Psalm 81 [Douay 80]

Psalm 81 in modern numbering

¹ Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

² Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

³ Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

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

⁵ He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

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

⁷ You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.

⁸ “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

⁹ There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

¹⁰ I am the LORD, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹ But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

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

¹³ Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

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

¹⁵ The haters of the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

¹⁶ But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

¹ UUnto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.

² Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

³ Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

⁴ Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

⁵ For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

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.

⁷ He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

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.

⁹ Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

¹⁰ there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

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.

¹² But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

¹³ So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

¹⁴ If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

¹⁵ I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

¹⁶ The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

¹⁷ And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.