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Psalm 81
1 Sing
aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise
unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the
pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time
appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of
the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when
he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard
a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands
were delivered from the pots.
7 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 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O
Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither
shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of
the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will
fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and
Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:
and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and
Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and
turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted
themselves unto him: but their time should have
endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of
the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I
have satisfied thee.
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Psalm 81
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