1 Alleluia, a Psalm of Aggæus and Zacharias.1
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Sion. 2 For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy children within thee. 3 He makes thy borders peaceful, and fills thee with the 2flour of wheat. 4 He sends his oracle to the earth: his word will run swiftly. 5 He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes. 6 Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold? 7 He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his wind, and the waters shall flow. 8 He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel. 9 He has not done so to 3any other nation; and he has not shewn them his judgments.
- 1 v. 1 In the original text, the following verses are numbered 12 to 20.
- 2 v. 3 Lit. fat of wheat.
- 3 v. 9 Gr. every.
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.