Delphi Septuagint, page 146
[49] Remember thy words to thy servant, wherein thou hast made me hope. [50] This has comforted me in mine affliction: for thine oracle has quickened me. [51] The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from thy law. [52] I remembered thy judgements of old, O Lord; and was comforted. [53] Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake thy law. [54] Thine ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning. [55] I remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and kept thy law. [56] This I had, because I diligently sought thine ordinances.
[57] Thou art my portion, O Lord: I said that I would keep thy law. [58] I besought thy favour with my whole heart: have mercy upon me according to thy word. [59] I thought on thy ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies. [60] I prepared myself, (and was not terrified,) to keep thy commandments. [61] The snares of sinners entangled me: but I forgot not thy law. [62] At midnight I arose, to give thanks to thee for the judgments of thy righteousness. [63] I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy commandments. [64] O Lord, the earth is full of thy mercy: teach me thine ordinances.
[65] Thou hast wrought kindly with thy servant, o Lord, according to thy word. [66] Teach me kindness, and instruction, and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. [67] Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept thy word. [68] Good art thou, O Lord; therefore in thy goodness teach me thine ordinances. [69] The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me: but I will search out thy commandments with all my heart. [70] Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on thy law. [71] It is good for me that thou hast afflicted me; that I might learn thine ordinances. [72] The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
[73] Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me: instruct me, that I may learn thy commandments. [74] They that fear thee will see me and rejoice: for I have hoped in thy words. [75] I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are righteousness, and that thou in truthfulness hast afflicted me. [76] Let, I pray thee, thy mercy be to comfort me, according to thy word to thy servant. [77] Let thy compassions come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my meditation. [78] Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly: but I will meditate in thy commandments. [79] Let those that fear thee, and those that know thy testimonies, turn to me. [80] Let mine heart be blameless in thine ordinances, that I may not be ashamed.
[81] My soul faints for thy salvation: I have hoped in thy words. [82] Mine eyes failed in waiting for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? [83] For I am become as a bottle in the frost: yet I have not forgotten thine ordinances. [84] How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment for me on them that persecute me? [85] Transgressors told me idle tales; but not according to thy law, O Lord. [86] All thy commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help thou me. [87] They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not thy commandments. [88] Quicken me according to thy mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
[89] Thy word, O Lord, abides in heaven for ever. [90] Thy truth endures to all generations; thou hast founded the earth, and it abides. [91] The day continues by thy arrangement; for all things are thy servants. [92] Were it not that thy law is my meditation, then I should have perished in mine affliction. [93] I will never forget thine ordinances; for with them thou hast quickened me. [94] I am thine, save me; for I have sought out thine ordinances. [95] Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; but I understood thy testimonies. [96] have seen an end of all perfection; but thy commandment is very broad.
[97] How I have loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day. [98] Thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies in thy commandment; for it is mine for ever. [99] I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my medication. [100] I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out thy commandments. [101] I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy words. [102] I have not declined from thy judgments; for thou hast instructed me.
[103] How sweet are thine oracles to my throat! more so than honey to my mouth! [104] I gain understanding by thy commandments: therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness.
[105] Thy law is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths. [106] I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of thy righteousness. [107] I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord: quicken me, according to thy word. [108] Accept, I pray thee, O Lord, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, and teach me thy judgments. [109] My soul is continually in thine hands; and I have not forgotten thy law. [110] Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from thy commandments. [111] I have inherited thy testimonies for ever; for they are the joy of my heart. [112] I have inclined my heart to perform thine ordinances for ever, in return for thy mercies.
[113] I have hated transgressors; but I have loved thy law. [114] Thou art my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in thy words. [115] Depart from me, ye evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God. [116] Uphold me according to thy word, and quicken me; and make me not ashamed of my expectation. [117] Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate in thine ordinances continually. [118] Thou hast brought to nought all that depart from thine ordinances; for their inward thought is unrighteous. [119] I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved thy testimonies. [120] Penetrate my flesh with thy fear; for I am afraid of thy judgments.
[121] I have done judgment and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me. [122] Receive thy servant for good: let not the proud accuse me falsely. [123] Mine eyes have failed for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. [124] Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy, and teach me thine ordinances. [125] I am thy servant; instruct me, and I shall know thy testimonies. [126] It is time for the Lord to work: they have utterly broken thy law. [127] Therefore have I loved thy commandments more than gold, or the topaz. [128] Therefore I directed myself according to all thy commandments: I have hated every unjust way.
[129] Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul has sought them out. [130] The manifestation of thy words will enlighten, and instruct the simple. [131] I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after thy commandments. [132] Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love thy name. [133] Order my steps according to thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. [134] Deliver me from the false accusation of men: so will I keep thy commandments. [135] Cause thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thine ordinances. [136] Mine eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not thy law.
[137] Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments. [138] Thou has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, as thy testimonies. [139] Thy zeal has quite wasted me: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. [140] Thy word has been very fully tried; and thy servant loves it. [141] I am young and despised: yet I have not forgotten thine ordinances. [142] Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth. [143] Afflictions and distresses found me: but thy commandments were my meditation. [144] Thy testimonies are an everlasting righteousness: instruct me, and I shall live.
