Psalms 81

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods.	1 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2 How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners?	2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3 Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.	3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner.	4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved.	5 He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
6 I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.	6 "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
7 But you will die like men, and you will fall just like one of the princes.	7 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. [Selah]
8 Rise up, O God. Judge the earth. For you will inherit it with all the nations.	8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
	9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a 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 did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
	12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
	13 O 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 foes.
	15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
	16 I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."