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| − | ===The Six Psalms===
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| − | ==Psalm 3==
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| − | O Lord, why do so many taunt me? Many are those who rise up against me;
| + | [http://www.synaxis.info/psalter/5_english/5_english.html The Orthodox Psalter Project, Synaxis.info] |
| − | Many who say to me, "There is no salvation for him in his God."
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| − | But you, O Lord, are a shield around me, my glory: the one who lifts up my head.
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| − | I cried out to the Lord in a loud voice, and from his holy mountain he heard me.
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| − | As for me, I lay down and slept. Then I awoke, for the Lord will be my help.
| + | [http://www.synaxis.info/psalter/5_english/c_psalms/Contos_Psalter.txt Fr. Leonidas Contos translation from the Septuagint, Synaxis.info] |
| − | I will not fear ten thousand people arrayed against me all around.
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| − | Arise, O Lord, and save me, my God!
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| − | For you have stricken all who hated me without cause; you have shattered the sinners' teeth.
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| − | This deliverance is the Lord's. Upon your people be your blessing!
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| − | ==Psalm 37(38)==
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| − | O Lord, in your anger rebuke me not, chastise me not in your wrath.
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| − | Your arrows have bored into me, and your hand weighs heavily upon me.
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| − | Because of your wrath, there is no soundness in my flesh; there is no peace in my bones because of my sins,
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| − | For my iniquities have overwhelmed me: they have weighed upon me like a heavy load.
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| − | My sores have become stench and festering. because [sic] of my folly.
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| − | A stooping and exhausted wreck, I stumbled, mourning all the day.
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| − | My loins were burning with fever, for my life is a total mockery, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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| − | I was crushed and deeply afflicted; I roared with the groaning of my heart.
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| − | O Lord, all my longing is known to you, and my groaning is no secret to you.
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| − | My heart races, my strength has left me, and even the light of my eyes has failed me.
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| − | My friends and companions approached and stood by, while my closest kinsmen kept their distance;
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| − | And those who sought my life were egged on while those who wished me ill spoke lies, plotting deception all the day.
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| − | But I remained as a deaf man, and heard them not; as a dumb man, and opened not my mouth,
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| − | As a man who has not heard a thing, and thus has no retort upon his lips.
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| − | In you, O Lord, I have placed my trust: you will give heed, O Lord, my God!
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| − | I said, "Oh, that my foes cease to gloat over me who bluster mightily when my feet stumble."
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| − | As for me, I am ready to be scourged, and my pain is with me always.
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| − | Indeed, I myself confess my guilt, and I will live in anguish because of my sin.
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| − | But my enemies survive and overpower me, and those who hate me without cause are multiplied,
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| − | Those who, rendering evil for good, opposed me when I sought but justice.
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| − | O Lord God, forsake me not! Stay not afar from me.
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| − | Hasten to help me, O Lord of my salvation!
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| − | ==Psalm 62(63)==
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| − | O God, my God, at dawn I rise to you.
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| − | My soul has thirsted for you, and oh, how my flesh has hungered for you!
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| − | Like a desolate and trackless land that has no water, so did I come before you in your holy place to see the power and the glory that are yours,
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| − | Since your love is better than life itself, my lips shall declare your praise.
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| − | So shall I bless you as long as I live, and lift up my hands and call upon your name.
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| − | My soul shall be filled as with choicest fare, and joyful lips will praise your name.
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| − | As I lay on my couch, I remembered you; I meditated on you throughout the early watches:
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| − | That you became for me the helping one, that in the shelter of your wings, I find delight.
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| − | My soul clings to you, and your right hand holds me up.
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| − | But as for those who sought my life in vain, may they sink into the depths of the earth, [sic]
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| − | And be given over to the sword. They prey of jackals shall they be.
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| − | But the king shall rejoice in God, and all who swear by him shall glory, for the mouths of liars is stopped.
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| − | ==Psalm 87(88)==
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| − | O Lord, God of my salvation, day and night I cried out before you.
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| − | Let my prayer reach up to you, lend your ear to my plea, O Lord.
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| − | For my soul was filled with trouble, and my life came close to Hades.
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| − | I was reckoned with those who go down to the pit; I was like a man beyond help, left for dead.
