Psalm 80: A Festal Song. For the Disobedient.

A hymn for the feast of Tabernacles. The people are warned that it is in their power to choose between life and death according to their obedience or disobedience.

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Psalm 80: Prayer Audio in Latin

{80:1} In finem, Pro torcularibus, Psalmus ipsi Asaph.
{80:1} Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.

{80:2} Exultate Deo adiutori nostro: iubilate Deo Iacob.
{80:2} Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.

{80:3} Sumite psalmum, et date tympanum: psalterium iucundum cum cithara.
{80:3} Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

{80:4} Buccinate in Neomenia tuba, in insigni die solemnitatis vestræ:
{80:4} Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

{80:5} Quia præceptum in Israel est: et iudicium Deo Iacob.
{80:5} for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

{80:6} Testimonium in Ioseph posuit illud, cum exiret de Terra Ægypti: linguam, quam non noverat, audivit.
{80:6} 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.

{80:7} Divertit ab oneribus dorsum eius: manus eius in cophino servierunt.
{80:7} He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.

{80:8} In tribulatione invocasti me, et liberavi te: exaudivi te in abscondito tempestatis: probavi te apud aquam contradictionis.
{80:8} You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

{80:9} Audi populus meus, et contestabor te: Israel si audieris me,
{80:9} My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,

{80:10} non erit in te deus recens, neque adorabis deum alienum.
{80:10} then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.

{80:11} Ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Ægypti: dilata os tuum, et implebo illud.
{80:11} For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.

{80:12} Et non audivit populus meus vocem meam: et Israel non intendit mihi.
{80:12} But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.

{80:13} Et dimisi eos secundum desideria cordis eorum, ibunt in adinventionibus suis.
{80:13} And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

{80:14} Si populus meus audisset me: Israel si in viis meis ambulasset:
{80:14} If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,

{80:15} Pro nihilo forsitan inimicos eorum humiliassem: et super tribulantes eos misissem manum meam.
{80:15} I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.

{80:16} Inimici Domini mentiti sunt ei: et erit tempus eorum in sæcula.
{80:16} The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.

{80:17} Et cibavit eos ex adipe frumenti: et de petra, melle saturavit eos.
{80:17} And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.