Psalm 80–81

Psalm 80

¹Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.

²Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

³Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

⁴Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

⁵For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

⁶He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

⁷He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

⁸Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

⁹Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

¹⁰there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

¹¹For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹²But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

¹³So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

¹⁴If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

¹⁵I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

¹⁶The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

¹⁷And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Psalm 81

¹A psalm for Asaph.

God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

²How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

³Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁴Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

⁵They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

⁶I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

⁷But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

⁸Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.