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Psalm 81

Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

verse 1For the choirmaster. According to Gittith.a Of Asaph.

Sing for joy to God our strength;

make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

verse 2Lift up a song, strike the tambourine,

play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

verse 3Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon,

and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

verse 4For this is a statute for Israel,

an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

verse 5He ordained it as a testimony for Josephb

when he went out over the land of Egypt,

where I heard an unfamiliar language:

verse 6“I relieved his shoulder of the burden;

his hands were freed from the basket.

verse 7You called out in distress, and I rescued you;

I answered you from the cloud of thunder;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.c

Selah

verse 8Hear, O My people, and I will warn you:

O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

verse 9There must be no strange god among you,

nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

verse 10I am the LORD your God,

who brought you up out of Egypt.

Open wide your mouth,

and I will fill it.

verse 11But My people would not listen to Me,

and Israel would not obey Me.

verse 12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts

to follow their own devices.

verse 13If only My people would listen to Me,

if Israel would follow My ways,

verse 14how soon I would subdue their enemies

and turn My hand against their foes!

verse 15Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience,

and their doom would last forever.

verse 16But I would feed you the finest wheat;

with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Translation notes

  1. a 1 Gittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 8 and 84.
  2. b 5 Or in Joseph
  3. c 7 Meribah means quarreling; see Exodus 17:7.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB) Source: Berean.Bible