Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Psalms 54:6-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.

7. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?

8. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.

9. I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.

10. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

11. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,

12. and injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.

13. For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.

14. But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,

15. Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.

16. Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

17. But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me.

18. Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.