Psalms 80-85

Psalm 80

¹To the chief Musician. On Shoshannim-Eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come to our deliverance.

³O God, restore us; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁴Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people?

⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:

⁶Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts; and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:

⁹Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;

¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were like cedars of God;

¹¹It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.

¹²Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?

¹³The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.

¹⁴O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;

¹⁵Even the stock which thy right hand hath planted, and the young plant thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.

¹⁸So will we not go back from thee. Revive us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹Restore us, O Jehovah, God of hosts; cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 84

¹To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

³Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she layeth her young, thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.

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

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, -- they, in whose heart are the highways.

⁶Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

⁷They go from strength to strength: each one will appear before God in Zion.

⁸Jehovah, God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

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

¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

¹²Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man that confideth in thee!

Psalm 85

¹To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. Thou hast been favourable, Jehovah, unto thy land; thou hast turned the captivity of Jacob:

²Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

³Thou hast withdrawn all thy wrath; thou hast turned from the fierceness of thine anger.

⁴Bring us back, O God of our salvation, and cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

⁵Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger from generation to generation?

⁶Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?

⁷Shew us thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, and grant us thy salvation.

⁸I will hear what God, Jehovah, will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his godly ones: but let them not turn again to folly.

⁹Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Loving-kindness and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other:

¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.

¹²Jehovah also will give what is good, and our land shall yield its increase.

¹³Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set his footsteps on the way.