Psalms 81
1 TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. BY ASAPH. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout 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, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with stringed instrument.
Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
3 Blow a horn in the month, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
4 For it [is] a statute to Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
5 He has placed it—a testimony on Joseph, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known—I hear.
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 turned aside his shoulder from the burden, His hands pass over from the basket.
He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
7 In distress you have called and I deliver you, I answer you in the secret place of thunder, I try you by 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 testify to you, O Israel, if you listen to me:
My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
9 There is not in you a strange god, And you do not bow yourself to a 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] your God YHWH, Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge your mouth, and I 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 did not listen to My voice, And Israel has not consented to Me.
And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
12 And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
13 O that My people were listening to Me, Israel would walk in My ways.
If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
14 As a little thing I cause their enemies to bow, And I turn back 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 Those hating YHWH should have feigned [obedience] to Him, And their time would last for all time.
The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
16 He causes him to eat of the fat of wheat, And I satisfy you [with] honey from a rock!
And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
