Delphi Septuagint

by Lancelot C L Brenton (ed)

  [30] They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth, [31] then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

  [32] In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles. [33] And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.

  [34] When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God. [35] And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer. [36] Yet they loved him only with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. [37] For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

  [38] But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them: yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger. [39] And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not.

  [40] How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and anger him in a dry land! [41] Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. [42] They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. [43] How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes: [44] and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink. [45] He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them. [46] And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust. [47] He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost. [48] And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire. [49] He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels. [50] He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death; [51] and smote every first-born in the land of Egypt; the first-fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham. [52] And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness. [53] And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies. [54] And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased. [55] And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  [56] Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies. [57] And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow. [58] And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

  [59] God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel. [60] And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he dwelt among men. [61] And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy’s hand. [62] And he gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance. [63] Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not. [64] Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for.

  [65] So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine. [66] And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach.

  [67] And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; [68] but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved. [69] And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth. [70] He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep. [71] He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance. [72] So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

  Psalm 79

  A Psalm for Asaph.

  [1] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. [2] They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. [3] They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. [4] We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

  [5] How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? [6] Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon thy name. [7] For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.

  [8] Remember not our old transgressions; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished. [9] Help us, O God our Saviour; for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for thy name’s sake. [10] Lets haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of thy servant’s blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes.

  [11] Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm preserve the sons of the slain ones. [12] Repay to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord. [13] For we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture; we will give thee thanks for ever; we will declare thy praise throughout all generations.

  Psalm 80

  For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.

  [1] Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself; [2] before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us. [3] Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.

  [4] O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant? [5] Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure. [6] Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us. [7] Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.

  [8] Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. [9] Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it. [10] Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equalled the goodly cedars. [11] It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river. [12] Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it? [13] The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it. [14] O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; [15] and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. [16] It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence. [17] Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

  [18] So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. [19] Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

  Psalm 81

  For the end, a Psalm for Asaph, concerning the wine-presses.

  [1] Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. [2] Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp. [3] Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast.

  [4] For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. [5] He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.

  [6] He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets. [7] Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause. [8] Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me; [9] there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god. [10] For I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land o
f Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. [11] But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me. [12] So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways.

  [13] If my people had hearkened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways, [14] I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them. [15] The Lord’s enemies should have lied to him: but their time shall be for ever. [16] And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

  Psalm 82

  A Psalm for Asaph.

  [1] God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge gods. [2] How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. [3] Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy. [4] Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

  [5] They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. [6] I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you children of the Most High. [7] But ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes.

  [8] Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

  Psalm 83

  A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.

  [1] O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

  [2] For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. [3] Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints. [4] 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. [5] For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee; [6] even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; [7] Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. [8] Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

  [9] Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. [10] They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. [11] Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes: [12] who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. [13] O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind. [14] As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; [15] so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger. [16] Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord. [17] Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed. [18] And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.

  Psalm 84

  For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine-presses.

  [1] How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! [2] My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god. [3] Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

  [4] Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. Pause. [5] Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up [6] the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings. [7] They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

  [8] O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause. [9] Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed. [10] For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners. [11] For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence. [12] O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.

  Psalm 84

  For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core.

  [1] O Lord, thou has taken pleasure in thy land: thou hast turned back the captivity of Jacob. [2] Thou hast forgiven thy people their transgressions; thou has covered all their sins. Pause. [3] Thou has caused all thy wrath to cease: thou hast turned from thy fierce anger.

  [4] Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn thy anger away from us. [5] Wouldest thou be angry with us for ever? or wilt thou continue thy wrath from generation to generation? [6] O God, thou wilt turn and quicken us; and thy people shall rejoice in thee. [7] Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

  [8] I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those that turn their heart toward him. [9] Moreover his salvation is near them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. [10] Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. [11] Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven. [12] For the Lord will give goodness; and our land shall yield her fruit. [13] Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set his steps in the way.

  Psalm 86

  A Prayer of David.

  [1] O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; for I am poor and needy. [2] Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save thy servant, O God, who hopes in thee. [3] Pity me, O Lord: for to thee will I cry all the day. [4] Rejoice the sold of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. [5] For thou, O Lord, art kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. [6] Give ear to my prayer, o Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication. [7] In the day of my trouble I cried to thee: for thou didst hear me.

  [8] There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the god; and there are no works like to thy works. [9] All nations whom thou hast made shall come, and shall worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. [10] For thou art great, and doest wonders: thou art the only and the great God. [11] Guide me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice, that I may fear thy name. [12] I will give thee thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify thy name for ever. [13] For thy mercy is great toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

  [14] O God, transgressors have risen up against me, and an assembly of violent men have sought my life; and have not set thee before them. [15] But thou, O Lord God, art compassionate and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and true. [16] Look thou upon me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. [17] Establish with me a token for good; and let them that hate me see it and be ashamed; because thou, O Lord, hast helped me, and comforted me.

  Psalm 87

  A Psalm of a Song for the sons of Core.

  [1] His foundations are in the holy mountains. [2] The Lord loves the gates of Sion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob. [3] Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O city of God. Pause.

  [4] I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there. [5] A man shall say, Sion is my mother; and such a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her. [6] The Lord shall recount it in the writing of the people, and of these princes that were born in her. [7] The dwelling of all within thee is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.

  Psalm 88

  A song of a Psalm for the sons of Core for the end, upon Maeleth for responsive strains, of instruction for Æman the Israelite.

  [1] O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee. [2] Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.

  [3] For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades. [4] I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; [5] free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and th
ey are rejected from thy hand. [6] They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death. [7] Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause. [8] Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth. [9] Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.

  [10] Wilt thou work wonders for the dead? or shall physicians raise them up, that they shall praise thee? [11] Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction? [12] Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land? [13] But I cried to thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

  [14] Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayer, and turn thy face away from me? [15] I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair. [16] Thy wrath has passed over me; and thy terrors have greatly disquieted me. [17] They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together. [18] Thou hast put far from me every friend, and mine acquaintances because of my wretchedness.

  Psalm 89

  A Psalm of instruction for Ætham the Israelite.

  [1] I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations. [2] For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens. [3] I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware unto David my servant. [4] I will establish thy seed for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Pause.