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- 0:33SPEAKER_00: This is Psalm 7 from the Clementine Vulgate.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord, for the words of Cush the son of Gemini.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: O Lord my God, in you I have trusted.
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: Save me from all who persecute me,
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: and deliver me,
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: lest my enemy seize my soul like a lion while there is no one to rescue or save.
- 0:55SPEAKER_00: O Lord my God,
- 0:56SPEAKER_00: if I have done this,
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: if there is iniquity in my hands,
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: if I have repaid my friend with evil,
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: Let me fall deservedly before my enemies for nothing.
- 1:06SPEAKER_00: Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it and trample my life to the ground
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: and lay my glory in the dust.
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: Arise, O Lord, in your anger.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: Exalt yourself at the borders of my enemies.
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: Arise, O Lord my God, by the command you have given.
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: Let the congregation of peoples surround you.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: Return on high for their sake.
- 1:29SPEAKER_00: The Lord judges the peoples.
- 1:32SPEAKER_00: Judge me.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to my innocence that is in me,
- 1:38SPEAKER_00: let the wickedness of sinners be brought to an end and establish the righteous,
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: you who test the hearts and minds, O God.
- 1:47SPEAKER_00: My just help is from the Lord, who saves the upright in heart.
- 1:51SPEAKER_00: God is a just judge, strong and patient.
- 1:54SPEAKER_00: Is he angry every day?
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: If you do not turn, he will wet his sword.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: He has bent his bow and made it ready.
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: In it he has prepared the weapons of death.
- 2:04SPEAKER_00: He has made his arrows burning.
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: Behold, the wicked one labors with iniquity.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: He conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.
- 2:13SPEAKER_00: He has opened a pit and dug it and has fallen into the hole he made.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: His trouble shall return upon his own head.
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: And his iniquity shall come down upon his own crown.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: I will give thanks to the Lord according to his justice,
- 2:27SPEAKER_00: and sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: Domine
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: dans mis intesperavis salvum, me fac ex omnibus persequentibus, me et libera me.
- 2:50SPEAKER_00: Nequando rapiat ut leo animam, mim dum non est qui redimat neque qui salvum facet.
- 2:59SPEAKER_00: Domine dauns mens si feci istud si est iniquitas in manibus mes.
- 3:06SPEAKER_00: Si redidi retribuentibus mi mala decidam, merito ab inimicis mens in anis.
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: Persequatur inimicus animam, mim,
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: et comprendat et conculcet in terra vitam,
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: mim, et gloriam, mim in pulverem, deducat diap salma.
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: Exsurge Domine in ira tua exaltare infinibus inimicorum meorum,
- 3:34SPEAKER_00: et exsurge Domine dans, mens in praecepto quod mandasti.
- 3:40SPEAKER_00: Et sinagoga populorum circumdabit te et propter anche in altum regredere.
- 3:49SPEAKER_00: Dominus iudicat populus iudica ame domine secundum justitiam mim et secundum
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: innocentiam mim super me.
- 3:59SPEAKER_00: Consumetur nequitia peccatorum et diriges justum et scrutans corda et renes dans.
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: Iustum adiutorium, meum, ad eo qui salvos facit, rectos corde.
- 4:15SPEAKER_00: Dans iudex justus et fortis et patiens, num qui diras citur per singulos dies.
- 4:24SPEAKER_00: Nisi conversi fueritis gladium sum vibrabit arcum sum tetendit et paravit illum.
- 4:31SPEAKER_00: Et in eo paravit vasa mortis sagitas suas ardentibuse fecit.
- 4:39SPEAKER_00: Ece parturit in justitiam et concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem.
- 4:46SPEAKER_00: Lacum aperuit et effodit eum et incidet in fovim quam fecit.
- 4:53SPEAKER_00: Convertetur dolor eius in caput eius et in verticem ipsius iniquitas eius descendet.
- 5:02SPEAKER_00: Confitebor Domino Secundum, Justitiam, Eius, et psalam nomini, Domini Altissimi.
- 5:10SPEAKER_00: Line 1.
- 5:12SPEAKER_00: Psalmus David.
- 5:14SPEAKER_00: A Psalm of David.
- 5:22SPEAKER_00: Psalmus David.
- 5:24SPEAKER_00: Quem cantavit Domino, which he sang to the Lord.
- 5:29SPEAKER_00: Quem cantavit Domino.
- 5:31SPEAKER_00: Proverbis Cusi Filii Emini.
- 5:34SPEAKER_00: Concerning the words of Cush, the son of Benjamin.
- 5:39SPEAKER_00: Proverbis Cusi Filii Emini.
- 5:42SPEAKER_00: Line 1 again.
- 5:44SPEAKER_00: Psalmus devid quem cantavid Domino Proverbis Cusi Filii Emini.
