The Psalms

Psalm 81

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.

 ^81:1Sing aloud unto God our strength:

 Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

 ^81:2Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel,

 The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

 ^81:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon,

 At the full moon, on our feast-day.

 ^81:4For it is a statute for Israel,

 An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

 ^81:5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,

 When he went out over the land of Egypt,

 Where I heard a language that I knew not.

 ^81:6I removed his shoulder from the burden:

 His hands were freed from the basket.

 ^81:7Thou 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

 ^81:8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:

 O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

 ^81:9There shall no strange god be in thee;

 Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

 ^81:10I am Jehovah thy God,

 Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt:

 Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

 ^81:11But my people hearkened not to my voice;

 And Israel would none of me.

 ^81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart,

 That they might walk in their own counsels.

 ^81:13Oh that my people would hearken unto me,

 That Israel would walk in my ways!

 ^81:14I would soon subdue their enemies,

 And turn my hand against their adversaries.

 ^81:15The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him:

 But their time should endure for ever.

 ^81:16He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat;

 And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.