Psalm 83 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

² Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.

³ 0 Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

⁴ 1 Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,

⁵ 2 who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

⁶ 3 O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

⁷ 4 As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

⁸ 5 So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

⁹ 6 Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

¹⁰ 7 Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

¹¹ 8 And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.

¹² Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of host!

¹³ my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

¹⁴ For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

¹⁵ Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever.

¹⁶ Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps,

¹⁷ in the vale of tears, in the place which be hath set.

¹⁸ For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.