81:1 [For the music director; ①on the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.]
Sing for joy to God our strength;
Shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.
▷ ①Or according to
81:2 Raise a song, strike the tambourine,
The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.
81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast day.
81:4 For it is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
81:5 He established it as a testimony in Joseph
When he ①went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard a language I did not know:
▷ ①Lit went out over
81:6 “I ①relieved his shoulder of the burden,
His hands were freed from the ②basket.
▷ ①Lit removed his shoulder from ②Or brick load
81:7 You called in trouble and I rescued you;
I answered you in the hiding place of thunder;
I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. Selah
81:8 Hear, My people, and I will admonish you;
Israel, if you would listen to Me!
81:9 There shall be no strange god among you;
Nor shall you worship a foreign god.
81:10 I, the LORD, am your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
81:11 “But My people did not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not ①obey Me.
▷ ①Lit yield to
81:12 So I gave ①them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk by their own plans.
▷ ①Lit him
81:13 Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
81:14 I would quickly subdue their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
81:15 Those who hate the LORD would pretend to obey Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
81:16 ①But I would feed you with the ②finest of the wheat,
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
▷ ①Lit He would feed him ②Lit fat