- 5:50SPEAKER_00: Line 2.
- 5:52SPEAKER_00: Domine Deus mens intesperavi salvum, me infac ex omnibus persequentibus, me et libera me.
- 6:01SPEAKER_00: Domine dos means, O Lord my God.
- 6:05SPEAKER_00: Domine dos means, Intisperavi, in you I have trusted.
- 6:11SPEAKER_00: Intisperavi.
- 6:13SPEAKER_00: Salvo me fac, save me.
- 6:16SPEAKER_00: Salvo me fac, ex omnibus persequentibus me, from all those who persecute me.
- 6:24SPEAKER_00: Ex omnibus persequentibus me, et libera me, and deliver me.
- 6:31SPEAKER_00: Line 2 again.
- 6:32SPEAKER_00: Line 3.
- 6:32SPEAKER_00: Lest he tear my soul like a lion.
- 7:00SPEAKER_00: Nequando rapiatut, Leo, animam mim.
- 7:04SPEAKER_00: Dum non est qui redimat.
- 7:07SPEAKER_00: While there is no one a rescue.
- 7:09SPEAKER_00: Dum non est qui redimat.
- 7:13SPEAKER_00: Neque qui salvum facet.
- 7:15SPEAKER_00: Nor anyone to save.
- 7:17SPEAKER_00: Neque qui salvum facet.
- 7:20SPEAKER_00: Line three again.
- 7:22SPEAKER_00: Nequando rapiat ut leo animam, mimdum non est qui redimat neque qui salvum facet.
- 7:30SPEAKER_00: Line 4.
- 7:32SPEAKER_00: Domine dos means, si feci istud, si est iniquitas in manibus mes.
- 7:40SPEAKER_00: Domine dos means, O Lord my God!
- 7:44SPEAKER_00: Domine dos means,
- 7:46SPEAKER_00: si feci istud,
- 7:48SPEAKER_00: if I have done this,
- 7:50SPEAKER_00: si feci istud, Si est iniquitas in manibus meis, if there is injustice in my hands.
- 7:58SPEAKER_00: Si est iniquitas in manibus meis.
- 8:01SPEAKER_00: Line 4 again.
- 8:04SPEAKER_00: Domine daus meis si feci istud si est iniquitas in manibus meis.
- 8:11SPEAKER_00: Line 5.
- 8:13SPEAKER_00: Si redidi retribuentibus mi mala decidam, merito ab inimicis meis inanis.
- 8:23SPEAKER_00: If I have repaid evil to one who is at peace with me.
- 8:27SPEAKER_00: Decidam merito ab inimicis mei sinanis.
- 8:31SPEAKER_00: Decidam merito ab inimicis mei sinanis.
- 8:36SPEAKER_00: Line 5 again.
- 8:46SPEAKER_00: Si redi di retribuentibus mi mala decidam, merito ab inimicis mesin anis.
- 8:53SPEAKER_00: Line 6 Persequatur inimicus animam mim et comprendat et conculcet
- 9:00SPEAKER_00: in terra vitam mim et gloriam mim in pulverem deducat diap salma.
- 9:08SPEAKER_00: Persequatur inimicus animam mim Let the enemy pursue my soul.
- 9:14SPEAKER_00: Persequatur inimicus animam mim.
- 9:17SPEAKER_00: Et comprendat and overtake it.
- 9:21SPEAKER_00: Et comprendat.
- 9:23SPEAKER_00: Et conculcet in terra vita mim.
- 9:26SPEAKER_00: And trample my life into the ground.
- 9:29SPEAKER_00: Et conculcet in terra vita mim.
- 9:32SPEAKER_00: Et gloriam mim impulverem deducat.
- 9:36SPEAKER_00: And lay my honor in the dust.
- 9:39SPEAKER_00: Et gloriam mim impulverem deducat.
- 9:44SPEAKER_00: Diapsalma, a musical interlude, or cue for reflection.
- 9:49SPEAKER_00: Diapsalma.
- 9:50SPEAKER_00: Line 6 again.
- 9:53SPEAKER_00: Per sequatur inimicus animam mim et comprendat et conculcit in terra vitam,
- 10:00SPEAKER_00: mim et gloriam, mim in pulverim, deducat diapsalma.
- 10:05SPEAKER_00: Line 7.
- 10:07SPEAKER_00: Exurge, Domine,
- 10:08SPEAKER_00: in ira tua,
- 10:09SPEAKER_00: exaltare infinibus inimicorum meorum,
- 10:12SPEAKER_00: et exurge, Domine, dans mens, in praecepto, quod mandasti.
- 10:19SPEAKER_00: Exurge, Domine, in ira tua, arise, O Lord, in your anger.
