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.
“For the leader of the music. On the Gittith. A psalm of Asaph.” Sing joyfully to God, our strength! Shout with gladness to the God of Jacob!
2 Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
Raise a song, and strike the timbrel, The sweet-sounding harp, and the psaltery!
3 Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
Blow the trumpet at the new moon; At the full moon, also, on our festal day!
4 For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
For this is a statute for Israel, A law 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 appointed it as a memorial in Joseph, When he went out of the land of Egypt, Where he heard a language which he knew not.
6 He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
“I relieved [[said he]] thy shoulders from their burden; Thy hands were removed from the hod.
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 didst call in trouble, and I delivered thee; In the secret place of thunder I answered thee; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. (Pause)
8 My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
Hear, O my people! and I will admonish thee! O Israel! that thou wouldst hearken to me!
9 Israel, if thou herist me, a fresche God schal not be in thee, and thou schalt not worschipe an alien god.
Let there be no strange god within thee, Nor worship thou 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 Jehovah am thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: Open wide thy mouth, and I will fill it!
11 And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
But my people would not listen to my voice, And Israel would not hearken to me.
12 And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
So I gave them up to the obstinacy of their hearts, And they walked according to their own devices.
13 If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
“O that my people had hearkened to 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.
Soon would I have brought low 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 should have become suppliants to them, And their prosperity should have endured for ever.
16 And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
With the finest of the wheat I would have fed them, And with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied them.”
