Psalms 81
81
For the choir director: A psalm of Asaph, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.#81:TITLE Hebrew according to the gittith.
1Sing praises to God, our strength.
Sing to the God of Jacob.
2Sing! Beat the tambourine.
Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
3Blow the ram’s horn at new moon,
and again at full moon to call a festival!
4For this is required by the decrees of Israel;
it is a regulation of the God of Jacob.
5He made it a law for Israel#81:5 Hebrew for Joseph.
when he attacked Egypt to set us free.
I heard an unknown voice say,
6“Now I will take the load from your shoulders;
I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
7You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you;
I answered out of the thundercloud
and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude
8“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings.
O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
9You must never have a foreign god;
you must not bow down before a false god.
10For it was I, the Lord your God,
who rescued you from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
11“But no, my people wouldn’t listen.
Israel did not want me around.
12So I let them follow their own stubborn desires,
living according to their own ideas.
13Oh, that my people would listen to me!
Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
14How quickly I would then subdue their enemies!
How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
15Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him;
they would be doomed forever.
16But I would feed you with the finest wheat.
I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock.”
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Psalm 81
81
God's Goodness and Israel's Waywardness
To the chief Musician upon Git´tith, A Psalm of Asaph.
1Sing aloud unto God our strength:
make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,
the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 #
Num 10.10. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,
in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4For this was a statute for Israel,
and a law of the God of Jacob.
5This 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.
6I removed his shoulder from the burden:
his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 #
Exod 17.7; Num 20.13. Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;
I answered thee in the secret place of thunder:
I proved thee at the waters of Mer´ibah. Selah.
8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:
O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 #
Exod 20.2,3; Deut 5.6,7. there shall no strange god be in thee;
neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10I am the Lord thy God,
which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11But my people would not hearken to my voice;
and Israel would none of me.
12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:
and they walked in their own counsels.
13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,
and Israel had walked in my ways!
14I should soon have subdued their enemies,
and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him:
but their time should have endured for ever.
16He 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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