Psalms 81
1 To the ouercomer in the pressours of Asaph. Make ye fulli ioye to God, oure helpere; synge ye hertli to God of Jacob.
To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;
2 Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
3 Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
4 For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;
5 He settide that witnessing in Joseph; whanne he yede out of the lond of Egipt, he herde a langage, which he knew not.
He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.
6 He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7 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.
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)
8 My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
9 Israel, if thou herist me, a fresche God schal not be in thee, and thou schalt not worschipe an alien god.
There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
10 For Y am thi Lord God, that ladde thee out of the lond of Egipt; make large thi mouth, and Y schal fille it.
I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
12 And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
13 If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
14 For nouyt in hap Y hadde maad low her enemyes; and Y hadde send myn hond on men doynge tribulacioun to hem.
I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.
16 And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.
