The Book of Psalms — Liber Psalmorum
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Psalm 119
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Canticum graduum. | A gradual canticle. | (A song of ascents.) |
1 Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi, et exaudivit me. | 1 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me. | 1 Not unheeded I cry to the Lord in the hour of my distress. |
2 Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis et a lingua dolosa. | 2 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue. | 2 Lord, have pity and deliver me from the treacherous lips, the perjured tongue. |
3 Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi ad linguam dolosam? | 3 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue? | 3 Perjurer, he will give thee all thy deserts and more; |
4 Sagittæ potentis acutæ, cum carbonibus desolatoriis. | 4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste. | 4 sharp arrows from a warrior’s bow, blazing faggots of broom. |
5 Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est! habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar; | 5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar: | 5 Unhappy I, that live an exile in Mosoch, or dwell among the tents of Cedar! |
6 multum incola fuit anima mea. | 6 my soul hath been long a sojourner. | 6 Long banished here among the enemies of peace, |
7 Cum his qui oderunt pacem eram pacificus; cum loquebar illis, impugnabant me gratis. | 7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause. | 7 for peace I plead, and their cry is still for battle. |
