Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Living Translation NLT
1 (80-1) <Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.> (80-2) Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.
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Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Jacob.
2 (80-3) Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
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Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
3 (80-4) Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.
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Blow the ram’s horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival!
4 (80-5) For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
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For this is required by the decrees of Israel; it is a regulation of the God of Jacob.
5 (80-6) He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.
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He made it a law for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. I heard an unknown voice say,
6 (80-7) He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.
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“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
7 (80-8) Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.
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You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude
8 (80-9) Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,
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“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
9 (80-10) there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
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You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god.
10 (80-11) For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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For it was I, the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
11 (80-12) But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
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“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around.
12 (80-13) So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.
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So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.
13 (80-14) If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
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Oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
14 (80-15) I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
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How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
15 (80-16) The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.
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Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him; they would be doomed forever.
16 (80-17) And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.
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But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock.”