1 A Song of Degrees.
I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come. 2 My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. 3 Let not thy foot be moved; and let not thy keeper slumber. 4 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand. 6 The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night. 7 May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: the Lord shall keep thy soul. 8 The Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, from henceforth and even for ever.
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.