Psalms 81 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 <V 80:1>Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself. <V 80:2>Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
2 <V 80:3>Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments. Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.
3 <V 80:4>Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity, Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;
4 <V 80:5>for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob. For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 <V 80:6>He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know. He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:
6 <V 80:7>He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets. “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
7 <V 80:8>You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction. In 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 In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
8 <V 80:9>My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me, Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! Hear me, my people, and I will warn you— if you would only listen to me, Israel!
9 <V 80:10>then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god. There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
10 <V 80:11>For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it. I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
11 <V 80:12>But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me. “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
12 <V 80:13>And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 <V 80:14>If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways, Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
14 <V 80:15>I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them. I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
15 <V 80:16>The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age. Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
16 <V 80:17>And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock. But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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