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Psalm 58

A prayer to be delivered from the wicked, with confidence in God's help and protection. It agrees to Christ and his enemies the Jews.

Does this psalm differ from what you were expecting? Don't be confused. There are two systems for arranging the psalms: the Septuagint and the Masoretic. We use the Septuagint system here. In the Masoretic system, which is used in most modern Bible translations, this psalm is called Psalm 59, and the previous psalm is known as Psalm 58.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. [1 Samuel 19.]

2 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.
3 Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
4 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:
5 Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.
6 Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.
7 They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
8 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?
9 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
10 I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector:
11 My God, his mercy shall prevent me.
12 God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:
13 For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of, 14 When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.
15 They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
16 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.
17 But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.
18 Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: my God my mercy.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 In finem, ne disperdas. David in tituli inscriptionem, quando misit Saul et custodivit domum ejus ut eum interficeret.

2 Eripe me de inimicis meis, Deus meus,
et ab insurgentibus in me libera me.
3 Eripe me de operantibus iniquitatem,
et de viris sanguinum salva me.
4 Quia ecce ceperunt animam meam;
irruerunt in me fortes.
5 Neque iniquitas mea, neque peccatum meum, Domine;
sine iniquitate cucurri, et direxi.
6 Exsurge in occursum meum, et vide:
et tu, Domine Deus virtutum, Deus Israël,
intende ad visitandas omnes gentes:
non miserearis omnibus qui operantur iniquitatem.
7 Convertentur ad vesperam, et famem patientur ut canes:
et circuibunt civitatem.
8 Ecce loquentur in ore suo,
et gladius in labiis eorum: quoniam quis audivit?
9 Et tu, Domine, deridebis eos;
ad nihilum deduces omnes gentes.
10 Fortitudinem meam ad te custodiam,
quia, Deus, susceptor meus es:
11 Deus meus misericordia ejus præveniet me.
12 Deus ostendet mihi super inimicos meos:
ne occidas eos, nequando obliviscantur populi mei.
Disperge illos in virtute tua,
et depone eos, protector meus, Domine:
13 delictum oris eorum, sermonem labiorum ipsorum;
et comprehendantur in superbia sua.
Et de execratione et mendacio annuntiabuntur 14 in consummatione:
in ira consummationis, et non erunt.
Et scient quia Deus dominabitur Jacob, et finium terræ.
15 Convertentur ad vesperam, et famem patientur ut canes:
et circuibunt civitatem.
16 Ipsi dispergentur ad manducandum;
si vero non fuerint saturati, et murmurabunt.
17 Ego autem cantabo fortitudinem tuam,
et exsultabo mane misericordiam tuam:
quia factus es susceptor meus,
et refugium meum in die tribulationis meæ.
18 Adjutor meus, tibi psallam,
quia Deus susceptor meus es;
Deus meus, misericordia mea.

Transcribed as part of the Clementine Vulgate Project
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