Psalms 80

¹Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself

²Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob

³Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments

⁴Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity

⁵for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob

⁶He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know

⁷He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets

⁸You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction

⁹My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me

¹⁰then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god

¹¹For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it

¹²But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me

¹³And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions

¹⁴If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways

¹⁵I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them

¹⁶The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age

¹⁷And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock