Psalm 59 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Psa 59:1

Psa 59:1(LXX 58:1) For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. (58:2) Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.

Psa 59:2

Psa 59:2(LXX 58:3) Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psa 59:3

Psa 59:3(LXX 58:4) For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

Psa 59:4

Psa 59:4(LXX 58:5) Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold.

Psa 59:5

Psa 59:5(LXX 58:6) And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

Psa 59:6

Psa 59:6(LXX 58:7) They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.

Psa 59:7

Psa 59:7(LXX 58:8) Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?

Psa 59:8

Psa 59:8(LXX 58:9) But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn; thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen.

Psa 59:9

Psa 59:9(LXX 58:10) I will keep my strength, looking to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper.

Psa 59:10

Psa 59:10(LXX 58:11) As for my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will shew me vengeance on mine enemies.

Psa 59:11

Psa 59:11(LXX 58:12) Slay them not, lest they forget thy [fn]law; scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.

Psa 59:12

Psa 59:12(LXX 58:13) For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.

Psa 59:13

Psa 59:13(LXX 58:14) And for their cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced: they shall fall by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord of the ends of the earth. Pause.

Psa 59:14

Psa 59:14(LXX 58:15) They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city.

Psa 59:15

Psa 59:15(LXX 58:16) They shall be scattered hither and thither for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.

Psa 59:16

Psa 59:16(LXX 58:17) But I will sing to thy strength, and in the morning will I exult in thy mercy; for thou hast been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of mine affliction.

Psa 59:17

Psa 59:17(LXX 58:18) Thou art my helper; to thee, my God, will I sing; thou art my supporter, O my God, and my mercy.

BES Footnotes

(59:11)

some read λαοῦ 'people'.

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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