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Psalm 81

For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph. ^[a]

 ² Begin the music, strike the tambourine,
       play the melodious harp and lyre.

 ³ Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon,
       and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;

 ⁴ this is a decree for Israel,
       an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

 ⁵ He established it as a statute for Joseph
       when he went out against Egypt,
       where we heard a language we did not understand. ^[b]

 ⁶ He says, "I removed the burden from their shoulders;
       their hands were set free from the basket.

 ⁷ In your distress you called and I rescued you,
       I answered you out of a thundercloud;
       I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
       Selah

 ⁸ "Hear, O my people, and I will warn you—
       if you would but listen to me, O Israel!

 ⁹ You shall have no foreign god among you;
       you shall not bow down to an alien god.

 ¹⁰ I am the LORD your God,
       who brought you up out of Egypt.
       Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

 ¹¹ "But my people would not listen to me;
       Israel would not submit to me.

 ¹² So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
       to follow their own devices.

 ¹³ "If my people would but listen to me,
       if Israel would follow my ways,

 ¹⁴ how quickly would I subdue their enemies
       and turn my hand against their foes!

 ¹⁵ Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him,
       and their punishment would last forever.

 ¹⁶ But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;
       with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."

Psalm 82

A psalm of Asaph.

 ² "How long will you ^[c] defend the unjust
       and show partiality to the wicked?
       Selah

 ³ Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;
       maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

 ⁴ Rescue the weak and needy;
       deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

 ⁵ "They know nothing, they understand nothing.
       They walk about in darkness;
       all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

 ⁶ "I said, 'You are "gods";
       you are all sons of the Most High.'

 ⁷ But you will die like mere men;
       you will fall like every other ruler."

 ⁸ Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
       for all the nations are your inheritance.

Psalm 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

 ² See how your enemies are astir,
       how your foes rear their heads.

 ³ With cunning they conspire against your people;
       they plot against those you cherish.

 ⁴ "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
       that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

 ⁵ With one mind they plot together;
       they form an alliance against you-

 ⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
       of Moab and the Hagrites,

 ⁷ Gebal, ^[d] Ammon and Amalek,
       Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

 ⁸ Even Assyria has joined them
       to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
       Selah

 ⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,
       as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

 ¹⁰ who perished at Endor
       and became like refuse on the ground.

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

 ¹² who said, "Let us take possession
       of the pasturelands of God."

 ¹³ Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
       like chaff before the wind.

 ¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest
       or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

 ¹⁵ so pursue them with your tempest
       and terrify them with your storm.

 ¹⁶ Cover their faces with shame
       so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

 ¹⁷ May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
       may they perish in disgrace.

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

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¹⁹You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." ²⁰Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. ²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

 ²²Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. ²³And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

All Israel Will Be Saved

 ²⁸As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, ²⁹for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable. ³⁰Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, ³¹so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now^[c] receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you. ³²For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

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