Psalms - Chapter 81 | New International Version

  • 1. {For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph.} Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
  • 2. Begin the music, strike the tambourine, play the melodious harp and lyre.
  • 3. Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;
  • 4. this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
  • 5. He established it as a statute for Joseph when he went out against Egypt, where we heard a language we did not understand.
  • 6. He says, "I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
  • 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. Selah
  • 8. Hear, O my people, and I will warn you-- if you would but listen to me, O Israel!
  • 9. You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god.
  • 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 listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
  • 12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
  • 13. If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways,
  • 14. how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
  • 15. Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
  • 16. But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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