Chapter 80

All men are invited to celebrate festival days, ℣.6 which were instituted in memory of benefits received. ℣.9 The devout shall be protected, and the negligent left in distress.

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   Unto the end, for wine presses, a Psalm to Asaph himself. helper: make Jubilation to the God of

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   Rejoice to God, our Jacob.

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   Take ye Psalm, and give timbrel: pleasant Psalter with the harp.

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   Sound ye with trumpet in the new moon, in the notable day of your solemnity.

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   Because it is a precept in Israel, and judgment to the God of Jacob.

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   He put it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the Land of Ægypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

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   He turned away his back from burdens: his hands served in baskets.

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   In tribulation thou didst invocate me, and I heard thee: I heard thee in the secret of the tempest: I proved thee at the water of contradiction.

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   Hear, o my people, and I will contest thee: Israel if thou wilt hear me.

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    There shall be no new god in thee, neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

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    For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Ægypt: dilate thy mouth and I will fill it.

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    And my People heard not my voice: and Israel attended not to me.

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    And I let them alone, according to the desires of their heart, they shall go in their own inventions.

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

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    I had for nothing perhaps humbled their enemies: and had laid my hand upon those that afflict them.

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

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    And he fed them of the fat of corn: and out of the rock with honey he filled them.