Beginning

^2 (1) Shepherd of Isra’el, listen!
You who lead Yosef like a flock,
you whose throne is on the k’ruvim,
shine out!
^3 (2) Before Efrayim, Binyamin and M’nasheh,
rouse your power; and come to save us.
^4 (3) God, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

^5 (4) Adonai, God of armies, how long
will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
^6 (5) You have fed them tears as their bread
and made them drink tears in abundance.
^7 (6) You make our neighbors fight over us,
and our enemies mock us.
^8 (7) God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

^9 (8) You brought a vine out of Egypt,
you expelled the nations and planted it,
^10 (9) you cleared a space for it;
then it took root firmly and filled the land.
^11 (10) The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches;
^12 (11) It put out branches as far as the sea
and shoots to the [Euphrates] River.

^13 (12) Why did you break down [the vineyard’s] wall,
so that all passing by can pluck [its fruit]?
^14 (13) The boar from the forest tears it apart;
wild creatures from the fields feed on it.

^15 (14) God of armies, please come back!
Look from heaven, see, and tend this vine!
^16 (15) Protect what your right hand planted,
the son you made strong for yourself.
^17 (16) It is burned by fire, it is cut down;
they perish at your frown of rebuke.
^18 (17) Help the man at your right hand,
the son of man you made strong for yourself.

^19 (18) Then we won’t turn away from you —
if you revive us, we will call on your name.
^20 (19) Adonai, God of armies, restore us!
Make your face shine, and we will be saved.
81 ⁽⁰⁾ For the Leader. On the gittit. By Asaf:

^2 (1) Sing for joy to God our strength!
Shout to the God of Ya‘akov!
^3 (2) Start the music! Beat the drum!
Play the sweet lyre and the lute!
^4 (3) Sound the shofar at Rosh-Hodesh
and at full moon for the pilgrim feast,
^5 (4) because this is a law for Isra’el,
a ruling of the God of Ya‘akov.
^6 (5) He placed it as a testimony in Y’hosef
when he went out against the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar voice say,
^7 (6) “I lifted the load from his shoulder;
his hands were freed from the [laborer’s] basket.
^8 (7) You called out when you were in trouble,
and I rescued you;
I answered you from the thundercloud;
I tested you at the M’rivah Spring [by saying,] (Selah)

^9 (8) “‘Hear, my people, while I give you warning!
Isra’el, if you would only listen to me!
^10 (9) There is not to be with you any foreign god;
you are not to worship an alien god.
^11 (10) I am Adonai your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth, and I will fill it.’

^12 (11) “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Isra’el would have none of me.
^13 (12) So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to live by their own plans.
^14 (13) How I wish my people would listen to me,
that Isra’el would live by my ways!
^15 (14) I would quickly subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
^16 (15) Those who hate Adonai would cringe before him,
while [Isra’el’s] time would last forever.
^17 (16) They would be fed with the finest wheat,
and I would satisfy you with honey from the rocks.”

82 ⁽⁰⁾ A psalm of Asaf:

⁽¹⁾ Elohim [God] stands in the divine assembly;
there with the elohim [judges], he judges:
² “How long will you go on judging unfairly,
favoring the wicked? (Selah)
³ Give justice to the weak and fatherless!
Uphold the rights of the wretched and poor!
⁴ Rescue the destitute and needy;
deliver them from the power of the wicked!”

⁵ They don’t know, they don’t understand,
they wander about in darkness;
meanwhile, all the foundations of the earth
are being undermined.

⁶ “My decree is: ‘You are elohim [gods, judges],
sons of the Most High all of you.
⁷ Nevertheless, you will die like mortals;
like any prince, you will fall.’”

⁸ Rise up, Elohim, and judge the earth;
for all the nations are yours.

