Psalter. Kathisma 6
KATHISMA SIXTH.
Psalm 37.
1 Psalm to David, in remembrance of the Sabbath.
2 Lord, do not rebuke me with Your wrath; do not punish me with Your wrath. 3 Like Thy arrows are in me, and Thou hast established Thy hand upon me. 4 There is no healing in my flesh from the presence of Your wrath, there is no peace in my bones from the presence of my sin. 5 For my iniquity is greater than my head, for a heavy burden weighs upon me. 6 My wounds have become stale and rotten because of my madness. 7 We suffered and became muddy to the end, and walked around all day lamenting. 8 For my soul is full of reproach, and there is no healing in my flesh. 9 I became embittered and became very humble, roaring with the groaning of my heart. 10 Lord, before You all my desire and my sighing will not be hidden from You. 11 My heart is troubled, let my strength leave me, and the light of my eyes, and that one shall not be with me. 12 My friends and my sincere ones are close to me and stasha, 13 and my neighbors are far away from me, stasha and needy, who seek my life, and who seek evil to me, saying vainly and flatteringly all the day I'll learn. 14 But I am deaf and do not hear, and I am dumb and do not open my mouth. 15 And I was like a man who neither heard nor had reproof in his mouth. 16 For in You, O Lord, I have trusted; You will hear, O Lord my God. 17 For I said: Let not my enemies ever rejoice at me: and let my feet never move; 18 For I am ready for wounds, and my illness is before me. 19 For I will proclaim my iniquity and take care of my sin. 20 But my enemies live and become stronger than I, and those who hate me without righteousness increase in number. 21 Those who repay me evil, repaying the slander of me, persecute goodness. 22 Forsake me not, O Lord my God, do not depart from me. 23 Come to my help, O Lord of my salvation.
Psalm 38.
1 Finally, Idithumu, a song to David.
2 Reh: I will keep my ways, lest I sin with my tongue: I have kept with my mouth, that the sinner should never arise before me. 3 I became dumb and humbled and kept silent from good things, and my illness was renewed. 4 My heart will warm within me, and a fire will burn in my teaching. Verbs with my tongue: 5 Tell me, Lord, my end and the number of my days, what is it? Yes, I understand that I am deprived? 6 Behold, Thou hast laid down my days, and my frame is as nothing before Thee, but all living man is vanity. 7 For a man walks about, but is troubled in vain: he treasures, and he knows not to whom I will collect it. 8 And now who is my patience, is it not the Lord? And my composition is from You. 9 Deliver me from all my iniquities; you have given me reproach to the fool. 10 I was dumb and did not open my mouth, as You have done. 11 Leave Thy wounds from me: from the strength of Thy hand I have disappeared. 12 In reproof of iniquity thou didst punish man, and thou didst melt away his soul, like a spider: but every man was in vain. 13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and inspire my supplication; do not silence my tears: for I am a stranger with You and a stranger, like all my fathers. 14 Weaken me, so that I may rest, before I even leave, and I will not be with anyone.
Psalm 39.
1 Finally, a psalm to David.
2 I have endured, and endured the Lord, and listened to me, and heard my prayer. 3 And you will bring me up from the pit of passions, and from the clay of the mire, and set my feet on a rock, and straighten my steps, 4 and put in my mouth a new song, a song to our God. Many will see and fear, and trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man, for the name of the Lord is his hope, and he will not despise false vanity and confusion. 6 Thou hast done many, O Lord my God, Thy wonders, and by Thy thought there is no one like unto Thee: I have proclaimed them in words, multiplying more than in number. 7 You did not desire sacrifices and offerings, but you fulfilled the body for me, burnt offerings, and you did not require sin. 8 Then he said, “Behold, I have come; in the book of the book it is written about me: 9 I am pleased, O my God, to do Your will, and Your law is in the midst of my belly.” 10 Great is the gospel of righteousness in the church; behold, I will not hinder my lips: Lord, you have understood. 11 I have not hidden Your righteousness in my heart, I have not hidden Your truth and Your salvation, I have not hidden Your mercy and Your truth from the multitude. 12 But You, O Lord, have not removed Your tender mercies from me: I will take Your mercy and Your truth away, intercede for me. 13 Because evil has taken possession of me, which is without number, my iniquity has overtaken me, and I am not able to see it multiplying more than the hair of my head, and my heart forsake me. 14 Deign, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, be there to help me. 15 Let those who seek to take my soul be ashamed and put to shame, and let those who wish to harm me turn back and be ashamed. 16 Let those who say to us: good, good, receive their abiye. 17 Let all those who seek You, O Lord, rejoice and rejoice in You, and let them say: “Glorified be the Lord, they who love Your salvation.” 18 But I am poor and needy, the Lord will take care of me. You are my Helper and my Protector, O my God, do not become stubborn.
Glory:
Psalm 40.
