81:1 For the music director, on the Gittite lyre, of Asaph.
81:2 Sing for joy to God our strength, shout to the God of Jacob!
81:3 Lift up a song and sound a tambourine, a sweet lyre with a harp.
81:4 Blow the shofar at the New Moon, at the full moon for the day of our festival.
81:5 For it is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
81:6 He set it up as a testimony in Joseph, when He went throughout the land of Egypt, I heard a language I did not understand.
81:7 “I relieved his shoulder of the burden, his hands were set free from the basket.
81:8 You called out in trouble, and I rescued you. I answered you from the hiding place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
81:9 Hear, My people, I will admonish you— if you would listen to Me, O Israel!
81:10 Let there be no foreign god among you, and you shall not worship any alien god.
81:11 I am Adonai your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
81:12 But My people did not listen to My voice. Israel was not willing to be Mine.
81:13 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own counsels.
81:14 Oh that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!
81:15 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn My hand against their foes.
81:16 Those who hate Adonai would cringe before Him— their time of doom would be forever.
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