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Psalms 81:2-12
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Psalms 81:2-12
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Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
3
Blow the ram’s horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival!
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For this is required by the decrees of Israel; it is a regulation of the God of Jacob.
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He made it a law for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. I heard an unknown voice say,
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“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
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You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude
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“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
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You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god.
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For it was I, the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
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“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around.
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So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.
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[a].
Hebrew for Joseph.
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