Psalm 81
To the chief Musician *upon Gittith, A Psalm ||of Asaph.
1 aSing aloud unto God our strength:
bMake a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the ctimbrel,
The pleasant dharp with the dpsaltery.
3 Blow up the etrumpet fin the new moon,
In gthe time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel,
And a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This 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.
6 I nremoved his shoulder from the oburden:
His hands †were delivered from the ppots.
7 qThou 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.
8 tHear, O my people, and tI will testify unto thee:
O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 There shall no ustrange god be in thee;
Neither shalt thou worship any wstrange god.
10 xI am the Lord thy God,
Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
yOpen thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice;
And Israel yywould none of me.
12 So I zgave them up ||unto their own hearts’ lust:
And they awalked in their own counsels.
13 bOh that my people had hearkened unto me,
And Israel chad walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies,
And dturned my hand against their adversaries.
15 eThe haters of the Lord should have ||submitted themselves unto him:
But their time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also †with the finest of the wheat:
And with fhoney out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.