Psalm 81

¹For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

²Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

³Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.

¹To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing 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.

³Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

⁴For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁴For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

⁵He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, Where I heard a language that I knew not.

⁶I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

⁷Thou 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

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.

⁷Thou 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.

⁸Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

⁹There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

⁸Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

⁹There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

¹²So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

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 would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!

¹³Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.

¹⁶He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.

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.