Psalms 40

Catholic Public Domain Bible	Bibbia Vulgata Clementina
¹ Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.	¹ In finem. Psalmus ipsi David.
² Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.	² Beatus qui intelligit super egenum et pauperem : in die mala liberabit eum Dominus.
³ May the Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth. And may he not hand him over to the will of his adversaries.	³ Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum ejus.
⁴ May the Lord bring him help on his bed of sorrow. In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering.	⁴ Dominus opem ferat illi super lectum doloris ejus ; universum stratum ejus versasti in infirmitate ejus.
⁵ I said, “O Lord, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.”	⁵ Ego dixi : Domine, miserere mei ; sana animam meam, quia peccavi tibi.
⁶ My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?	⁶ Inimici mei dixerunt mala mihi : Quando morietur, et peribit nomen ejus ?
⁷ And when he came in to see me, he was speaking emptiness. His heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went outside, and he was speaking in the same way.	⁷ Et si ingrediebatur ut videret, vana loquebatur ; cor ejus congregavit iniquitatem sibi. Egrediebatur foras et loquebatur.
⁸ All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.	⁸ In idipsum adversum me susurrabant omnes inimici mei ; adversum me cogitabant mala mihi.
⁹ They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again?	⁹ Verbum iniquum constituerunt adversum me : Numquid qui dormit non adjiciet ut resurgat ?
¹⁰ For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.	¹⁰ Etenim homo pacis meæ in quo speravi, qui edebat panes meos, magnificavit super me supplantationem.
¹¹ But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them.	¹¹ Tu autem, Domine, miserere mei, et resuscita me ; et retribuam eis.
¹² By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me.	¹² In hoc cognovi quoniam voluisti me, quoniam non gaudebit inimicus meus super me.
¹³ But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.	¹³ Me autem propter innocentiam suscepisti ; et confirmasti me in conspectu tuo in æternum.
¹⁴ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.	¹⁴ Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël a sæculo et usque in sæculum. Fiat, fiat.