1 For the end, a Psalm of David.
2 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee. 3 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and aid thee out of Sion. 4 Remember all thy 1sacrifice, and enrich thy whole-burnt-offering. Pause. 5 Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy desire. 6 We will exult in thy salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
7 Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty. 8 Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: but we will 2glory in the name of the Lord our God. 9 They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright. 10 O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon thee.
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.