Psalms 81

1 TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. BY ASAPH. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.

2 Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with stringed instrument.

3 Blow a horn in the month, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,

4 For it [is] a statute to Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

5 He has placed it—a testimony on Joseph, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known—I hear.

6 I turned aside his shoulder from the burden, His hands pass over from the basket.

7 In distress you have called and I deliver you, I answer you in the secret place of thunder, I try you by the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

8 Hear, O My people, and I testify to you, O Israel, if you listen to me:

9 There is not in you a strange god, And you do not bow yourself to a strange god.

10 I [am] your God YHWH, Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge your mouth, and I fill it.

11 But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel has not consented to Me.

12 And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

13 O that My people were listening to Me, Israel would walk in My ways.

14 As a little thing I cause their enemies to bow, And I turn back My hand against their adversaries,

15 Those hating YHWH should have feigned [obedience] to Him, And their time would last for all time.

16 He causes him to eat of the fat of wheat, And I satisfy you [with] honey from a rock!