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Psalms of Solomon 3

Psalmoi Solomontos

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Why sleepest thou, O my soul, And blessest not the Lord?

2Sing a new song, Unto God who is worthy to be praised. Sing and be wakeful against His awaking, For good is a psalm (sung) to God from a glad heart.

3The righteous remember the Lord at all times, With thanksgiving and declaration of the righteousness of the Lord's judgements.

4The righteous despiseth not the chastening of the Lord; His will is always before the Lord.

5The righteous stumbleth and holdeth the Lord righteous: He falleth and looketh out for what God will do to him;

6He seeketh out whence his deliverance will come.

7The steadfastness of the righteous is from God their deliverer; There lodgeth not in the house of the righteous sin upon sin.

8The righteous continually searcheth his house, To remove utterly (all) iniquity (done) by him in error.

9He maketh atonement for (sins of) ignorance by fasting and afflicting his soul, And the Lord counteth guiltless every pious man and his house.

10The sinner stumbleth and curseth his life, The day when he was begotten, and his mother's travail.

11He addeth sins to sins, while he liveth (?); He falleth--verily grievous is his fall--and riseth no more.

12The destruction of the sinner is for ever, And he shall not be remembered, when the righteous is visited.

13This is the portion of sinners for ever.

14But they that fear the Lord shall rise to life eternal, And their life (shall be) in the light of the Lord, and shall come to an end no more.

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About Psalms of Solomon

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. English text: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Psalms of Solomon (Oxford: Clarendon Press), G. Buchanan Gray, 1913 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. 2, The Psalms of Solomon (Oxford: Clarendon Press), G. Buchanan Gray (1913) · public domain