Psalms 80; Psalms 81; Psalms 82; Psalms 83; Psalms 84; Psalms 85

1 Shepherd of Israel, listen! You, the one who leads Joseph as if he were a sheep. You, who are enthroned upon the winged heavenly creatures. Show yourself

2 before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh! Wake up your power! Come to save us!

3 Restore us, God! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!

4 LORD God of heavenly forces, how long will you fume against your people's prayer?

5 You've fed them bread made of tears; you've given them tears to drink three times over!

6 You've put us at odds with our neighbors; our enemies make fun of us.

7 Restore us, God of heavenly forces! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!

8 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations and planted it.

9 You cleared the ground for it; then it planted its roots deep, filling the land.

10 The mountains were covered by its shade; the mighty cedars were covered by its branches.

11 It sent its branches all the way to the sea; its shoots went all the way to the Euphrates River.

12 So why have you now torn down its walls so that all who come along can pluck its fruit,

13 so that any boar from the forest can tear it up, so that the bugs can feed on it?

14 Please come back, God of heavenly forces! Look down from heaven and perceive it! Attend to this vine,

15 this root that you planted with your strong hand, this son whom you secured as your very own.

16 It is burned with fire. It is chopped down. They die at the rebuke coming from you.

17 Let your hand be with the one on your right side— with the one whom you secured as your own—

18 then we will not turn away from you! Revive us so that we can call on your name.

19 Restore us, LORD God of heavenly forces! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!

1 Rejoice out loud to God, our strength! Shout for joy to Jacob's God!

2 Take up a song and strike the drum! Sweet lyre along with harp!

3 Blow the horn on the new moon, at the full moon, for our day of celebration!

4 Because this is the law for Israel; this is a rule of Jacob's God.

5 He made it a decree for Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, when I heard a language I did not yet know:

6 “I lifted the burden off your shoulders; your hands are free of the brick basket!

7 In distress you cried out, so I rescued you. I answered you in the secret of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

8 Listen, my people, I'm warning you! If only you would listen to me, Israel.

9 There must be no foreign god among you. You must not bow down to any strange deity.

10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up from Egypt's land. Open your mouth wide—I will fill it up!

11 But my people wouldn't listen to my voice. Israel simply wasn't agreeable toward me.

12 So I sent them off to follow their willful hearts; they followed their own advice.

13 How I wish my people would listen to me! How I wish Israel would walk in my ways!

14 Then I would subdue their enemies in a second; I would turn my hand against their foes.

15 Those who hate the LORD would grovel before me, and their doom would last forever!

16 But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”

1 God takes his stand in the divine council; he gives judgment among the gods:

2 "How long will you judge unjustly by granting favor to the wicked? Selah

3 Give justice to the lowly and the orphan; maintain the right of the poor and the destitute!

4 Rescue the lowly and the needy. Deliver them from the power of the wicked!

5 They don't know; they don't understand; they wander around in the dark. All the earth's foundations shake.

6 I hereby declare, "You are gods, children of the Most High—all of you!

7 But you will die like mortals; you will fall down like any prince."

8 Rise up, God! Judge the earth because you hold all nations in your possession!

1 God, don't be silent! Don't be quiet or sit still, God,

2 because—look!—your enemies are growling; those who hate you are acting arrogantly.

3 They concoct crafty plans against your own people; they plot against the people you favor.

4 "Come on," they say, "let's wipe them out as a nation! Let the name Israel be remembered no more!"

5 They plot with a single-minded heart; they make a covenant against you.

6 They are the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

7 Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia along with the citizens of Tyre.

8 Assyria too has joined them— they are the strong arm for Lot's children. Selah

9 Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera, and to Jabin at the Kishon River.

10 They were destroyed at Endor; they become fertilizer for the ground.

11 Make their officials like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna—

12 those who said, "Let's take God's pastures for ourselves."

13 My God, make them like tumbleweeds, like chaff blown by wind.

14 Just like a fire consumes a forest, just like flames set mountains ablaze,

15 pursue them with your storm, terrify them with your hurricane.

16 Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they might seek your name.

17 Let them be shamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.

18 Let them know that you— your name is the LORD!— you alone are Most High over all the earth.

1 How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD of heavenly forces!

2 My very being longs, even yearns, for the LORD's courtyards. My heart and my body will rejoice out loud to the living God!

3 Yes, the sparrow too has found a home there; the swallow has found herself a nest where she can lay her young beside your altars, LORD of heavenly forces, my king, my God!

4 Those who live in your house are truly happy; they praise you constantly. Selah

5 Those who put their strength in you are truly happy; pilgrimage is in their hearts.

6 As they pass through the Baca Valley, they make it a spring of water. Yes, the early rain covers it with blessings.

7 They go from strength to strength, until they see the supreme God in Zion.

8 LORD God of heavenly forces, hear my prayer; listen closely, Jacob's God! Selah

9 Look at our shield, God; pay close attention to the face of your anointed one!

10 Better is a single day in your courtyards than a thousand days anywhere else! I would prefer to stand outside the entrance of my God's house than live comfortably in the tents of the wicked!

11 The LORD is a sun and shield; God is favor and glory. The LORD gives—doesn't withhold!—good things to those who walk with integrity.

12 LORD of heavenly forces, those who trust in you are truly happy!

1 LORD, you've been kind to your land; you've changed Jacob's circumstances for the better.

2 You've forgiven your people's wrongdoing; you've covered all their sins. Selah

3 You've stopped being furious; you've turned away from your burning anger.

4 You, the God who can save us, restore us! Stop being angry with us!

5 Will you be mad at us forever? Will you prolong your anger from one generation to the next?

6 Won't you bring us back to life again so that your people can rejoice in you?

7 Show us your faithful love, LORD! Give us your salvation!

8 Let me hear what the LORD God says, because he speaks peace to his people and to his faithful ones. Don't let them return to foolish ways.

9 God's salvation is very close to those who honor him so that his glory can live in our land.

10 Faithful love and truth have met; righteousness and peace have kissed.

11 Truth springs up from the ground; righteousness gazes down from heaven.

12 Yes, the LORD gives what is good, and our land yields its produce.

13 Righteousness walks before God, making a road for his steps.