1 Alleluia.
[2 Cor. 4. 13.] I believed, wherefore I have spoken: but I was greatly afflicted. 2 And I said in mine amazement, Every man is a liar.
3 What shall I render to the Lord for all the things wherein he has rewarded me? 4 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. 4a I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people.
6 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. 7 O Lord, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast burst my bonds asunder. 8 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord. 9 I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the presence of all his people, 10 in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, Jerusalem.
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.