1 victori ut non disperdas David humilem et simplicem
quando misit Saul et custodierunt domum ut occiderent eum
2 erue me de inimicis meis Deus meus
et a resistentibus mihi protege me
3 libera me ab operariis iniquitatis et a viris sanguinum salva me
4 quia ecce insidiati sunt animae meae
congregantur adversum me fortissimi
5 absque iniquitate mea et absque peccato meo Domine
non egi inique et illi currunt et praeparantur
6 surge ex adverso pro me et respice
et tu Domine Deus exercituum Deus Israhel
evigila ut visites omnes gentes
non miserearis universis qui operantur iniquitatem semper
7 revertantur ad vesperam et latrent ut canis
et circumeant civitatem
8 ecce loquuntur in ore suo
gladii in labiis eorum quasi nemo audiat
9 tu autem Domine deridebis eos subsannabis omnes gentes
10 fortitudinem meam ad te servabo quoniam tu Deus elevator meus
11 Dei mei misericordia praeveniet me
12 Deus ostendit mihi in insidiatoribus
meis
ne occidas eos ne forte obliviscantur populi mei
disperge eos in fortitudine tua
et destrue eos protector noster Domine
13 in peccato oris sui in sermone labiorum suorum
et capiantur in superbia sua
maledictionem et mendacium narrantes
14 consume in furore consume ut non subsistant
et sciant quoniam Deus dominatur Iacob in
finibus terrae semper
15 et convertantur ad vesperam et latrent ut canis
et circumeant civitatem
16 ipsi vagabuntur ut comedant
et cum saturati non fuerint murmurabunt
17 ego autem cantabo imperium tuum
et laudabo mane misericordiam tuam
quoniam factus es fortitudo mea
et refugium in die tribulationis meae
18 tibi cantabo quoniam Deus adiutor meus
fortitudo mea Deus misericordia mea
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.