Comparison
Psalms 72
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart! | Psalmus Asaph. Quam bonus Israël Deus, his qui recto sunt corde! |
| 2 | But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped. | Mei autem pene moti sunt pedes, pene effusi sunt gressus mei: |
| 3 | Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. | quia zelavi super iniquos, pacem peccatorum videns. |
| 4 | For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes. | Quia non est respectus morti eorum, et firmamentum in plaga eorum. |
| 5 | They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. | In labore hominum non sunt, et cum hominibus non flagellabuntur. |
| 6 | Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness. | Ideo tenuit eos superbia; operti sunt iniquitate et impietate sua. |
| 7 | Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart. | Prodiit quasi ex adipe iniquitas eorum; transierunt in affectum cordis. |
| 8 | They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high. | Cogitaverunt et locuti sunt nequitiam; iniquitatem in excelso locuti sunt. |
| 9 | They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth. | Posuerunt in caelum os suum, et lingua eorum transivit in terra. |
| 10 | Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them. | Ideo convertetur populus meus hic, et dies pleni invenientur in eis. |
| 11 | And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? | Et dixerunt: Quomodo scit Deus, et si est scientia in excelso? |
| 12 | Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches. | Ecce ipsi peccatores, et abundantes in saeculo obtinuerunt divitias. |
| 13 | And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent. | Et dixi: Ergo sine causa iustificavi cor meum, et lavi inter innocentes manus meas, |
| 14 | And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings. | et fui flagellatus tota die, et castigatio mea in matutinis. |
| 15 | If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children. | Si dicebam: Narrabo sic; ecce nationem filiorum tuorum reprobavi. |
| 16 | I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight: | Existimabam ut cognoscerem hoc; labor est ante me: |
| 17 | Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends. | donec intrem in sanctuarium Dei, et intelligam in novissimis eorum. |
| 18 | But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. | Verumtamen propter dolos posuisti eis; deiecisti eos dum allevarentur. |
| 19 | How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity. | Quomodo facti sunt in desolationem? subito defecerunt: perierunt propter iniquitatem suam. |
| 20 | As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing. | Velut somnium surgentium, Domine, in civitate tua imaginem ipsorum ad nihilum rediges. |
| 21 | For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: | Quia inflammatum est cor meum, et renes mei commutati sunt; |
| 22 | And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not. | et ego ad nihilum redactus sum, et nescivi: |
| 23 | I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee. | ut iumentum factus sum apud te, et ego semper tecum. |
| 24 | Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me. | Tenuisti manum dexteram meam, et in voluntate tua deduxisti me, et cum gloria suscepisti me. |
| 25 | For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth? | Quid enim mihi est in caelo? et a te quid volui super terram? |
| 26 | For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever. | Defecit caro mea et cor meum; Deus cordis mei, et pars mea, Deus in aeternum. |
| 27 | For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee. | Quia ecce qui elongant se a te peribunt; perdidisti omnes qui fornicantur abs te. |
| 28 | But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion. | Mihi autem adhaerere Deo bonum est; ponere in Domino Deo spem meam: ut annuntiem omnes praedicationes tuas in portis filiae Sion. |
