Psalm 81
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1For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!1Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.2Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.4For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
5When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:5He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
6"I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.6“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
7In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.7In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8Hear me, my people, and I will warn you-- if you would only listen to me, Israel!8Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.9There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11"But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.11“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13"If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,13Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!14I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
15Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.15Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
16But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."16But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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Psalm 80
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