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The earth is melted and all that dwell in it:/ I have strengthened its pillars thereof./ I said to the wicked do not go wickedly: and to them/ that offend exalt not the horn./ Do not lift high your horn [be arrogant]:/ do not speak iniquity against god./ For neither from the east nor from the west nor/ from the desert mountains because god is judge./ This one he humbles and this one he exalts:/ because there is a wine cup of pure wine fully mixed in the hand of our lord./ And he has poured it out of this into that but yet/ its dregs are not emptied all the sinners of the earth shall drink./ But I will declare for ever:/ I will sing to the god of iacob./ And I will break all the horn trumpets of sinners: and the horn trumpets of the just shall be exalted./

Transcription

Liqu[a]efacta est terra et om[ne]s q[u]i habitant in ea: / ego confirmavi columnas eius. / Dixi iniquis nolite inique agere: et de/linquentib[us] nolite exaltare cornu. / Nolite extollere in altu[m] cornu v[est]r[u]m: / nolite loqui adversus d[eu]m iniquitate[m]. / Quia neq[ue] ab oriente neq[ue] ab occidente neq[ue] / a desertis montib[us] q[uonia]m deus iudex est. / Hunc humiliat et hunc exaltat: / quia calix in manu d[omi]ni vini meri plen[us] mixto. / Et inclinavit ex hoc in hoc veru[m]tamen / fex eius non est exinanita bibent ex eo om[ne]s / peccatores t[er]r[a]e. / Ego aute[m] annunciabo in s[ae]c[u]l[u]m: / cantabo deo iacob. / Et omnia cornua peccator[um] / confringam: et exaltabunt[ur] / cornua iusti. /

Translation

The earth is melted and all that dwell in it:/ I have strengthened its pillars thereof./ I said to the wicked do not go wickedly: and to them/ that offend exalt not the horn./ Do not lift high your horn [be arrogant]:/ do not speak iniquity against god./ For neither from the east nor from the west nor/ from the desert mountains because god is judge./ This one he humbles and this one he exalts:/ because there is a wine cup of pure wine fully mixed in the hand of our lord./ And he has poured it out of this into that but yet/ its dregs are not emptied all the sinners of the earth shall drink./ But I will declare for ever:/ I will sing to the god of iacob./ And I will break all the horn trumpets of sinners: and the horn trumpets of the just shall be exalted./

 

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