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Psalms 81 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | SING aloud to God our strength; make a joyful noise 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 | Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. | 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 | Blow trumpets in the new moon in the time appointed, on our solemn feast days. | 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 | For this was a statute for Israel and a law of 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 | This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went out to the land of Egypt, where he heard a language that he understood not. | 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 | I removed the yoke from his shoulder, I released his hands from the bonds. | “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 | He called on me in trouble, and I delivered him; I sheltered him under my glorious cover; I tested him at the waters of dispute. | 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 | Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify about you. If you will listen 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 | There shall be no strange god in you; neither shall you worship any strange 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 | I am the LORD your God, which brought you 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 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 | But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would have none of 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 | So they walked according to the desires of their own hearts and according to their own counsels. | 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 | Oh that my people had listened to me, and 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 | I would soon have destroyed their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. | 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 | The haters of the LORD have lied to him; but they shall tremble for ever. | 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 | He has fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock has he satisfied them. | 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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