Psalms 81

1A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

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

2Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

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

3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.

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

4For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

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

5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, WhereI heard a language that I knew not.

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

6I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

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

7Thou 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

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

8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

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9There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

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10I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

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11But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

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12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

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13Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!

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14I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

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15The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.

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16He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.