Psalms 81

¹TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. BY ASAPH. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.

²Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with stringed instrument.

³Blow a horn in the month, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,

⁴For it is a statute to Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁵He has placed it—a testimony on Joseph, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known—I hear.

⁶I turned aside his shoulder from the burden, His hands pass over from the basket.

⁷In distress you have called and I deliver you, I answer you in the secret place of thunder, I try you by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸Hear, O My people, and I testify to you, O Israel, if you listen to me:

⁹There is not in you a strange god, And you do not bow yourself to a strange god.

¹⁰I am your God YHWH, Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge your mouth, and I fill it.

¹¹But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel has not consented to Me.

¹²And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

¹³O that My people were listening to Me, Israel would walk in My ways.

¹⁴As a little thing I cause their enemies to bow, And I turn back My hand against their adversaries,

¹⁵Those hating YHWH should have feigned obedience to Him, And their time would last for all time.

¹⁶He causes him to eat of the fat of wheat, And I satisfy you with honey from a rock!

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