Good Friday Tract: Eripe me, Domine

Good Friday Tract: Eripe me, Domine (Ps. 139:2-10,14)

Eripe me, Domine, ab homine malo: a viro iniquo libera me. Qui cogitaverunt malitias in corde: tota die constituebant praelia. Acuerunt linguas suas sicut serpentes: venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum. Custodi me, Domine, de manu peccatoris: et ab hominibus iniquis libera me. Qui cogitaverunt supplantare gressus meos: absconderunt superbi laqueum mihi. Et fnes extenderunt in laqueum pedibus meis: juxta iter scandalum posuerunt mihi. Dixi Domino: Deus meus es tu: exaudi, Domine, vocem orationis meae. Domine, Domine, virtus salutis meae: obumbra caput meum in die belli. Ne tradas me a desiderio meo paccatori: cogitaverunt adversus me: ne derelinquas me, ne unquam exaltentur. Caput circuitus eorum: labor lavisorum ipsorum operiet eos. Verumtamen justi confitebuntur nomini tuo: et habitabunt recti cum vultu tuo.

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from the unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps. The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare for my feet; they have laid for me a stumbling-block by the wayside. I said to the Lord: Thou art my God. Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication. O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: overshadow my head in the day of battle. Give me not up from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me. Do not Thou forsake me, lest at any time they should triumph. The head of them compassing me about: the labor of their lips shall overwhelm them. But the just shall give glory to Thy name: and the upright shall dwell with Thy countenance.