Psalms
Chapter Eighty-One
<<To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.>>
1 ¶ Sing aloud unto
God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn
feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land
of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the
pots.
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret
place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou
wilt hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange
god.
10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open
thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own
counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their
adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their
time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey
out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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