81:2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

81:3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

81:4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

81:5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

81:6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

81:7Thou 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.

81:8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

81:9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

81:10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

81:11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

81:13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

81:14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

81:15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

81:16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

82:1(A Psalm of Asaph.) God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

82:2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

82:3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

82:4Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

82:5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

82:6I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

82:7But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

82:8Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

83:1(A Song or Psalm of Asaph.) Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

83:2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

83:3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

83:4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

83:5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

83:6The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

83:7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

83:8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

83:9Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

83:10Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

83:11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

83:12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

83:13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

83:14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

83:16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

83:17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

83:18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

84:1(To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.) How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

84:3Yea, the sparrow hath found 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.

84:4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

84:5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

84:6Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

84:7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

84:8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

84:9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.