Psalm 80–84

Psalm 80

To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, ^bYou who lead Joseph ^clike a flock;

You who dwell between the cherubim, ^dshine forth!

²Before ^eEphraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh,

Stir up Your strength,

And come and save us!

^3fRestore us, O God;

^gCause Your face to shine,

And we shall be saved!

⁴O Lord God of hosts,

^hHow long will You be angry

Against the prayer of Your people?

⁵ⁱYou have fed them with the bread of tears,

And given them tears to drink in great measure.

⁶You have made us a strife to our neighbors,

And our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts;

Cause Your face to shine,

And we shall be saved!

⁸You have brought ^ja vine out of Egypt;

^kYou have cast out the ³nations, and planted it.

⁹You prepared room for it,

And caused it to take deep root,

And it filled the land.

¹⁰The hills were covered with its shadow,

And the ⁴mighty cedars with its ^lboughs.

¹¹She sent out her boughs to ⁵the Sea,

And her branches to ⁶the River.

¹²Why have You ^mbroken down her ⁷hedges,

So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?

¹³The boar out of the woods uproots it,

And the wild beast of the field devours it.

¹⁴Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts;

ⁿLook down from heaven and see,

And visit this vine

¹⁵And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted,

And the branch that You made strong ^ofor Yourself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down;

^pThey perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

^17qLet Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,

Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.

¹⁸Then we will not turn back from You;

Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;

Cause Your face to shine,

And we shall be saved!

Psalm 81

To the Chief Musician. On An Instrument of Gath. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹Sing aloud to God our strength;

Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob.

²Raise a song and strike the timbrel,

The pleasant harp with the lute.

³Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon,

At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

⁴For ^bthis is a statute for Israel,

A law of the God of Jacob.

⁵This He established in Joseph as a testimony,

When He went throughout the land of Egypt,

^cWhere I heard a language I did not understand.

⁶“I removed his shoulder from the burden;

His hands were freed from the baskets.

^7dYou called in trouble, and I delivered you;

^eI answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I ^ftested you at the waters of ²Meribah.

Selah

⁸“Hear, ^gO My people, and I will admonish you!

O Israel, if you will listen to Me!

⁹There shall be no ^hforeign god among you;

Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

¹⁰ⁱI am the Lord your God,

Who brought you out of the land of Egypt;

^jOpen your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹“But My people would not heed My voice,

And Israel would have ^knone of Me.

^12lSo I gave them over to ³their own stubborn heart,

To walk in their own counsels.

¹³“Oh, ^mthat My people would listen to Me,

That Israel would walk in My ways!

¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies,

And turn My hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵ⁿThe haters of the Lord would pretend submission to Him,

But their ⁴fate would endure forever.

¹⁶He would ^ohave fed them also with ⁵the finest of wheat;

And with honey ^pfrom the rock I would have satisfied you.”

Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹God ^astands in the congregation of ¹the mighty;

He judges among ^bthe ²gods.

²How long will you judge unjustly,

And ^cshow partiality to the wicked?

Selah

³³Defend the poor and fatherless;

Do justice to the afflicted and ^dneedy.

⁴Deliver the poor and needy;

Free them from the hand of the wicked.

⁵They do not know, nor do they understand;

They walk about in darkness;

All the ^efoundations of the earth are ⁴unstable.

⁶I said, ^f“You are ⁵gods,

And all of you are children of the Most High.

⁷But you shall die like men,

And fall like one of the princes.”

⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth;

^gFor You shall inherit all nations.

Psalm 83

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹Do ^anot keep silent, O God!

Do not hold Your peace,

And do not be still, O God!

²For behold, ^bYour enemies make a ¹tumult;

And those who hate You have ²lifted up their head.

³They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,

And consulted together ^cagainst Your sheltered ones.

⁴They have said, “Come, and ^dlet us cut them off from being a nation,

That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

⁵For they have consulted together with one ³consent;

They ⁴form a confederacy against You:

^6eThe tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

Moab and the Hagrites;

⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸Assyria also has joined with them;

They have helped the children of Lot.

Selah

⁹Deal with them as with ^fMidian,

As with ^gSisera,

As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

¹⁰Who perished at En Dor,

^hWho became as refuse on the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like ⁱOreb and like Zeeb,

Yes, all their princes like ^jZebah and Zalmunna,

¹²Who said, “Let us take for ourselves

The pastures of God for a possession.”

^13kO my God, make them like the whirling dust,

^lLike the chaff before the wind!

¹⁴As the fire burns the woods,

And as the flame ^msets the mountains on fire,

¹⁵So pursue them with Your tempest,

And frighten them with Your storm.

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame,

That they may seek Your name, O Lord.

¹⁷Let them be ⁵confounded and dismayed forever;

Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

¹⁸ⁿThat they may know that You, whose ^oname alone is the Lord,

Are ^pthe Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 84

To the Chief Musician. On An Instrument of Gath. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

¹How ^blovely ²is Your tabernacle,

O Lord of hosts!

^2cMy soul longs, yes, even faints

For the courts of the Lord;

My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

³Even the sparrow has found a home,

And the swallow a nest for herself,

Where she may lay her young—

Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts,

My King and my God.

⁴Blessed are those who dwell in Your ^dhouse;

They will still be praising You.

Selah

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,

Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.

⁶As they pass through the Valley ^eof ³Baca,

They make it a spring;

The rain also covers it with ⁴pools.

⁷They go ^ffrom strength to strength;

⁵Each one ^gappears before God in Zion.

⁸O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;

Give ear, O God of Jacob!

Selah

^9hO God, behold our shield,

And look upon the face of Your ⁶anointed.

¹⁰For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.

I would rather ⁷be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For the Lord God is ⁱa sun and ^jshield;

The Lord will give grace and glory;

^kNo good thing will He withhold

From those who walk uprightly.

¹²O Lord of hosts,

^lBlessed is the man who trusts in You!