1 A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.
2 O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.
3 For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 4 Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints. 5 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. 6 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee; 7 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; 8 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. 9 Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.
10 Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. 11 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. 12 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes: 13 who said, Let us take to ourselves the 1altar of God as an inheritance. 14 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind. 15 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; 16 so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger. 17 Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord. 18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed. 19 And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.
- 1 v. 13 Alex. sanctuary.
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.