:8. Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard
thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of
contradiction.

In the secret place of tempest... Heb., Of thunder. When thou soughtest
to hide thyself from the tempest: or, when I came down to mount Sina,
hidden from thy eyes in a storm of thunder.

80:9. Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou
wilt hearken to me, 10 there shall be no new god in thee: neither
shalt thou adore a strange god.

80:11. For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of
Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

80:12. But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

80:13. So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they
shall walk in their own inventions.

80:14. If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

80:15. I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on
them that troubled them.

80:16. The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be
for ever.

Their time shall be forever... Impenitent sinners shall suffer for ever.

80:17. And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey
out of the rock.

Psalms Chapter 81

Deus stetit.

An exhortation to judges and men in power.

81:1. A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and
being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

81:2. How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the
wicked?

81:3. Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and
the poor.

81:4. Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the
sinner.

81:5. They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all
the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

81:6. I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most
High.

81:7. But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the
princes.

81:8. Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among
all the nations.

Psalms Chapter 82

Deus, quis similis.

A prayer against the enemies of God's church.

82:1. A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.

82:2. O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be
thou still, O God.

82:3. For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.

82:4. They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have
consulted against thy