- 10:25SPEAKER_00: Exurge, Domine,
- 10:27SPEAKER_00: in ira tua,
- 10:29SPEAKER_00: exaltare infinibus inimicorum meorum, be exalted at the borders of my enemies.
- 10:36SPEAKER_00: Exaltare infinibus inimicorum meorum.
- 10:40SPEAKER_00: Et exurge Domine Deus mis.
- 10:44SPEAKER_00: And arise, O Lord my God.
- 10:47SPEAKER_00: Et exurge Domine Deus mis.
- 10:51SPEAKER_00: Impraecepto quod mandasti.
- 10:54SPEAKER_00: According to the command you have given.
- 10:57SPEAKER_00: Impraecepto quod mandasti.
- 11:00SPEAKER_00: Line 7 again.
- 11:03SPEAKER_00: Exurget Domine in ira tua exaltare infinibus inimicorum meorum,
- 11:08SPEAKER_00: et exurget Domine dans mens in praecepto quod mandasti.
- 11:14SPEAKER_00: Line A.
- 11:16SPEAKER_00: Et Synagoga populorum circumdabit te, et propter, anche in altum regredere.
- 11:23SPEAKER_00: Et Synagoga populorum circumdabit te, and the assembly of peoples will surround you.
- 11:31SPEAKER_00: Et synagoga populorum circundabit te.
- 11:35SPEAKER_00: Et propter anche in altum regredere.
- 11:39SPEAKER_00: And for their sake, return on high.
- 11:42SPEAKER_00: Et propter anche in altum regredere.
- 11:45SPEAKER_00: Line 8 again.
- 11:47SPEAKER_00: Et synagoga populorum circundabit te.
- 11:51SPEAKER_00: Et propter anche in altum regredere.
- 11:55SPEAKER_00: Line 9.
- 11:57SPEAKER_00: Dominus iudicat populus iudica me domine secundum justitiam mim et secundum
- 12:03SPEAKER_00: innocentiam mim super me.
- 12:07SPEAKER_00: Dominus iudicat populus.
- 12:09SPEAKER_00: The Lord judges the peoples.
- 12:12SPEAKER_00: Dominus iudicat populus.
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: Iudica me domine secundum justitiam mim.
- 12:19SPEAKER_00: Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness.
- 12:24SPEAKER_00: Iudica me domine secundum justitiam mim,
- 12:29SPEAKER_00: et secundum innocentiam mim super me, and according to my integrity within me.
- 12:36SPEAKER_00: Et secundum innocentiam mim super me.
- 12:39SPEAKER_00: Line on again.
- 12:41SPEAKER_00: Dominus iudicat populus iudica me domine secundum justitiam mim,
- 12:47SPEAKER_00: et secundum innocentiam mim super me.
- 12:51SPEAKER_00: Line 10.
- 12:53SPEAKER_00: Consummetur nequitia peccatorum.
- 13:04SPEAKER_00: Let the wickedness of sinners come to an end.
- 13:08SPEAKER_00: Consummetur nequitia peccatorum.
- 13:12SPEAKER_00: Et diriges justum.
- 13:13SPEAKER_00: And you will establish the righteous.
- 13:16SPEAKER_00: Et diriges justum.
- 13:19SPEAKER_00: Et scrutans corda et renis deus.
- 13:22SPEAKER_00: God, who examines hearts and minds.
- 13:26SPEAKER_00: Et scrutans corda et renis deus.
- 13:29SPEAKER_00: Line 10 again.
- 13:31SPEAKER_00: Consumetur nequitia peccatorum et diriges justum et scrutans corda et renis deus.
- 13:39SPEAKER_00: Line 11.
- 13:41SPEAKER_00: Justum adiutorium meum ad eo qui salvos facit rectos corde.
- 13:47SPEAKER_00: Justum adiutorium meum a Deo.
- 13:50SPEAKER_00: My righteous help comes from God.
- 13:52SPEAKER_00: Justum adiutorium meum a Deo.
- 13:56SPEAKER_00: Qui salvos facit rectos corde.
- 13:59SPEAKER_00: Who saves those upright in heart.
- 14:02SPEAKER_00: Qui salvos facit rectos corde.
- 14:05SPEAKER_00: Line 11 again.
- 14:07SPEAKER_00: Justum adiutorium meum a Deo qui salvos facit rectos corde.
- 14:13SPEAKER_00: Line 12.
- 14:15SPEAKER_00: Deus iudex justus et fortis et patiens.
- 14:19SPEAKER_00: God is a righteous judge, strong and patient.
- 14:23SPEAKER_00: Deus iudex justus et fortis et patiens.
- 14:28SPEAKER_00: Does he become angry every day?
- 14:44SPEAKER_00: Nuncui dirascitur per singulos dies.
- 14:47SPEAKER_00: Line 12 again.
