Psalms 81

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