among you,
nor shall you worship a strange god.
10. For I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land
of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
11. But my people did
not heed my voice,
and Israel did not hearken to me.
12. So I let them go after
the habits of their own hearts;
they will pursue their own customs.
13. If my people had hearkened to me,
if Israel had walked in my ways,
14. I would have quickly routed
their enemies,
and laid my hand upon those who
afflicted them.
Psalm 81
1. God stands in the assembly of gods,
and in their midst will judge gods.
2. How long will you judge unjustly,
and favor the person of sinners?
3. Do justice to the orphan and poor,
render justice to the oppressed
and needy.
4. Rescue the needy,
and deliver the poor
from the sinner’s hand.
5. They know not, neither do
they understand;
they walk about in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth
shall be shaken.
6. I have said, “You are gods,
all of you, children of the Most High.”
7. But you shall die as mortals,
and fall as one of the rulers.
8. Arise O God,
judge the earth;
for you shall inherit all nations.
Psalm 83
1. How lovely are your dwellings,
O Lord of hosts!
2. My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.
3. Yea, the sparrow has found itself
a home;
and the turtle-dove a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
even your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
4. Blessed are those who dwell
in your house;
they shall praise you for ever and ever.
5. Blessed the fellow whose help is from you, O Lord,
who has planned in his heart to go up to
6. the valley of weeping, to the appointed place,
for there the Lawgiver will bestow blessings.
7. They shall go from strength
to strength;
the God of gods will be seen in Zion.
8. O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear O God of Jacob.
9. Behold, O God our Defender,
and look upon the face
of your anointed.
10. For one day in your courts
is better than a thousand [elsewhere];
I would rather be dejected in the house of God,
than dwell in the tents of sinners.
11. For the Lord loves mercy and truth;
God will grant grace and glory.
The Lord will not withhold good things
from those who walk in innocence.
12. O Lord of hosts,
blessed the fellow who trusts in you!
Psalm 84
1. O Lord you have favored your land;
you have turned back the captivity
of Jacob.
2. You have forgiven your people their transgressions;
you have covered over all their sins.
3. You have caused all your wrath
to abate;
you have turned away from
your fierce anger.
4. Turn us around, O God
of our salvation,
and turn your anger away from us.
5. Will you be angry with us forever?
Or will you extend your wrath
from generation to generation?
6. O God you will relent and give us life,
and your people will rejoice in you.
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