- 14:49SPEAKER_00: Dens iudex justus et fortis et patiens.
- 14:54SPEAKER_00: Nuncui dirascitur per singulos dies.
- 14:57SPEAKER_00: Line 13.
- 14:59SPEAKER_00: Nisi conversi fueritis gladium sum vibrabit arcum sum tetendit et paravitillum.
- 15:06SPEAKER_00: Nisi conversi fueritis.
- 15:09SPEAKER_00: Unless you turn back.
- 15:11SPEAKER_00: Nisi conversi fueritis.
- 15:14SPEAKER_00: Gladium sum vibrabit.
- 15:16SPEAKER_00: He will sharpen his sword.
- 15:18SPEAKER_00: Gladium sum vibrabit.
- 15:21SPEAKER_00: Arcum sum tetendit.
- 15:23SPEAKER_00: He has bent his bow.
- 15:25SPEAKER_00: Arcum sum tetendit.
- 15:28SPEAKER_00: Et paravitillum.
- 15:29SPEAKER_00: And prepared it.
- 15:31SPEAKER_00: Et paravitillum.
- 15:33SPEAKER_00: Line 13 again.
- 15:35SPEAKER_00: Nisi conversi fueritis gladium sum vibrabit arcum sum tetendit et paravitillum.
- 15:42SPEAKER_00: Line 14.
- 15:44SPEAKER_00: Et in eo paravit vasa mortis sagittas suas ardentibus effecit.
- 15:51SPEAKER_00: Et in eo paravit vasa mortis.
- 15:54SPEAKER_00: And in it he has readied instruments of death.
- 15:58SPEAKER_00: Et in eo paravit vasa mortis.
- 16:02SPEAKER_00: Sagittas suas ardentibus effecit.
- 16:05SPEAKER_00: He has made his arrows fiery.
- 16:08SPEAKER_00: Sagittas suas ardentibus effecit.
- 16:12SPEAKER_00: Line 14 again.
- 16:15SPEAKER_00: Et in eo paravit vasa mortis sagittas suas ardentibus effecit.
- 16:21SPEAKER_00: Line 15.
- 16:23SPEAKER_00: Ecce parturit in justitiam et concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem.
- 16:30SPEAKER_00: Ecce parturit in justitiam.
- 16:32SPEAKER_00: Behold, he labors with iniquity.
- 16:36SPEAKER_00: Ecce parturit in justitiam et concepit dolorem and conceive trouble.
- 16:43SPEAKER_00: Et concepit dolorem, et peperit iniquitatem, and gives birth to falsehood.
- 16:50SPEAKER_00: Et peperit iniquitatem.
- 16:52SPEAKER_00: Line 15 again.
- 16:55SPEAKER_00: Et ce parturit in justitiam, et concepit dolorem, et peperit iniquitatem.
- 17:01SPEAKER_00: Line 16.
- 17:03SPEAKER_00: Lacum aperuit et effo di teum, et incidet in fovim quam fecit.
- 17:12SPEAKER_00: He dug a pit and hollowed it out.
- 17:15SPEAKER_00: And he will fall into the hole he made.
- 17:17SPEAKER_00: Line 16 again.
- 17:18SPEAKER_00: Line 17.
- 17:36SPEAKER_00: Convertetur dolor eius in caput eius, et in verticem ipsius iniquitas eius descendet.
- 17:45SPEAKER_00: Convertetur dolor eius in caput eius.
- 17:50SPEAKER_00: His trouble will return upon his own head.
- 17:53SPEAKER_00: Convertetur dolor eius in caput eius, et in verticem ipsius iniquitas eius descendet.
- 18:03SPEAKER_00: And his own iniquity will descend upon his crown.
- 18:07SPEAKER_00: Et in verticem ipsius iniquitas eius descendet.
- 18:12SPEAKER_00: Line 17 again.
- 18:14SPEAKER_00: Convertetur dolor eius in caput eius et in verticem ipsius iniquitas eius descendet.
- 18:23SPEAKER_00: Line 18.
- 18:25SPEAKER_00: Confitebor Domino Secundum Justitiam eius et psalam nomini Domini Altissimi.
- 18:33SPEAKER_00: Confitebor Domino Secundum Justitia Meius.
- 18:37SPEAKER_00: I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness.
- 18:42SPEAKER_00: Confitebor Domino Secundum Justitia Meius.
- 18:47SPEAKER_00: Et psalam nomini domini altissimi.
- 18:50SPEAKER_00: And I will sing praise to the name of the Most High Lord.
- 18:55SPEAKER_00: Et psalam nomini domini altissimi.
- 18:58SPEAKER_00: Line 18 again.
- 19:01SPEAKER_00: Confitebor Domino Secundum Justitiam Eius et Psalam Nomini Domini Altissimi.
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