Psalms 81

1 “For the leader of the music. On the Gittith. A psalm of Asaph.” Sing joyfully to God, our strength! Shout with gladness 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 Raise a song, and strike the timbrel, The sweet-sounding harp, and the psaltery!

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

3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon; At the full moon, also, on our festal 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, A law of the God of Jacob;

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

5 He appointed it as a memorial in Joseph, When he went out of the land of Egypt, Where he heard a language which he 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 relieved [[said he]] thy shoulders from their burden; Thy hands were removed from the hod.

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

7 Thou didst call in trouble, and I delivered thee; In the secret place of thunder I answered thee; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. (Pause)

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, O my people! and I will admonish thee! O Israel! that thou wouldst hearken to me!

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

9 Let there be no strange god within thee, Nor worship thou any foreign god!

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

10 I Jehovah am thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: Open wide thy mouth, 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 would not listen to my voice, And Israel would not hearken to 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 to the obstinacy of their hearts, And they walked according to their own devices.

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

13 “O that my people had hearkened to 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 Soon would I have brought low 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 should have become suppliants to them, And their prosperity should have endured for ever.

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

16 With the finest of the wheat I would have fed them, And with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied them.”

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