1 A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath-day.
2 It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High; 3 to proclaim thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth by night, 4 on a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp. 5 For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work: and in the operations of thy hands will I exult.
6 How have thy works been magnified, O Lord! thy thoughts are very deep. 7 A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. 8 When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity 1have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever. 9 But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever.
10 2For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 11 But my horn shall be exalted as the horn of a unicorn; and mine old age with rich 3mercy. 12 And mine eye has seen mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me.
13 The righteous shall flourish as a palm-tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus. 14 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. 15 Then shall they be increased in a 4fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare 16 that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.
- 1 v. 8 Perhaps, 'come to light'.
- 2 v. 10 Alex. + for behold thine enemies, O Lord, as in Heb.
- 3 v. 11 Alex. oil. See Ps. 88. 20.
- 4 v. 15 Gr. fat.
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.