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