Psalms 80-85

Psalm 80

¹For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, and come to save us.

³Turn us again, O God; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁴O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

⁹Thou preparedst room before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

¹¹She sent out her branches unto the sea, and her shoots unto the River.

¹²Why hast thou broken down her fences, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

¹³The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

¹⁵And the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁸So shall we not go back from thee: quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name,

¹⁹Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psalm 81

¹For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

²Take up the psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

³Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

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

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

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

⁷Thou calledst in trouble, and I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

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

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

¹⁰I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

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

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

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

¹⁴I should soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵The haters of the LORD should submit themselves unto him: but their time should endure for ever.

¹⁶He should feed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I satisfy thee.

Psalm 82

¹A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of God; he judgeth among the gods.

²How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah

³Judge the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

⁴Rescue the poor and needy: deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

⁵They know not, neither do they understand; they walk to and fro in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.

⁶I said, Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High.

⁷Nevertheless ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

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

Psalm 83

¹A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not thou silence: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

³They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones.

⁴They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

⁵For they have consulted together with one consent; against thee do they make a covenant:

⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes;

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:

⁸Assyria also is joined with them; they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah

⁹Do thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon:

¹⁰Which perished at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna:

¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.

¹³O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

¹⁴As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire;

¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.

¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

¹⁷Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever; yea, let them be confounded and perish:

¹⁸That they may know that thou alone, whose name is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 84

¹For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

³Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

⁷They go from strength to strength, every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.

⁸O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

⁹Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and a shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

¹²O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalm 85

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

²Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah

³Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

⁴Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

⁵Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

⁶Wilt thou not quicken us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

⁷Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

⁸I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

⁹Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹¹Truth springeth out of the earth; and righteousness hath looked down from heaven.

¹²Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

¹³Righteousness shall go before him; and shall make his footsteps a way to walk in.