Then the heads of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and the overseers of the king's possessions promised,
Psalm 57:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; Let thy glory be above all the earth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let Your glory be over all the earth! American Standard Version (1901) Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; Let thy glory be above all the earth. Common English Bible Exalt yourself, God, higher than heaven! Let your glory be over all the earth! Catholic Public Domain Version Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears: |
Then the heads of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and the overseers of the king's possessions promised,
The high praise of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands:
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
5 They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.
To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jeremias and Ezechiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go out. A Hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem.
Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.
5 Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.
1 By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear:
Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.
9 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.
The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.
8 I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
1 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.
O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.
1 The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.