American Standard Version

Psalms 81

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¹Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. ²Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. ³Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day. ⁴For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. ⁵He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, WhereI heard a language that I knew not. ⁶I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. ⁷Thou 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 ⁸Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! ⁹There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. ¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. ¹¹But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. ¹²So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. ¹³Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways! ¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. ¹⁵The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever. ¹⁶He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.