Psalm 81:1-16
(Of the Director; to the Gittith. Of Asaph’s.)
81 Shout for God our strength,cheer for Jacob’s God!
2 Strike up music and sound tambourine,dulcet lyre with harp,
3 Blow the ram-horn at the new moon,at the full, on the day of our feast.
4 For that is an institution of Israel’s,a due of Jacob’s God.
5 He made it a commemoration in Josephwhen he went out over Egypt.I heard a lip I had not known,
6 “I let his shoulder turn away from the load;his hands shall pass the basket by;
7 You called in distress, and I have rescued you.I will answer you through a screen of thunder;I will test you at a water of dispute. [Selah]
8 Listen, my people, and let me testify to you;Israel, if you will listen to me,
9 Have no strange deity among youand not do reverence to any foreign deity,
10 I Jehovah am your God,who am bringing you up out of Egypt;open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11 But does my people not listen to my voice,will Israel not have me,
12 I will turn them loose to their willful wicked way;they shall go by their own contrivances.
13 If my people did listen to me,Israel did go my ways,
14 Readily would I humble their enemiesand bring my hand back against their foes.
15 Those who hate Israel should cringe to himand their disaster be forever.
16 I would feed him out of the richest of wheatand give you out of rocks your fill of honey.”
