Psalms 81

1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.⋮

2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.⋮

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

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

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.⋮

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.⋮

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.⋮

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

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

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.⋮

11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.⋮

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.⋮

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

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.⋮

15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.⋮

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.⋮