Salmi 81

NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Magistro chori. Secundum " Torcularia... ". Asaph.	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 Exsultate Deo adiutori nostro; iubilate Deo Iacob.	2 Strike up the music, beat the tambourine, play the melodious harp and the lyre;
3 Sumite psalmum et date tympanum, psalterium iucundum cum cithara.	3 blow the trumpet for the new month, for the ful moon, for our feast day!
4 Bucinate in neomenia tuba, in die plenae lunae, in sollemnitate nostra.	4 For Israel has this statute, a decision of the God of Jacob,
5 Quia praeceptum in Israel est, et iudicium Deo Iacob.	5 a decree he imposed on Joseph, when he went to war against Egypt. I heard a voice unknown to me,
6 Testimonium in Ioseph posuit illud, cum exiret de terra Aegypti; sermonem, quem non noveram, audivi:	6 'I freed his shoulder from the burden, his hands were able to lay aside the labourer's basket.
7 “ Diverti ab oneribus dorsum eius; manus eius a cophino recesserunt.	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 In tribulatione invocasti me, et liberavi te, exaudivi te in abscondito tempestatis, probavi te apud aquam Meriba.	8 Listen, my people, while I give you warning; Israel, if only you would listen to me!
9 Audi, populus meus, et contestabor te; Israel, utinam audias me!	9 'You shal have no strange gods, shall worship no alien god.
10 Non erit in te deus alienus, neque adorabis deum extraneum.	10 I, Yahweh, am your God, who brought you here from Egypt, you have only to open your mouth forme to fil it.
11 Ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Aegypti; dilata os tuum, et implebo illud.	11 'My people would not listen to me, Israel would have none of me.
12 Et non audivit populus meus vocem meam, et Israel non intendit mihi.	12 So I left them to their stubborn selves, to fol ow their own devices.
13 Et dimisi eos secundum duritiam cordis eorum, ibunt in adinventionibus suis.	13 'If only my people would listen to me, if only Israel would walk in my ways,
14 Si populus meus audisset me, Israel si in viis meis ambulasset!	14 at one stroke I would subdue their enemies, turn my hand against their opponents.
15 In brevi inimicos eorum humiliassem et super tribulantes eos misissem manum meam.	15 'Those who hate Yahweh would woo his favour, though their doom was sealed for ever,
16 Inimici Domini blandirentur ei, et esset sors eorum in saecula;	16 while I would feed him on pure wheat, would give you your fil of honey from the rock.'
17 et cibarem eos ex adipe frumenti et de petra melle saturarem eos ”.