81Psalms 81

1Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.Select Psalms 81:1

2Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.Select Psalms 81:2

3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.Select Psalms 81:3

4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.Select Psalms 81:4

5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.Select Psalms 81:5

6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.Select Psalms 81:6

7You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.Select Psalms 81:7

8Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you will listen to me;Select Psalms 81:8

9There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.Select Psalms 81:9

10I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.Select Psalms 81:10

11But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would none of me.Select Psalms 81:11

12So I gave them up to their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.Select Psalms 81:12

13Oh that my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!Select Psalms 81:13

14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.Select Psalms 81:14

15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: but their time should have endured for ever.Select Psalms 81:15

16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.Select Psalms 81:16