat.
⁴ if I have repaid my al y with treachery or spared one who attacked me unprovoked,	⁴ Domine Deus meus, si feci istud, si est iniquitas in manibus meis,
⁵ may an enemy hunt me down and catch me, may he trample my life into the ground and crush my vitalparts into the dust.Pause	⁵ si reddidi retribuentibus mihi mala, decidam merito ab inimicis meis inanis.
⁶ Arise, Yahweh, in your anger, rise up against the arrogance of my foes. Awake, my God, you demandjudgement.	⁶ Persequatur inimicus animam meam, et comprehendat ; et conculcet in terra vitam meam, et gloriam meam in pulverem deducat.
⁷ Let the assembly of nations gather round you; return above it on high!	⁷ Exsurge, Domine, in ira tua, et exaltare in finibus inimicorum meorum : et exsurge, Domine Deus meus, in præcepto quod mandasti,
⁸ (Yahweh judges the nations.) Judge me, Yahweh, as my uprightness and my integrity deserve.	⁸ et synagoga populorum circumdabit te : et propter hanc in altum regredere :
⁹ Put an end to the malice of the wicked, make the upright stand firm, you who discern hearts and minds,God the upright.	⁹ Dominus judicat populos. Judica me, Domine, secundum justitiam meam, et secundum innocentiam meam super me.
¹⁰ God is a shield that protects me, saving the honest of heart.	¹⁰ Consumetur nequitia peccatorum, et diriges justum, scrutans corda et renes, Deus.
¹¹ God is an upright judge, slow to anger, but a God at al times threatening	¹¹ Justum adjutorium meum a Domino, qui salvos facit rectos corde.
¹² for those who wil not repent. Let the enemy whet his sword, draw his bow and make ready;	¹² Deus judex justus, fortis, et patiens ; numquid irascitur per singulos dies ?
¹³ but he is making ready instruments of death for himself and tipping his arrows with fire;	¹³ Nisi conversi fueritis, gladium suum vibrabit ; arcum suum tetendit, et paravit illum.
¹⁴ look at him: pregnant with malice, conceiving spite, he gives birth to treachery.	¹⁴ Et in eo paravit vasa mortis, sagittas suas ardentibus effecit.
¹⁵ He digs a trap, scoops it out, but he fal s into the snare he made himself.	¹⁵ Ecce parturiit injustitiam ; concepit dolorem, et peperit iniquitatem.
¹⁶ His spite recoils on his own head, his brutality falls back on his own skul .	¹⁶ Lacum aperuit, et effodit eum ; et incidit in foveam quam fecit.
¹⁷ I thank Yahweh for his saving justice. I sing to the name of the Most High.	¹⁷ Convertetur dolor ejus in caput ejus, et in verticem ipsius iniquitas ejus descendet.
	¹⁸ Confitebor Domino secundum justitiam ejus, et psallam nomini Domini altissimi.