Psalms 81
1 To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph. Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
To the Chief Musician. On "the Gittith." Asaph’s. Shout ye for joy, unto God our strength, Sound the note of triumph, to the God of Jacob;
2 Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
Raise a melody, and strike the timbrel, The lyre so sweet, with the harp:
3 Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
Blow, at the new moon, the horn, At the full moon, for the day of our sacred festival:
4 For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
For, a statute to Israel, it is, A regulation, by the God of Jacob;
5 He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.
A testimony in Joseph, he appointed it, When he went forth over the land of Egypt: A language I liked not, used I to hear;
6 I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
I took away, from the burden, his shoulder, his hands, from the clay, were set free.
7 You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)
In distress, thou didst cry, and I delivered thee, —I answered thee, within a hiding-place of thunder, I proved thee by the waters of Meribah. (Selah)
8 Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!
Hear, O my people, and I will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me!
9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
There shall not be, within thee, a foreign GOD, —Neither shalt thou bow down to a strange GOD:
10 I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
I, Yahweh, am thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, —Open wide thy mouth, that I may fill it.
11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
But my people, hearkened not, unto my voice, Even, Israel, inclined not unto me.
12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart, They might walk in their own counsels!
13 If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
If, my people, were hearkening unto me, [If, ] Israel, in my ways, would walk,
14 I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand:
15 The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
The haters of Yahweh, should come cringing unto him, Then let their own good time be age-abiding!
16 I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
Then would he feed them from the marrow of the wheat, Yea, out of the rock—with honey, would I satisfy thee.
