1 For the end, a Psalm of David for Idithun.
2 Shall not my soul be subjected to God? for of him is my salvation. 3 For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved 1very much. 4 How long will ye assault a man? ye are all slaughtering as with a bowed wall and a broken hedge. 5 They only took counsel to set at nought mine honour: I ran in thirst: with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.
6 Nevertheless do thou, my soul, be subjected to God; for of him is my patient hope. 7 For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved. 8 2In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God. 9 Hope in him, all ye congregation of the people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our helper. Pause.
10 But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are 3all alike formed out of vanity. 11 Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies: if wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it. 12 God has spoken once, and I have heard these two things, that power is of God; 13 and mercy is thine, O Lord; for thou wilt recompense every one according to his works.
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.