Psalms 123
Greek Modern
1 «Ωιδή των Αναβαθμών.» Ύψωσα τους οφθαλμούς μου προς σε τον κατοικούντα εν ουρανοίς.
2 Ιδού, καθώς οι οφθαλμοί των δούλων ατενίζουσιν εις την χείρα των κυρίων αυτών, καθώς οι οφθαλμοί της δούλης εις την χείρα της κυρίας αυτής, ούτως οι οφθαλμοί ημών προς Κύριον τον Θεόν ημών, εωσού ελεήση ημάς.
3 Ελέησον ημάς, Κύριε, ελέησον ημάς διότι εχορτάσθημεν σφόδρα από εξουδενώσεως.
4 Καθ' υπερβολήν εχορτάσθη η ψυχή ημών από της ύβρεως των τρυφώντων, από της εξουδενώσεως των υπερηφάνων.
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Greek Modern · Greek Modern
Neophytos Vamvas's translation of the Holy Bible into modern Greek (1850)
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This translation started in 1831 and was published in 1850 by the Orthodox Archimandrite and professor of the National University of Athens, Neophytos Vamvas with the help of other researchers. Considering that the Greek Orthodox Church wouldn't support him, he collaborated with the British and Foreign Bible Society to publish this translation. The text is written in "kathareuousa", a form of greek that is not spoken today in Greece. It is closer to spoken greek though, than the Septuagint (also known "translation of the seventy").