Psalms
81
- Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud
to the God of Jacob !
- Begin the music, strike the tambourine, play
the melodious harp and lyre.
- Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and
when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;
- this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance
of the God of Jacob.
- He established it as a statute for Joseph
when he went out against Egypt, where we heard a language we did not understand.
- He says, "I removed the burden from
their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
- In your distress you called and I rescued
you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Selah
- "Hear, O my people, and I will warn
you -- if you would but
listen to me, O Israel !
- You shall have no foreign god among you;
you shall not bow down to an alien god.
- I am the LORD your God, who brought you up
out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
- "But my people would not listen to me;
Israel would not submit to me.
- So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own devices.
- "If my people would but listen to me,
if Israel would follow my ways,
- how quickly would I subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes !
- Those who hate the LORD would cringe before
him, and their punishment would last forever.
- But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;
with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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