Psalm 81 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

² there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

³ 0 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

⁴ 1 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

⁵ 2 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

⁶ 3 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

⁷ 4 I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

⁸ 5 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

⁹ 6 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

¹⁰ A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

¹¹ How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

¹² Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.

¹³ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner.

¹⁴ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

¹⁵ I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

¹⁶ But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.