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| Psalms 81:1 | Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. | <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob. |
| Psalms 81:2 | Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. | Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments. |
| Psalms 81:3 | Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. | Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day: |
| Psalms 81:4 | For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. | For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. |
| Psalms 81:5 | 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. | He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears. |
| Psalms 81:6 | I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. | I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets. |
| Psalms 81:7 | 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. | You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.) |
| Psalms 81:8 | Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; | Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say! |
| Psalms 81:9 | There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. | There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god. |
| Psalms 81:10 | I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. | I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food. |
| Psalms 81:11 | But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. | But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. |
| Psalms 81:12 | So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. | So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes. |
| Psalms 81:13 | Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! | If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways! |
| Psalms 81:14 | I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. | I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them. |
| Psalms 81:15 | The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. | The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal. |
| Psalms 81:16 | He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. | I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock. |
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