Bible-Reading.comPsalm 81
1To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;
2Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
4For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;
5He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth 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 delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8Hear, 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 foreign god.
10I am Jehovah thy God, that 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 gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
14I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.
16And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.
Psalm 82
1A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the assembly of God, he judgeth among the gods.
2How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.
3Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
4Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
5They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.
6I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;
7But 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 silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
2For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
3They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
4They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
5For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
9Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:
10Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.
11Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
12For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.
13O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
14As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
15So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
16Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and 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.