Psalms 81

Psalms 81

1Sing aloud to God, our strength!

Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,

the pleasant lyre with the harp.

3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,

at the full moon, on our feast day.

4For it is a statute for Israel,

an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

5He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,

when he went out over the land of Egypt,

I heard a language that I didn’t know.

6“I removed his shoulder from the burden.

His hands were freed from the basket.

7You called in trouble, and I delivered you .

I answered you in the secret place of thunder.

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.

8“Hear , my people, and I will testify to you ,

Israel, if you would listen to me !

9There shall be no strange god in you ,

neither shall you worship any foreign god.

10I am the LORD , your God ,

who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it .

11But my people didn’t listen to my voice.

Israel desired none of me .

12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,

that they might walk in their own counsels.

13Oh that my people would listen to me ,

that Israel would walk in my ways!

14I would soon subdue their enemies,

and turn my hand against their adversaries.

15The haters of the LORD would cringe before him ,

and their punishment would last forever.

16But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.

I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

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