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81:1  Rejoice out loud to God, our strength! Shout for joy to Jacob’s God!
81:2  Take up a song and strike the drum! Sweet lyre along with harp!
81:3  Blow the horn on the new moon, at the full moon, for our day of celebration!
81:4  Because this is the law for Israel; this is a rule of Jacob’s God.
81:5  He made it a decree for Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, when I heard a language I did not yet know:
81:6  “I lifted the burden off your shoulders; your hands are free of the brick basket!
81:7  In distress you cried out, so I rescued you. I answered you in the secret of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
81:8  Listen, my people, I’m warning you! If only you would listen to me, Israel.
81:9  There must be no foreign god among you. You must not bow down to any strange deity.
81:10  I am the Lord your God, who brought you up from Egypt’s land. Open your mouth wide—I will fill it up!
81:11  But my people wouldn’t listen to my voice. Israel simply wasn’t agreeable toward me.
81:12  So I sent them off to follow their willful hearts; they followed their own advice.
81:13  How I wish my people would listen to me! How I wish Israel would walk in my ways!
81:14  Then I would subdue their enemies in a second; I would turn my hand against their foes.
81:15  Those who hate the Lord would grovel before me, and their doom would last forever!
81:16  But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”