Sing for Joy to God Our Strength 1(80:1) For the end, a Psalm for Asaph, concerning the wine-presses. Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. 2(80:2) Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp. 3(80:3) Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast. 4(80:4) For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. 5(80:5) He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not. 6(80:6) He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets. 7(80:7) Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause. 8(80:8) Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me; 9(80:9) there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god. 10(80:10) For I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11(80:11) But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me. 12(80:12) So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways. 13(80:13) If my people had hearkened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways, 14(80:14) I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them. 15(80:15) The Lord's enemies should have lied to him: but their time shall be for ever. 16(80:16) And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock. The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851) Section Headings Courtesy Berean Bible |