< Psalms 81 >
1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
To the choirmaster - on the Gittith of Asaph. Sing for joy to God strength our shout for joy to [the] God of Jacob.
2 Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
Lift up music and beat a tambourine a harp pleasant with a lyre.
3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
Blow at the new moon a ram's horn at the full moon to [the] day of festival our.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
For [is] a decree for Israel it an ordinance of [the] God of Jacob.
5 He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
A testimony - in Joseph he established it when went out he on [the] land of Egypt a language [which] not I knew I heard.
6 “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
I removed from a burden shoulder his hands his from a basket they passed away.
7 You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
In trouble you called out and I rescued you I answered you in [the] hiding place of thunder I tested you at [the] waters of Meribah (Selah)
8 Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
Listen O people my so let me warn you O Israel if you will listen to me.
9 There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
Not it will be among you a god strange and not you must bow down to a god of foreignness.
10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
I - [am] Yahweh God your who brought up you from [the] land of Egypt make large mouth your and I will fill it.
11 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
And not it listened people my to voice my and Israel not it yielded to me.
12 So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
And I gave over it in [the] stubbornness of heart their they walked in own schemes their.
13 If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
If people my [will be] listening to me Israel in ways my they will walk.
14 how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
Like a little enemies their I will subdue and on opponents their I will turn hand my.
15 Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
[those who] hate Yahweh They will cringe to him and may it be time their for ever.
16 But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
And he fed him from [the] best of [the] wheat and from a rock honey I will satisfy you.