Psalms 49

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NOVA VULGATA
1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,	1 Magistro chori. Filiorum Core. Psalmus.
2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.	2 Audite haec, omnes gentes; auribus percipite, omnes, qui habitatis orbem:
3 God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.	3 quique humiles et viri nobiles, simul in unum dives et pauper!
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.	4 Os meum loquetur sapientiam, et meditatio cordis mei prudentiam.
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.	5 Inclinabo in parabolam aurem meam, aperiam in psalterio aenigma meum.
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.	6 Cur timebo in diebus malis, cum iniquitas supplantantium circumdabit me?
7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.	7 Qui confidunt in virtute sua et in multitudine divitiarum suarum gloriantur.
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.	8 Etenim seipsum non redimet homo; non dabit Deo propitiationem suam.
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.	9 Nimium est pretium redemptionis animae eius: ad ultimum deficiet,
10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.	10 ut vivat usque in finem nec videat interitum.
11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.	11 Et videbit sapientes morientes; simul insipiens et stultus peribunt et relinquent alienis divitias suas.
12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.	12 Sepulcra eorum domus illorum in aeternum; tabernacula eorum in progeniem et progeniem, etsi vocaverunt nominibus suis terras suas.
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?	13 Et homo, cum sit in honore, non permanebit; comparatus est iumentis, quae pereunt, et similis factus est illis.
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.	14 Haec via illorum, quorum fiducia in semetipsis, et finis eorum, qui complacent in ore suo.
15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.	15 Sicut oves in inferno positi sunt, mors depascet eos; descendent praecipites ad sepulcrum, et figura eorum erit in consumptionem: infernus habitaculum eorum.
16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?	16 Verumtamen Deus redimet animam meam, de manu inferi vere suscipiet me.
17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.	17 Ne timueris, cum dives factus fuerit homo, et cum multiplicata fuerit gloria domus eius,
18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.	18 quoniam, cum interierit, non sumet omnia, neque descendet cum eo gloria eius.
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.	19 Cum animae suae in vita ipsius benedixerit: “ Laudabunt te quod benefecisti tibi ”,
20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.	20 tamen introibit ad progeniem patrum suorum, qui in aeternum non videbunt lumen.
21 These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.	21 Homo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit; comparatus est iumentis, quae pereunt, et similis factus est illis.
22 Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
23 The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.