PSALTERIVM

PSALMVS LI — QVID GLORIARIS

LATINE
Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate?
Tota die iniustitiam cogitavit lingua tua: sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum.
Dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem: iniquitatem magis quam loqui aequitatem.
Dilexisti omnia verba praecipitationis, lingua dolosa.
Propterea Deus destruet te in finem, evellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo: et radicem tuam de terra viventium.
Videbunt iusti, et timebunt, et super eum ridebunt, et dicent:
Ecce homo, qui non posuit Deum adiutorem suum: sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum: et praevaluit in vanitate sua.
Ego autem, sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei, speravi in misericordia Dei in aeternum, et in saeculum saeculi.
Confitebor tibi in saeculum, quia fecisti: et exspectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est in conspectu sanctorum tuorum.
ENGLISH
Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.
Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.
Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.
The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:
Behold the man that made not God his helper: but trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.
But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.
NOTA
FONS
Douay-Rheims / Vulgata