Psalms 81 : 1 (ESV)
TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO THE GITTITH. OF ASAPH. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
Psalms 81 : 2 (ESV)
Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
Psalms 81 : 3 (ESV)
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
Psalms 81 : 4 (ESV)
For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
Psalms 81 : 5 (ESV)
He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
Psalms 81 : 6 (ESV)
"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
Psalms 81 : 7 (ESV)
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
Psalms 81 : 8 (ESV)
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
Psalms 81 : 9 (ESV)
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
Psalms 81 : 10 (ESV)
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.
Psalms 81 : 11 (ESV)
"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
Psalms 81 : 12 (ESV)
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Psalms 81 : 13 (ESV)
Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Psalms 81 : 14 (ESV)
I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
Psalms 81 : 15 (ESV)
Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
Psalms 81 : 16 (ESV)
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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