Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're
taking this journey together to read the Bible
in a year. Today we go through the last group
of psalms that commemorate God's saving work
with his people. Today's reading are from Psalms
80 through 83, as well as Psalm 88. Psalm 80,
inscription, to the chief musician, said to the
lilies, a testimony of Asaph, a psalm. Give ear,
O shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like
a flock. You who dwell between the cherubim,
shine forth, before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.
Stir up your strength, and come and save us.
Restore us, O God, cause your face to shine,
and we shall be saved. O Lord God of hosts, how
long will you be angry against the prayer of
your people? You have fed them with the bread
of tears, and given them tears to drink in great
measure. You have made us a strife to our neighbors,
and our enemies laugh among themselves. Restore
us, O God of hosts, cause your face to shine,
and we shall be saved. you have brought a vine
out of egypt you have cast out the nations and
planted it you prepared room for it and caused
it to take deep root and it filled the land the
hills were covered with its shadow and the mighty
cedars with its boughs she sent out her boughs
to the sea and her branches to the river why
have you broken down her hedges so that all who
pass by the way pluck her fruit the boar out
of the woods uproots it and the wild beast of
the field devours it return we beseech you o
god of hosts Look down from heaven and see, and
visit this vine, and the vineyard which your
right hand has planted, and the branch that you
made strong for yourself. It is burned with fire,
it is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of
your countenance. Let your hand be upon the man
of your right hand, upon the son of man whom
you made strong for yourself. Then we will not
turn back from you. Revive us, and we will call
upon your name. Restore us, O Lord God of hosts.
Cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Psalm 81 Inscription to the Chief Musician On
an Instrument of Gath A Psalm of Asaph Sing aloud
to God our strength Make a joyful shout to the
God of Jacob Raise a song and strike the timbrel
The pleasant harp with the lute Blow the trumpet
at the time of the new moon At the full moon
on our solemn feast day For this is a statute
for Israel A law of the God of Jacob This he
established in Joseph as a testimony when he
went throughout the land of Egypt, where I heard
a language I did not understand. I removed his
shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed
from the baskets. You called in trouble, and
I delivered you. I answered you in a secret place
of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Salah. Hear, O my people, and I will admonish
you. O Israel, if you will listen to me, there
shall be no foreign god among you, nor shall
you worship any foreign god. I am the Lord your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. But
my people would not heed my voice, and Israel
would have none of me. So I gave them over to
their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own
counsels. O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways. I would soon
subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against
their adversaries. The haters of the Lord would
pretend submission to him, but their fate would
endure forever. he would have fed them also with
the finest of wheat and with honey from the rock
i would have satisfied you psalm eighty two inscription
psalm of assaf god stands in the congregation
of the mighty he judges among the gods how long
will you judge unjustly and show partiality to
the wicked salah defend the poor and fatherless
do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver
the poor and needy free them from the hand of
the wicked they do not know nor do they understand
They walk about in darkness. All the foundations
of the earth are unstable. I said, You are gods,
and all of you are children of the Most High,
but you shall die like men, and fall like one
of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth,
for you shall inherit all nations. Psalm 83,
Inscription, A Song, A Psalm of Asaph Do not
keep silent, O God, do not hold your peace, and
do not be still, O God. For behold, your enemies
make a tumult, and those who hate you have lifted
up their head. They have taken crafty counsel
against your people, and consulted together against
your sheltered ones. They have said, Come and
let us cut them off from being a nation, that
the name of Israel may be remembered no more.
For they have consulted together with one consent.
They form a confederacy against you, the tents
of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
Gebel, Amun and Amalek. Philistia with the inhabitants
of Tyre. Assyria also has joined with them. They
have helped the children of Lot. Salah. Deal
with them as with Midian, as with Caesarea, as
with Jabin at the brook Kishon, who perished
at Ein Dor, who became as refuse on the earth.
Make their nobles like Urab and like Zeb. Yes,
all their princes like Zeba and Zalmunna, who
said, let us take for ourselves the pastures
of God for a possession. Oh my God, make them
like the whirling dust. like the chaff before
the wind, as the fire burns the woods, and as
the flame sets the mountains on fire. So pursue
them with your tempest, and frighten them with
your storm. Fill their faces with shame, that
they may seek your name, O Lord. Let them be
confounded and dismayed forever. Yes, let them
be put to shame and perish, that they may know
that you, whose name alone is the Lord, are the
Most High over all the earth. Psalm 88 Inscription
A song, a psalm of the sons of Korah. To the
chief musician. A contemplation of Haman the
Ezraite. Salaam. Shall your loving kindness be
declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in
the place of destruction? Shall your wonders
be known in the dark, and your righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness? But to you I have
cried out, O Lord, and in the morning my prayer
comes before you. Lord, why do you cast off my
soul? Why do you hide your face from me? I have
been afflicted and ready to die from my youth.
I suffer your terrors. I am distraught. Your
fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have
cut me off. They come around me all day long
like water. They engulf me altogether. Loved
one and friend, you have put far from me and
my acquaintances into darkness. I hope you enjoyed
today's reading as much as I did, and I look
forward to seeing you again tomorrow to continue
on our journey. God bless you and have a great
day.