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81:1  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 the trumpet in the new moon, at 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 as 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 called in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I tested 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 be no strange god among thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
81:10  I am the Lord thy God, who 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 have 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 and 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.”