83 ⁽⁰⁾ A song. A psalm of Asaf:

^2 (1) God, don’t remain silent!
Don’t stay quiet, God, or still;
^3 (2) because here are your enemies, causing an uproar;
those who hate you are raising their heads,
^4 (3) craftily conspiring against your people,
consulting together against those you treasure.

^5 (4) They say, “Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Isra’el be remembered no more!”
^6 (5) With one mind they plot their schemes;
the covenant they have made is against you —
^7 (6) the tents of Edom and the Yishma‘elim,
Mo’av and the Hagrim,
^8 (7) G’val, ‘Amon and ‘Amalek,
P’leshet with those living in Tzor; (Selah)
^9 (8) Ashur too is allied with them,
to reinforce the descendants of Lot.

^10 (9) Do to them as you did to Midyan,
to Sisra and Yavin at Vadi Kishon —
^11 (10) they were destroyed at ‘Ein-Dor
and became manure for the ground.
^12 (11) Make their leaders like ‘Orev and Ze’ev,
all their princes like Zevach and Tzalmuna,
^13 (12) who said, “Let’s take possession
of God’s meadows for ourselves.”

^14 (13) My God, make them like whirling dust,
like chaff driven by the wind.
^15 (14) Like fire burning up the forest,
like a flame that sets the mountains ablaze,
^16 (15) drive them away with your storm,
terrify them with your tempest.
^17 (16) Fill their faces with shame,
so that they will seek your name, Adonai.
^18 (17) Let them be ashamed and fearful forever;
yes, let them perish in disgrace.
^19 (18) Let them know that you alone,
whose name is Adonai,
are the Most High over all the earth.

84 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of the sons of Korach:

^2 (1) How deeply loved are your dwelling-places,
Adonai-Tzva’ot!
^3 (2) My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing
for the courtyards of Adonai;
my heart and body cry for joy
to the living God.

^4 (3) As the sparrow finds herself a home
and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young,
[so my resting-place is] by your altars,
Adonai-Tzva’ot, my king and my God.

^5 (4) How happy are those who live in your house;
they never cease to praise you! (Selah)
^6 (5) How happy the man whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are [pilgrim] highways.

^7 (6) Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley,
they make it a place of springs,
and the early rain clothes it with blessings.
^8 (7) They go from strength to strength
and appear before God in Tziyon.

^9 (8) Adonai, God of armies, hear my prayer;
listen, God of Ya‘akov. (Selah)
^10 (9) God, see our shield [the king];
look at the face of your anointed.
^11 (10) Better a day in your courtyards
than a thousand [days elsewhere].
Better just standing at the door of my God’s house
than living in the tents of the wicked.

^12 (11) For Adonai, God, is a sun and a shield;
Adonai bestows favor and honor;
he will not withhold anything good
from those whose lives are pure.

^13 (12) Adonai-Tzva’ot,
how happy is anyone who trusts in you!

85 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. A psalm of the sons of Korach:

^2 (1) Adonai, you have shown favor to your land;
you have restored the fortunes of Ya‘akov,
^3 (2) taken away the guilt of your people,
pardoned all their sin, (Selah)
^4 (3) withdrawn all your wrath,
turned from your fierce anger.

^5 (4) Restore us, God of our salvation,
renounce your displeasure with us.
^6 (5) Are you to stay angry with us forever?
Will your fury last through all generations?

^7 (6) Won’t you revive us again,
so your people can rejoice in you?
^8 (7) Show us your grace, Adonai;
grant us your salvation.

^9 (8) I am listening. What will God, Adonai, say?
For he will speak peace to his people,
to his holy ones —
but only if they don’t relapse into folly.
^10 (9) His salvation is near for those who fear him,
so that glory will be in our land.
^11 (10) Grace and truth have met together;
justice and peace have kissed each other.
^12 (11) Truth springs up from the earth,
and justice looks down from heaven.
^13 (12) Adonai will also grant prosperity;
our land will yield its harvest.
^14 (13) Justice will walk before him
and make his footsteps a path.