Psalms · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Psalm 42 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, Μασχίλ, διά τους υιούς Κορέ.» Καθώς επιποθεί η έλαφος τους ρύακας των υδάτων, ούτως η ψυχή μου σε επιποθεί, Θεέ.
1 For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
2 Διψά η ψυχή μου τον Θεόν, τον Θεόν τον ζώντα· πότε θέλω ελθεί και θέλω φανή ενώπιον του Θεού;
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3 Τα δάκρυά μου έγειναν τροφή μου ημέραν και νύκτα, όταν μοι λέγωσι καθ' ημέραν, Που είναι ο Θεός σου;
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
4 Ταύτα ενεθυμήθην και εξέχεα την ψυχήν μου εντός μου, ότι διέβαινον μετά του πλήθους και περιεπάτουν μετ' αυτού έως του οίκου του Θεού, εν φωνή χαράς και αινέσεως, μετά πλήθους εορτάζοντος.
4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
5 Διά τι είσαι περίλυπος, ψυχή μου; και διά τι ταράττεσαι εντός μου; έλπισον επί τον Θεόν· επειδή έτι θέλω υμνεί αυτόν· το πρόσωπον αυτού είναι σωτηρία.
5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
6 Θεέ μου, η ψυχή μου είναι περίλυπος εντός μου· διά τούτο θέλω σε ενθυμείσθαι εκ γης Ιορδάνου και Ερμωνείμ εκ του όρους Μισάρ.
6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
7 Άβυσσος προσκαλεί άβυσσον εις τον ήχον των καταρρακτών σου· πάντα τα κύματά σου και αι τρικυμίαι σου διήλθον επ' εμέ.
7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
8 Εν τη ημέρα θέλει προστάξει ο Κύριος το έλεος αυτού· εν δε τη νυκτί θέλει είσθαι μετ' εμού η ωδή αυτού, η προσευχή μου προς τον Θεόν της ζωής μου.
8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
9 Θέλω ειπεί προς τον Θεόν, την πέτραν μου, διά τι με ελησμόνησας; διά τι περιπατώ σκυθρωπός εκ της καταθλίψεως του εχθρού;
9 I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 Οι εχθροί μου ονειδίζοντές με συντρίβουσι τα οστά μου, λέγοντές μοι καθ' ημέραν, Που είναι ο Θεός σου;
10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
11 Διά τι είσαι περίλυπος, ψυχή μου; και διά τι ταράττεσαι εντός μου; έλπισον επί τον Θεόν· επειδή έτι θέλω υμνεί αυτόν· αυτός είναι η σωτηρία του προσώπου μου και ο Θεός μου.
11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 63:1–2; Psalm 143:6–7; Psalm 119:131; Isaiah 26:8–9; Psalm 84:1–2
- 2 Psalm 63:1; Psalm 84:10; John 7:37; Psalm 27:4; Revelation 22:1
- 3 Psalm 79:10; Psalm 115:2; Joel 2:17; Psalm 42:10; Psalm 80:5
- 4 Isaiah 30:29; Psalm 62:8; 1 Samuel 1:15–16; Psalm 122:1; Nahum 1:15
- 5 Psalm 37:7; Hebrews 10:36–37; Psalm 61:2; Matthew 1:23; Psalm 27:13–14
- 6 Psalm 61:2; Jonah 2:7; Deuteronomy 3:8–9; Psalm 43:4; 2 Samuel 17:22
- 7 Jonah 2:3; Psalm 69:14–15; Psalm 88:7; Lamentations 3:53–55; Ezekiel 7:26
- 8 Psalm 16:7; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 63:6; Job 35:10; Deuteronomy 28:8
- 9 Psalm 38:6; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 62:2; Psalm 28:1
- 10 Psalm 42:3; Joel 2:17; Luke 2:35; Proverbs 12:18; Micah 7:10
- 11 Psalm 42:5; Jeremiah 33:6; Jeremiah 30:17; Psalm 43:5; Matthew 9:12
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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).
Whence the soul, whose wandering has been made far away, may understand, if now she thirsts for Thee, if now her tears have become bread to her, while it is daily said unto her "Where is thy God?" if she now seeketh of Thee one thing, and desireth that she may dwell in Thy house all the days of her …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… because Thy Spirit was "borne over the waters," Thy mercy forsook not our misery, and Thou saidst, "Let there be light," "Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Repent ye, let there be light. And because our soul was troubled within us, we remembered Thee, O Lord, from the land of Jordan, and that mountain equal unto …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
But as yet "by faith, not by sight," for "we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope." As yet deep calleth unto deep but in "the noise of Thy waterspouts." And as yet doth he that saith, I "could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal," even he, as yet, doth …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)