Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
Douay-Rheims 1899
Psalms 81
1A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods. 2How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? 3Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor. 4Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner. 5They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved. 6I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High. 7But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes. 8Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Challoner / 1899 American edition is public domain.