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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Psalm 81
81
Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me
To the choirmaster: according to #Ps. 8, title; 84, title The Gittith.#81:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term Of #Ps. 50, titleAsaph.
1 # [Deut. 32:43] Sing aloud to God our strength;
# See Ps. 66:1 shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2Raise a song; sound #Ex. 15:20 the tambourine,
#
Ps. 71:22
the sweet lyre with #Ps. 71:22the harp.
3Blow the trumpet at #Lev. 23:24; Num. 10:10; 29:1the new moon,
at the full moon, on our feast day.
4For it is a statute for Israel,
a rule#81:4 Or just decree of the God of Jacob.
5He made it #Ps. 122:4; [Ps. 78:5] a decree in #Ps. 77:15; 78:67; 80:1 Joseph
when he #Ex. 11:4 went out over#81:5 Or against the land of Egypt.
#
Ps. 114:1 I hear a language #[Deut. 28:49; Jer. 5:15]I had not known:
6“I #Isa. 9:4; 10:27 relieved your#81:6 Hebrew his; also next line shoulder of #Ex. 1:11the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
7In distress you #Ps. 50:15; [Ex. 2:23; 14:10] called, and I delivered you;
I #Ex. 19:19; See Ps. 18:11-14 answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I #Ex. 17:7; Num. 20:13tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 # See Ps. 50:7 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9There shall be no #Ps. 44:20; Isa. 43:12; [Ex. 20:3] strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a #Deut. 32:12foreign god.
10 #
Ex. 20:2 I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
# [Ps. 37:3, 4] Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11“But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel #Ex. 32:1; Deut. 32:15, 18; Prov. 1:25, 30would not submit to me.
12So I #Job 8:4; [Acts 7:42; 14:16; Rom. 1:24, 26] gave them over to their #[Deut. 29:19] stubborn hearts,
to follow their own #Ps. 106:43; Jer. 7:24; Mic. 6:16counsels.
13 #
Deut. 5:29; 32:29; Isa. 48:18 Oh, that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would #Deut. 5:33walk in my ways!
14I would soon subdue their enemies
and #Amos 1:8turn my hand against their foes.
15Those who hate the Lord would #Ps. 18:44cringe toward him,
and their fate would last forever.
16But he would feed you#81:16 That is, Israel; Hebrew him with #Ps. 147:14; Deut. 32:14 the finest of the wheat,
and with #Deut. 32:13; [Job 29:6; Ezek. 16:19]honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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