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Psalms 101
Septuagint (Brenton, 1851) 101 compared with King James Version 102
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2Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee.
2Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
3Turn not away thy face from me: in the day [when] I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: in the day [when] I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me .
3Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
4For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.
4For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
5I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.
5My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
6By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh.
6By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
7I have become like a pelican of the wilderness;
7I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
8I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof.
8I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
9All the day long mine enemies have reproached me ; and they that praised me have sworn against me.
9Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
10For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;
10For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
11because of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and dashed me down.
11Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
12My days have declined like a shadow ; and I am withered like grass.
12My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
13But thou, Lord, endurest for ever, and thy memorial to generation and generation.
13But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
14Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for [it is] time to have mercy upon her, for the set timeis come.
14Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
15For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust .
15For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
16So the nations shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all kings thy glory.
16So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
17For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory.
17When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
18He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.
18He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
19Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.
19This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
20For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;
20For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;
21to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;
21To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
22to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
23when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord.
23When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
24He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days.
24He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
25Take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] through all generations.
25I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
26In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.
26Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
27They shall perish, but thou remainest: and [they all] shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed.
27They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
28But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
28But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
29The children of thy servants shall dwell [securely], and their seed shall prosper for ever.
29The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.