72 — Salmi

1A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!Salmo di Asaph. Quanto è mai buono Iddio con Israele; con quelli, che son di cuor retto!A Psalme to Asaph. HOW good is God to Israel, to them, that are of a right hart!Psalmus Asaph. Quam bonus Israël Deus, / his qui recto sunt corde ! 2But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.Ma poco mancò, che i miei piedi non vacillassero, e che non uscisser di strada i miei passi.But my feete were almost moued, my steppes almost slipped.Mei autem pene moti sunt pedes, / pene effusi sunt gressus mei: 3Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.Perché io fui punto da zelo verso gli iniqui, in osservando la pace de' peccatori:Because I haue had zele vpon the wicked, seing the peace of sinners.quia zelavi super iniquos, / pacem peccatorum videns. 4For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.Perché non pensano alla loro morte, e non son di durata le loro piaghe.Because there is no respect to their death: and stabilitie in ther plague.Quia non est respectus morti eorum, / et firmamentum in plaga eorum. 5They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.Non hanno parte alle afflizioni degli uomini, e con gli uomini non son flagellati.In the labours of men they are not, and with men they shal not be scourged.In labore hominum non sunt, / et cum hominibus non flagellabuntur. 6Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.Per questo la superbia li prese: son ricoperti della loro iniquità, ad empietà.Therfore hath pride helde them, they are couered with their iniquitie and impietie.Ideo tenuit eos superbia; / operti sunt iniquitate et impietate sua. 7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.Dalla grassezza in certo modo scaturì la loro iniquità: si sono abbandonati agli affetti del loro cuore.Their iniquitie hath proceded as it were of fatte: they haue passed into the affection of the hart.Prodiit quasi ex adipe iniquitas eorum; / transierunt in affectum cordis. 8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.Pensano, e parlano malvagità: da luogo sublime ragionano di far del male.They haue thought, and haue spoken wickednes they haue spoken iniquitie on high.Cogitaverunt et locuti sunt nequitiam; / iniquitatem in excelso locuti sunt.

9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.Han messa in cielo la loro bocca: e la loro lingua va scorrendo la terra.They haue sette their mouth vnto heauen: ad their tongue hath passed in the earth.Posuerunt in cælum os suum, / et lingua eorum transivit in terra. 10Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.Per questo il popolo mio a tali cose si rivolge: e giorni trova di piena afflizione.Therfore wil my people returne here: and ful daies shal be found in them.Ideo convertetur populus meus hic, / et dies pleni invenientur in eis. 11And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?E hanno detto: Come mai Iddio sa questo? e l'Altissimo ne ha egli notizia?And they haue saide: How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the highest?Et dixerunt: Quomodo scit Deus, / et si est scientia in excelso ? 12Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.Ecco che i peccatori medesimi, e i fortunati del secolo han raunate ricchezze.Loe the sinners them selues, and they that abounde in the world, haue obtained riches.Ecce ipsi peccatores, et abundantes in sæculo / obtinuerunt divitias. 13And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.E io dissi; Senza motivo adunque purificai il mio cuore, e lavai le mani mie cogli innocenti:And I saide: Then haue I iustified my hart without cause, and haue washed my handes amongst innocentes:Et dixi: Ergo sine causa justificavi cor meum, / et lavi inter innocentes manus meas, 14And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.E fui tutto dì flagellato, e fui sotto la sferza di gran mattino.And haue bene scourged al the day, and my chastising in the morninges.et fui flagellatus tota die, / et castigatio mea in matutinis. 15If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.Se io pensassi di ragionare così: ecco che io condannerei la nazione de' tuoi figliuoli.If I saide: I wil speake this: behold I reproued the nation of thy children.Si dicebam: Narrabo sic; / ecce nationem filiorum tuorum reprobavi. 16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:Mi studiava di intender questo: cosa laboriosa è questa, che mi si pone davanti:I thought to know this thing, it is labour before me:Existimabam ut cognoscerem hoc; / labor est ante me: 17Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.Per sino a tanto ch'io entri nel santuario di Dio, e intenda qual sia la fine di coloro.Vntil I may enter into the sanctuarie of God: and may vnderstand concerning their latter endes.donec intrem in sanctuarium Dei, / et intelligam in novissimis eorum.

18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.Peraltro in ingannevole felicità gli hai posti: tu gli hai gettati a terra nell'atto, che si levavano in alto.But yet for guiles thou hast put it to them: thou hast cast them downe whiles they were eleuated.Verumtamen propter dolos posuisti eis; / dejecisti eos dum allevarentur. 19How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.Come mai son eglino ridotti in desolazione; son venuti meno a un tratta; sono andati in perdizione per la loro iniquità.How are they brought into desolation, they haue failed sodanely: they haue perished for their iniquitie.Quomodo facti sunt in desolationem ? / subito defecerunt: perierunt propter iniquitatem suam. 20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.Come il sogno di un che si sveglia, così tu nella tua città, o Signore, ridurrai nel nulla l'immagine di costoro.As the dreame of them that rise ô Lord, in thy citie thou shalt bring their image to nothing.Velut somnium surgentium, Domine, / in civitate tua imaginem ipsorum ad nihilum rediges. 21For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:Ma perché il mio cuore fu in tormento, ed ebber tortura gli affetti miei,Because my hart is inflamed, and my reynes are changed:Quia inflammatum est cor meum, / et renes mei commutati sunt; 22And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.ed io fui annichilato senza sapere il perché;And I am brought to nothing, and knew not.et ego ad nihilum redactus sum, et nescivi: 23I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.E fui qual giumento dinanzi a te, e mi tenni sempre con te;As a beast am I become with thee: and I alwaies with thee.ut jumentum factus sum apud te, / et ego semper tecum. 24Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.Mi prendesti per la mia destra, e secondo la volontà tua mi conducesti, e con onore mi accogliesti.Thou hast helde my right hand: and in thy wil thou hast conducted me, and with glorie thou hast receiued me.Tenuisti manum dexteram meam, / et in voluntate tua deduxisti me, / et cum gloria suscepisti me. 25For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?Imperocché qual cosa havvi mai per me nel cielo, e che volli io da te sopra la terra?For what is to me in heauen? and besides thee what would I vpon the earth?Quid enim mihi est in cælo ? / et a te quid volui super terram ?

26For 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.La carne mia, e il mio cuore vien meno, o Dio del mio cuore, e mia porzione, o Dio, nell'eternità.My flesh hath fainted, and my hart: God of my hart, and God my portion for euer.Defecit caro mea et cor meum; / Deus cordis mei, et pars mea, Deus in æternum. 27For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.Imperocché ecco che coloro, che da te si allontanano, periranno: tu manderai in perdizione tutti coloro, che a te rompon la fede.For behold, they that make them selues faire from thee, shal perish: thou hast destroyed al, that fornicate from thee.Quia ecce qui elongant se a te peribunt; / perdidisti omnes qui fornicantur abs te. 28But 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.Ma per me buona cosa ell'è lo star unito con Dio: il porre in Dio Signore la mia speranza: Affinchè tutte le tue laudi io annunzi alle porte della figliuola di Sion.But it is good for me to cleaue to God: to put my hope in our Lord God: That I may shew forth al thy prayses, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.Mihi autem adhærere Deo bonum est; / ponere in Domino Deo spem meam: / ut annuntiem omnes prædicationes tuas / in portis filiæ Sion.