Psalms 81
1 To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto 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 Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
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 in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.
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 removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
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)
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, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
9 There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any 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 Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, 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 hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
For nouyt in hap Y hadde maad low her enemyes; and Y hadde send myn hond on men doynge tribulacioun to hem.
15 The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.
The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
16 And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.
And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
