| Psa. 81:1 |
Sing for joy to God our strength; / Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. |
| Psa. 81:2 |
Lift up a song and sound the tambourine, / The pleasant lyre with the harp. |
| Psa. 81:3 |
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, / At the full moon, on our feast day. |
| Psa. 81:4 |
For that is a statute of Israel, / An ordinance of the God of Jacob. |
| Psa. 81:5 |
He appointed it as a testimony in Joseph / When He went out over the land of Egypt. / I heard a language that I did not know: |
| Psa. 81:6 |
I turned your shoulder from the burden; / Your hands were freed from the basket. |
| Psa. 81:7 |
You called in trouble, and I delivered you; / I answered you from the secret place of thunder; / I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah |
| Psa. 81:8 |
Hear, O My people, and I will testify against you: / O Israel, if you would listen to Me! |
| Psa. 81:9 |
There shall be no strange god among you, / Neither shall you worship any foreign god. |
| Psa. 81:10 |
I am Jehovah your God, / Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt; / Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| Psa. 81:11 |
But My people did not listen to My voice, / And Israel would not consent to Me. |
| Psa. 81:12 |
So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart: / They walked after their own counsels. |
| Psa. 81:13 |
Oh that My people had listened to Me, / That Israel had walked in My ways! |
| Psa. 81:14 |
I would have soon subdued their enemies / And turned My hand against their adversaries. |
| Psa. 81:15 |
Those who hate Jehovah would have come cringing to Him, / And their time would be forever. |
| Psa. 81:16 |
And He would have fed them with the finest of wheat; / Indeed with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you. |