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55ΨΑΛΜΟΙPSALMS (Brenton-Septuagint)Reference

1Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ὑπὲρ τοῦ λαοῦ τοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων μεμακρυμμένου· τῷ Δαυιδ εἰς στηλογραφίαν, ὁπότε ἐκράτησαν αὐτὸν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι ἐν Γεθ. For the end concerning the people that were removed from the sanctuary by David for a memorial when the Philistines caught him in Geth.Prayer for Deliverance. Psalm 56(v55)
2Ἑλέησόν με, κύριε, ὅτι κατεπάτησέν με ἄνθρωπος,
ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν πολεμῶν ἔθλιψέν με.
Have mercy upon me O God; for man has trodden me down; all the day long he warring has afflicted me. 
3κατεπάτησάν με οἱ ἐχθροί μου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν,
ὅτι πολλοὶ οἱ πολεμοῦντές με ἀπὸ ὕψους.
Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day from the dawning of the day; for there are many warring against me. 
4ἡμέρας φοβηθήσομαι,
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ σοὶ ἐλπιῶ.
They shall be afraid but I will trust in thee. 
5ἐν τῷ θεῷ ἐπαινέσω τοὺς λόγους μου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν.
ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ ἤλπισα, οὐ φοβηθήσομαι· τί ποιήσει μοι σάρξ;
In God I will praise my words; all the day have I hoped in God; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me. 
6ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν τοὺς λόγους μου ἐβδελύσσοντο,
κατ' ἐμοῦ πάντες οἱ διαλογισμοὶ αὐτῶν εἰς κακόν.
All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices [are] against me for evil. 
7παροικήσουσιν καὶ κατακρύψουσιν·
αὐτοὶ τὴν πτέρναν μου φυλάξουσιν, καθάπερ ὑπέμειναν τὴν ψυχήν μου.
They will dwell near and hide [themselves]; they will watch my steps accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul. 
8ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηθενὸς σώσεις αὐτούς,
ἐν ὀργῇ λαοὺς κατάξεις, ὁ θεός.
Thou wilt on no account save them; thou wilt bring down the people in wrath. 
9τὴν ζωήν μου ἐξήγγειλά σοι,
ἔθου τὰ δάκρυά μου ἐνώπιόν σου ὡς καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπαγγελίᾳ σου.
O God I have declared my life to thee; thou has set my tears before thee even according to thy promise. 
10ἐπιστρέψουσιν οἱ ἐχθροί μου εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπικαλέσωμαί σε·
ἰδοὺ ἔγνων ὅτι θεός μου εἶ σύ.
Mine enemies shall be turned back in the day wherein I shall call upon thee; behold I know that thou art my God. 
11ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ αἰνέσω ῥῆμα,
ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ αἰνέσω λόγον.
In God will I praise [his] word; in the Lord will I praise [his] saying. 
12ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ ἤλπισα, οὐ φοβηθήσομαι·
τί ποιήσει μοι ἄνθρωπος;
I have hoped in God; I will not be afraid of what man shall do to me. 
13ἐν ἐμοί, ὁ θεός, αἱ εὐχαὶ ἃς ἀποδώσω αἰνέσεώς σοι,
The vows of thy praise O God which I will pay are upon me. 
14ὅτι ἐρρύσω τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐκ θανάτου,
καὶ τοὺς πόδας μου ἐξ ὀλισθήματος,
τοῦ εὐαρεστῆσαι ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν φωτὶ ζώντων.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death and my feet from sliding that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living. 
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Notes:The Old Testament in Greek is Rahlf's LXX available in Word format at the Tyndale website, adapted to database format.
The alternative readings of the LXX - Judges (Alexandrinus), Daniel, Susanna & Bel (LXX received text), and Tobit (Sinaiticus [not printed in Swete]) as separate book references so that they can be viewed as an alternative text in parallel with the primary text.
(I have reversed the Swete presentation for Daniel, Susanna, Bel by listing in the later Theodotion LXX text as the main text.)
The LXX cross references to the Hebrew Bible have been extensively revised using those set out in Swete's 'Old Testament in Greek' publications between 1894 and 1909, amended in part to agree with verses as printed in the Biblia Hebraica 1937 publication).
Some verse cross references in Swete's had to be amended to agree with the BHS verse numbering, and there may well be some mismatches that I haven't yet picked up on. (If you find any errors please e-mail me.)
Hebrew Bible has been adapted from the BHS in Word format at Tyndale.
The Septuagint in English ( translated by Sir Lancelot CL Brenton) - is used here only for the books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Revised Standard Version: This generally follows the Hebrew Bible for the canonical OT so I have included the RSV Aprocrypha for the Greek books not covered by Brenton.
Ecclesiasticus - Sirach Chs.30-36: The text of these chapters from 30.24 to 36.16, is disordered.
I have followed Swete's verse numbering for the greek text.
Also, the RSV verse numbering differs from the NRSV.
The NRSV appears to have followed Swete's numbering here, so I have re-ordered the RSV to agree with both the NRSV & Swete for these chapters.
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