Psalms 81

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

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

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

Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

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

Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.

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

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

5 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

He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:

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

“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

7 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)

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

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

Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

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

There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

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

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

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

But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

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

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

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

If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

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

how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!

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

Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.

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

But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”