Psalms 81
1 For the music director. On the gittith. A psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy 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 Start the song! Play the tambourine, sweet-sounding lyre, and harp.
Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, and at full moon, to begin our festivals,
Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
4 for this is a rule for Israel, a regulation of the God of Jacob.
For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
5 God made this statute for Joseph when he opposed the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I didn't know, saying:
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 took the load from your shoulders; I freed your hands from carrying heavy baskets.
He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
7 In your suffering you cried out to me, and I saved you. I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you 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 My people, listen to my warnings! Israel, please listen to me!
My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
9 There must not be a strange god among you; you must never bow down to foreign gods and worship them.
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 out of the land of Egypt. Open your 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 didn't listen to me. Israel didn't want anything to do with me.
And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
12 So I sent them away to follow their stubborn thinking, living as they chose.
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 only Israel would follow my ways!
If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
14 It wouldn't take me long to conquer their enemies, to strike down 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 cringe before him, forever doomed.
The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
16 But I would feed you the best wheat and satisfy you with honey from the rock.”
And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
