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.