Psalm 82–83

Psalm 82

¹A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.

²O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

³For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

⁴They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

⁵They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

⁶For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,

⁷The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,

⁸Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁹Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

¹⁰Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.

¹¹Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

¹²Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,

¹³Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

¹⁴O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

¹⁵As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

¹⁶So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

¹⁷Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

¹⁸Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

¹⁹And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.

Psalm 83

¹Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core.

²How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

³my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

⁴For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

⁵Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever.

⁶Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps,

⁷In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.

⁸For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

⁹O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.

¹⁰Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.

¹¹For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

¹²For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

¹³He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.