PS-81:1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph.

Sing aloud

unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

PS-81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant

harp with the

psaltery.

PS-81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time

appointed, on our

solemn feast day.

PS-81:4 For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the

God of Jacob.

PS-81:5 This he ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he

went out through

the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] I

understood not.

PS-81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were

delivered from

the pots.

PS-81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I

answered thee in the

secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.

Selah.

PS-81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O

Israel, if thou

wilt hearken unto me;

PS-81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt

thou worship any

strange god.

PS-81:10 I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the

land of Egypt:

open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

PS-81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel

would none of

me.

PS-81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and]

they walked in

their own counsels.

PS-81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel

had walked in

my ways!

PS-81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my

hand against

their adversaries.

PS-81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves

unto him: but

their time should have endured for ever.

PS-81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the

wheat: and with

honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

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