1 For the end, a Psalm of David.
2 O Lord, the king shall rejoice in thy strength; and in thy salvation he shall greatly exult. 3 Thou hast granted him the desire of his soul, and hast not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause. 4 For thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness: thou hast set upon his head a crown of precious stone. 5 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him length of days for ever and ever. 6 His glory is great in thy salvation: thou wilt crown him with glory and majesty. 7 For thou wilt give him a blessing for ever and ever: thou wilt gladden him with joy with thy countenance. 8 For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved.
9 Let thy hand be found by all thine enemies: let thy right hand find all that hate thee. 10 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven at the time of thy presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them. 11 Thou shalt destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men. 12 For they intended evils against thee; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform. 13 For thou shalt make them turn their back in thy latter end, thou wilt prepare their face. 14 Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy strength: we will sing and praise thy mighty acts.
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.