Psalm 81
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1Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.2Take a psalm, 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.3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:5This 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.
6“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah7Thou 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, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
16But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”16He 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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Psalm 80
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