PSALMS - Chapter 81

1. Sing for joy to God our strength; Shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.

2.

Raise a song, strike the timbrel, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

3.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast day.

4.

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

5.

He established it for a testimony in Joseph When he went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard a language that I did not know:

6.


“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, His hands were freed from the basket.

7.

-“You called in trouble and I rescued you; I answered you in the hiding place of thunder; I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

8.

-“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would listen to Me!

9.

-“Let there be no strange god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

10.

-“I, the LORD, am your God, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

11.


“But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel did not obey Me.

12.

-“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices.

13.

-“Oh that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways!

14.

-“I would quickly subdue their enemies And turn My hand against their adversaries.

15.

-“Those who hate the LORD would pretend obedience to Him, And their time of punishment would be forever.

16.

-“But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”


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