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

Sing [songs] to praise God, who enables us to be strong [when we fight our enemies]; shout joyfully to God, whom we (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) [worship]!

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

Start [playing] the music, and beat the tambourines, and play nice music on the harps and (lyres/other stringed instruments).

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

Blow the trumpets [during the festival to celebrate] each new moon and each time the moon is full and during our [other] festivals.

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

[Do that] because that is a law for [us] Israeli [people]; God commanded it for us descendants 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 commanded us Israeli [people to obey it] when he punished [the people of] Egypt. I heard someone [MTY] whose voice I did not recognize, saying,

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

“[After the rulers of Egypt forced you Israelis to work as slaves], I took those [heavy] burdens off your backs, and I enabled you to lay down those [heavy] baskets [of bricks that you were carrying].

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)

When you were [greatly] distressed, you called [out to me], and I rescued you; I answered you out of a thundercloud. [Later] I tested [whether you would trust me to give you] water [when you were in the desert] at Meribah.

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

[You who are] my people, listen while I warn you! I wish that you Israeli [people] would pay attention to what I [say to you]!

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

You must not have any idols of other gods among you; you must never bow to worship any of them!

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 Yahweh, your God; It was [not any of those other gods] who brought you out of Egypt, I am the one who did it! [So] ask me what you want me to do for you [MTY], and I will do 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 [SYN]; they 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 even though they were very stubborn, I allowed them to do whatever they wanted to do.

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

I wish that my people would listen to me, that the Israeli [people] would behave as I want them to do.

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

[If they did that], I would quickly defeat their enemies; I would strike/punish [all of] them [DOU].

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

[Then all] those who hate me would (cringe before/bow down to) me, and [then I] would punish them [MTY] forever.

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

[But] I would give you [Israelis] very good wheat/grain, and I would fill your stomachs with wild honey.”