1 Finally, a psalm to David.
2 Blessed is he who is poor and wretched; on the day of cruelty the Lord will deliver him. 3 May the Lord preserve him and live him, and make him blessed on earth, and may he not deliver him into the hands of his enemies. 4 May the Lord help him on the bed of his illness: you have turned all his lies into his illness. 5 Az said: Lord, have mercy on me, heal my soul, for I have sinned. 6 My enemies have decided evil against me: when will his name die and be destroyed? 7 And when he came in, he saw that his heart was spoken in vain, and he gathered up iniquity for himself, and went out and spoke his heart together. 8 Against me all mine whispers, against me they think evil. 9 You have laid the word of transgression upon me: food and sleep will not cause you to rise again? 10 For the man of my world, in whom I trusted, eater of my bread, bring stumbling upon me. 11 But you, Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up and repay them. 12 In this knowledge, because you have desired me, because my enemy will not rejoice over me. 13 But for my kindness you accepted me and established me before You forever. 14 Blessed is the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: be, be.
Psalm 41.
1 Finally, into the mind of the sons of Korah, a psalm to David was not written among the Jews.
2 In the same way that the trees long for the springs of water, my soul longs for You, O God. 3 My soul thirsts for the Mighty and Living God: when will I come and appear before the face of God? 4 My tears were bread to me day and night, and I was always saying, “Where is your God?” 5 I remembered this and poured out my soul on me, so that I would go to the place of the wondrous village, even to the house of God, with a voice of joy and confession of the noise of the celebration. 6 How sorrowful are you, my soul? And do you confuse me? Trust in God, for we will confess to Him, the salvation of my face, and my God. 7 For my own sake, my soul is troubled: for this reason I will remember You from the land of Jordan and Hermonim, from the small mountain. 8 The deep calls forth the deep in the voice of Your plains; all Your heights and Your waves have come upon me. 9 In the day the Lord commands His mercy, and in the night His song is from me, a prayer to the God of my life. 10 I say to God: You are my protector, why have you forgotten me? And when I go around lamenting, the enemy sometimes insults me? 11 Always break my bones, smite my reproach, always say to them to me every day: Where is your God? 12 How sorrowful are you, my soul? And do you confuse me? Trust in God, for we will confess to Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.
Psalm 42.
Psalm to David, not inscribed among the Jews.
1 Judge, O God, and discern my judgment, from the unworthy tongue, from the unrighteous man, and deliver me from flattery. 2 Have you, O God, my strength, rejected me so much? And when I go around lamenting, the enemy sometimes insults me? 3 Send Thy light and Thy truth, and guide me, and lead me to Thy holy mountain and to Thy villages. 4 And going down to the altar of God, to God who rejoices my youth, I will confess to You on the harp, O God, my God. 5 How sorrowful are you, my soul? And do you confuse me? Trust in God, for we will confess to Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.
Glory:
Psalm 43.
1 To the end, sons of Korah, to understanding.
2 O God, He made us hear, and our fathers made known unto us the work which thou didst in their days, even in the days of old. 3 Thy hand has consumed the tongues, and I have planted you, you have embittered the people, and you have driven me out. 4 For we have not inherited the earth with our sword, and no arm has saved them, but Thy right hand, and Thy arm, and the illumination of Thy countenance, because Thou hast pleased in them. 5 You yourself are my King and my God, commanding the salvation of Jacob. 6 Because of You we will tear down our enemies by their horns, And because of Your name we will despise those who rise up against us. 7 For I do not trust in my bow, and my sword will not save me. 8 For you have saved us from those who afflicted us, and you have put to shame those who hated us. 9 Let us glory in God all the day long, and confess in your name forever. 10 Now thou hast rejected and put us to shame, and thou hast not gone forth, O God, in our strength. 11 You brought us back in the presence of our enemies, and those who hated us plundered themselves. 12 You gave us food like sheep, and you scattered us among the nations. 13 Thou hast given Thy people without price, and there is not much in our shouting. 14 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, an imitation and a reproach to those around us. 15 Thou hast made us a byword among the people, to bow the head among the people. 16 All day long my shame is before me, and the coldness of my face covers me 17 from the voice of reproach and slander, from the face of the enemy and the one who drives out. 18 All this has come upon us, and we have not forgotten You, nor have we failed in Your covenant. 19 And do not our heart turn back, and you have turned our paths away from Your path. 20 For Thou hast humbled us in the place of bitterness, and the shadow of death has been covered. 21 Even if we forget the name of our God, and if we lift up our hands to a strange god. 22 Will not God seek these? That is the secret news of the heart. 23 For Your sake we are killed all the day long, counted as sheep of the slaughter. 24 Arise and sleep, O Lord? Resurrect and do not completely deny. 25 Do you avert all your face? Do you forget our poverty and our sorrow? 26 For our soul is humbled into the dust, our belly cleaves to the earth. 27 Arise, Lord, help us and deliver us in Your name.
Psalm 44.
