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Psalms 81

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PSALM 81
God’s Goodness and Israel’s Waywardness.
For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
1Sing for joy to God our strength;
Shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.
2Raise a song, strike the timbrel,
The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.
3Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast day.
4For it is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When he went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard a language that I did not know:
6“I relieved his shoulder of the burden,
His hands were freed from the basket.
7You called in trouble and I rescued you;
I answered you in the hiding place of thunder;
I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you;
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
9Let there be no strange god among you;
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
10I, the Lord, am your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11“But My people did not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not obey Me.
12So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in their own devices.
13Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
14I would quickly subdue their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
15Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
16But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

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Psalms 81: NASB1995

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