Psalms 81 — DBY

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.

81Verse 1Sing ye joyously unto^°God our strength, shout aloud unto the^°God of Jacob;
^{Verse 2}Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
^{Verse 3}Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
^{Verse 4}For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the^°God of Jacob;
^{Verse 5}He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.
^{Verse 6}I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
^{Verse 7}Thou 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.
^{Verse 8}Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
^{Verse 9}There shall no strange^*god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign^*god.
^{Verse 10}I am Jehovah thy^°God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
^{Verse 11}But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
^{Verse 12}So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
^{Verse 13}Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
^{Verse 14}I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
^{Verse 15}The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.
^{Verse 16}And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.