Psalms 81

1 To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;

to/for to conduct upon [the] Gittith to/for Asaph to sing to/for God strength our to shout to/for God Jacob

2 Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

to lift: raise melody and to give: cry out tambourine lyre musical with harp

3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:

to blow in/on/with month: new moon trumpet in/on/with full moon to/for day feast our

4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;

for statute: decree to/for Israel he/she/it justice: judgement to/for God Jacob

5 He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.

testimony in/on/with Joseph to set: make him in/on/with to come out: come he upon land: country/planet Egypt lip: language not to know to hear: hear

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

to turn aside: remove from burden shoulder his palm his from pot to pass

7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

in/on/with distress to call: call to and to rescue you to answer you in/on/with secrecy thunder to test you upon water Meribah (Selah)

8 Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

to hear: hear people my and to testify in/on/with you Israel if to hear: hear to/for me

9 There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

not to be in/on/with you god be a stranger and not to bow to/for god foreign

10 I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

I LORD God your [the] to ascend: establish you from land: country/planet Egypt to enlarge lip your and to fill him

11 But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

and not to hear: hear people my to/for voice my and Israel not be willing to/for me

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

and to send: let go him in/on/with stubbornness heart their to go: follow in/on/with counsel their

13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!

if people my to hear: hear to/for me Israel in/on/with way: conduct my to go: walk

14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

like/as little enemy their be humble and upon enemy their to return: turn back hand my

15 The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.

to hate LORD to deceive to/for him and to be time their to/for forever: enduring

16 And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.

and to eat him from fat wheat and from rock honey to satisfy you