noyes - 81

noyes@Psalms:81:1 @ Sing joyfully to God, our strength! Shout with gladness to the God of Jacob!

noyes@Psalms:81:2 @ Raise a song, and strike the timbrel, The sweetsounding harp, and the psaltery!

noyes@Psalms:81:3 @ Blow the trumpet at the new moon; At the full moon, also, on our festal day!

noyes@Psalms:81:4 @ For this is a statute for Israel, A law of the God of Jacob;

noyes@Psalms:81:5 @ He appointed it as a memorial in Joseph, When he went out of the land of Egypt, Where he heard a language which he knew not.

noyes@Psalms:81:6 @ "I relieved thy shoulders from their burden; Thy hands were removed from the hod.

noyes@Psalms:81:7 @ Thou didst call in trouble, and I delivered thee; In the secret place of thunder I answered thee; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.

noyes@Psalms:81:8 @ Hear, O my people! and I will admonish thee! O Israel! that thou wouldst hearken to me!

noyes@Psalms:81:9 @ Let there be no strange god within thee, Nor worship thou any foreign god!

noyes@Psalms:81:10 @ I Jehovah am thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: Open wide thy mouth, and I will fill it!

noyes@Psalms:81:11 @ But my people would not listen to my voice, And Israel would not hearken to me.

noyes@Psalms:81:12 @ So I gave them up to the obstinacy of their hearts, And they walked according to their own devices.

noyes@Psalms:81:13 @ "O that my people had hearkened to me! That Israel had walked in my ways!

noyes@Psalms:81:14 @ Soon would I have brought low their enemies, And turned my hand against their adversaries.

noyes@Psalms:81:15 @ The haters of Jehovah should have become suppliants to them, And their prosperity should have endured for ever.

noyes@Psalms:81:16 @ With the finest of the wheat I would have fed them, And with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied them."

Psalms 81