81:1 |
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. |
81:2 |
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
81:3 |
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. |
81:4 |
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. |
81:5 |
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. |
81:6 |
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. |
81:7 |
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
81:8 |
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; |
81:9 |
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. |
81:10 |
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
81:11 |
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. |
81:12 |
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. |
81:13 |
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! |
81:14 |
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. |
81:15 |
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. |
81:16 |
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. |