Psalms 81

1 For the music director. On the gittith. A psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to 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 Start the song! Play the tambourine, sweet-sounding lyre, and harp.

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

3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, and at full moon, to begin our festivals,

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

4 for this is a rule for Israel, a regulation of the God of Jacob.

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

5 God made this statute for Joseph when he opposed the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I didn't know, saying:

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 took the load from your shoulders; I freed your hands from carrying heavy baskets.

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

7 In your suffering you cried out to me, and I saved you. I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you 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 My people, listen to my warnings! Israel, please listen to me!

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

9 There must not be a strange god among you; you must never bow down to foreign gods and worship them.

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

10 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your 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 didn't listen to me. Israel didn't want anything to do with me.

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

12 So I sent them away to follow their stubborn thinking, living as they chose.

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

13 If only my people would listen to me; if only Israel would follow my ways!

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

14 It wouldn't take me long to conquer their enemies, to strike down their foes.

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

15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, forever doomed.

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

16 But I would feed you the best wheat and satisfy you with honey from the rock.”

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