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title: "Psalm 57 (58) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
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description: "Psalm 57 (Psalm 58 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Si vere utique. David reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their punishment."
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# Psalm 57 (58)

Psalm 57 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 58 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 12 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Si vere utique. David reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their punishment.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 57 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.
2. If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you sons of men.
3. For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.
4. Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
5. Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,
6. who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
7. God will crush their teeth within their own mouth. The Lord will break the molars of the lions.
8. They will come to nothing, like water flowing away. He has aimed his bow, while they are being weakened.
9. Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not see the sun.
10. Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.
11. The just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
12. And man will say, “If the just one is fruitful, then, truly, there is a God judging them on earth.”

## Psalm 57 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In finem, ne disperdas. David in tituli inscriptionem.
2. Si vere utique justitiam loquimini, recta judicate, filii hominum.
3. Etenim in corde iniquitates operamini; in terra injustitias manus vestræ concinnant.
4. Alienati sunt peccatores a vulva; erraverunt ab utero: locuti sunt falsa.
5. Furor illis secundum similitudinem serpentis, sicut aspidis surdæ et obturantis aures suas,
6. quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium, et venefici incantantis sapienter.
7. Deus conteret dentes eorum in ore ipsorum; molas leonum confringet Dominus.
8. Ad nihilum devenient tamquam aqua decurrens; intendit arcum suum donec infirmentur.
9. Sicut cera quæ fluit auferentur; supercecidit ignis, et non viderunt solem.
10. Priusquam intelligerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum, sicut viventes sic in ira absorbet eos.
11. Lætabitur justus cum viderit vindictam; manus suas lavabit in sanguine peccatoris.
12. Et dicet homo: Si utique est fructus justo, utique est Deus judicans eos in terra.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 10: “Before your thorns” … That is, before your thorns grow up, so as to become strong briers, they shall be overtaken and consumed by divine justice, swallowing them up, as it were, alive in his wrath.
- Verse 11: Shall applaud the justice of God, and take occasion from the consideration of the punishment of the wicked to wash and cleanse his hands from sin.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).