Psalms:81:2: Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Psalms:81:3: Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms:81:4: For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Psalms:81:5: This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
Psalms:81:6: I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
Psalms:81:7: Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.  Selah.
Psalms:81:8: Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Psalms:81:9: There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Psalms:81:10: I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalms:81:11: But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Psalms:81:12: So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalms:81:13: Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Psalms:81:14: I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms:81:15: The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Psalms:81:16: He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.


Chapter 82

Psalms:82:1: God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
Psalms:82:2: How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?  Selah.
Psalms:82:3: Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms:82:4: Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms:82:5: They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Psalms:82:6: I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Psalms:82:7: But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Psalms:82:8: Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

Chapter 83

Psalms:83:1: Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalms:83:2: For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms:83:3: They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Psalms:83:4: They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psalms:83:5: For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
Psalms:83:6: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;


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