Psalms 81

DouayRheims(i) 1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. (81:2) Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. 2 (81:3) Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp. 3 (81:4) Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity. 4 (81:5) For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob. 5 (81:6) He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not. 6 (81:7) He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets. 7 (81:8) Thou 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. 8 (81:9) Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me, 9 (81:10) There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god. 10 (81:11) For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 (81:12) But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. 12 (81:13) So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions. 13 (81:14) If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways: 14 (81:15) I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them. 15 (81:16) The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever. 16 (81:17) And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.