Old/New Testament
81 Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow the trumpet in the new moon, at the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This He ordained in Joseph as a testimony, when He went out through the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I understood not:
6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I tested thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 Hear, O My people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto Me!
9 There shall be no strange god among thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 “But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust, and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My and against their adversaries.”
15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto Him, but their time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and, “With honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.”
82 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly and accept persons of the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand. They walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, “Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.”
7 But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for Thou shalt inherit all nations.
83 Keep Thou not silence, O God; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For lo, Thine enemies make a tumult, and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against Thy people, and consulted against Thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”
5 For they have consulted together with one accord; they are confederate against Thee:
6 the tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagarites,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot. Selah
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the Brook of Kishon,
10 who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, yea, all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.”
13 O my God, make them like a wheel, as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
15 so persecute them with Thy tempest, and make them afraid with Thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Thy name, O Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 that men may know that Thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.
19 Thou wilt say then, “The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”
20 Thou sayest well! Because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear;
21 for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness. Otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I, brethren, would not have you be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits: that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: “There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 For this is My covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as in times past ye have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief,
31 even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counselor?”
35 Or, “who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?”
36 For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things, to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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