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 hand 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.
Pss.82
[1] God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
[2] How long will ye judge
unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
[3] Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to
the afflicted and needy.
[4] Deliver the poor and needy: rid 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.
Pss.83
[1] Keep not thou 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 consent: they are confederate against thee:
[6] The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of
Moab, and the Hagarenes;
[7] Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of
Tyre;
[8] Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
[9] Do unto them as
unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
[10] Which 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.
Pss.84
[1] How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
[2] My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the
courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
[3] Yea, the sparrow hath found
an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD
of hosts, my King, and my God.
[4] Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising
thee. Selah.
[5] Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
[6]
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
[7] They go from
strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
[8] O LORD God of hosts, hear
my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
[9] Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of
thine anointed.
[10] For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in
the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
[11] For the LORD God is a sun and
shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
[12]
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Pss.85
[1] LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
[2] Thou
hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
[3] Thou hast taken away
all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
[4] Turn us, O God of our salvation,
and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
[5] Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out
thine anger to all generations?
[6] Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
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