OEBcth - Psalms - 81

81:1  Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

81:2  Raise a song, sound the timbrel, sweet lyre and harp.

81:3  On the new moon blow the horn, at the full moon, the day of our festival.

81:4  For this is a statute for Israel, a ruling of the God of Jacob,

81:5  a witness he set up in Joseph, when he marched against Egypt’s land, where he heard an unknown language.

81:6  “I removed from your shoulder the burden, and freed your hands from the basket.

81:7  At your call of distress I delivered you, from the thundercloud I answered you. At Meribah’s waters I tested you. (Selah)

81:8  Listen, my people, to my warning, O Israel, if you would but listen

81:9  ‘There must not be a strange god among you, you must bow to no foreign god.

81:10  I am the Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt. Open your mouth, that I fill it.’

81:11  But my people did not listen to my voice, Israel would have none of me.

81:12  So to their own hard hearts I left them, to follow their own devices.

81:13  O that my people would listen, that Israel would walk in my ways.

81:14  Soon would I humble their enemies, and turn my hand on their foes.

81:15  Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him in everlasting terror.

81:16  But you would I feed with the richest wheat, and with honey from the rock to your heart’s desire.”