(54) For the end, among Hymns of instruction by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Behold, is not David hid with us?
1Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your might.
2O God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth.
3For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.
4For behold! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul.
5He shall return evil to my enemies; utterly destroy them in your truth.
6I will willingly sacrifice to you: I will give thanks to your name, O Lord; for it is good.
7For you have delivered me out of all affliction, and my eye has seen my desire upon my enemies.
Text: the Septuagint in the translation of Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851), revised in American English by Michael Paul Johnson (LXX2012). Public domain. The Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Bible is in preparation.
