Psalms 81

1 To the Overseer. — 'On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.

To the choirmaster - on the Gittith of Asaph. Sing for joy to God strength our shout for joy to [the] God of Jacob.

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

Lift up music and beat a tambourine a harp pleasant with a lyre.

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

Blow at the new moon a ram's horn at the full moon to [the] day of festival our.

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

For [is] a decree for Israel it an ordinance of [the] God of Jacob.

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

A testimony - in Joseph he established it when went out he on [the] land of Egypt a language [which] not I knew I heard.

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

I removed from a burden shoulder his hands his from a basket they passed away.

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

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)

8 Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

Listen O people my so let me warn you O Israel if you will listen to me.

9 There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

Not it will be among you a god strange and not you must bow down to a god of foreignness.

10 I [am] Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.

I - [am] Yahweh God your who brought up you from [the] land of Egypt make large mouth your and I will fill it.

11 But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

And not it listened people my to voice my and Israel not it yielded to me.

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

And I gave over it in [the] stubbornness of heart their they walked in own schemes their.

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

If people my [will be] listening to me Israel in ways my they will walk.

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

Like a little enemies their I will subdue and on opponents their I will turn hand my.

15 Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is — to the age.

[those who] hate Yahweh They will cringe to him and may it be time their for ever.

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

And he fed him from [the] best of [the] wheat and from a rock honey I will satisfy you.