Psalms 81

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.	1 [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Of Asaph] Sing for joy to God our strength, shout in triumph tothe God of Jacob.
2 Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.	2 Strike up the music, beat the tambourine, play the melodious harp and the lyre;
3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.	3 blow the trumpet for the new month, for the ful moon, for our feast day!
4 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.	4 For Israel has this statute, a decision of the God of Jacob,
5 For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.	5 a decree he imposed on Joseph, when he went to war against Egypt. I heard a voice unknown to me,
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.	6 'I freed his shoulder from the burden, his hands were able to lay aside the labourer's basket.
7 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.	7 You cried out in your distress, so I rescued you. 'Hidden in the storm, I answered you, I tested you atthe waters of Meribah.Pause
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.	8 Listen, my people, while I give you warning; Israel, if only you would listen to me!
9 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,	9 'You shal have no strange gods, shall worship no alien god.
10 there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.	10 I, Yahweh, am your God, who brought you here from Egypt, you have only to open your mouth forme to fil it.
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.	11 'My people would not listen to me, Israel would have none of me.
12 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.	12 So I left them to their stubborn selves, to fol ow their own devices.
13 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.	13 'If only my people would listen to me, if only Israel would walk in my ways,
14 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:	14 at one stroke I would subdue their enemies, turn my hand against their opponents.
15 I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.	15 'Those who hate Yahweh would woo his favour, though their doom was sealed for ever,
16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.	16 while I would feed him on pure wheat, would give you your fil of honey from the rock.'
17 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.