Psalms 81

1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

To the ouercomer in the pressours of Asaph. Make ye fulli ioye to God, oure helpere; synge ye hertli to God of Jacob.

2 Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.

3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.

4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.

5 He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:

He settide that witnessing in Joseph; whanne he yede out of the lond of Egipt, he herde a langage, which he knew not.

6 “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.

7 You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

In tribulacioun thou inwardli clepidist me, and Y delyuerede thee; Y herde thee in the hid place of tempest, Y preuede thee at the water of ayenseiyng.

8 Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;

9 There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

Israel, if thou herist me, a fresche God schal not be in thee, and thou schalt not worschipe an alien god.

10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

For Y am thi Lord God, that ladde thee out of the lond of Egipt; make large thi mouth, and Y schal fille it.

11 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.

12 So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.

13 If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.

14 how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

For nouyt in hap Y hadde maad low her enemyes; and Y hadde send myn hond on men doynge tribulacioun to hem.

15 Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.

The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.

16 But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.