| 2 σῶσόν με κύριε ὅτι ἐκλέλοιπεν ὅσιος ὅτι ὠλιγώθησαν αἱ ἀλήθειαι ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων 3 μάταια ἐλάλησεν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ χείλη δόλια ἐν καρδίᾳ καὶ ἐν καρδίᾳ ἐλάλησαν 4 ἐξολεθρεύσαι κύριος πάντα τὰ χείλη τὰ δόλια καὶ γλῶσσαν μεγαλορήμονα 5 τοὺς εἰπόντας τὴν γλῶσσαν ἡμῶν μεγαλυνοῦμεν τὰ χείλη ἡμῶν πα{R'} ἡμῶν ἐστιν τίς ἡμῶν κύριός ἐστιν 6 ἀπὸ τῆς ταλαιπωρίας τῶν πτωχῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ στεναγμοῦ τῶν πενήτων νῦν ἀναστήσομαι λέγει κύριος θήσομαι ἐν σωτηρίᾳ παρρησιάσομαι ἐν αὐτῷ 7 τὰ λόγια κυρίου λόγια ἁγνά ἀργύριον πεπυρωμένον δοκίμιον τῇ γῇ κεκαθαρισμένον ἑπταπλασίως 8 σύ κύριε φυλάξεις ἡμᾶς καὶ διατηρήσεις ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς ταύτης καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα |
2 Lord, come to my rescue; piety is dead; in a base world, true hearts have grown rare. 3 None but exchanges empty forms of speech with his neighbour; everywhere false hearts and treacherous lips. 4 Those treacherous lips, that tongue with high-sounding phrases; Lord, rid the earth of them! 5 With our tongues, they say, we can do great things; our lips are good friends to us; we own no master. 6 Now, says the Lord, I will bestir myself, on behalf of the helpless who are so ill used, of the poor who cry out so bitterly; I will win them the redress they long for. 7 The promises of the Lord are true metal, like silver that is tested in the crucible, the stains of earth gone, seven times refined. 8 Yes, Lord, thou wilt watch over us, and keep us ever safe from these evil days. |
2 Salvum me fac, Domine, quoniam defecit sanctus,
quoniam diminutæ sunt veritates a filiis hominum. 3
Vana locuti sunt unusquisque ad proximum suum;
labia dolosa, in corde et corde locuti sunt. 4
Disperdat Dominus universa labia dolosa,
et linguam magniloquam. 5
Qui dixerunt: Linguam nostram magnificabimus;
labia nostra a nobis sunt.
Quis noster dominus est? 6
Propter miseriam inopum, et gemitum pauperum,
nunc exsurgam, dicit Dominus.
Ponam in salutari;
fiducialiter agam in eo. 7
Eloquia Domini, eloquia casta; argentum igne examinatum,
probatum terræ, purgatum septuplum. 8
Tu, Domine, servabis nos,
et custodies nos a generatione hac in æternum. |