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81:1  For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
81:2  Begin the music, strike the tambourine, play the melodious harp and lyre.
81:3  Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;
81:4  this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
81:5  When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:
81:6  ‘I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
81:7  In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
81:8  Hear me, my people, and I will warn you – if you would only listen to me, Israel!
81:9  You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
81:10  I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
81:11  ‘But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
81:12  So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
81:13  ‘If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
81:14  how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
81:15  Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their punishment would last for ever.
81:16  But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.’