Psalms · Catholic Public Domain Version
Psalm 80 (81) Catholic Public Domain Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 81 · About the recordings
Notes on this text (4)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalms follow the Greek/Latin numbering, with the psalm titles counted as verse 1 (as in the Vulgate).
- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Psalm 80 in CPDV = Psalm 81 in WEB.
1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
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2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
81:1 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
81:2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
81:3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
81:4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
6 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.
81:5 He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.
7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
81:6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
8 You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.
81:7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.
9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,
81:8 “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.
81:9 There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
11 For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.
81:10 I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.
81:11 But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
13 And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.
81:12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
81:13 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
15 I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.
81:14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.
81:15 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.
81:16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.
- 1 Jeremiah 31:7; Psalm 66:1; Psalm 100:1–2; Philippians 4:13; Psalm 8:1
- 2 Jeremiah 31:7; Psalm 66:1; Psalm 100:1–2; Philippians 4:13; Psalm 8:1
- 3 Psalm 149:1–3; Colossians 3:16; Psalm 92:3; Exodus 15:20; Ephesians 5:19
- 4 Leviticus 23:24–25; Numbers 15:3; 2 Chronicles 2:4; Numbers 10:1–10; Deuteronomy 16:15
- 6 Jeremiah 5:15; Deuteronomy 28:49; Psalm 114:1; 1 Corinthians 14:21–22; Isaiah 28:11
- 7 Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:27; Exodus 6:6; Matthew 11:29; Exodus 1:14
- 8 Exodus 19:19; Numbers 20:13; Exodus 2:23; Psalm 50:15; Exodus 14:10
- 9 Psalm 50:7; Exodus 15:26; John 3:11; Isaiah 1:19; Isaiah 55:3–4
- 10 Isaiah 43:12; Deuteronomy 32:12; 1 Corinthians 8:5–6; Malachi 2:11; Deuteronomy 6:14
- 11 John 15:7; Exodus 20:2; Psalm 107:9; John 7:37; Revelation 21:6
- 12 Jeremiah 7:23–24; Deuteronomy 32:18; Jeremiah 2:11–13; Exodus 32:1; Zechariah 7:11
- 13 Jeremiah 7:24; Romans 1:24; Isaiah 30:1; Acts 7:42; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
- 14 Deuteronomy 5:29; Isaiah 48:18; Deuteronomy 10:12–13; Luke 19:41–42; Matthew 23:37
- 15 Judges 2:20–23; Amos 1:8; Joshua 23:13; Numbers 14:9; Psalm 47:3
- 16 Deuteronomy 7:10; Psalm 63:3; Romans 8:7; Romans 1:30; Joel 3:20
- 17 Deuteronomy 32:13–14; Psalm 147:14; 1 Samuel 14:25–26; Joel 2:24; Judges 14:18
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 81.
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)