Salmo 140

¹Salmo de Davi, para o regente: Livra-me do homem mau, SENHOR; guarda-me dos homens violentos,

²Que pensam maldades no coração; todo dia se reúnem para fazerem guerra.

³Eles afiam suas línguas como a cobra; veneno de serpentes há debaixo de seus lábios. (Selá)

⁴Guarda-me, SENHOR, das mãos do perverso; guarda-me do homens violentos, que pensam em empurrar os meus pés.

⁵Os arrogantes me armaram ciladas e cordas; estenderam uma rede de um lado do caminho; e puseram laços de armadilhas para mim. (Selá)

⁶Eu disse ao SENHOR: Tu és meu Deus; inclina teus ouvidos à voz de minhas súplicas, SENHOR.

⁷Ó Senhor DEUS, força de minha salvação, cobriste minha cabeça no dia da batalha.

⁸Não concedas ao perverso os desejos dele, SENHOR; não permitas suceder seu plano maligno, pois senão se exaltariam. (Selá)

⁹Quanto à cabeça dos que me cercam, que a opressão de seus próprios lábios os cubra.

¹⁰Caiam sobre eles brasas vivas; faça-os cair no fogo e em covas profundas, para que não se levantem mais.

¹¹O homem de língua maligna não se firmará na terra; o mal perseguirá o homem violento até derrubá -lo.

¹²Eu sei que o SENHOR cumprirá a causa do aflito, o direito dos necessitados.

¹³Certamente os justos agradecerão ao teu nome; os corretos habitarão perante teu rosto.

¹To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

²Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

³They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

⁴Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

⁵The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

⁶I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.

⁷O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

⁸Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

⁹As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

¹⁰Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

¹¹Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

¹²I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

¹³Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

¹In finem. Psalmus David.

²Eripe me, Domine, ab homine malo; a viro iniquo eripe me.

³Qui cogitaverunt iniquitates in corde, tota die constituebant prælia.

⁴Acuerunt linguas suas sicut serpentis; venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum.

⁵Custodi me, Domine, de manu peccatoris, et ab hominibus iniquis eripe me. Qui cogitaverunt supplantare gressus meos:

⁶absconderunt superbi laqueum mihi. Et funes extenderunt in laqueum; juxta iter, scandalum posuerunt mihi.

⁷Dixi Domino: Deus meus es tu; exaudi, Domine, vocem deprecationis meæ.

⁸Domine, Domine, virtus salutis meæ, obumbrasti super caput meum in die belli.

⁹Ne tradas me, Domine, a desiderio meo peccatori: cogitaverunt contra me; ne derelinquas me, ne forte exaltentur.

¹⁰Caput circuitus eorum: labor labiorum ipsorum operiet eos.

¹¹Cadent super eos carbones; in ignem dejicies eos: in miseriis non subsistent.

¹²Vir linguosus non dirigetur in terra; virum injustum mala capient in interitu.

¹³Cognovi quia faciet Dominus judicium inopis, et vindictam pauperum.

¹⁴Verumtamen justi confitebuntur nomini tuo, et habitabunt recti cum vultu tuo.

¹Εἰς τὸ τέλος· τῷ Δαυεὶδ ψαλμός.

²Ἐξελοῦ με, Κύριε, ἐξ ἀνθρώπου πονηροῦ, ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς ἀδίκου ῥῦσαί με,

³οἵτινες ἐλογίσαντο ἀδικίας ἐν καρδίᾳ, ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν παρετάσσοντο πολέμους·

⁴ἠκόνησαν γλῶσσαν αὐτῶν ὡσεὶ ὄφεως, ἰὸς ἀσπίδων ὑπὸ τὰ χείλη αὐτῶν. διάψαλμα.

⁵φύλαξόν με, Κύριε, ἐκ χειρὸς ἁμαρτωλοῦ, ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπων ἀδίκων ἐξελοῦ με, οἵτινες ἐλογίσαντο ὑποσκελίσαι τὰ διαβήματά μου·

⁶ἔκρυψαν ὑπερήφανοι παγίδα μοι, καὶ σχοινία διέτειναν, παγίδας τοῖς ποσίν μου· ἐχόμενα τρίβου σκάνδαλον ἔθεντό μοι. διάψαλμα.

⁷εἶπα τῷ κυρίῳ Θεός μου εἶ σύ· ἐνώτισαι, Κύριε, τὴν φωνὴν τῆς δεήσεώς μου.

⁸Κύριε κύριε, δύναμις τῆς σωτηρίας μου, ἐπεσκίασας ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν μου ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πολέμου.

⁹μὴ παραδῷς με, Κύριε, ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας μου ἁμαρτωλῷ· διελογίσαντο κατ᾽ ἐμοῦ, μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς με, μή ποτε ὑψωθῶσιν. διάψαλμα.

¹⁰ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ κυκλώματος αὐτῶν, κόπος τῶν χειλέων αὐτῶν καλύψει αὐτούς.

¹¹πεσοῦνται ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἄνθρακες πυρὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ καταβαλεῖς αὐτούς. ἐν ταλαιπωρίαις οὐ μὴ ὑποστῶσιν·

¹²ἄνδρα ἄδικον κακὰ θηρεύσει εἰς καταφθοράν.

¹³ἔγνων ὅτι ποιήσει Κύριος τὴν κρίσιν τοῦ πτωχοῦ καὶ τὴν δίκην τῶν πενήτων.

¹⁴πλὴν δίκαιοι ἐξομολογήσονται τῷ ὀνόματί σου, καὶ κατοικήσουσιν εὐθεῖς ἐν τῷ προσώπῳ σου.