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Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ψαλμὸς ᾠδῆς τοῦ ἐνκαινισμοῦ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Δαυίδ.
I will exalt thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, And not caused mine enemies to rejoice over me.
Ὑψώσω σε, Κύριε, ὅτι ὑπέλαβές με, καὶ οὐκ εὔφρανας τοὺς ἐχθρούς μου ἐπʼ ἐμέ.
It is then whole Christ who speaks. "I will exalt You, O Lord, for You have taken Me up". I will praise Your high Majesty, O Lord, for You have taken Me up. "You have not made Mine enemies to rejoice over Me." And those, who have so often endeavoured to oppress Me with various persecutions throughout the world, You…
O Lord my God, I cried to thee, and thou didst heal me.
Κύριε ὁ Θεός μου, ἐκέκραξα πρὸς σὲ, καὶ ἰάσω με·
"O Lord, My God, I have cried unto You, and You have healed Me". O Lord, My God, I have cried unto You, and I no longer bear about a body enfeebled and sick by mortality.
O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Hades, Thou hast delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.
Κύριε, ἀνήγαγες ἐξ ᾅδου τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἔσωσάς με ἀπὸ τῶν καταβαινόντων εἰς λάκκον.
"O Lord, You have brought back My Soul from hell, and You have saved Me from them that go down into the pit". You have saved Me from the condition of profound darkness, and the lowest slough of corruptible flesh.
Sing to the Lord, ye his saints, And give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness.
Ψάλατε τῷ Κυρίῳ οἱ ὅσιοι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξομολογεῖσθε τῇ μνήμῃ τῆς ἁγιωσύνης αὐτοῦ.
"Sing to the Lord, O you saints of His." The prophet seeing these future things, rejoices, and says, "Sing to the Lord, O you saints of His. And make confession of the remembrance of His holiness". And make confession to Him, that He has not forgotten the sanctification, wherewith He has sanctified you, although all…
For anger is in his wrath, But life in his favor: Weeping shall tarry for the evening, But joy shall be in the morning.
Ὅτι ὀργὴ ἐν τῷ θυμῷ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ζωὴ ἐν τῷ θελήματι αὐτοῦ· τοεσπέρας αὐλισθήσεται κλαυθμὸς, καὶ εἰς τοπρωῒ ἀγαλλίασις.
"For in His indignation is wrath". For He has avenged against you the first sin, for which you have paid by death. "And life in His will." And life eternal, whereunto you could not return by any strength of your own, has He given, because He so would. "In the evening weeping will tarry." Evening began, when the light…
And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
Ἐγὼ δὲ εἶπα ἐν τῇ εὐθηνίᾳ μου, οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
"But I said in my abundance, I shall not be moved for ever". But I, that people which was speaking from the first, said in mine abundance, suffering now no more any want, "I shall not be moved for ever."
O Lord, in thy good pleasure thou didst add strength to my beauty: But thou didst turn away thy face, and I was troubled.
Κύριε, ἐν τῷ θελήματί σου παρέσχου τῷ κάλλει μου δύναμιν· ἀπέστρεψας δὲ τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ ἐγενήθην τεταραγμένος.
"O Lord, in Your will You have afforded strength unto my beauty". But that this my abundance, O Lord, is not of myself, but that in Your will You have afforded strength unto my beauty, I have learned from this, " You turned away Your Face from me, and I became troubled;" for You have sometimes turned away Your Face…
To thee, O Lord, will I cry; And to my God will I make supplication.
Πρὸς σὲ Κύριε κεκράξομαι, καὶ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν μου δεηθήσομαι.
"Unto Thee, O Lord, will I cry, and unto my God will I pray". And bringing to mind that time of my trouble and misery, and as it were established therein, I hear the voice of Thy First-Begotten, my Head, about to die for me, and saying "Unto Thee, O Lord, will I cry, and unto My God will I pray."
What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? Or shall it declare thy truth?
Τίς ὠφέλεια ἐν τῷ αἵματί μου, ἐν τῷ καταβῆναί με εἰς διαφθοράν; μὴ ἐξομολογήσεταί σοι χοῦς; ἢ ἀναγγελεῖ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου;
The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; The Lord is become my helper.
Ἤκουσε Κύριος, καὶ ἠλέησέ με, Κύριος ἐγενήθη βοηθός μου.
"The Lord has heard, and had mercy on Me, the Lord has become My helper." Nor did "He suffer His holy One to see corruption".
"You have turned My mourning into joy to Me". Whom I, the Church, having received, the First-Begotten from the dead, [Revelation 1:5] now in the dedication of Your house, say, "You have turned my mourning into joy to me. You have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness." You have torn off the veil of my…
"That my glory should sing unto Thee, and I should not be pricked". That now, not my humiliation, but my glory should not lament, but should sing unto Thee, for that now out of humiliation Thou hast exalted me; and that I should not be pricked with the consciousness of sin, with the fear of death, with the fear of…
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