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Chapter 81
Psal Noyes 81:1  Sing joyfully to God, our strength! Shout with gladness to the God of Jacob!
Psal Noyes 81:2  Raise a song, and strike the timbrel, The sweet-sounding harp, and the psaltery!
Psal Noyes 81:3  Blow the trumpet at the new moon; At the full moon, also, on our festal day!
Psal Noyes 81:4  For this is a statute for Israel, A law of the God of Jacob;
Psal Noyes 81:5  He appointed it as a memorial in Joseph, When he went out of the land of Egypt, Where he heard a language which he knew not.
Psal Noyes 81:6  "I relieved [said he] thy shoulders from their burden; Thy hands were removed from the hod.
Psal Noyes 81:7  Thou didst call in trouble, and I delivered thee; In the secret place of thunder I answered thee; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. [Pause.]
Psal Noyes 81:8  Hear, O my people! and I will admonish thee! O Israel! that thou wouldst hearken to me!
Psal Noyes 81:9  Let there be no strange god within thee, Nor worship thou any foreign god!
Psal Noyes 81:10  I Jehovah am thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: Open wide thy mouth, and I will fill it!
Psal Noyes 81:11  But my people would not listen to my voice, And Israel would not hearken to me.
Psal Noyes 81:12  So I gave them up to the obstinacy of their hearts, And they walked according to their own devices.
Psal Noyes 81:13  "O that my people had hearkened to me! That Israel had walked in my ways!
Psal Noyes 81:14  Soon would I have brought low their enemies, And turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psal Noyes 81:15  The haters of Jehovah should have become suppliants to them, And their prosperity should have endured for ever.
Psal Noyes 81:16  With the finest of the wheat I would have fed them, And with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied them."