The Book of Psalms 81 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Psalms 81:1 | To the Overseer. `On the Gittith.` By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob. |
Psalms 81:2 | Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery. |
Psalms 81:3 | Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival, |
Psalms 81:4 | For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob. |
Psalms 81:5 | A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known I hear. |
Psalms 81:6 | From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over. |
Psalms 81:7 | In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
Psalms 81:8 | Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me: |
Psalms 81:9 | There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god. |
Psalms 81:10 | I [am] Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it. |
Psalms 81:11 | But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. |
Psalms 81:12 | And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels. |
Psalms 81:13 | O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk. |
Psalms 81:14 | As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand, |
Psalms 81:15 | Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is to the age. |
Psalms 81:16 | He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee! |