Psalm 81

Psalm LXXXI.

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.

^aSing aloud unto God our strength:

^bMake a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

²Take a psalm, and bring hither the ^ctimbrel,

The pleasant ^dharp with the ^dpsaltery.

³Blow up the ^etrumpet ^fin the new moon,

In ^gthe time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

⁴For this was a statute for Israel,

And a law of the God of Jacob.

⁵This he ordained in ^hJoseph for ⁱa testimony,

When ^khe went out through the land of Egypt:

^lWhere I heard a language that I ^munderstood not.

⁶I ⁿremoved his shoulder from the ^oburden:

His hands were delivered from the ^ppots.

^7qThou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;

I ^ranswered thee in the secret place of thunder:

I ^sproved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

^8tHear, O my people, and ^tI will testify unto thee:

O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

⁹There shall no ^ustrange god be in thee;

Neither shalt thou worship any ^wstrange god.

^10xI am the Lord thy God,

Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:

^yOpen thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹But my people would not hearken to my voice;

And Israel ^yywould none of me.

¹²So I ^zgave them up unto their own heart’s lust:

And they ^awalked in their own counsels.

^13bO that my people had hearkened unto me,

And Israel ^chad walked in my ways!

¹⁴I should soon have subdued their enemies,

And ^dturned my hand against their adversaries.

^15eThe haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him:

But their time should have endured for ever.

¹⁶He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:

And with ^fhoney out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.