Psalms 81-83

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.