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, 80:10. 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 saints. 82:5. They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. 82:6. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee, 82:7. The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and the Agarens, 82:8. Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre. 82:9. Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot. 82:10. Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson. 82:11. Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.