Livre des Psaumes 140

BIBLES DES PEUPLES	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Au maître de chant. Psaume de David.	1 Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
2 Délivre-moi, Seigneur, de l’homme mauvais, garde-moi des violents	2 thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
3 qui méditent le mal en leur cœur, et tout le jour incitent à la guerre.	3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
4 Ils ont aiguisé leur langue comme le serpent, un venin de vipère est caché sous leur langue.	4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
5 Garde-moi, Seigneur, de la main du méchant et protège-moi du violent, quand il s’apprête à faire trébucher mes pas.	5 Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
6 Des insolents m’ont caché un filet, ils ont tendu des lacets à mes pieds, ils m’ont posé des pièges au bord du sentier.	6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
7 Et j’ai dit au Seigneur: “C’est toi mon Dieu, entends ma voix, Seigneur, quand je t’appelle.	7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
8 Tu es puissant pour me sauver, Seigneur, toi qui couvres ma tête au jour du combat.	8 If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
9 Ne donne pas au méchant, Seigneur, ce qu’il a désiré, ne laisse pas aboutir ses plans.	9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
10 Que mes assiégeants ne puissent relever la tête, accablés par les maux qu’ils me préparaient.	10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 Que Dieu leur envoie sa pluie de charbons ardents, puis qu’il les jette au gouffre, qu’ils n’en ressortent pas!	11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
12 Que le pays les rejette avec leurs mensonges, que le mal sans trêve pourchasse les violents!	12 But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
13 Je sais que le Seigneur défend l’opprimé, il fera justice aux pauvres.	13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb.
14 Les justes célébreront ton Nom, les hommes droits jouiront de ta présence.	14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
	15 My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
	16 Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
	17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
	18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
	19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
	20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
	21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
	22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
	23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
	24 And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.