Chapter 80
Restore Us, O God
To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony, Of Asaph, a Psalm
1: Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You, who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
2: Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us!
3: Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
4: O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
5: You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6: You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7: Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!
8: You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
9: You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10: The Mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.
11: It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.
12: Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13: The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14: Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15: the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
16: They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
17: But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
18: Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name!
19: Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
Chapter 81
Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph
1: Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2: Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3: Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4: For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
5: He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
6: “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
7: In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8: Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9: There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10: I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11: “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
12: So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13: Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14: I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
15: Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
16: But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
Chapter 82
Rescue the Weak and Needy
A Psalm of Asaph.
1: God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
2: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3: Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4: Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
5: They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6: I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
7: nevertheless, like men you shall die,
and fall like any prince.”
and fall like any prince.”
8: Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Chapter 83
O God, Do Not Keep Silence
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
1: O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
2: For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.
3: They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
4: They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
5: For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant -
6: the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7: Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8: Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah
9: Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10: who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
11: Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12: who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.”
13: O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
14: As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15: so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
16: Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.
17: Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,
18: that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
Chapter 84
My Soul Longs for the Courts of the LORD
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
1: How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
2: My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3: Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
4: Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah
5: Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6: As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
7: They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
8: O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9: Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!
10: For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11: For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
12: O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Chapter 85
Revive Us Again
To the choirmaster: A Psalm of the Sons of Korah
1: LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2: You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah
3: You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.
4: Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!
5: Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
6: Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
7: Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us your salvation.
8: Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.
9: Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
10: Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11: Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.
12: Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
13: Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way.
Chapter 86
1: Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
and they do not set you before them.
because you LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
Chapter 87
1: On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
Chapter 88
1: O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you.
and they do not set you before them.
because you LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
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