Psalm 81
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1For the music director; according to the gittith style; by Asaph. Shout for joy to God, our source of strength! Shout out to the God of Jacob! 1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument! 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3Sound the ram's horn on the day of the new moon, and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins. 3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob. 4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize. 5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket. 6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah) 7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8I said, 'Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me! 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god. 9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10I am the LORD, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!' 10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me. 11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them. 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands! 13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries." 14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15(May those who hate the LORD cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!) 15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
16"I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs." 16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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