1 For the end, by David for a remembrance, that the Lord may save me.
2 Draw nigh, O God, to my help. 3 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil. 4 Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately. 5 Let all that seek thee exult and be glad in thee: and let those that love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. 6 But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: thou art my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not.
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.