| 81 | Psalms | ||
| Psalm for the Feast of Tabernacles. Psalm 81(v80) | |||
| 1 | Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! | ||
| 2 | Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp. | ||
| 3 | Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. | ||
| 4 | For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. | ||
| 5 | He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I had not known: | ||
| 6 | "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. | ||
| 7 | In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. | ||
| 8 | Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! | ||
| 9 | There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. | ||
| 10 | I am Yahweh your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. | ||
| 11 | "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me. | ||
| 12 | So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. | ||
| 13 | O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! | ||
| 14 | I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes. | ||
| 15 | Those who hate Yahweh would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever. | ||
| 16 | I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." | ||
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