[145] I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will search out thine ordinances. [146] I cried to thee; save me, and I will keep thy testimonies. [147] I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in thy words. [148] Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on thine oracles. [149] Hear my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy; quicken me according to thy judgment. [150] They have drawn nigh who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from thy law. [151] Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy ways are truth. [152] I have known of old concerning thy testimonies, that thou hast founded them for ever.
[153] Look upon mine affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten thy law. [154] Plead my cause, and ransom me: quicken me because of thy word. [155] Salvation is far from sinners: for they have not searched out thine ordinances. [156] Thy mercies, O Lord, are many: quicken me according to thy judgment. [157] Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: but I have not declined from thy testimonies. [158] I beheld men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not thine oracles. [159] Behold, I have loved thy commandments, O Lord: quicken me in thy mercy. [160] The beginning of thy words is truth; and all the judgments of thy righteousness endure for ever.
[161] Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of thy words. [162] I will exult because of thine oracles, as one that finds much spoil. [163] I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love thy law. [164] Seven times in a day have I praised thee because of the judgments of thy righteousness. [165] Great peace have they that love thy law: and there is no stumbling-block to them. [166] I waited for thy salvation, O Lord, and have loved thy commandments. [167] My soul has kept thy testimonies, and loved them exceedingly. [168] I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies; for all my ways are before thee, O Lord.
[169] Let my supplication come near before thee, o Lord; instruct me according to thine oracle. [170] Let my petition come in before thee, O Lord; deliver me according to thine oracle. [171] Let my lips utter a hymn, when thou shalt have taught me thine ordinances. [172] Let my tongue utter thine oracles; for all thy commandments are righteous. [173] Let thine hand be prompt to save me; for I have chosen thy commandments. [174] I have longed after thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation. [175] My soul shall live, and shall praise thee; and thy judgments shall help me. [176] I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.
Psalm 120
A Song of Degrees.
[1] In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, and he hearkened to me. [2] Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
[3] What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, for thy crafty tongue? [4] Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.
[5] Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar. [6] My soul has long been a sojourner; [7] I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.
Psalm 121
A Song of Degrees.
[1] I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come. [2] My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. [3] Let not thy foot be moved; and let not thy keeper slumber. [4] Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep. [5] The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand. [6] The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night. [7] May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: the Lord shall keep thy soul. [8] The Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, from henceforth and even for ever.
Psalm 122
A Song of Degrees.
[1] I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. [2] Our feet stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem. [3] Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete. [4] For thither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. [5] For there are set thrones for judgement, even thrones for the house of David.
[6] Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love thee. [7] Let peace, I pray, be within thine host, and prosperity in thy palaces. [8] For the sake of my brethren and my neighbours, I have indeed spoken peace concerning thee. [9] Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought thy good.
Psalm 123
A Song of Degrees.
[1] Unto thee who dwellest in heaven have I lifted up mine eyes. [2] Behold, as the eyes of servants are directed to the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maidservant to the hands of her mistress; so our eyes are directed to the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us. [3] Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. [4] Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.
Psalm 124
A Song of Degrees.
[1] If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say; [2] if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us; [3] verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: [4] verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent. [5] Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.
[6] Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth. [7] Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered. [8] Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 125
A Song of Degrees.
[1] They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved. [2] The mountains are round about her, and so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth and even for ever. [3] For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.
[4] Do good, O Lord, to them that are good, and to them that are upright in heart. [5] But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Psalm 126
A Song of Degrees.
[1] When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion, we became as comforted ones. [2] Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles, [3] The Lord has done great things among them. The Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful.
[4] Turn, O Lord, our captivity, as the steams in the south. [5] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. [6] They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exultation, bringing their sheaves with them.
Psalm 127
A Song of Degrees.
[1] Except the Lord build the house, they that build labour in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain. [2] It is vain for you to rise early: ye rise up after resting, ye that eat the bread of grief; while he gives sleep to his beloved.
[3] Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb. [4] As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts. [5] Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.
Psalm 128
A Song of Degrees.
[1] Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; who walk in his ways. [2] Thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. [3] Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table.
[4] Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord. [5] May the Lord bless thee out of Sion; and mayest thou see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. [6] And mayest thou see thy children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
Psalm 129
A Song of Degrees.
[1] Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say: [2] Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me. [3] The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity. [4] The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners.
[5] Let all that hate Sion be put to shame and turned back. [6] Let them be as the grass of the house-tops, which withers before it is plucked up. [7] Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom. [8] Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.
Psalm 130
A Song of Degrees.
[1] Out of the depths have I cried to thee, O Lord. [2] O Lord, hearken to my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. [3] If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? [4] For with thee is forgiveness: for thy name’s sake [5] have I waited for thee, O Lord, my soul has waited for thy word. [6] My soul has hoped in the Lord; from the morning watch till night.
[7] Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. [8] And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Psalm 131
A Song of Degrees.
[1] O Lord, my heart is not exalted, neither have mine eyes been haughtily raised: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me. [2] I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exulted my soul: according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so wilt thou recompense my soul. [3] Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Psalm 132
A Song of Degrees.
[1] Lord, remember David, and all his meekness: [2] how he sware to the Lord, and vowed to the God of Jacob, saying, [3] I will not go into the tabernacle of my house; I will not go up to the couch of my bed; [4] I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor slumber to mine eyelids, nor rest to my temples, [5] until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. [6] Behold, we heard of it in Ephratha; we found it in the fields of the wood. [7] Let us enter into his tabernacles: let us worship at the place where his feet stood.
