81Psalms 81

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

2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, 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

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

8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;Select Psalms 81:8

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

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

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

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

13Oh that my people had hearkened unto 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 unto 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 thee.Select Psalms 81:16