Psalms 81

1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself. Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

2 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

3 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

4 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

5 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.

He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

6 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.

He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

7 You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

8 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,

Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

9 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.

There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

10 For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.

For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.

But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

12 And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

13 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,

If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

14 I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.

I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

15 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.

The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

16 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.

And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.