1 For the end, a Psalm of David among the Hymns.
2 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Pause. 3 That men may know thy way on the earth, thy salvation among all nations. 4 Let the nations, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the nations give thanks to thee. 5 Let the nations rejoice and exult, for thou shalt judge the peoples in equity, and shalt guide the nations on the earth. Pause. 6 Let the peoples, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the peoples give thanks to thee. 7 The earth has yielded her fruit; let God, our God, bless us. 8 Let God bless us; and let all the ends of the earth fear him.
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.