1 For the end, a Psalm and Song of David.
2 Praise becomes thee, O God, in Sion; and to thee shall the vow be performed. 3 Hear my prayer; to thee all flesh shall come. 4 The words of transgressors have overpowered us; but do thou pardon our sins. 5 Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and adopted; he shall dwell in thy courts; we shall be filled with the good things of thy house; thy temple is holy. 6 Thou art wonderful in righteousness. Hearken to us, O God our Saviour; the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are on the sea afar off: 7 who dost 1establish the mountains in thy strength, being girded about with power; 8 who troublest the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves. 9 The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends of the earth shall be afraid of thy signs; thou wilt cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice.
10 Thou hast visited the earth, and saturated it; thou hast abundantly enriched it. The river of God is filled with water; thou hast prepared their food, for thus is the preparation of it. 11 Saturate her furrows, multiply her fruits; the crop springing up shall rejoice in its drops. 12 Thou wilt bless the crown of the year because of thy goodness; and thy plains shall be filled with fatness. 13 The mountains of the wilderness shall be enriched; and the hills shall gird themselves with joy. 14 The rams of the flock are clothed with wool, and the valleys shall abound in corn; they shall cry aloud, yea they shall sing hymns.
- 1 v. 7 Gr. prepare.
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.