Psalms:81
rsv@Psalms:81:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:81:2 @ Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
rsv@Psalms:81:3 @ Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
rsv@Psalms:81:4 @ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
rsv@Psalms:81:5 @ For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
rsv@Psalms:81:6 @ He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
rsv@Psalms:81:7 @ "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
rsv@Psalms:81:8 @ In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:81:9 @ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
rsv@Psalms:81:10 @ There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
rsv@Psalms:81:11 @ I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
rsv@Psalms:81:12 @ "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
rsv@Psalms:81:13 @ So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
rsv@Psalms:81:14 @ O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
rsv@Psalms:81:15 @ I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
rsv@Psalms:81:16 @ Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@81:17) I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." ]
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