Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob; Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day: For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob; He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not. I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket. Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! ⁹There shall no strange •god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign •god. ¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. ¹¹But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me. ¹²So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels. ¹³Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways! ¹⁴I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. ¹⁵The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever. ¹⁶And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.

Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph.

God standeth in the assembly of •God, he judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah. Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute; Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.

⁶I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High; ⁷But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. ⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth; for thou shalt inherit all the nations.

Psalm 83

A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.

O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O •God: For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head. They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones: They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more. For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee. The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre; Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.

⁹Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon: ¹⁰Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground. ¹¹Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna. ¹²For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God’s dwelling-places in possession. ¹³O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind. ¹⁴As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire, ¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind. ¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah. ¹⁷Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish: ¹⁸That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.

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