1 For the end, among the Hymns of David.
2 O God, hearken to my petition; attend to my prayer. 3 From the ends of the earth have I cried to thee, when my heart was in trouble: thou liftedst me up on a rock, thou didst guide me: 4 because thou wert my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy. 5 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever; I will shelter myself under the shadow of thy wings. Pause.
6 For thou, O God, hast heard my prayers; thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name. 7 Thou shalt add days to the days of the king; thou shalt lengthen his years to all generations. 8 He shall endure for ever before God: which of them will seek out his mercy and truth? 9 So will I sing to thy name for ever and ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
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.