ACV - Psalms - 81

81:1  Sing aloud to God our strength. Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

81:2  Raise a song, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

81:3  Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.

81:4  For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

81:5  He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not.

81:6  I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

81:7  Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee. I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

81:8  Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee, O Israel, if thou would hearken to me!

81:9  There shall no strange god be in thee, nor shall thou worship any foreign god.

81:10  I am Jehovah thy God who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

81:11  But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

81:12  So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

81:13  O that my people would hearken to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

81:14  I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

81:15  (The haters of Jehovah feign obedience to him, but their time is forever.)

81:16  He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat. And I would satisfy thee with honey out of the rock.