1 For the end, by David the servant of the Lord.
2 The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, that [Rom. 3. 18.] there is no fear of God before his eyes. 3 For he has dealt craftily before him, 1to discover his iniquity and hate it. 4 The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit: he is not inclined to understand how to do good. 5 He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.
6 O Lord, thy mercy is in the heaven; and thy truth reaches to the clouds. 7 Thy righteousness is as the 2mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts. 8 How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings. 9 They shall be 3fully satisfied with the fatness of thine house; and thou shalt cause them to drink of the full stream of thy delights. 10 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light.
11 Extend thy mercy to them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. 12 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners move me.
13 There have all the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast out, and shall not be able to stand.
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.