In finem, ne corrumpas. Psalmus cantici Asaph.

Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph.

(To the choir-master. Melody: Do not destroy. A psalm. Of Asaph. A song.)

Confitebimur tibi, Deus, confitebimur, et invocabimus nomen tuum; narrabimus mirabilia tua.

We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:

We praise thee, O God, and, praising thee, call upon thy name, tell the story of thy wondrous deeds.

Cum accepero tempus, ego justitias judicabo.

when I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

When the time is ripe, I will judge strictly;

Liquefacta est terra et omnes qui habitant in ea: ego confirmavi columnas ejus.

The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

earth rocks to its fall, and all that dwell on it; I alone support its fabric.

Dixi iniquis: Nolite inique agere: et delinquentibus: Nolite exaltare cornu:

I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

Rebel no more, I cry to the rebels, Abate your pride, to the transgressors;

nolite extollere in altum cornu vestrum; nolite loqui adversus Deum iniquitatem.

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

would they match themselves against the most High, hurl defiance at God?

Quia neque ab oriente, neque ab occidente, neque a desertis montibus:

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:

Look east, look west, it will avail you nothing; no help comes from the desert, or the high hills;

quoniam Deus judex est. Hunc humiliat, et hunc exaltat:

for God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

it is God who rules all, humbling one man and exalting another.

quia calix in manu Domini vini meri, plenus misto. Et inclinavit ex hoc in hoc; verumtamen fæx ejus non est exinanita: bibent omnes peccatores terræ.

for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

In the Lord’s hand foams a full cup of spiced wine; he holds it to men’s lips, that must empty it to the dregs, sinners everywhere must drink them.

Ego autem annuntiabo in sæculum; cantabo Deo Jacob:

But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.

Evermore will I triumph, singing praises to the God of Jacob;

et omnia cornua peccatorum confringam, et exaltabuntur cornua justi.

And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.

mine to crush the pride of every sinner, and raise high the courage of the just.