¹

A Song of Degrees. In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, and he hearkened to me.

¹

᾿ῼδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν. ΠΡΟΣ Κύριον ἐν τῷ θλίβεσθαί με ἐκέκραξα, καὶ εἰσήκουσέ μου.

²

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

²

Κύριε, ρῦσαι τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ χειλέων ἀδίκων καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης δολίας.

³

What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, for thy crafty tongue?

³

τί δοθείη σοι καὶ τί προστεθείη σοι πρὸς γλῶσσαν δολίαν;

⁴

Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.

⁴

τὰ βέλη τοῦ δυνατοῦ ἠκονημένα, σὺν τοῖς ἄνθραξι τοῖς ἐρημικοῖς.

⁵

Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.

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οἴμοι! ὅτι ἡ παροικία μου ἐμακρύνθη, κατεσκήνωσα μετὰ τῶν σκηνωμάτων Κηδάρ.

⁶

My soul has long been a sojourner;

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πολλὰ παρῴκησεν ἡ ψυχή μου.

⁷

I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.

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μετὰ τῶν μισούντων τὴν εἰρήνην ἤμην εἰρηνικός· ὅταν ἐλάλουν αὐτοῖς, ἐπολέμουν με δωρεάν.