Psalms 80-85

Psalm 80

¹To the Overseer. -- ‘On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,

²Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.

³O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

⁴Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

⁵Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

⁶Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.

⁷God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

⁸A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

⁹Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

¹⁰Covered have been hills with its shadow, And its boughs are cedars of God.

¹¹It sendeth forth its branches unto the sea, And unto the river its sucklings.

¹²Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?

¹³A boar out of the forest doth waste it, And a wild beast of the fields consumeth it.

¹⁴God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,

¹⁵And the root that Thy right hand planted, And the branch Thou madest strong for Thee,

¹⁶Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

¹⁷Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.

¹⁸And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

¹⁹O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

Psalm 81

¹To the Overseer. -- ‘On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.

²Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.

³Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,

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

⁵A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.

⁶From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.

⁷In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

⁹There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.

¹¹But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

¹²And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

¹³O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

¹⁴As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

¹⁵Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.

¹⁶He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And with honey from a rock I satisfy thee!

Psalm 82

¹-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

²Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.

³Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

⁴Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

⁵They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

⁶I -- I have said, ‘Gods ye are, And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

⁷But as man ye die, and as one of the heads ye fall,

⁸Rise, O God, judge the earth, For Thou hast inheritance among all the nations!

Psalm 83

¹A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.

²For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,

³Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

⁴They have said, ‘Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

⁵For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,

⁶Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,

⁸Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

⁹Do to them as to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the stream Kishon.

¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!

¹¹Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,

¹²Who have said, ‘Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

¹³O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

¹⁴As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

¹⁵So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁷They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

¹⁸And they know that Thou -- (Thy name is Jehovah -- by Thyself,) Art the Most High over all the earth!

Psalm 84

¹To the Overseer. -- ‘On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' -- A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts!

²My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

³(Even a sparrow hath found a house, And a swallow a nest for herself, Where she hath placed her brood,) Thine altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, My king and my God.

⁴O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. Selah.

⁵O the happiness of a man whose strength is in Thee, Highways are in their heart.

⁶Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.

⁷They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.

⁸O Jehovah, God of Hosts, hear my prayer, Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

⁹Our shield, see, O God, And behold the face of Thine anointed,

¹⁰For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.

¹¹For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

¹²Jehovah of Hosts! O the happiness of a man trusting in Thee.

Psalm 85

¹To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Thou hast accepted, O Jehovah, Thy land, Thou hast turned to the captivity of Jacob.

²Thou hast borne away the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

³Thou hast gathered up all Thy wrath, Thou hast turned back from the fierceness of Thine anger.

⁴Turn back to us, O God of our salvation, And make void Thine anger with us.

⁵To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

⁶Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

⁷Show us, O Jehovah, thy kindness, And Thy salvation Thou dost give to us.

⁸I hear what God Jehovah speaketh, For He speaketh peace unto His people, And unto His saints, and they turn not back to folly.

⁹Only, near to those fearing Him is His salvation, That honour may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,

¹¹Truth from the earth springeth up, And righteousness from heaven looketh out,

¹²Jehovah also giveth that which is good, And our land doth give its increase.

¹³Righteousness before Him goeth, And maketh His footsteps for a way!