Psalms 81
1 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful 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 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
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 full moon, on our feast day.
Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
4 For it 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 appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.
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 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. 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 “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
9 There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you 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 Yahweh, your God, who brought you up 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 my voice. Israel desired none of me.
And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk 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 would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn 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 Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
