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Psalms 81
Psalms 81:1. To the Overseer. --`On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.
Psalms 81:2 Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery. Psalms 81:3 Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival, Psalms 81:4 For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
Psalms 81:5 A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known--I hear.
Psalms 81:6 From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
Psalms 81:7 In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Psalms 81:8. Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
Psalms 81:9 There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
Psalms 81:10 I [am] Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
Psalms 81:11 But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. Psalms 81:12 And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels. Psalms 81:13 O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Psalms 81:14 As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
Psalms 81:15 Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is--to the age.
Psalms 81:16 He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee!