1 Song of a Psalm by David.
2 O God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms with my glory. 3 Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early. 4 I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to thee among the Gentiles. 5 For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reaches to the clouds. 6 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth. 7 That thy beloved ones may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and hear me. God has spoken in his sanctuary; 8 I will be exalted, and will divide Sicima, and will measure out the valley of tents. 9 Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of mine head; Judas is my king; 10 Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I cast my sandal; the Philistines are made subject to me.
11 Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea? 12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast rejected us? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? 13 Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man. 14 Through God we shall 1do valiantly; and he will bring to nought our enemies.
- 1 v. 14 Gr. work power.
About this text. This is Sir Lancelot Brenton’s 1851 translation of the Septuagint — the Greek Old Testament the Orthodox Church reads, rather than the Hebrew text behind most English Bibles. It is in the public domain. Words in italics are ones Brenton supplied that the Greek does not have; he marked them so that a reader could tell the difference, and they are kept that way here. The numbered notes are his own. Its English is Victorian, and does not match the modern English of the New Testament pages on this site.
On the numbering. The Psalms are numbered here as the Septuagint numbers them, which is how Orthodox service books cite them. From Psalm 10 onward that is one behind a Hebrew-numbered Bible: Psalm 50 here is the Psalm 51 of most English Bibles. The Septuagint also carries a hundred and fifty-first Psalm, which those Bibles do not.