1 For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph.
2 We will give thanks to thee, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon thy name: I will declare all thy wonderful works. 3 When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously. 4 The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause.
5 I said unto the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn. 6 Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God. 7 For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains. 8 For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another. 9 For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and he has 1turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them.
10 But I will exult for ever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 11 And I will break all the horns of sinners; but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted.
- 1 v. 9 Gr. from this into that.
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.