1 For the end, among the Hymns of instruction by David, 2 when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Lo, is not David hid with us?
3 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy might. 4 O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth. 5 For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.
6 For lo! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul. 7 He shall return evil to mine enemies; utterly destroy them in thy truth. 8 I will willingly sacrifice to thee: I will give thanks to thy name, O Lord; for it is good. 9 For thou hast delivered me out of all affliction, and mine eye has seen my desire upon mine enemies.
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.