Psalms 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise 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 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
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.
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 delivered from the pots.
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, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt 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 strange 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 Yhwh thy God, which brought thee 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 would not hearken 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’ lust: and they walked in 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, and Israel had walked in my ways!
If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
14 I should 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 Yhwh should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
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.
And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
