Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)

Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

Let them that rejoice in my righteousness exult and be glad: and let them say continually, The Lord be magnified, who desire the peace of his servant.

And my tongue shall meditate on thy righteousness, [and] on thy praise all the day.

For the end, by David the servant of the Lord.

The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, [that] there is no fear of God before his eyes.

For he has dealt craftily before him, to discover his iniquity and hate it.

The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit: he is not inclined to understand [how] to do good.

He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

O Lord, thy mercy is in the heaven; and thy truth [reaches] to the clouds.

Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings.

They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of thine house; and thou shalt cause them to drink of the full stream of thy delights.

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light.

Extend thy mercy to them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners move me.

There have all the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast out, and shall not be able to stand.

[A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be envious of them that do iniquity.

For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and thou shalt be fed with the wealth of it.

Delight [thyself] in the Lord; and he shall grant thee the requests of thine heart.

Disclose thy way to the Lord, and hope in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him: fret not thyself because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself so as to do evil.

For evil-doers shall be destroyed: but they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

And yet a little while, and the sinner shall not be, and thou shalt seek for his place, and shalt not find [it].

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight [themselves] in the abundance of peace.

The sinner will watch for the righteous, and gnash his teeth upon him.

But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foresees that his day will come.

Sinners have drawn their swords, they have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy one, [and] to slay the upright in heart.

Let their sword enter into their [own] heart, and their bows be broken.

A little is better to the righteous than abundant wealth of sinners.

For the arms of sinners shall be broken; but the Lord supports the righteous.

The Lord knows the ways of the perfect; and their inheritance shall be for ever.

They shall not be ashamed in an evil time; and in days of famine they shall be satisfied.

For the sinners shall perish; and the enemies of the Lord at the moment of their being honoured and exalted have utterly vanished like smoke.

The sinner borrows, and will not pay again: but the righteous has compassion, and gives.

For they that bless him shall inherit the earth; and they that curse him shall be utterly destroyed.

The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord: and he will take pleasure in his way.

When he falls, he shall not be ruined: for the Lord supports his hand.

I was [once] young, indeed I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.

Turn aside from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever.

For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake his saints; they shall be preserved for ever: the blameless shall be avenged, but the seed of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

But the righteous shall inherit the earth, and dwell upon it for ever.

The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak of judgment.

The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not slide.

The sinner watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

But the Lord will not leave him in his hands, nor by any means condemn him when he is judged.

Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are destroyed, thou shalt see [it].

I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Libanus.

Yet I passed by, and lo! he was not: and I sought him, but his place was not found.

Maintain innocence, and behold uprightness: for there is a remnant to the peaceable man.

But the transgressors shall be utterly destroyed together: the remnants of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord; and he is their defender in the time of affliction.

And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: and he shall rescue them from sinners, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thine anger.

For thy weapons are fixed in me, and thou hast pressed thy hand heavily upon me.

For there is no health in my flesh because of thine anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.

For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

But all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me.

My friends and my neighbours drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.

For I hoped in thee, O Lord: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

For I said, Lest mine enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.

For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.

For I will declare mine iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.

But mine enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.

They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.

Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.

Draw nigh to my help, O Lord of my salvation.

For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.

I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.

My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

O Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before thee: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. Pause.

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with thee. Pause.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.

Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thine hand.

Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web: nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers [were].

Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

For the end, a Psalm of David.

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.

And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

And he put a new song into my mouth, [even] a hymn to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

Blessed [is] the man whose hope is the name of the Lord, and [who] has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.

O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke [of them]: they exceeded number.

Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and [sacrifice] for sin thou didst not require.