Israel’s enemies band together from all sides against her, bent upon her destruction. Confident that God will not abandon his people, the psalmist invokes God’s vengeance upon the foe.
Psalm 82: Prayer Audio in Latin
{82:1} Canticum Psalmi Asaph.
{82:1} A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.
{82:2} Deus, quis similis erit tibi? ne taceas, neque compescaris Deus:
{82:2} O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.
{82:3} Quoniam ecce inimici tui sonuerunt: et qui oderunt te, extulerunt caput.
{82:3} For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.
{82:4} Super populum tuum malignaverunt consilium: et cogitaverunt adversus sanctos tuos.
{82:4} They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.
{82:5} Dixerunt: Venite, et disperdamus eos de gente: et non memoretur nomen Israel ultra.
{82:5} They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”
{82:6} Quoniam cogitaverunt unanimiter: simul adversum te testamentum disposuerunt,
{82:6} For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:
{82:7} tabernacula Idumæorum et Ismahelitæ: Moab, et Agareni,
{82:7} the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,
{82:8} Gebal, et Ammon, et Amalec: alienigenæ cum habitantibus Tyrum.
{82:8} and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.
{82:9} Etenim Assur venit cum illis: facti sunt in adiutorium filiis Lot.
{82:9} For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.
{82:10} Fac illis sicut Madian et Sisaræ: sicut Iabin in torrente Cisson.
{82:10} Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.
{82:11} Disperierunt in Endor: facti sunt ut stercus terræ.
{82:11} They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.
{82:12} Pone principes eorum sicut Oreb, et Zeb, et Zebee, et Salmana: Omnes principes eorum:
{82:12} Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders
{82:13} qui dixerunt: Hereditate possideamus Sanctuarium Dei.
{82:13} who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”
{82:14} Deus meus pone illos ut rotam: et sicut stipulam ante faciem venti.
{82:14} My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.
{82:15} Sicut ignis, qui comburit silvam: et sicut flamma comburens montes:
{82:15} Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.
{82:16} Ita persequeris illos in tempestate tua: et in ira tua turbabis eos.
{82:16} So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.
{82:17} Imple facies eorum ignominia: et quærent nomen tuum, Domine.
{82:17} Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.
{82:18} Erubescant, et conturbentur in sæculum sæculi: et confundantur, et pereant.
{82:18} Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.
{82:19} Et cognoscant quia nomen tibi Dominus: tu solus Altissimus in omni terra.
{82:19} And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.
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