Psalms · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Psalm 40 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (3)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 «Εις τον πρώτον μουσικόν. Ψαλμός του Δαβίδ.» Περιέμεινα εν υπομονή τον Κύριον, και έκλινε προς εμέ και ήκουσε της κραυγής μου·
1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
2 και με ανεβίβασεν εκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας, εκ βορβορώδους πηλού, και έστησεν επί πέτραν τους πόδας μου, εστερέωσε τα βήματά μου·
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 και έβαλεν εν τω στόματί μου άσμα νέον, ύμνον εις τον Θεόν ημών· θέλουσιν ιδεί πολλοί και θέλουσι φοβηθή και θέλουσιν ελπίσει επί Κύριον.
3 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
4 Μακάριος ο άνθρωπος, όστις έθεσε τον Κύριον ελπίδα αυτού και δεν αποβλέπει εις τους υπερηφάνους και εις τους κλίνοντας επί ψεύδη.
4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
5 Πολλά έκαμες συ, Κύριε ο Θεός μου, τα θαυμάσιά σου· και τους περί ημών διαλογισμούς σου δεν είναι δυνατόν να εκθέση τις εις σέ· εάν ήθελον να απαγγέλλω και να ομιλώ περί αυτών, υπερβαίνουσι πάντα αριθμόν.
5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
6◆ Θυσίαν και προσφοράν δεν ηθέλησας· διήνοιξας εν εμοί ώτα· ολοκαύτωμα και προσφοράν περί αμαρτίας δεν εζήτησας.
6 Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
7 Τότε είπα, Ιδού, έρχομαι· εν τω τόμω του βιβλίου είναι γεγραμμένον περί εμού·
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
8 χαίρω, Θεέ μου, να εκτελώ το θέλημά σου· και ο νόμος σου είναι εν τω μέσω της καρδίας μου.
8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
9 Εκήρυξα δικαιοσύνην εν συνάξει μεγάλη· ιδού, δεν εμπόδισα τα χείλη μου, Κύριε, συ εξεύρεις.
9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
10 Την δικαιοσύνην σου δεν έκρυψα εντός της καρδίας μου· την αλήθειάν σου και την σωτηρίαν σου ανήγγειλα· δεν έκρυψα το έλεός σου και την αλήθειάν σου από συνάξεως μεγάλης.
10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
11 Συ, Κύριε, μη απομακρύνης τους οικτιρμούς σου απ' εμού· το έλεός σου και η αλήθειά σου ας με περιφρουρώσι διαπαντός.
11 Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 Διότι με περιεκύκλωσαν αναρίθμητα κακά· με κατέφθασαν αι ανομίαι μου, και δεν δύναμαι να θεωρώ αυτάς· επληθύνθησαν υπέρ τας τρίχας της κεφαλής μου· και η καρδία μου με εγκαταλείπει.
12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
13 Ευδόκησον, Κύριε, να με ελευθερώσης Κύριε, τάχυνον εις βοήθειάν μου.
13 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
14 Ας αισχυνθώσι και ας εκτραπώσιν ομού οι ζητούντες την ψυχήν μου, διά να απολέσωσιν αυτήν· ας στραφώσιν εις τα οπίσω και ας εντραπώσιν οι θέλοντες το κακόν μου.
14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
15 Ας εξολοθρευθώσι διά μισθόν της αισχύνης αυτών οι λέγοντες προς εμέ, εύγε, εύγε.
15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
16 Ας αγάλλωνται και ας ευφραίνωνται εις σε πάντες οι ζητούντές σε· οι αγαπώντες την σωτηρίαν σου ας λέγωσι διαπαντός, Μεγαλυνθήτω ο Κύριος.
16 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”
17 Εγώ δε είμαι πτωχός και πένης· αλλ' ο Κύριος φροντίζει περί εμού· η βοήθειά μου και ο ελευθερωτής μου συ είσαι· Θεέ μου, μη βραδύνης.
17 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 27:13–14; Psalm 37:7; James 5:7–11; Psalm 34:15; Psalm 116:2
- 2 Psalm 37:23; Psalm 119:133; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 61:2; Matthew 7:24–25
- 3 Psalm 33:3; Psalm 103:1–5; Psalm 34:1–6; Psalm 52:6; Psalm 144:9
- 4 Jeremiah 17:7–8; Psalm 84:11–12; Psalm 34:8; Psalm 125:5; Psalm 118:8–9
- 5 Jeremiah 29:11; Exodus 15:11; Psalm 139:17–18; Psalm 71:15; Psalm 92:5
- 6 Hebrews 10:5–12; Isaiah 1:11; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalm 51:16; Hosea 6:6
- 7 Hebrews 10:7–9; Luke 24:44; John 5:39; Luke 24:27; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4
- 8 Romans 7:22; John 4:34; Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:16; Psalm 119:24
- 9 Psalm 22:25; Mark 16:15–16; Psalm 71:15–18; Psalm 22:22; Hebrews 2:12
- 10 Romans 1:16–17; Acts 20:20–21; 1 Timothy 1:15; Romans 10:9–10; Luke 2:30–32
- 11 Psalm 23:6; Psalm 43:3; Psalm 57:3; Proverbs 20:28; Psalm 69:16
- 12 Psalm 38:4; Psalm 73:26; Psalm 69:4; Isaiah 53:6; Psalm 116:3
- 13 Psalm 38:22; Psalm 25:17–18; Psalm 70:1–5; Psalm 22:19; Psalm 71:12
- 14 Psalm 35:4; Psalm 35:26; John 18:6; Isaiah 45:24; Psalm 9:3
- 15 Psalm 35:25; Psalm 35:21; Psalm 69:24–25; Luke 19:43–44; Psalm 70:3–4
- 16 Psalm 35:27; Psalm 68:3; Psalm 119:123; Acts 19:17; Isaiah 65:13–14
- 17 Psalm 70:5; Hebrews 13:6; Isaiah 41:17; Psalm 34:6; 1 Peter 5:7
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Why does my Bible say something different?
- Psalm 40:6 and Hebrews 10:5: “ears” or “a body”?
In the Hebrew text of Psalm 40 God has “dug” or “opened” the psalmist’s ears. In the Greek Septuagint (Psalm 39:7) God has “prepared a body” for him, and the Epistle to the Hebrews quotes that Greek wording of Christ coming into the world. The Orthodox Church reads the Greek. Scholars still debate how the Greek reading arose.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Behold, a ready obedience is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." David also says: "Sacrifice and oblation Thou didst not desire, but mine ears hast Thou perfected; burnt-offerings also for sin Thou hast not required." He thus teaches them that God desires obedience, which renders them secure, rather than sacrifices and holocausts, which avail them …
… but on account of that which is to be after death, I shall do well to commence my disputation with the truthful oracle of the holy psalm, "Blessed is the man whose hope is the Lord God, and who respecteth not vanities and lying follies." Nevertheless, in all vanities and lying follies the philosophers are to be listened to with …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God." But let him not seek the empty honors of a famous name upon earth, for "Blessed is the man that maketh the name of the Lord his trust, and respecteth not vanities nor lying follies." After having presented the two cities, the one founded in the material good of this …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… were slain as a shadow of that which was to come; wherefore also we recognize the voice in the 40th Psalm as that of the same Mediator speaking through prophesy, "Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; but a body hast Thou perfected for me." Because, instead of all these sacrifices and oblations, His body is offered, and is served …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)