1 Finally, about those who are changed by the son of Kore, into understanding, a song about the beloved.
2 My heart will vomit out the word of goodness; I will say that my deeds are to the King: my tongue is the reed of a scribe and a cursive writer. 3 You are more beautiful in kindness than the sons of men; grace has been poured out on Your lips; therefore God bless You forever. 4 Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O Mighty One. 5 By Thy beauty and Thy kindness, and prosper, and reign for the sake of truth, and meekness, and righteousness, and Thy right hand will admirably guide Thee. 6 Your arrows are sharp, Mighty, the people under You will fall into the hearts of the enemies of the kings. 7 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness, a scepter of your kingdom. 8 Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore for the sake of Thy anointing, O God, Thy God is the oil of gladness, even more He is partaker of Thy. 9 Myrrh and stakti and cassia from Your garments, from the burdens of elephants, from them made You glad. 10 Daughters of kings, in Your honor, the Queen appears at Your right hand, adorned with gilded garments. 11 Hear, O daughters, and see, and incline Your ear, and forget Your people and Your father’s house. 12 And the King will desire Your kindness: because of Him is Your Lord, and you will worship Him. 13 And the daughters of Tire with gifts, the riches of the people will pray to Your face. 14 All glory is to the Daughter of the King within, robed in gold and adorned. 15 The maidens will be brought to the King after her, her sincerity will be brought to You. 16 They will be brought in with joy and joy, they will be brought into the temple of the Kings. 17 Instead of your fathers, your sons became: I made you princes throughout all the earth. 18 I will remember Your name in every generation and generation. For this reason people will confess to You forever and ever.
Psalm 45.
1 Finally, about the sons of Korah, about the secret ones, a psalm.
2 God is our Refuge and Strength, our Helper in the troubles that come upon us. 3 For this reason let us not fear, for at times the earth is troubled and the mountains are cut into the hearts of the sea. 4 Their waters made noise and were trembled, and the mountains were trembled by His strength. 5 The river's aspirations rejoice the city of God: the Most High has sanctified His village. 6 God is in his midst, and does not move: God will help him in the morning. 7 The nations were in turmoil, turning away from the kingdom: He gave His voice from the Most High, and the earth moved. 8 The Lord of hosts is with us, God is our Advocate. 9 Come and see the works of God, even placing miracles on the earth: 10 taking away the battle to the end of the earth, the bow will break and the weapons will break, and the shields will burn with fire. 11 Be ye abolished, and understand that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted upon the earth. 12 The Lord of hosts is with us, God is our Advocate.
Glory:
According to the 6th kathisma, the Trisagion of Our Father: Also troparia, tone 3:
I bring praise to Thee, O Lord; I declare all my sins to Thee, O God, having mercy on me.
Glory: Save me, my God, as you sometimes saved a publican, and did not despise the tears of a harlot, and accept my sighing, O my Savior, and save me.
And now: I now slavishly flow to Your protection, Most Immaculate: deliver me, Mother of God, the fusion of passions, like the dispassion of the Guilty One who gave birth.
Lord, have mercy (40) and prayer:
We thank Thee, Lord our God, for all Thy good deeds, even from the first age to the present in us, the unworthy, the former, about those known and not known, about those revealed and unmanifested, those who were in fact, and the word vom: who loved us as he loved the Only Begotten You are willing to give your Son to us. Make us also worthy of Your love. Give wisdom through Your word and through Your fear, inhale strength from Your power, and whatever we want or don’t want to sin, forgive, and not impute, and preserve our holy soul, and present To Your Throne, I have a clear conscience, and the end is worthy of Your love for mankind. And remember, O Lord, all who call on Your name in truth: remember all who desire good or evil against us: for all are men, and every man is in vain. Moreover, we pray to You, Lord: grant us Your great mercy.
History of writing
The text is accompanied by words that indicate that this lament song was written to be performed to the accompaniment of an eight-string musical instrument. It can be assumed that such singing could often be heard in Orthodox churches in Jerusalem in ancient times. Here, therefore, the sixth psalm is sung to this day.
Its author, as you know, is David, thanks to whose faith and love in God Christians have access to priceless spiritual reading. The fact that this work was composed by a famous king is evidenced by the inscription at the beginning of the text.
Understanding the history of writing this kathisma in more detail, we can assume that it dates back to the period when David was forced to go on the run, hiding from his son.
His son Absalom was angry with his father. Blind with anger, he persuaded many high-ranking officials to oppose the king. He convinced them, pointing out that he was already too old, and for this reason he was not able to govern the country effectively. At that time, David was really weak physically, he was frail, and suffered from serious illnesses.
There was also no peace in his soul, it was tormented by grief: his daughter was raped by his own brother, another son of the king, who eventually died at the hands of Absalom. David understood that all the problems that befell him were a punishment sent by the Almighty for destroying someone else’s family by sinning with Bathsheba.
