81:1 To the leader: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
81:2 Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal 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 rescued you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.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 not submit to 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 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
81:15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their doom 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.’
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