Psalms 81
1 To the Chief Musician. On "the Gittith." Asaph’s. Shout ye for joy, unto God our strength, Sound the note of triumph, 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 Raise a melody, and strike the timbrel, The lyre so sweet, with the harp:
Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
3 Blow, at the new moon, the horn, At the full moon, for the day of our sacred festival:
Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
4 For, a statute to Israel, it is, A regulation, by the God of Jacob;
For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
5 A testimony in Joseph, he appointed it, When he went forth over the land of Egypt: A language I liked not, used I to 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 took away, from the burden, his shoulder, his hands, from the clay, were set free.
He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
7 In distress, thou didst cry, and I delivered thee, —I answered thee, within a hiding-place of thunder, I proved thee 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 will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me!
My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
9 There shall not be, within thee, a foreign GOD, —Neither shalt thou bow down 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, Yahweh, am thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, —Open wide thy mouth, that I may 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, unto my voice, Even, Israel, inclined not unto me.
And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
12 So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart, They might walk in their own counsels!
And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
13 If, my people, were hearkening unto me, [If, ] Israel, in my ways, would walk,
If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
14 Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand:
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 Yahweh, should come cringing unto him, Then let their own good time be age-abiding!
The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
16 Then would he feed them from the marrow of the wheat, Yea, out of the rock—with honey, would I satisfy thee.
And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
