AB - Psalms - 81

81:1  Rejoice in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

81:2  Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

81:3  Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast.

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

81:5  He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt; he heard a language which he understood not.

81:6  He removed his back from burdens; his hands slaved in making the baskets.

81:7  You called upon Me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm; I proved you at the Water of Strife. Pause.

81:8  Hear, My people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you; if you will hearken to Me;

81:9  there shall be no new god in you; neither shall you worship a strange god.

81:10  For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

81:11  But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel gave no heed to Me.

81:12  So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways.

81:13  If My people had hearkened to Me, if Israel had walked in My ways,

81:14  I would have put down their enemies very quickly, and would have laid My hand upon those that afflicted them.

81:15  The Lord's enemies would have lied to Him; but their time shall be forever.

81:16  And He fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.