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Psalms 81
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1(82) A Psalm for Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods.
1Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2How long will you⌃ judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.
2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.
3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.
4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.
5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6I have said, You⌃ are gods; and all [of you] children of the Most High.
6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7But you⌃ die as men, and fall as one of the princes.
7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.
8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;