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Brenton’s Greek Septuagint includes Apocrypha. Chapter and verse numbering follows this edition, including Psalm 151 and the combined Ezra–Nehemiah. Lettered subverses are retained within their numbered verse. Notes belong to this edition; matching verse numbers in other editions may refer to different passages.
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1
Μνήσθητι Κύριε, ὅ, τι ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν· ἐπίβλεψον, καὶ ἴδε τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν.
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2
Κληρονομία ἡμῶν μετεστράθη ἀλλοτρίοις, οἱ οἶκοι ἡμῶν ξένοις.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3
Ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν, οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατὴρ, μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4
Ὕδωρ ἡμῶν ἐν ἀργυρίῳ ἐπίομεν, ξύλα ἡμῶν ἐν ἀλλάγματι ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἡμῶν·
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5
ἐδιώχθημεν, ἐκοπιάσαμεν, οὐκ ἀνεπαύθημεν.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6
Αἴγυπτος ἔδωκε χεῖρα, Ἀσσοὺρ εἰς πλησμονὴν αὐτῶν.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἥμαρτον, οὐχ ὑπάρχουσιν, ἡμεῖς τὰ ἀνομήματα αὐτῶν ὑπέσχομεν.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8
Δοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν, λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9
Ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν, ἀπὸ προσώπου ῥομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
Τὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελιώθη, συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11
Γυναῖκας ἐν Σιὼν ἐταπείνωσαν, παρθένους ἐν πόλεσιν Ἰούδα.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12
Ἄρχοντες ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν ἐκρεμάσθησαν, πρεσβύτεροι οὐκ ἐδοξάσθησαν.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13
Ἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον, καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
Καὶ πρεσβύται ἀπὸ πύλης κατέπαυσαν, ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐκ ψαλμῶν αὐτῶν κατέπαυσαν.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15
Κατέλυσε χαρὰ καρδίας ἡμῶν, ἐστράφη εἰς πένθος ὁ χορὸς ἡμῶν·
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16
Ἔπεσεν ὁ στέφανος ἡμῶν τῆς κεφαλῆς· οὐαὶ δὲ ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17
Περὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδύνη, ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν, περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18
Ἐπʼ ὄρος Σιὼν, ὅτι ἠφανίσθη, ἀλώπεκες διῆλθον ἐν αὐτῇ.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19
Σὺ δὲ Κύριε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατοικήσεις, ὁ θρόνος σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν.
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20
Ἱνατί εἰς νῖκος ἐπιλήσῃ ἡμῶν, καταλείψεις ἡμᾶς εἰς μακρότητα ἡμερῶν;
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21
Ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς Κύριε πρὸς σὲ, καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα· καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν.
Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22
Ὅτι ἀπωθούμενος ἀπώσω ἡμᾶς, ὠργίσθης ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἕως σθόδρα.
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.