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Psalms Chapter 81

1aTo the choirmaster in singing set to percussion instruments.↑

A Psalm of Asaph.

1bSing for joy to God our strength;

Shout out to the God of Jacob.

2Raise a melody and play the drum

And the pleasant harp with the lute.

3Blow the ramshorn at the new month

– At the new moon

And on the day of our festival.

4For it is a statute for Israel

– An injunction of the God of Jacob.

5He appointed it as a testimony in Joseph

When he came out in the face of the land of Egypt,

When I heard a language

Which I did not know.

6“I relieved his shoulder of a burden;

His hands were perishing from the brick-basket.

7You cried out in adversity,

And I delivered you;

I answered you with thunder secretly.

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

Selah.

8Hear, O my people,

And I will testify to you.

O Israel, if you will hear me,

9Do not let there be any strange god among you,

And do not worship any foreign god.

10I am the Lord your God,

Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide

And I will fill it.

11But my people did not heed me,

And Israel did not want me.

12Then I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart,

And they walked in their own counsels.

13If only my people would listen to me,

And Israel would walk in my ways!

14I would soon have subdued their enemies

And have turned my hand against their adversaries.

15Those who hate the Lord

Would have feigned obedience to him.

And their time would have been age-abiding.

16And he would have fed them with the best of the wheat,

And I would have satisfied you with honey from a rock.”

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