Psalms - Chapter 80

Passage

To the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. Take a psalm, and bring here the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp. Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity. For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob. He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not. He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets. You called upon me in affliction, and I delivered you: I heard you in the secret place of tempest: I proved you at the waters of contradiction. Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you will hearken to me, there shall be no new god in you: neither shall you adore a strange god. For I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions. If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways: I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them. The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever. And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.