web@Psalms:81:1 @ For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
web@Psalms:81:2 @ Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
web@Psalms:81:3 @ Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
web@Psalms:81:4 @ For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
web@Psalms:81:5 @ He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
web@Psalms:81:6 @ "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
web@Psalms:81:7 @ You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.
web@Psalms:81:8 @ "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
web@Psalms:81:9 @ There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
web@Psalms:81:10 @ I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
web@Psalms:81:11 @ But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
web@Psalms:81:12 @ So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
web@Psalms:81:13 @ Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
web@Psalms:81:14 @ I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
web@Psalms:81:15 @ The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
web@Psalms:81:16 @ But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."