< Psalms 81 >
1 To the choirmaster - on the Gittith of Asaph. Sing for joy to God strength our shout for joy to [the] God of Jacob.
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;
2 Lift up music and beat a tambourine a harp pleasant with a lyre.
Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
3 Blow at the new moon a ram's horn at the full moon to [the] day of festival our.
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
4 For [is] a decree for Israel it an ordinance of [the] God of Jacob.
For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;
5 A testimony - in Joseph he established it when went out he on [the] land of Egypt a language [which] not I knew I heard.
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.
6 I removed from a burden shoulder his hands his from a basket they passed away.
I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7 In trouble you called out and I rescued you I answered you in [the] hiding place of thunder I tested you at [the] waters of Meribah (Selah)
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)
8 Listen O people my so let me warn you O Israel if you will listen to me.
Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
9 Not it will be among you a god strange and not you must bow down to a god of foreignness.
There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
10 I - [am] Yahweh God your who brought up you from [the] land of Egypt make large mouth your and I will fill it.
I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 And not it listened people my to voice my and Israel not it yielded to me.
But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
12 And I gave over it in [the] stubbornness of heart their they walked in own schemes their.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
13 If people my [will be] listening to me Israel in ways my they will walk.
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
14 Like a little enemies their I will subdue and on opponents their I will turn hand my.
I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 [those who] hate Yahweh They will cringe to him and may it be time their for ever.
The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.
16 And he fed him from [the] best of [the] wheat and from a rock honey I will satisfy you.
And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.