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Psalms 81

1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

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

2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

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

3 Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn 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 [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob.

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

5 This 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.

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 delivered from the pots.

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, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to 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 strange god.

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

10 I [am] the LORD thy God who brought thee 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 would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

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

12 So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.

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

13 O that my people had hearkened to me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways!

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

14 I should 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 the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever.

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

16 He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should 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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