Psalms 7

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
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.