81:1
81:2
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant
harp with the psaltery.
81:3
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed,
on our solemn feast day.
81:4
For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God
of Jacob.
81:5
This he ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went
out through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language
[that] I understood not.
81:6
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were
delivered from the pots.
81:7
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.
81:8
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel,
if thou wilt hearken unto me;
81:9
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou
worship any strange god.
81:10
I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the
land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel
would none of me.
81:12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they
walked in their own counsels.
81:13
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had
walked in my ways!
81:14
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my
hand against their adversaries.
81:15
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves
unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
81:16
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:
and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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