PSALTERIVM

PSALMVS LVII — SI VERE VTIQVE

LATINE
Si vere utique iustitiam loquimini: recta iudicate, filii hominum.
Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini: in terra iniustitias manus vestrae concinnant.
Alienati sunt peccatores a vulva, erraverunt ab utero: locuti sunt falsa.
Furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis: sicut aspidis surdae, et obturantis aures suas.
Quae non exaudiet vocem incantantium: et venefici incantantis sapienter.
Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum: molas leonum confringet Dominus.
Ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens: intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur.
Sicut cera, quae fluit, auferentur: supercecidit ignis, et non viderunt solem.
Priusquam intelligerent spinae vestrae rhamnum: sicut viventes, sic in ira absorbet eos.
Laetabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam: manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
Et dicet homo: Si utique est fructus iusto: utique est Deus iudicans eos in terra.
ENGLISH
If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
NOTA
FONS
Douay-Rheims / Vulgata