Psalms 81

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods.	1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.
2 How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners?	2 Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.
3 Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.	3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
4 Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner.	4 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.
5 They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved.	5 For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
6 I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.	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 But you will die like men, and you will fall just like one of the princes.	7 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.
8 Rise up, O God. Judge the earth. For you will inherit it with all the nations.	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.