Psalms 30 — Rahlfs Septuagint

1

τὸ τέλος ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυιδ ἐκστάσεως

For the end, a psalm by David, of ecstasy

2

σοί κύριε ἤλπισα μὴ καταισχυνθείην εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ σου ῥῦσαί με καὶ ἐξελοῦ με

In you, Lord, I hoped; let me not be put to shame forever. In your righteousness rescue me and deliver me.

3

Incline your ear to me; hasten to deliver me. Be for me a God who shelters and for a house of refuge to save me.

4

κραταίωμά μου καὶ καταφυγή μου εἶ σὺ καὶ ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματός σου ὁδηγήσεις με καὶ διαθρέψεις με

For you are my strength and my refuge, and for the sake of your name you will guide me and nourish me

5

με ἐκ παγίδος ταύτης ἧς ἔκρυψάν μοι ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ ὑπερασπιστής μου

You will bring me out from this snare which they hid for me, for you are my defender

6

χεῖράς σου παραθήσομαι τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐλυτρώσω με κύριε ὁ θεὸς τῆς ἀληθείας

Into your hands I will commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

7

τοὺς διαφυλάσσοντας ματαιότητας διὰ κενῆς ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ ἤλπισα

You have hated those who guard vanities in vain, but I have hoped in the Lord.

8

καὶ εὐφρανθήσομαι ἐπὶ τῷ ἐλέει σου ὅτι ἐπεῖδες τὴν ταπείνωσίν μου ἔσωσας ἐκ τῶν ἀναγκῶν τὴν ψυχήν μου

I will exult and be glad in your mercy, because you regarded my humiliation; you saved my soul from necessities.

9

οὐ συνέκλεισάς με εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθροῦ ἔστησας ἐν εὐρυχώρῳ τοὺς πόδας μου

and you did not shut me up into the hands of an enemy; you set my feet in a broad place

10

με κύριε ὅτι θλίβομαι ἐταράχθη ἐν θυμῷ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἡ ψυχή μου καὶ ἡ γαστήρ μου

Have mercy on me, Lord, because I am afflicted; my eye has been troubled with anger, my soul and my belly.

11

For my life has failed in pain, and my years in groanings; my strength has weakened in poverty, and my bones were troubled.

12

I have become a reproach beyond all my enemies and exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to those who know me; those seeing me outside fled from me

13

ὡσεὶ νεκρὸς ἀπὸ καρδίας ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ σκεῦος ἀπολωλός

I have been forgotten like one dead; I have become like a lost vessel.

14

ἤκουσα ψόγον πολλῶν παροικούντων κυκλόθεν ἐν τῷ ἐπισυναχθῆναι αὐτοὺς ἅμα ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ τοῦ λαβεῖν τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐβουλεύσαντο

For I heard the blame of many dwelling around, when they were gathered together in one against me, they took counsel to seize my soul.

15

δὲ ἐπὶ σὲ ἤλπισα κύριε εἶπα σὺ εἶ ὁ θεός μου

But I have hoped in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

16

ταῖς χερσίν σου οἱ καιροί μου ῥῦσαί με ἐκ χειρὸς ἐχθρῶν μου καὶ ἐκ τῶν καταδιωκόντων με

In your hands are my times; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me

17

τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπὶ τὸν δοῦλόν σου σῶσόν με ἐν τῷ ἐλέει σου

Make your face shine upon your servant; save me in your mercy.

18

μὴ καταισχυνθείην ὅτι ἐπεκαλεσάμην σε αἰσχυνθείησαν οἱ ἀσεβεῖς καὶ καταχθείησαν εἰς ᾅδου

O Lord, let me not be put to shame, because I called upon you; let the ungodly be put to shame and be brought down into Hades.

19

γενηθήτω τὰ χείλη τὰ δόλια τὰ λαλοῦντα κατὰ τοῦ δικαίου ἀνομίαν ἐν ὑπερηφανίᾳ καὶ ἐξουδενώσει

Let the deceitful lips be made silent, which speak lawlessness against the righteous one in pride and with contempt

20

How great is the abundance of your kindness, O Lord, which you have hidden for those who fear you; you worked for those who hope in you before the sons of men

21

αὐτοὺς ἐν ἀποκρύφῳ τοῦ προσώπου σου ἀπὸ ταραχῆς ἀνθρώπων σκεπάσεις αὐτοὺς ἐν σκηνῇ ἀπὸ ἀντιλογίας γλωσσῶν

You will hide them in the hiding place of your face from the turmoil of men; you will shelter them in a tent from the strife of tongues.

22

κύριος ὅτι ἐθαυμάστωσεν τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ ἐν πόλει περιοχῆς

Blessed is the Lord, for he has made his mercy wondrous in a city of enclosure.

23

But I said in my ecstasy, I am cast out then from before your eyes; therefore you heard the voice of my supplication when I cried to you

24

τὸν κύριον πάντες οἱ ὅσιοι αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἀληθείας ἐκζητεῖ κύριος καὶ ἀνταποδίδωσιν τοῖς περισσῶς ποιοῦσιν ὑπερηφανίαν

Love the Lord, all his holy ones, for the Lord seeks truth and repays those who do excess in arrogance.

25

καὶ κραταιούσθω ἡ καρδία ὑμῶν πάντες οἱ ἐλπίζοντες ἐπὶ κύριον

Be strong, and let your heart be strengthened, all who hope in the Lord.