Chapter 81
Psalms
Verse 1Sing aloud to God our strength;shout for joy to the God of Jacob!Verse 2Raise a song; sound the tambourine,the sweet lyre with the harp.Verse 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon,at the full moon, on our feast day.Verse 4For it is a statute for Israel,a rule of the God of Jacob.Verse 5He made it a decree in Josephwhen he went out over the land of Egypt.I hear a language I had not known:Verse 6“I relieved your shoulder of the burden;your hands were freed from the basket.Verse 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. SelahVerse 8Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!O Israel, if you would but listen to me!Verse 9There shall be no strange god among you;you shall not bow down to a foreign god.Verse 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.Verse 11“But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel would not submit to me.Verse 12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,to follow their own counsels.Verse 13Oh, that my people would listen to me,that Israel would walk in my ways!Verse 14I would soon subdue their enemiesand turn my hand against their foes.Verse 15Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him,and their fate would last forever.Verse 16But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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