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For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among us?”

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

Psalms. Old Testament. ed. Michael Paul Johnson. . 2000-2024.

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Ψαλμοί First1KGreek (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.) — 54 focus

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Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ἐν ϋμνοις· συνέσεως τῷ Δαυείδ.

Ἐνώτισαι, ὁ θεός, τὴν προσευχὴν μου,

καὶ μὴ ὑπερίδῃς τὴν δέησίν μου,

πρόσχες μοι καὶ εἰσάκουσόν μου.

ἐλυπήθην ἐν τῇ ἀδολεσχίᾳ μου, καὶ ἐταράχθην

ἀπὸ φωνῆς ἐχθροῦ καὶ ἀπὸ θλίψεως ἁμαρτωλοῦ·

ὅτι ἐξέκλιναν ἐπʼ ἐμέ ἀνομίαν, καὶ ἐν ἀργῇ ἐνεκότουν μοι.

ἡ καρδία μου ἐταράχθη ἐν ἐμοί, καὶ δειλία θανάτου ἐπέπεσεν

ἐπʼ ἐμέ·

καὶ εἶπα Τίς δώσει μοι πτέρυγας ὡσεὶ περιστερᾶς, καὶ

πετασθήσομαι καὶ καταπαύσω ;

ἰδοὺ ἐμάκρυνα φυγαδεύων, καὶ ηὐλίσθην ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.

διάψαλμα.

προσεδεχόμην τὸν σώζοντά με ἀπὸ ὀλιγοψυχίας καὶ

καταπόντισον, κύριε, καὶ καταδίελε τὰς γλώσσας αὐτῶν,

ὅτι εἶδον ἀνομίαν καὶ ἀντιλογίαν ἐν τῇ πόλει.

ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς κυκλώσει αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τὰ τείχη αὐτῆς,

ἀνομία καὶ πόνος ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς

καὶ ἀδικία,

καὶ οὐκ ἐξέλιπεν ἐκ τῶν πλατειῶν αὐτῆς κόπος καὶ δόλος.

ὅτι εἰ ἐχθρὸς ὠνείδισέν με, ὑπήνεγκα ἄν,

καὶ εἰ ὁ μισῶν ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἐμεγαλορημόνησεν. ἐκρύβην ἂν

ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ.

σὺ δέ, ἄνθρωπε ἰσόψυχε, ἡγεμών μου καὶ γνωστέ μου·

ὃς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐγλύκανας ἐδέσματα,

ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπορεύθημεν ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ.

ἐλθέτω θάνατος ἐπʼ αὐτούς, καὶ καταβήτωσαν εἰς ᾅδου ζῶντες·

ὅτι πονηρίαι ἐν ταῖς παροικίαις αὐτῶν ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν.

ἐγὼ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ἐκέκραξα, καὶ ὁ κύριος εἰσήκουσέν μου.

ἑσπέρας καὶ πρωὶ καὶ μεσημβρίας διηγήσομαι

ἀπαγγελῶ, καὶ εἰσακούσεται τῆς φωνῆς μου.

λυτρώσεται ἐν εἰρήνῃ τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ τῶν ἐγγιζόντων μοι,

ὅτι ἐν πολλοῖς ἤσαν σὺν ἐμοί.

εἰσακούσεται ὁ θεὸς καὶ ταπεινώσει αὐτοὺς ὁ ὑπάρχων πρὸ

τῶν αἰώνων. διάψαλμα.

οὐ γάρ ἐστιν αὐτοῖς ἀντάλλαγμα,

καὶ οὐκ ἐφοβήθησαν τὸν θεόν.

ἐξέτεινεν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀποδιδόναι·

ἐβεβήλωσαν τὴν διαθήκην αὐτοῦ,

διεμερίσθησαν ἀπὸ ὀργῆς τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἤγγισεν

ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ·

ἡπαλύνθησαν οἱ λόγοι αὐτοῦ ὑπέρ ἔλαιον, καὶ αὐτοί εἰσιν

βολίδες.

ἐπίριψον ἐπὶ Κύριον τὴν μέριμνάν σου, καὶ αὐτός σε διαθρέψει·

οὐ δώσει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα σάλον τῷ δικαίῳ.

σὺ δέ, ὁ θεός, κατάξεις αὐτοὺς εἰς φρέαρ διαφθορᾶς·

ἄνδρες αἱμάτων καὶ δολιότητος οὐ μὴ ἡμισεύσωσιν τὰς

ἡμέρας αὐτῶν·

ἐγὼ δὲ ἐλπιῶ ἐπὶ σέ, Κύριε.

Old Testament Psalms 54

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