King David gratefully celebrateth the two general divine virtues, Mercy and Justice: 2. by his own example exhorteth all, especially Superiors, to direct their ways in sincerity, 4. and to separate the wicked from conversation of the good.King Dauid gratfully celebrateth the two general diuine vertues, Mercie and Iustice: 2. by his owne example exhorteth al, especially Superiors, to direct their wayes in sinceritie, 4. and to seperate the wicked from conuersation of the good.✦
A Psalm to David himself. Mercy and judgement I will sing to thee O Lord: I will sing,A Psalm to David himself. Mercy and judgement I will sing to thee O Lord: I will sing,A Psalme to Dauid himselfe. MERCIE aand iudgement I wil sing to thee ô Lord: I wil sing,Psalmus ipsi David. Misericordiam et judicium cantabo tibi, Domine ; psallam,
2and I shall understand in the immaculata: blameless, without moral stain; not spotlessly clean way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked through in the innocency of my heart, in the midst of my house.and I shall understand in the immaculata: blameless, without moral stain; not spotlessly clean way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked through in the innocency of my heart, in the midst of my house.and I bshal vnderstand in the immaculate way, cwhen thou shalt come to me. I walked through in the inocencie of my hart, in the middes of my house.et intelligam in via immaculata : quando venies ad me ? Perambulabam in innocentia cordis mei, in medio domus meæ.
3I did not propose before mine eyes any unjust thing: I hated them that do Douay: prevarication · praevaricationes: transgression, breaking of the law; not evasive speech, equivocation.I did not propose before mine eyes any unjust thing: I hated them that do praevaricationes: transgression, breaking of the law; not evasive speech, equivocation.I did not propose before mine eies any vniust thing: I hated them that do preuarication.Non proponebam ante oculos meos rem injustam ; facientes prævaricationes odivi ; non adhæsit mihi
4A pravum: turned aside, crooked, wrong-directed; not wilfully contrary or depraved heart Douay: hath not cleaved to me: the malignant declining from me I knew not.A pravum: turned aside, crooked, wrong-directed; not wilfully contrary or depraved heart hath not cleaved to me: the malignant declining from me I knew not.A peruerse hart hath not cleaued to me: the malignant declining from me I knew not.cor pravum ; declinantem a me malignum non cognoscebam.
5One secretly detrahentem: slandering, backbiting; not diminishing, taking away from from his neighbour, him did I persecute. One of a proud eye, and insatiable heart, with him I did not eat.One secretly detrahentem: slandering, backbiting; not diminishing, taking away from from his neighbour, him did I persecute. One of a proud eye, and insatiable heart, with him I did not eat.dOne secretly detracting from his neighbour, him did I persecute. One of a proud eye, and vnsatiable hart, with him I did not eate.Detrahentem secreto proximo suo, hunc persequebar : superbo oculo, et insatiabili corde, cum hoc non edebam.
6Mine eyes are towards the faithful of the earth that they may sit with me. A man that Douay: walketh in the immaculate way, he did ministrabat: to serve, wait upon; not member of the clergy to me.Mine eyes are towards the faithful of the earth that they may sit with me. A man that walketh in the immaculate way, he did ministrabat: to serve, wait upon; not member of the clergy to me.Mine eies are towards the faithful of the earth that they may sit with me. A man that walketh in the immaculate way, ehe did minister to me.Oculi mei ad fideles terræ, ut sedeant mecum ; ambulans in via immaculata, hic mihi ministrabat.
7He that Douay: doth proudly shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that Douay: speaketh unjust things, Douay: hath not directed in the sight of mine eyes.He that doth proudly shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things, hath not directed in the sight of mine eyes.He that doth proudly shal not dwel in the middes of my house: he that speaketh vniust thinges, hath fnot directed in the sight of mine eies.Non habitabit in medio domus meæ qui facit superbiam ; qui loquitur iniqua non direxit in conspectu oculorum meorum.
8In the morning did I kill all the sinners of the earth: that I might destroy out of the city of our Lord, all those that work iniquity.In the morning did I kill all the sinners of the earth: that I might destroy out of the city of our Lord, all those that work iniquity.In gthe morning did I kil al the sinners of the earth: that I might destroy hout of the citie of our Lord, al those that worke iniquitie.In matutino interficiebam omnes peccatores terræ, ut disperderem de civitate Domini omnes operantes iniquitatem.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition. Also available: Plantin Louvain (Latin).