Psalms, 81
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0. To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
1. [For the choirmaster On the . . . of Gath Of Asaph] Sing for joy to God our strength, shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.
1. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2. Strike up the music, beat the tambourine, play the melodious harp and the lyre;
2. Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3. blow the trumpet for the new month, for the full moon, for our feast day!
3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4. For Israel has this statute, a decision of the God of Jacob,
4. For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5. a decree he imposed on Joseph, when he went to war against Egypt. I heard a voice unknown to me,
5. He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
6. 'I freed his shoulder from the burden, his hands were able to lay aside the labourer's basket.
6. "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
7. You cried out in your distress, so I rescued you. 'Hidden in the storm, I answered you, I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Pause
7. In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]
8. Listen, my people, while I give you warning; Israel, if only you would listen to me!
8. Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9. 'You shall have no strange gods, shall worship no alien god.
9. There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10. I, Yahweh, am your God, who brought you here from Egypt, you have only to open your mouth for me to fill it.
10. 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.
11. 'My people would not listen to me, Israel would have none of me.
11. "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
12. So I left them to their stubborn selves, to follow their own devices.
12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13. 'If only my people would listen to me, if only Israel would walk in my ways,
13. O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14. at one stroke I would subdue their enemies, turn my hand against their opponents.
14. I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
15. 'Those who hate Yahweh would woo his favour, though their doom was sealed for ever,
15. Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
16. while I would feed him on pure wheat, would give you your fill of honey from the rock.'
16. I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
