Psalms 81-90 (Translated)

## Contents

* 1 Psalm 81
* 2 Psalm 82
* 3 Psalm 83
* 4 Psalm 84
* 5 Psalm 85
* 6 Psalm 86
* 7 Psalm 87
* 8 Psalm 88
* 9 Psalm 89
* 10 Psalm 90

## Psalm 81[edit]

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1  | Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.  |  |
2  | Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.  |  |
3  | Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.  |  |
4  | For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.  |  |
5  | This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.  |  |
6  | I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.  |  |
7  | Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.  |  |
8  | Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;  |  |
9  | There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.  |  |
10  | I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.  |  |
11  | But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.  |  |
12  | So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.  |  |
13  | Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!  |  |
14  | I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.  |  |
15  | The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.  |  |
16  | He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.  |  |

## Psalm 82[edit]

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1  | God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.  |  |
2  | How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.  |  |
3  | Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.  |  |
4  | Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.  |  |
5  | They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.  |  |
6  | I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.  |  |
7  | But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.  |  |
8  | Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.  |  |

## Psalm 83[edit]

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1  | Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.  |  |
2  | For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.  |  |
3  | They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.  |  |
4  | They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.  |  |
5  | For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:  |  |
6  | The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;  |  |
7  | Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;  |  |
8  | Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.  |  |
9  | Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:  |  |
10  | Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.  |  |
11  | Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:  |  |
12  | Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.  |  |
13  | O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.  |  |
14  | As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;  |  |
15  | So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.  |  |
16  | Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.  |  |
17  | Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:  |  |
18  | That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.  |  |

## Psalm 84[edit]

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1  | How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!  |  |
2  | My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  |  |
3  | Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.  |  |
4  | Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.  |  |
5  | Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.  |  |
6  | Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.  |  |
7  | They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.  |  |
8  | O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.  |  |
9  | Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.  |  |
10  | For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.  |  |
11  | For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.  |  |
12  | O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.  |  |

## Psalm 85[edit]

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1  | LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.  |  |
2  | Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.  |  |
3  | Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.  |  |
4  | Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.  |  |
5  | Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?  |  |
6  | Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?  |  |
7  | Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.  |  |
8  | I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.  |  |
9  | Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.  |  |
10  | Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.  |  |
11  | Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.  |  |
12  | Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.  |  |
13  | Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.  |  |

## Psalm 86[edit]

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1  | Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.  |  |
2  | Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.  |  |
3  | Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.  |  |
4  | Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.  |  |
5  | For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.  |  |
6  | Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.  |  |
7  | In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.  |  |
8  | Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.  |  |
9  | All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.  |  |
10  | For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.  |  |
11  | Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.  |  |
12  | I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.  |  |
13  | For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.  |  |
14  | O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.  |  |
15  | But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.  |  |
16  | O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.  |  |
17  | Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.  |  |

## Psalm 87[edit]

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1  | His foundation is in the holy mountains.  |  |
2  | The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.  |  |
3  | Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.  |  |
4  | I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.  |  |
5  | And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.  |  |
6  | The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.  |  |
7  | As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.  |  |

## Psalm 88[edit]

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1  | O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:  |  |
2  | Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;  |  |
3  | For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.  |  |
4  | I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:  |  |
5  | Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.  |  |
6  | Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.  |  |
7  | Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.  |  |
8  | Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.  |  |
9  | Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.  |  |
10  | Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.  |  |
11  | Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?  |  |
12  | Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?  |  |
13  | But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.  |  |
14  | LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?  |  |
15  | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.  |  |
16  | Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.  |  |
17  | They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.  |  |
18  | Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.  |  |

## Psalm 89[edit]

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1  | I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.  |  |
2  | For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.  |  |
3  | I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,  |  |
4  | Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.  |  |
5  | And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.  |  |
6  | For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?  |  |
7  | God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.  |  |
8  | O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?  |  |
9  | Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.  |  |
10  | Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.  |  |
11  | The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them.  |  |
12  | The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.  |  |
13  | Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.  |  |
14  | Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.  |  |
15  | Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.  |  |
16  | In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.  |  |
17  | For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.  |  |
18  | For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.  |  |
19  | Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.  |  |
20  | I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:  |  |
21  | With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.  |  |
22  | The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.  |  |
23  | And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.  |  |
24  | But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.  |  |
25  | I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.  |  |
26  | He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.  |  |
27  | Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.  |  |
28  | My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.  |  |
29  | His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.  |  |
30  | If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;  |  |
31  | If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;  |  |
32  | Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.  |  |
33  | Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.  |  |
34  | My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.  |  |
35  | Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.  |  |
36  | His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.  |  |
37  | It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.  |  |
38  | But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.  |  |
39  | Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.  |  |
40  | Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.  |  |
41  | All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.  |  |
42  | Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.  |  |
43  | Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.  |  |
44  | Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.  |  |
45  | The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.  |  |
46  | How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?  |  |
47  | Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?  |  |
48  | What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.  |  |
49  | Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?  |  |
50  | Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;  |  |
51  | Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.  |  |
52  | Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.  |  |

## Psalm 90[edit]

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1  | LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.  | Lord, You have been our sanctuary for every generation.  |
2  | Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.  |  |
3  | Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.  |  |
4  | For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.  |  |
5  | Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.  |  |
6  | In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.  |  |
7  | For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.  |  |
8  | Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.  |  |
9  | For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.  |  |
10  | The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.  | Our lifespan is 70 years; if good living extends that to 80 years, labor and sorrow accompany it, because it is soon ended and our souls depart.  | This verse inspired the first words of the Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago ...."
11  | Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.  |  |
12  | So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.  |  |
13  | Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.  |  |
14  | O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.  |  |
15  | Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.  |  |
16  | Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.  |  |
17  | And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.  |  |