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Psalms 81
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To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
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Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
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For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
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"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
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In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]
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Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
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So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
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O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
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Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
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I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Psalms 82
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A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
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"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]
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Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
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Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
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They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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I say, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
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nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince."
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Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations!
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.