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| − | Like the slain left to lie in the grave, those you remember no more: for they are cut away from your hand.
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| − | You have cast me down to the deepest abyss, into darkness and the shadow of death.
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| − | Your anger was a burden upon me, you poured your billows over me.
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| − | You took my friends away from me, you made me loathsome to them.
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| − | I was closed in and could not escape, my eyes grew dim with distress.
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| − | I cried out to you, O Lord, all the day, I stretched out my hands to you.
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| − | But will you work wonders for the dead? Or can physicians raise them up to sing your praise?
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| − | Does anyone sing your love in the grace, or your truthfulness in the midst of perdition?
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| − | Are your marvels ever known in darkness or your justice in the land of obliviion?
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| − | And yet, O Lord, I cried out to you, and to you my prayer shall rise at dawn.
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| − | Why, O Lord, do you reject my prayer? Why do you hide your face away from me?
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| − | I am wretched and troubled since my youth; I was raised high, then humbled and distressed.
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| − | Your plagues have swept over me and your terrors have left me shaken.
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| − | They surround me like waters all the day; they close in upon me from all sides.
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| − | You have distanced from me friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, so wretched am I.
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| − | ==Psalm 102==
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| − | Bless the Lord, O my soul! May all that is in me bless his holy name.
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| − | Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all the gifts from him, [sic]
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| − | Who pardons all your sins and heals all your infirmities;
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| − | Who ransoms your life from corruption and crowns you with his love and mercies;
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| − | Who fills your longing with what is good, and your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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| − | The Lord performs deeds of kindness, and vindication for all the oppressed.
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| − | He has made known his ways to Moses, and his will to Israel's children.
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| − | The Lord is the one of compassion and mercy, long-suffering and manifold love.
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| − | His contention is not forever, nor will his anger always last [sic]
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| − | He has not dealt with us as our sins demand, nor does he repay our evil deeds.
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| − | For as high as the heavens stand over the earth, so far has the Lord extended his love for those who fear him.
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| − | As far as the East is from the West, so far has he removed our sins from us.
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| − | As kind as a father is to his children, so is the Lord to those who fear him.
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| − | For he knows well how we were formed: remember, we are only made of dust.
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| − | A man! His days resemble grass: as a flower of the field, so shall he bloom,
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| − | But let a breeze pass over him and he is gone, and never shall he know his place again.
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| − | But the love of the Lord is from all eternity and to all eternity for those who fear him.
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| − | And his justice is upon the children of children of those who keep his covenant and remember his laws to obey them.
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| − | The Lord has established his throne in heaven. Over all things his kingship is supreme.
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| − | Bless the Lord, all you his angels, you strong and mighty ones who obey his word on hearing the sound of his decree.
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| − | Bless the Lord, all you his powers, his attendants who obey his will.
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| − | Bless the Lord, all you his works, in every place of his dominion.
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| − | Bless the Lord, O my soul!
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| − | ==Psalm 142==
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| − | O Lord, hear my prayer; in your truthfulness, give heed to my plea, and in your righteousness, answer me;
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| − | And enter not into judgment with your servant, since of all the living, none is just in your sight.
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| − | The enemy has hunted me down; he has crushed my life into the ground;
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| − | He has forced me to live in darkness like those long dead.
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| − | My spirit faints with grief, and within me, my heart is in despair [sic]
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| − | I recalled the days of old, I meditated on all your deeds, I pondered the works of your hands.
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| − | I stretched out my hand to you; like a parched land, my soul thirst for you.
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| − | Make haste to answer me, O Lord: my spirit has failed me.
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| − | Turn not your face away from me, lest I be like those in the pit;
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| − | Grant that I may hear your steadfast love at dawn, for I have put my hope in you.
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| − | O Lord, teach me the way I should go, for I have lifted up my soul to you.
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| − | O Lord, deliver me from my enemies: it is to you that I have fled.
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| − | Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.
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| − | May your good Spirit lead me on a straight path.
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| − | For the sake of your name, O Lord, you will keep me alive;
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| − | In your righteousness, you will deliver me from affliction.
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| − | And in your loving kindness, you will destroy my enemies,
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| − | And bring to nought [sic] all those who oppress me, for I am your servant.
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