Psa. 81
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81:1
1Sing for joy to God our strength;
Make a
ajoyful noise to the God of Jacob.
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81:2
Lift up a song and sound the tambourine,
The pleasant lyre with the harp.
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81:3
Blow the
atrumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast day.
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81:4
For that is a
1statute of Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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81:5
He appointed it as a testimony in Joseph
When He went out over the land of Egypt.
I heard a language that I did not know:
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81:6
I turned
1your shoulder from the
aburden;
Your hands were freed from the basket.
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81:7
You called in trouble, and I delivered you;
I answered you from the secret place of thunder;
I proved you at the waters of
aMeribah.
Selah
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81:8
aHear, O My people, and I will testify
1against you:
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
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81:9
There shall be no
astrange god among you,
Neither shall you worship any
bforeign god.
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81:10
I am
aJehovah your God,
Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt;
Open your
bmouth wide, and I will fill it.
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81:11
But My people did not listen to My voice,
And Israel would not consent to Me.
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81:12
So I
agave them over to the stubbornness of their heart:
They walked after their own counsels.
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81:13
Oh that My people had listened to Me,
That Israel had walked in My ways!
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81:14
I would have soon subdued their enemies
And turned My hand against their adversaries.
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81:15
Those who hate Jehovah would have come cringing to Him,
And their time would be forever.
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81:16
And He would have fed them with the finest of
awheat;
Indeed with
bhoney from the rock I would have satisfied you.
