Parallel Bible results for "Psalm 81"

Psalms 81

1 Rejoice out loud to God, our strength! Shout for joy to Jacob's God!

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

2 Take up a song and strike the drum! Sweet lyre along with harp!

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

3 Blow the horn on the new moon, at the full moon, for our day of celebration!

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

4 Because this is the law for Israel; this is a rule of Jacob's God.

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

5 He made it a decree for Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, when I heard a language I did not yet know:

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

6 “I lifted the burden off your shoulders; your hands are free of the brick basket!

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

7 In distress you cried out, so I rescued you. I answered you in the secret of thunder. I tested you 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 Listen, my people, I'm warning you! If only you would listen to me, Israel.

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

9 There must be no foreign god among you. You must not bow down to any strange deity.

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

10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up from Egypt's land. Open your mouth wide—I will fill it up!

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 wouldn't listen to my voice. Israel simply wasn't agreeable toward me.

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

12 So I sent them off to follow their willful hearts; they followed their own advice.

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

13 How I wish my people would listen to me! How I wish Israel would walk in my ways!

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

14 Then I would subdue their enemies in a second; I would turn my hand against their foes.

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

15 Those who hate the LORD would grovel before me, and their doom would last forever!

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

16 But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”

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