Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [him]: God is not before him.

His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, [continuing] without evil from generation to generation.

Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him [after him]: he will bring him down in his snare.

He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

Wherefore has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].

Thou seest [it]; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out of his land.

The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.

For the end, a Psalm of David. In the Lord I have put my trust: how will ye say to my soul, Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?

For behold the sinners have bent [their] bow, they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot privily at the upright in heart.

For they have pulled down what thou didst frame, but what has the righteous done?

The Lord is in his holy temple, as for the Lord, his throne is in heaven: his eyes look upon the poor, his eyelids try the sons of men.

The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul.

He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast [shall be] the portion of their cup.

For the Lord [is] righteous, and loves righteousness; his face beholds uprightness.

For the end, a Psalm of David, upon the eighth.

Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:

who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?

Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set [them] in safety; I will speak [to them] thereof openly.

The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved [in] a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.

The ungodly walk around: according to thy greatness thou hast greatly exalted the sons of men.

For the end, a Psalm of David.

How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me? for ever? how long wilt thou turn away thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.

But I have hoped in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation. I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.

For the end, a Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.

There were they alarmed with fear, where there was no fear; for God is in the righteous generation.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope.

Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? when the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, let Jacob exult, and Israel be glad.

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? and who shall dwell in thy holy mountain?

He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart.

Who has not spoken craftily with his tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbour, nor taken up a reproach against them that dwelt nearest to him.

In his sight an evil-worker is set at nought, but he honours them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbour, and disappoints [him] not.

He has not lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

A writing of David. Keep me, O Lord; for I have hoped in thee.

I said to the Lord, Thou art my Lord; for thou hast no need of my goodness.

On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them.

Their weaknesses have been multiplied; afterward they hasted. I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, neither will I make mention of their names with my lips.

The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou art he that restores my inheritance to me.

The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yea, I have a most excellent heritage.

I will bless the Lord who has instructed me; my reins too have chastened me even till night.

I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand [there are] delights for ever.

A Prayer of David. Hearken, O Lord of my righteousness, attend to my petition; give ear to my prayer not [uttered] with deceitful lips.

Let my judgment come forth from thy presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] by night; thou hast tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: [I am purposed] that my mouth shall not speak [amiss].

As for the works of men, by the words of thy lips I have guarded [myself from] hard ways.

Direct my steps in thy paths, that my steps slip not.

I have cried, for thou heardest me, O God: incline thine ear to me, and hearken to my words.

Shew the marvels of thy mercies, thou that savest them that hope in thee.

Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist thy right hand: thou shalt screen me by the covering of thy wings,

from the face of the ungodly that have afflicted me: mine enemies have compassed about my soul.

They have enclosed [themselves with] their own fat: their mouth has spoken pride.

They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes [so as] to bow them down to the ground.

They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret [places].

Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down: deliver my soul from the ungodly: [draw] thy sword,

because of the enemies of thine hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with thy hidden [treasures]: they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant [of their possessions] to their babes.

But I shall appear in righteousness before thy face: I shall be satisfied when thy glory appears.

For the end, [a Psalm] of David the servant of the Lord; [the words] which he spoke to the Lord, [even] the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: and he said:

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; [he is] my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, [even] into his ears.

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.

And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.

And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, [even] dark water in the clouds of the air.

At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.

And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy wrath.

He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.

He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.

They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against [them].

And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.

And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.

And I shall be blameless with him, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity.

And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.