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  Psalm 49  

49:1 A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth, From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
Psalmus Asaph. Deus deorum Dominus locutus est, et vocavit terram a solis ortu usque ad occasum.

49:2 out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
Ex Sion species decoris ejus:

49:3 God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
Deus manifeste veniet; Deus noster, et non silebit. Ignis in conspectu ejus exardescet; et in circuitu ejus tempestas valida.

49:4 He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
Advocabit cælum desursum, et terram, discernere populum suum.

49:5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
Congregate illi sanctos ejus, qui ordinant testamentum ejus super sacrificia.

49:6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
Et annuntiabunt cæli justitiam ejus, quoniam Deus judex est.

49:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
Audi, populus meus, et loquar; Israël, et testificabor tibi: Deus, Deus tuus ego sum.

49:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt-offerings are always in my sight.
Non in sacrificiis tuis arguam te; holocausta autem tua in conspectu meo sunt semper.

49:9 I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he-goats out of thy flocks.
Non accipiam de domo tua vitulos, neque de gregibus tuis hircos:

49:10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
quoniam meæ sunt omnes feræ silvarum, jumenta in montibus, et boves.

49:11 I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
Cognovi omnia volatilia cæli, et pulchritudo agri mecum est.

49:12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine and the fulness thereof.
Si esuriero, non dicam tibi: meus est enim orbis terræ et plenitudo ejus.

49:13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
Numquid manducabo carnes taurorum? aut sanguinem hircorum potabo?

49:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
Immola Deo sacrificium laudis, et redde Altissimo vota tua.

49:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Et invoca me in die tribulationis: eruam te, et honorificabis me.

49:16 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?
Peccatori autem dixit Deus: Quare tu enarras justitias meas? et assumis testamentum meum per os tuum?

49:17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
Tu vero odisti disciplinam, et projecisti sermones meos retrorsum.

49:18 If thou didst see a thief, thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been partaker.
Si videbas furem, currebas cum eo; et cum adulteris portionem tuam ponebas.

49:19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
Os tuum abundavit malitia, et lingua tua concinnabat dolos.

49:20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:
Sedens adversus fratrem tuum loquebaris, et adversus filium matris tuæ ponebas scandalum.

49:21 these things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I shall be like to thee, but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
Hæc fecisti, et tacui. Existimasti inique quod ero tui similis: arguam te, et statuam contra faciem tuam.

49:22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Intelligite hæc, qui obliviscimini Deum, nequando rapiat, et non sit qui eripiat.

49:23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.
Sacrificium laudis honorificabit me, et illic iter quo ostendam illi salutare Dei.