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. On the gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
2 Take ye a salm, and yyue ye a tympan; a myrie sautere with an harpe.
Raise a song, sound the timbrel, sweet lyre and harp.
3 Blowe ye with a trumpe in Neomenye; in the noble dai of youre solempnite.
On the new moon blow the horn, at the full moon, the day of our festival.
4 For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
For this is a statute for Israel, a ruling 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.
a witness he set up in Joseph, when he marched against Egypt’s land, where he heard an unknown voice say:
6 He turnede a wei his bak fro birthens; hise hondis serueden in a coffyn.
“I removed from your shoulder the burden, and freed your hands 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.
At your call of distress I delivered you, from the thundercloud I answered you. At Meribah’s waters I tested you. (Selah)
8 My puple, here thou, and Y schal be witnesse ayens thee;
“Listen, my people, to my warning, O Israel, if you would but listen!
9 Israel, if thou herist me, a fresche God schal not be in thee, and thou schalt not worschipe an alien god.
There must not be a strange god among you, you must bow to no 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 the Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt. Open your mouth, that I fill it.
11 And my puple herde not my vois; and Israel yaue not tente to me.
“But my people did not listen to my voice, Israel would have none of me.
12 And Y lefte hem aftir the desiris of her herte; thei schulen go in her fyndyngis.
So to their own hard hearts I left them, to follow their own devices.
13 If my puple hadde herde me; if Israel hadde go in my weies.
O that my people would listen, that Israel would walk 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 humble their enemies, and turn my hand on their foes.
15 The enemyes of the Lord lieden to hym; and her tyme schal be in to worldis.
Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him in everlasting terror.
16 And he fedde hem of the fatnesse of whete; and he fillide hem with hony of the stoon.
But you would I feed with the richest wheat, and with honey from the rock to your heart’s desire.”
