Psalms - Chapter 81 | English Standard Version

  • 1. To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
  • 2. Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
  • 3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
  • 4. For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
  • 5. He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
  • 6. "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
  • 7. In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
  • 8. Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
  • 9. There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
  • 10. I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
  • 11. "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
  • 12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
  • 13. Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
  • 14. I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
  • 15. Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
  • 16. But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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