1 For the end, a Psalm 1and Song at the dedication of the house of David.
2 I will exalt thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and not caused mine enemies to rejoice over me. 3 O Lord my God, I cried to thee, and thou didst heal me. 4 O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Hades, thou hast delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.
5 Sing to the Lord, ye his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. 6 For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favour: weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning.
7 And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. 8 O Lord, in thy good pleasure thou didst add strength to my beauty: but thou didst turn away thy face, and I was troubled. 9 To thee, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication. 10 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? or shall it declare thy truth? 11 The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper. 12 Thou hast turned my mourning into joy for me: thou hast rent off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; 13 that my glory may sing praise to thee, and I may not be pierced with sorrow. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.
- 1 v. 1 Gr. of a song.
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.