Psalms 81
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- 1Sing aloud to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
- 2Take up a psalm, and bring the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the lyre.
- 3Sound the trumpet at the new moon, at the appointed time, on our solemn feast day.
- 4For this was a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob.
- 5He established this as a testimony in Joseph, when he went out through the land of Egypt — where I heard a language I did not understand.
- 6"I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the baskets.
- 7You called out in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the hidden place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
- 8Hear, my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you would listen to me;
- 9There shall be no strange god among you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
- 10I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- 11But my people would not listen to my voice, and Israel would have none of me.
- 12So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust, and they walked in their own counsels.
- 13If only my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
- 14I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
- 15Those who hate the LORD would have submitted themselves to him, but their time would have endured forever.
- 16He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you."