Psaumes 14

1Au maître de chant. De David. L’insensé dit dans son cœur : « Il n’y a point de Dieu !… » Ils sont corrompus, ils commettent des actions abominables ; il n’en est aucun qui fasse le bien.

2Yahweh, du haut des cieux regarde les fils de l’homme, pour voir s’il est quelqu’un de sage, quelqu’un qui cherche Dieu.

3Tous sont égarés, tous ensemble sont pervertis ; il n’en est pas un qui fasse le bien, pas un seul !

4N’ont-ils pas de connaissance, tous ceux qui commettent l’iniquité ? Ils dévorent mon peuple, comme ils mangent du pain ; ils n’invoquent point Yahweh.

5Ils trembleront tout à coup d’épouvante, car Dieu est au milieu de la race juste.

6Vous voulez confondre les projets du malheureux ! Mais Yahweh est son refuge.

7Oh ! puisse venir de Sion la délivrance d’Israël ! Quand Yahweh ramènera les captifs de son peuple, Jacob sera dans la joie, Israël dans l’allégresse.

1In finem. Psalmus David. [Dixit insipiens in corde suo: Non est Deus. Corrupti sunt, et abominabiles facti sunt in studiis suis; non est qui faciat bonum, non est usque ad unum.

2Dominus de cælo prospexit super filios hominum, ut videat si est intelligens, aut requirens Deum.

3Omnes declinaverunt, simul inutiles facti sunt. Non est qui faciat bonum, non est usque ad unum. Sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum; linguis suis dolose agebant. Venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum, quorum os maledictione et amaritudine plenum est; veloces pedes eorum ad effundendum sanguinem. Contritio et infelicitas in viis eorum, et viam pacis non cognoverunt; non est timor Dei ante oculos eorum.

4Nonne cognoscent omnes qui operantur iniquitatem, qui devorant plebem meam sicut escam panis?

5Dominum non invocaverunt; illic trepidaverunt timore, ubi non erat timor.

6Quoniam Dominus in generatione justa est: consilium inopis confudistis, quoniam Dominus spes ejus est.

7Quis dabit ex Sion salutare Israël? Cum averterit Dominus captivitatem plebis suæ, exsultabit Jacob, et lætabitur Israël.]

1Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.

2The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.

3They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

4Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

5They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.

6For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man, but the Lord is his hope.

7Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.