81:1 1 An exhortation to praise God both in heart and voice for his benefits, 8 and to worship him only. 11 God condemneth their ingratitude, 12 and showeth what great benefit they have lost through their own malice. To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalm committeth to Asaph. Sing joyfully unto God our strength: sing loud unto the God of Jacob.
81:2 Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.
81:3 Blow the trumpet in the new moon, even in the time appointed at our feast day.
81:4 For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Jacob.
81:5 He set this in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that I understood not.
81:6 I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden, and his hands have left the pots.
81:7 Thou calledst in affliction, and I delivered thee, and answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will protest unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me,
81:9 And wilt have no strange god in thee, neither worship any strange god,
81:10 (For 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 hear my voice, and Israel would none of me,
81:12 So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they have 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 would soon have humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand against their adversaries.
81:15 The haters of the Lord should have been subject unto him, and their time should have endured forever.
81:16 And God would have fed them with the fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock would I have sufficed thee.
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