(13) For the end, a Psalm of David.
1How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me?
2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
3Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
4lest at any time my enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.
5But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation.
6I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.
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.
