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Psalms 81

1 {To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.} Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;

1 Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!

2 Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.

3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:

3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;

4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;

4 this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

5 He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.

5 When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

6 “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.

7 Thou 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.

7 In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

8 Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

8 Hear me, my people, and I will warn you— if you would only listen to me, Israel!

9 There shall no strange ·god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign ·god.

9 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.

10 I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

11 But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

11 “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!

13 “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,

14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

14 how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!

15 The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.

15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

16 And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.

16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

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