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