80  Give ear, O ^xShepherd of Israel,

you who ^ylead Joseph like a flock.

You who are ^zenthroned upon the cherubim, ^ashine forth.

2  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

stir up your might

and come to save us!

3  Restore us,¹ O God;

^blet your face shine, that we may be saved!

4  O Lord God of hosts,

how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

5  ^cYou have fed them with the bread of tears

and given them ^dtears to drink in full measure.

6  You make us an object of contention for our neighbors,

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7  Restore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8  You brought a ^evine out of Egypt;

you drove out the nations and planted it.

9  You cleared the ground for it;

it took deep root and filled the land.

10  The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches.

11  It sent out its branches ^fto the sea

and its shoots to the River.²

12  Why then have you ^gbroken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13  The boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.

14  Turn again, O God of hosts!

Look down from heaven, and see;

^hhave regard for this vine,

15  the stock that your right hand planted,

and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

16  They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;

may they perish at the rebuke of your face!

17  But let your hand be on the man of your right hand,

the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

18  Then we shall not turn back from you;

give us life, and we will call upon your name!

19  Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!

ⁱLet your face shine, that we may be saved!

81  Sing aloud to God our strength;

^kshout for joy to the God of Jacob!

2  Raise a song; sound the tambourine,

the sweet lyre with the harp.

3  ^lBlow the trumpet at the ^mnew moon,

at the full moon, on our feast day.

4  For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule² of the God of Jacob.

5  He made it a decree in Joseph

when he went out over³ the land of Egypt.

I hear a language I had not known:

6  “I relieved your⁴ shoulder of the ⁿburden;

your hands were freed from the basket.

7  ^oIn distress you ^pcalled, and I delivered you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I tested you ^qat the waters of Meribah. Selah

8  Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!

O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

9  ^rThere shall be no strange god among you;

you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

10  I am the Lord your God,

^swho brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11  ^t“But my people did not listen to my voice;

Israel would not submit to me.

12  So I ^ugave them over to their ^vstubborn hearts,

to follow ^wtheir own counsels.

13  ^xOh, that my people would listen to me,

that Israel would ^ywalk in my ways!

14  I would soon subdue their enemies

and turn my hand against their foes.

15  Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,

and their fate would last forever.

16  But he would feed you⁵ with the ^zfinest of the wheat,

and with ^ahoney from the rock I would satisfy you.”

82  God has ^btaken his place in the divine council;

in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

2  “How long will you judge unjustly

and ^cshow partiality to the ^dwicked? Selah

3  Give ^ejustice to the weak and the fatherless;

^fmaintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

4  Rescue the weak and the needy;

deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

5  ^gThey have neither knowledge nor understanding,

they ^hwalk about in darkness;

all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

6  ⁱI said, “You are gods,

sons of the Most High, all of you;

7  nevertheless, like men you shall die,

and fall like any prince.”¹

8  ^jArise, O God, judge the earth;

for you shall inherit all the nations!

83  O God, do not ^kkeep silence;

do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

2  For behold, your enemies make an uproar;

those who hate you have raised their heads.

3  They lay crafty plans against your people;

they consult together against your treasured ones.

4  They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;

let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

5  For they conspire with one accord;

against you they make a covenant—

6  the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

7  Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8  Asshur also has joined them;

they are the strong arm of ^lthe children of Lot. Selah

9  Do to them ^mas you did to Midian,

ⁿas to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

10  who were destroyed at En-dor,

who became dung for the ground.

11  Make their nobles ^olike Oreb and Zeeb,

all their princes ^plike Zebah and Zalmunna,

12  who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves

of the pastures of God.”

13  O my God, make them like whirling dust,¹

like chaff ^qbefore the wind.

14  As fire consumes the forest,

as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

15  so may you pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your hurricane!

16  Fill their faces with shame,

that they may seek your name, O Lord.

17  Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;

let them perish in disgrace,

18  ^rthat they may know that ^syou alone,

^twhose name is the Lord,

are the Most High ^uover all the earth.

84  How lovely is your ^wdwelling place,

O Lord of hosts!

2  ^xMy soul longs, yes, faints

for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and flesh sing for joy

to the living God.

3  Even the sparrow finds a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young,

at your altars, O Lord of hosts,

^ymy King and my God.

4  ^zBlessed are those who dwell in your house,

ever singing your praise! Selah

5  Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

in whose heart are the highways to Zion.²

6  As they go through the Valley of Baca

they make it a place of springs;

the early rain also covers it with pools.

7  They go from strength to strength;

each one ^aappears before God in Zion.

8  O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;

give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

9  Behold our shield, O God;

look on the face of your ^banointed!

10  ^cFor a day in your courts is better

than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11  For the Lord God is a ^dsun and ^eshield;

the Lord bestows favor and honor.

^fNo good thing does he withhold

from those who walk uprightly.

12  O Lord of hosts,

blessed is the one who ^gtrusts in you!